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[1] Graduate Courses for Health Systems (H SC)

5305 TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS IN THE HEALTH SCIENCES This course is designed to serve as an introduction to the uses of technology in the health sciences. Prerequisites: Students should be familiar with word processing, presentation graphics, electronic mail, spreadsheets, library information systems, and the World Wide Web.

6301 DATA COMMUNICATIONS IN HEALTH SYSTEMS This course involves a study of electronic data communications and networks. The course combines a presentation of the basic communication protocol stack and a health care management perspective of communication technology, networks, distributed processing, telephony, and telemedicine.

6305 DATABASE MANAGEMENT FOR HEALTH SYSTEMS The course assists students in understanding the theoretical and practical issues involved with data resources and databases in current use in different health care settings.

6315 ADMINISTRATION OF HEALTH SERVICES ORGANIZATIONS The course presents an overview of administration principles and challenges that may be applied to the changing health care delivery system.

6320 INFORMATION SYSTEMS/MANAGEMENT SCIENCE IN HEALTH SERVICES The course is designed to develop intelligent managers, researchers, and consumers of healthcare information technology through guided exploration into the components of healthcare information systems.

6324 CURRENT ISSUES IN HEALTH SYSTEMS The course offers current technologies such as client/server, internet/intranet initiatives, WWW development, and emerging roles of telecommunications in health care.

6325 CLINICAL DOCUMENTATION/INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN SUPPORT OF PATIENT CARE The course is concerned with the study of information processes and flows and computerized systems that support the clinical area. This includes examination of clinical information systems, signal and pattern processing applications, decision support, simulation, internal and external databases, and education/training.

6340 STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR HEALTH SYSTEMS The course addresses concepts, models, and managerial approaches in health information systems. Vertical integration, consolidation, strategic alliances, joint ventures, entrepreneurial start-ups, and specialized niche networks are included in this course.

6670 HEALTH SYSTEMS INTERNSHIP The course involves directed field experience in health systems within an advisor-approved health company/organization.

6379 FOUNDATIONS OF RESEARCH IN HEALTH AND APPLIED SCIENCES The course involves acquisition and development of student knowledge, skills, and expertise in basic and applied research methodology and design.

6380 THESIS RESEARCH I The course includes proposal and approval of a thesis topic, review of related literature, presentation and approval of a research design, and collection of pertinent data. On demand.

6390 THESIS RESEARCH II The course includes completion of data collection and analysis as well as writing and defending the thesis. On demand.

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