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Health Informatics Program
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Bouvé College of Health Sciences

College of Computer and Information Science

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M.S. in Health Informatics

Certificates in Health Informatics

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Courses
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HINF 5101 Introduction to Health Informatics and Health Information
Systems
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Introduces the history and current status of information systems in
health care. Includes topics such as information architectures,
administrative and clinical applications, evidence-based medicine,
information retrieval, decision support systems, security and
confidentiality, bioinformatics, information system cycles, the
electronic health record, key health information systems and
standards, and medical devices.

HINF 5102 Data Management in Health Care
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Explores issues of data representation in health-care systems,
including patient and provider identification, audit trails,
authentication, and reconciliation. Discusses the underlying design of
repositories for electronic health records (EHRs) and computerized
provider order entry (CPOE) systems. Includes an overview of privacy
issues, legislation, regulations, and accreditation standards unique
to health care.

HINF 5105 The American Health Care System
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Covers the organization, financing, and outcomes of the U.S.
health-care system. Studies opportunities and challenges to improve
the cost and quality of health care and expand adequate coverage to
all.

HINF 6201 Organizational Behavior, Work Flow Design, and Change
Management
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Reviews the concepts, issues, and practices of organizational behavior
at the individual, group, and organizational levels. Offers an
opportunity to learn how to gather information from users and
understand the users’ point of view and problems. Examines processes
and workflow in health-care environments. Seeks to explain
organizational structures and analyze business processes and how they
are translated into specifications to build a RFP for vendors.
Examines fundamentals of organizational behavior and change
management.

HINF 6202 Business of Health-Care Informatics
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James Noga, MS

Focuses on the business practices relating to health information
technology. Includes department design and management, capital and
operating budgets, the budget planning process, infrastructure design,
and strategic planning. Other topics include the vendor evaluation and
selection, clinical administration systems, and the design and
management of integrated delivery networks.

HINF 6205 Knowledge Management in Health Care (formerly Creation and
Application of Medical Knowledge)
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Explores the relationship between clinical data and clinical knowledge
and how organizations develop and deploy them to support improvements
in patient care and research. Includes topics such as available
medical data and how it should be accessed, analyzed, and organized to
support evidence-based medicine and research. Analyzes current and
prospective approaches to clinical decision support and expert system
development and how to deploy them via new or existing
knowledge-management infrastructures.

HINF 6210 Data Management in Health Care
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TBA

Explores issues of data representation and retrieval in health-care
systems, including patient and provider identification, clinical data,
audit trails, authentication, and reconciliation. Discusses the
underlying design of repositories for electronic health records (EHR),
computerized provider order entry (CPOE), and enterprise data
warehousing and reporting systems and mechanisms for data sharing and
transfer. Includes an overview of privacy issues, legislation,
regulations, and accreditation standards unique to health care.

HINF 6215 Project Management
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Introduces students to managing health-care informatics projects,
including the tools and techniques used to manage small, medium, and
large software and systems projects. Includes topics such as project
planning, project management tools, estimating, budgeting, and human
resource management. Discusses all phases of a project and requires
students to develop a project plan for a health informatics project.

HINF 6220 Database Design, Access, Modeling, and Security for Health
Care
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Introduces the theory and application of database management systems.
Includes topics such as the relational model, basic and intermediate
query formulation using structured query language, database design
using the entity relational model, and database normalization and
optimization. Also covers emerging topics relevant to the health-care
professional, including personal health information, privacy and
security considerations, XML as a data model, and clinical data
warehousing and mining.

HINF 6225 Health Systems Lab
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Provides an in-depth small-group and class experience in the process
of identifying, evaluating, and selecting health-care technology
systems to improve the quality and efficiency of health care and
generate the maximum return on investment for health-care
organizations.

HINF 6325 Legal and Social Issues in Health Informatics
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Introduces the ethical, legal, and social issues arising from the use
of computerized technology and information systems in delivering
health care. Uses case studies to discuss the role of law in the
design and implementation of health informatics systems; the U.S.
health-care regulatory environment; and the structure, concepts, and
process of decision making on health matters by legislative,
administrative, and judicial bodies.

HINF 6330 Emerging Technologies in Health Care
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Examines trends and drivers of innovation both generally and in health
care, and how emerging technologies are adapted and evaluated.
Introduces how emerging technologies are applied to improve electronic
health records, computerized provider order entry (CPOE) systems,
regional health information organizations, personal health records,
telemedicine, new imaging systems, robotic surgery, pharmacogenomics,
and national-level bio-surveillance.

HINF 6340 Introduction to Genomics and Bioinformatics
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Introduces the study of genes and their function, as well as the
principles, concepts, methods, and tools used to process data from
biological experiments, particularly biological sequence data.
Includes topics such as DNA and protein sequence alignment and
analysis, sequence analysis software, and database searching.

HINF 6345 Design for Usability in Health Care
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Focuses on the design of usable, user-centered information technology,
particularly health-care IT applications. Covers interaction design
principles and methods. Offers students an opportunity to understand
the role, function, and appropriate use of various design approaches.

HINF 6350 Public Health Surveillance and Informatics
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Addresses how public health information is generated, collected,
transferred, and shared. Discusses the principles and practice of
public health surveillance, as well as the application of health
informatics standards and methods in the design of surveillance
systems. Reviews the core components of analysis and interpretation of
population data.

HINF 6355 Key Standards in Health Informatics Systems
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Reviews different health-care informatics standards for storing and
exchanging data in health care technology systems. Provides an
overview of available products to facilitate their use. Seeks to
demystify the details behind the standards and covers where and how
they are and are not used. Offers students an opportunity to examine
examples in small groups in class and discuss issues involving the
adoption and use of the standards.

HINF 7701 Health Informatics Capstone Project
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Involves practical work and research in a major area of health
informatics. Makes an active contribution to the field of health
informatics, to the extent possible, through student-led projects
designed in consultation with professionals working in the field and
guided by faculty members, who serve as mentors. Provides an
opportunity to integrate knowledge gained in the classroom with
real-world problems and encourages development of community-based
participatory projects. Includes such areas of focus as designing and
analyzing health informatics systems, programs, or applications;
program planning; and policy development.

Prerequisite Courses
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IA 5010 Introduction to Cyberspace Technology and Applications
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Provides a systematic understanding of cyberspace technology and
applications deployed in the global digital infrastructure. Covers PC
hardware architectures, operating systems, and server architectures.
Provides an understanding of computer and networking standards, such
as the Open Systems Interconnection Model and wireless family of IEEE
standards dealing with local area networks and metropolitan area
networks. Discusses relational database technology and storage
systems. Offers an overview of virtualization technologies and cloud
computing models.

HINF 0200 Introduction to Health and Medicine
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Examines the social organizations of health care in the United States,
including the settings in which health care is provided and the role
of public and private organizations in funding and regulating health
care. Provides an overview of how the biological aspects of the body
integrate with the psychological and social aspects of the mind to
influence both health behavior and health-care delivery. Develops an
understanding of how healthy and ill individuals access the
health-care system and move within the system to secure the
appropriate level of care. Introduces basic health-care terminology.

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