MHDS 503 - Effective Information Technology for Healthcare Organizations

3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: DHSC 705, MPH 626

This course provides the key concepts related to information technology within healthcare organizations. Students will learn how information technology is used as a tool to improve performance within healthcare organizations for positive health outcomes. Topic areas include the electronic health record, HIPAA and security requirements, ethics and legal rules for retrieving and managing clinical data, computerized provider order entry and the use of administrative and registry data for standard reports, scorecards and dashboards.