600

INSY-65500 Quality Management in Healthcare

This course in Quality Management provides a systematic approach to improving and managing quality in healthcare organizations. It is designed for healthcare managers and executives. Students will learn both the conceptual and practical aspects of health care quality. A number of quality management and performance tools and techniques will also be introduced. These include Failure Mode and Effect Analysis, Cause-Effect diagrams, Flow Charts, Pareto Diagrams, Function Deployment Matrices, Histograms, Data Sheets, and Control Spreadsheets.
3

INSY-67500 Introduction to Healthcare Informatics

This course introduces the use of current information technology for healthcare and health data systems. It is designed to give the student an understanding of the different types of data captured, analyzed, maintained and processed for medical studies.
3

INSY-67600 Healthcare Data Security, Privacy and Confidentiality

This course examines the current legal environment for confidentiality of healthcare data. It introduces the laws, regulations, policy and procedures for protecting sensitive patient data. The students learn risk assessment and how to address potential threats in a healthcare setting. Security policy and procedure development methods to secure the healthcare data as required by current laws are discussed in detail. 
3

Prerequisites

INSY 50600

INSY-67700 Healthcare Data Analysis and Design

Designed for the in-depth study of the healthcare systems, this course teaches systems analysis and design specifically for the healthcare data. The students learn how to identify business problem statements for healthcare organizations, how to identify data requirements, how to gather data for detailed systems analysis. Systems development techniques to address business problems by improving existing information systems or developing new information systems are explained. Data manipulation concepts for health information systems are introduced. 
3

Prerequisites

INSY 50600

INSY-67900 Business Intelligence & Data Analysis

This course introduces students to the current data mining and business intelligence tools for informed decision making. The tools to process and analyze increasingly complicated data sets are explained. Real-life scenarios from finance, CRM, operations, social media marketing, information systems and other disciplines are studied in detail. Specifically decision trees, classification, clustering, segmentation, decision support systems, search algorithms, data mining, factor and discriminant analysis and optimization concepts for both structured and unstructured data are discussed.

3

INSY-69500 Business Analytics Capstone

This course will allow students to demonstrate proficiency in business analytics with a semester project. The students are expected to employ the skills presented throughout the curriculum in an organized manner to solve realistic business data management problems. Mastery of skills for the student’s identified concentration is expected.
3

Prerequisites

All required phases plus RCR modules