INFS3440-C1 Health Care Information System (Spring 2016)

Course Details

This course satisfies part of the Communication Skills graduation requirement.

This section is Communication Skills intensive. Communication Skills I-V must be completed before taking this course.

Section will be taught totally online with no scheduled class meetings. Students must arrange for daily access to a computer and the Internet prior to the start of classes. Robert Morris labs are to be used only as a backup in special situations and may not be relied upon for extended periods of time. In addition to the Internet link, online classes have a large emphasis on email. All messages from the instructor and other information regarding online classes, including user ids, passwords, and login instructions will be sent to your Robert Morris University email account. Visit http://rmu.blackboard.com/ for more information.

Session, Dates: 2 (01/09/2016 - 03/04/2016)

Days: ONLINE

Time: -

Location: Internet/Online

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Seats Available: Course Full, Choose another

Credits: 3

Course Description

The purpose of this course is to prepare healthcare professionals with the understanding and skills required to manage information and information systems (in healthcare) in a new and every changing world of automation. It will involve a clinical applications as well as administrative application in healthcare. This will also sharpen skills in the use of various tools for data warehouse extraction including understandings of how data is processed and utilized as information. There will be case studies and discussions about how the case studies are pertinent to today?s healthcare information systems.

Prerequisites: INFS1020 or STAT2110 and COSK2220 or COSK2225

Course Materials

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About the Instructor(s)

Diane A. Igoche, Ph.D.

Part-Time Faculty

Computer and Information Systems

igoche@rmu.edu
412-397-3536 phone
412-397-6469 fax
Wheatley Center 142
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