Master in Health Information Science

Health Information Management: Introduces students to the profession of Health Information Management (HIM), including data and information management, health care documentation, biomedical terms, and ethics, legal, regulatory, privacy, and confidentiality issues related to information management in healthcare.

Healthcare Governance and Control: Provides an understanding of healthcare systems, health policy formulation, health economics, and funding sources.

Databases, Modelling and Health Informatics Applications: Focuses on the foundations of database systems and their use and modeling in healthcare and biomedical environments, including hands-on experience in modeling and implementation of health-related databases using a relational approach.

Health Systems and Processes Reengineering: Reviews workflow analysis and process redesign and their use in quality improvement activities, including specification, with case examples highlighting key concepts and measurement strategies.

Fundamentals of Health Informatics and Healthcare Information Systems: Combines perspectives from medicine and computer science for the use of computers and information in healthcare and the health sciences, exploring clinical and administrative functions such as scheduling, admission, discharge and transfer, pharmacy and lab management, vitals collection and analysis, and electronic medication administration and computerized physician order entry.

Systems Analysis and Design: Introduces students to systems analysis methodologies, project initiation, business process reengineering, requirements gathering, object-oriented analysis, static and dynamic modeling of systems, and presentation skills, emphasizing health industry practices, documentation, and presentation skills in a team environment.

Total Quality Management and Process Improvement in Healthcare Sector: Provides an opportunity to apply the methodology of Continuous Quality Improvement in healthcare and health informatics management, including current models and theories, information needs for quality improvement monitoring, hospital report cards, and balanced scorecards, and practical modelling approaches as a basis for decision making and process improvement.

Consulting Engagements in Healthcare: Exposes students to the consulting engagement life cycle, including hands-on consulting skills practice, and structured problem-solving skills, communication, and influencing skills, using communication techniques to better understand client’s needs and preferences and the ethical issues consultants face.

Epidemiology and Public Health: Develops an understanding of epidemiology and public health, including principles and methods of epidemiology, the role of epidemiology in healthcare planning, and applications of health informatics, research ethics, critical reviews of the literature, and data analyses.

Privacy, Confidentiality and Information Security: Introduces the concepts of privacy, confidentiality, and computer systems security and how they are interconnected in a healthcare context, including core concepts of security at both the technology and policy levels and the importance of addressing them in a healthcare environment to ensure that individuals are able to maintain control over their health information and its appropriate disclosure.

Change Management in the Healthcare Sector: Provides an overview of organizational change to understand the process of change, human reaction to change, and the effects of change on the organization, examining leadership competencies in the context of successful change and developing approaches to managing change that will help avoid common problems evident in many change initiatives.

Research Methods in Health Sciences: Explores the theoretical basis of the scientific method and the strengths and limitations of its application to ethical healthcare research, developing abilities to formulate testable hypotheses, appraise existing research literature, and select appropriate methods for conducting ethical health research.