HCM 6025 - Health Care Information Technology, Knowledge Management Systems and Analytics

(3 units)

This course will introduce students to the main components of Health Information Technology (HIT) and how HIT currently effects, and in the future, may change health care operating models. This course is not intended to prepare students for primary technology positions. It is intended to help students understand the role of information technology in the success of healthcare delivery process. The course will explore and clarify the implications of ongoing thematic changes in the data that are fundamentally transforming commercial decision making in health care markets from insurance and care delivery to pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and devices. The course will study dispersion for healthcare product/service choice, data explosion and organizations understand and leverage the immense availability of data, disruption and multiplicity of channels within which data is gathered and division of responsibilities for sharing of knowledge.