Health Informatics/ Business Intelligence MHI/MS

Objective 1:  Students will demonstrate understanding of the value of decision and systems technologies and be able to create business models for forecasting and business analysis. This requires the understanding of organizational flows of information and control and the impacts that these flows have on operations. Describe the history, goals, methods (including data and information used and produced), and current challenges of the major health science fields. Identify theories or models that explain and modify patient or population behaviors related to health and health outcome.

Objective 2: Describe the history, goals, methods (including data and information used and produced), and current challenges of the major health science fields.  Identify the effects of social, behavioral, legal, psychological, management, cognitive, and economic theories. Identify possible biomedical and health information science and technology methods and tools for solving a specific biomedical and health information problem.  Draw on socio‐technical knowledge regarding the social behavioral sciences and human factors engineering to apply to the design and implementation of information systems and technology. Identify the theories, models, and tools from social, business, human factors, behavioral, and information sciences and technologies for designing, implementing, and evaluating health informatics solutions.

Objective 2: Students will demonstrate critical thinking skills, that is, the process of conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information as the basis for solving problems and making decisions. 

Objective 3:  Students will demonstrate the ability to correspond effectively and persuasively in a business format.  This includes communicating quantitative information using both a technical and non-technical terms, with individuals and within teams.  Identify the applicable information science and technology concepts, methods, and tools, to solve health informatics problems. 

Objective 4: Students will be able to apply ethical decision making in the area of business intelligence and analytics and to understand the relationship between data, ethics, and the organizational framework.  Define and discuss ethical principles and the informatician’s responsibility to the profession, their employers, and ultimately to the stakeholders of the informatics solutions they create and maintain. 

Objective 5: Students will demonstrate the principles of a structured programming language and be able to describe, design, implement, and test programming code using current data analysis techniques and methodology to support business decision-making. Define and discuss the scope of practice and roles of different health professionals and stakeholders including patients, as well as the principles of team science and team dynamics to solve complex health and health information problems.  Articulate the methods, concepts, tools, and characteristics of leading and leadership.