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Health Data Management and Information Systems

HIT
111

Introduces the electronic health record (EHR)\components and health informatics including infrastructure, privacy, security and legal implications. Federal involvement and its impact on information technology regarding health data will be discussed. Students will study the roles and relationships, in the transformation of data into meaningful information, through research, vital statistics and epidemiology. Data quality, integrity, collection, access, and retention will also be emphasized.