The student has a choice of three courses based upon their clinical background and semester availability. NURS 6286 - Foundations of Healthcare Informatics - College of Nursing (available in Fall and Spring). This introductory course focuses on core concepts, skills, and tools that define the informatics field, including the examination of health information technologies to promote safety, improve quality, foster consumer-centered care and efficiency. Learners participate in online discussions related to core informatics competencies, federal initiatives such as the HITECH Act and legal, ethical, social and public policy issues. The course is contextualized within the Health Information Technology Strategic and Learning Healthcare Systems Frameworks CLSC 6800/HLTH 6071 - Introduction to Health Information Technology - School of Medicine (available in Spring this course is NOT online but meets Thursday evenings from 7-9:30 p.m. on the Auraria campus in Denver). This course is intended as an overview to the dynamic environment of healthcare informatics and to prepare healthcare professionals to better utilize and manage emerging communication technologies. A brief introduction to e-health, telehealth, electronic medical records, telecommunications, and bio-informatics is provided. BIOS 6670 - Topics in Public Health Informatics - School of Public Health (available in Spring). This course examines the use, design, evaluation and administration of information systems in public health. The focus will be a high-level view of systems and their effect on public health practitioners, public health decision-making, clinicians, partner organizations, resource use and population health.
The student has a choice of two courses based upon their clinical background and semester availability. NURS 6293 - Database Management Systems - College of Nursing (available in Fall or Spring). This interdisciplinary course focuses on historical, theoretical and application issues in the design and administration of a database management system. Theories and concepts of file and database structure are explored. Learners apply database concepts to nursing and healthcare problems and solutions. Learners have access to a simulated database where they can perform queries related to meaningful use criteria. ISMG 6080 - Database Management Systems - Business School (available in Fall). The success of today's business often hinges on the ability to utilize critical information to make the right decisions quickly and efficiently. Transforming mountains of data into critical information to improve decision making is a skill every business decision maker must possess. This course covers the database design topics with a focus on enabling business decision making. Detailed topics include collecting, capturing, querying and manipulating data (using SQL and QBE)for simple to medium complex business applications. Commercial database products (e.g., ORACLE and ACCESS) are utilized to demonstrate the design of database applications in management, marketing, finance, accounting, and other business areas. Students will be able to design and implement simple to medium complex database applications after successful completion of this course.
ISMG 6430 - Information Systems Security and Privacy - Business School (available in Spring). Designed to develop knowledge and skills for security of information and information systems within organizations. Focuses on concepts and methods associated with planning, designing, implementing, managing and auditing security at all levels and on all systems platforms, including enterprise systems. This course presents techniques for assessing risk associated with accidental and intentional breaches of security as well as disaster recovery planning.
The student has a choice of three courses based upon their clinical background and semester availability. NURS 6289 - Information Systems Life Cycle - College of Nursing (available in Fall or Spring). This course focuses on a structured approach to the selection and implementation of an information system. This structured approach is called the information system development life cycle. The course incorporates four modules corresponding to the five phases of the life cycle: planning, analysis, design, implementation and evaluation. Learners are assigned teams, select a case scenario and participate in key processes and design key documents across all life cycle stages. Learners apply new knowledge, skills and techniques specific to each phase of the life cycle. Learners have the option to participate in a virtual hospital/clinic environment for team environments. CLSC 6820/HLTH 6072 - Fundamentals of HIT Management - School of Medicine (available in Fall). This course will provide an introduction to the management of information technology in healthcare. A description of information processing, the origin, content and evolution of healthcare information systems and the methodologies deployed to acquire and manage information requirements will be discussed. ISMG 6060 - Systems Analysis and Design - Business School (available in Fall). This course provides an understanding and application of systems analysis and design processes. Students are exposed to system development lifecycle (SDLC), structured systems analysis and design methods, object-oriented analysis and design methods, prototyping and commercial off-the-shelf package software approaches, and joint and rapid application development. Emphasizes the skills required for system analysts such as analytical, interpersonal, technical, fact-finding, and project management skills. Topics include data, process and object modeling, input-output and user interface design, and systems implementation and support. To provide an opportunity to develop these skills, an information system project is completed by a group of students. Students use a Case tool for their group project.
NURS 6274 - Semantic Representation - College of Nursing (available in Spring and Summer). This course introduces the concept of classifying nursing and healthcare phenomena to facilitate data management and retrieval. Topics include: minimum data sets, language, classification systems and vocabularies, and relates each topic to practice, administration and research. The importance of standards and the role of structured data in the era of meaningful use is explored.
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