Healthcare Information Systems Management

Starting with the fall 2009 term, this course will be renumbered as HMG 6160.

The course provides an understanding of how to manage the high technology systems, tools and products that have become such an integral part of the health delivery spectrum. 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 retrieval data. The course focuses on the business of healthcare and how to understand, use, and manage technology and information systems in a medical environment. Its overall goal is to give students 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.

There are no current sections scheduled for this course number.
Please note that courses have been assigned new numbers beginning with the fall term.
Please check the new course number for course availability.