Healthcare Information Systems Management

Catalog description

Offers students an opportunity to understand how to manage high-technology systems, tools, and products and to provide a conceptual framework for understanding how to use technology to reduce costs and improve productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness in their current and future work situations. Today’s health practitioner has to use technology to find medical information and use accounting systems, personal systems, health insurance company systems, inventory systems, patient billing systems, purchasing systems, as well as input and retrieve data. Focuses on the business of healthcare and how to understand, use, and manage technology and information systems that have become such an integral part of the health delivery spectrum in a medical environment.