HIMT 2600 Introduction to Data Management

Designed to provide students with an introduction to healthcare data analytics. The digital environment demands interpretation and evolving uses of an organizations data that impacts patient care, revenue cycle, performance improvement activities, and strategic decisions. This course will provide the foundation for data collection, storage, analysis, and reporting through the use of open source statistical software, R, data modeling and mining techniques. This course will afford an understanding of data analytics through applications of different data types, data collection and storage, and the transformation of data into meaningful data that facilitates quality patient care.