PAM 5641

Health Information Technology and Quality

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2017-2018 Catalog.

This course introduces efforts to improve healthcare quality through health information technology (IT) in the United States. Students will learn the role health IT plays in improving health care quality, why it plays such a critical role, how health IT is operationalized, and why it is challenging to associate health IT's effects on quality.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: Sloan students.

Outcomes

• Become familiar with fundamental concepts of health care quality and how HIT may be used to facilitate Quality Improvement (QI).
• Gained an understanding of the role of standards in making HIT work and how standards are developed.
• Developed a general understanding of organizational issues involved in performing QI and leveraging HIT and common barriers to their effective use.
• Improved your skills in problem solving and succinct verbal and written communication.
• Gained knowledge about organizational behaviors and their impact on HIT and QI effectiveness.
• Improved your skills working with others in diverse groups.

When Offered Fall.

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