- MHI510 - Effective Healthcare Operations
An investigation of the functions of HCOs compared to other business operations including logistics and supply chain control. Addresses excessive resource spending focusing on support systems and ineffective operational issues within constraints of highly regulated healthcare sector. eCommerce, hospital materials supply, inventory control of medical supplies/controlled substances, vendor collaboration, purchasing/receiving, and total value analysis explored with PERT/CPM, mathematical programming and quality controls. Restricted to School graduate majors.
Credit Hours: 3
- MHI511 - Fundamentals of Health Care Systems
This course provides a multi-disciplinary analysis and is designed to provide students with information pertaining to the issues surrounding access to care, medical technology, and the complex financial structures of the healthcare system. Students will extensively examine aspects of the complex healthcare system such as managed care, Medicare, Medicaid, pharmaceuticals, health promotion and disease prevention, and the quality of care. Restricted to School graduate majors.
Credit Hours: 3
- MHI515 - Systems Analysis, Design, and Database Management in Health Care
Students explore methods for designing and managing health care organization databases and their use in computer based information systems. Focus is given on the impact that health care information systems have on administrative functions, data security and integrity, and business processes. Use of relational database management software, network hardware technologies, data modeling, clinical data warehousing and mining are explored, as well as, the tools necessary for successful system implementation and human computer interfaces. Restricted to School graduate majors.
Credit Hours: 3
- MHI520 - Healthcare Policy
Explores the public policy interventions within the varying healthcare domains and defines the theoretical reasons for pursuing policy development in the presences of intense political, bureaucratic, and social environments within the healthcare industry. The effects, consequences, and social implications of policy decisions are evaluated through real-world case analysis of actual public health policies. Focus is placed on how policies impact patients and medical providers. Restricted to School graduate majors.
Credit Hours: 3
- MHI525 - Health Informatics Applications and Project Management
Course designed to explore the history of health information. Students learn how to integrate the clinical, financial and administrative data needed to resolve managerial and patient care problems. Explores the strengths and limitations of health information systems and principles of computer science. Focus is given on project planning, project management tools. Students will develop a workflow project plan for a health informatics project and conduct biomed simulations. Restricted to School graduate majors.
Credit Hours: 3
- MHI531 - Human Resources in Health Care
(Same as MHA 531) Describes the key human resource functions that play a significant role in the healthcare environment and focuses specifically on how those functions support management initiatives and Joint Commission accreditation and/or regulatory compliance. Extensive review of how the failure to systematically apply effective human resource strategies can result in organizational demise is conducted. Explore the dynamic legal and regulatory environment and carefully examines how legislative changes influence the healthcare organization overall focusing particularly on those functions that are linked to patient satisfaction and balanced scorecards and benchmarking of provider performance. Restricted to School graduate majors.
Credit Hours: 3
- MHI536 - Strategic Leadership in Healthcare
This course provides students with an examination of nature, function, and techniques of administration and supervision in HCOs. Topics include the ever-changing healthcare environment and trends impacting leadership competencies. Specific healthcare factors that influence organizing managing of varying health systems such as hospitals vs. ambulatory care. Focus will be given on the professional bureaucracy that is complex given regulatory issues, political factors, and the era of the informed patient. Restricted to School graduate majors.
Credit Hours: 3
- MHI551 - Legal & Ethical Fundamentals in Healthcare
This course provides students with an analysis of the legal and ethical environment of the healthcare industry. Focused on the healthcare environment, the course closely examines the judicial process pertaining to torts, contracts, antitrust, corporate compliance, access to care, negligence, and professional liability. The nature of ethics in the multi-cultural healthcare environment is examined with analysis of the moral issues in healthcare. Restricted to School graduate majors.
Credit Hours: 3
- MHI566 - Managing Health Information
A detailed review of the components of an information system as utilized for the capture of health information. Focus is on EHR, HIPAA, and implementation of information systems in healthcare organizations. Classification systems, clinical terminology, and use of health information in terms of operational management and decision making will be explored. Emerging technologies related to the security of health information management are explored. Restricted to School graduate majors.
Credit Hours: 3
- MHI580 - Managerial Epidemiology and Evidence Based Management
Epidemiological principles pertinent to the delivery, management, and marketing of healthcare services. Examines evidence- and population-based decisions which are critical to effective delivery of patient care. Utilizes evidence-based theories to prepare the students to identify management problems and develop related paths of focused inquiry. Restricted to School graduate majors.
Credit Hours: 3
- MHI581 - Health Information Interoperability
Addresses issues related to the exchange of clinical data across multiple healthcare environments. Special focus is placed on health IT standards, privacy and security issues specifically related to the protection of patient information. Provides an overview of health information system standards and the types of products available to facilitate the use of data exchanges. Students will work in virtual groups to discuss current trends and challenges, best practices for health information systems, and health information standards pertinent to the field of healthcare. Restricted to School graduate majors.
Credit Hours: 3
- MHI583 - Health Informatics Essentials
This course is designed to meet the increasing demand among health care practitioners, researchers, and students for a comprehensive introduction to the field of health informatics. It introduces both a conceptual framework and a practical approach for the implementation and management of IT used to enhance health care delivery. In addition, this course covers fundamental research methodologies, topics, and trends in health informatics. Restricted to MHA or MHI students with consent of MHI advisor.
Credit Hours: 3
- MHI584 - Applied Data Analytics in Healthcare
This course provides healthcare professionals, health information management students, and health informatics students with guidance on how to analyze, categorize, and manage the data they encounter in the increasingly data-dependent health care professional setting. This course examines the use of healthcare data, including an overview of best practices and the realities of obtaining useful data from digital health systems at different stages of the data life cycle. From this course, students will learn how to use data to solve problems and make data-driven health care decisions using various data analytics and data visualization techniques, as well as how to effectively communicate the analysis results to facilitate care quality. Restricted to MHA or MHI students with consent of MHI advisor.
Credit Hours: 3
- MHI585 - Financial Issues in Healthcare
A macro-examination of the role of finance in healthcare. Emphasis is not on financial formulas, but rather on the application of financial information within the healthcare sector. Discussion of charge-masters, healthcare payment systems and sources of revenue, profit vs. duty, regulatory issues and profit maximization, provider payments and pricing in capitated-managed care markets, and IDS, etc. Case principles specifically related to the healthcare field are completed. Restricted to School graduate majors.
Credit Hours: 3
- MHI593 - Research in Healthcare Informatics
Students complete a research project or paper on a topic related to healthcare informatics in patient care environments. Each research project and/or paper will result in submission for publication consideration, as approved by the instructor, in one of the professional, peer-reviewed journals within the field of healthcare, healthcare informatics, or healthcare education. Restricted to MHA/MHI students with consent of MHI advisor.
Credit Hours: 3-6
- MHI599 - Independent Study
Directed independent study in selected areas of health informatics. Special approval needed from the MHI Program Director. Students must have the Independent Study Proposal Form approved by the MHI Program Director prior to enrolling in the course. Independent study options are not always available and cannot be guaranteed. Restricted to MHI majors only.
Credit Hours: 1-3
- MHI601 - Continuing Enrollment
This course is required to satisfy the Graduate School's requirement of continuous enrollment and is intended for those students who are enrolled in the program but cannot take a core academic course during a given semester. Consent of SAH Academic Advisor.
Credit Hours: 1
