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  School of Health Professions 2021-2023 Catalog Health Informatics Health Informatics, Doctorate Program Learning Outcomes  

Program Learning Outcomes


Graduates of the doctorate of health informatics program are expected to meet the following student learning outcomes:

  • Study and evaluate the impact of informatics concepts, systems, and implementations on human health and welfare.
  • Describe the structure, roles, and capabilities of information systems in various biomedical and health care management systems.
  • Demonstrate competency in health informatics by using theories and methods of data structures, algorithms, and programming.
  • Review current implementations of computers in diverse clinical areas, and evaluate direct data acquisition and entry by health care professionals.
  • Describe and discuss the various regulations, systems, and organizations for health information privacy, security, and confidentiality.
  • Apply good practice to ensure the design, implementation, and adoption of health information technologies and systems appropriately mitigating the risk of inadvertent harm to patients and organizations.
  • Exhibit professionalism in the coursework, projects, and interactions within and outside of the program.
  • Demonstrate an ability to effectively articulate the context, the significance, or impact of their research findings on a research project topic suitable for presentation at a technical conference or seminar.
  • Create a project proposal that is ready for submission to a grant funding agency.
  • Identify a research topic in an area of specialization in the doctorate program and formulate it as a PICO structure.
  • Demonstrate graduate-level critical thinking skills in performing a systematic review by carefully analyzing and interpreting research information, and by successfully supporting their literature research thesis on paper.
  • Prepare the systematic review paper for publication in a peer-reviewed journal using a research documentation format specified by the journal.
  • Design and implement a suitable organizational-level program or decision-making system for solving a health informatics problem.
  • Evaluate and report on the performance of a suitable organizational-level program or decision-making system for solving a health informatics problem with clear explanations as to its logic, syntax, and operations.
  • Discuss the federal laws, regulations, and standards that govern health information privacy, confidentiality, and security.
  • Upon completion of the doctoral project courses, the students will provide, as per the department formatting guidelines, a comprehensive written synthesis of the graduate project itself as well as an analysis of project outcomes, process, and recommendations for the future.
 
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