Health Administration

MHA 644 Healthcare Enterprise Operations (3) This course examines the entire information technology needs of healthcare organizations (namely hospitals settings, physicians practices and long-term care institutions).  Within these settings, the needs include patient access services, ambulatory care, clinical practice and organization, nursing services, managing facilities and resources, personnel and staffing, and finance and billing services. F

MHA 645 HIT Integration, Interoperability and Standards (3) This course will provide the details of healthcare information technology standards and interoperability.  The value proposition of standards will be presented.  The course will review health information models and cover the role of non-medical standards in health informatics.  The course will also cover multi-institutional issues and telemedicine, e-commerce, and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) standards compliance. F

MHA646 Healthcare Technology Acquisition & Assessment (3) This is a practical course in how to acquire and assess new health care technology, either as a vendor who needs to know how to meet the expectations of customers and their acquisition requirements, or as a customer/practitioner who must know how to validate technology selections and implementations.  Topics covered will include cost analysis and justification, economic models, capital purchase, leasing strategies, the ASP or risk-sharing model, purchase agreements and contracts, writing an RFP, analyzing an RFP response, and the industry business trends.  F

MHA 647 Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Health Informatics (3) This course covers concepts, techniques, and practices of health care knowledge mangement and data mining.  The course will cover topics such as: health informatics challenges and standards, security and privacy, ethical and social issues and medical knowledge mappnig.  Students will be exposed to the application research in data mining, medical textual mining, and knowledge discovery research.  Concepts and techniques will be illustrated with case studies. 

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