Program Learning Outcomes Include:
Faculty Commitment
Our health informatics faculty and staff are committed to providing students with a highly valuable learning experience. Our professors are available (and more than happy) to offer personalized feedback and guidance to our students and alumni.
This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of healthcare workflow processes. Workflow analysis and redesign will be explored. Process improvement for various healthcare settings including public and population health will be examined
This course introduces concepts in the design, creation, and manipulation of databases specific to health informatics. Students will learn hands-on skills in analyzing data requirements, database design, implementation, and querying. Topics include database architectures, design, normalization, query languages, security and privacy.
This course is an introduction into the design of interfaces for healthcare systems. Students will learn about effective communication, design principles and secure data exchange. Topics include principles of user-centered design, creating personas and scenarios, evaluating usability and accessibility, design considerations for electronic health records, and mobile design.
This course addresses the methods and techniques of healthcare information system analysis and design. Students will learn about the systems development life cycle, including identifying problems, gathering requirements, analysis, logical design, and selection and evaluation of alternative system solutions. An emphasis is placed on analysis, selection, and evaluation of information systems as they relate to healthcare.
The course examines areas of generated healthcare data. Theoretical concepts, theories, and applications will analyze healthcare data to generate insights in the use of informed data-driven decisions. Data visualization methods and techniques will be used to design and create graphics will be introduced.
A course that examines the cybersecurity principles and practices for health information technology. Topics include strategies to address cybersecurity challenges such as securing patient data, safeguarding health information, and mitigating cyber threats. The course will also explore security principles, policies and procedures, risk management models and protection mechanisms in health informatics.
The course explores the concepts and strategies for healthcare standards including standard terminologies, messaging standards, vocabularies and health information exchange. The course will explore standards for health information governance. The principles of interoperability to support the exchange of health information across healthcare systems are examined.
The course focuses on the basics of clinical decision support systems (COSS) highlighting how clinical decision support systems facilitate timely clinical decision-making by providing a computerized clinical knowledge base. Various clinical decision-making tools will be analyzed to improve the quality of care. Students will engage in case studies based on the latest CDS systems.
This introductory course will address the process of creating data warehouse/data-mart solutions for healthcare organizations and will explore data mining models and techniques that extract information from the data warehouse to support strategic healthcare decisions.
No. your degree will be conferred by the University of Cincinnati, which will also be reflected on your transcripts and degree.
In very limited situations a program may offer pertinent courses you can take both on-campus and online. Typically, you choose your mode of education (in-person or distance) at the beginning of your program.
You do not. Classes are asynchronous. You can log on anytime 24/7 to complete your coursework.
To enhance your experience and learning, many of our instructors offer online office hours held at a predetermined date and time.
(There are a few exceptions to the asynchronous components, please view program FAQs for more information)
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