Health Informatics and its Applications

Catalog description

Health Informatics and its Applications investigates how information is manipulated and utilized by organizations and shared to external entities. Budgeting projections, long-term service line planning, and forecasting health care needs of an organization’s patient population and resources used are discussed. The use of graphical representations of health care data, research methodologies used in health care, data management, and the effects of health information exchange are studied. Database management and identifying standards for health information exchange are explored. (Credit is only allowed for either HIM 205 or HIT 214.)