HDIM 2030 - Performance Improvement and Creating Databases

4.5 Credits

Students investigate peer review in healthcare and the components of quality management programs in healthcare organizations including quality/performance improvement, utilization management, risk management, safety, and credentialing. The course then moves one step further with students learning and creating databases using Microsoft Access.

Prerequisites: (2) HDIM 2010 and HDIM 2020

Lecture Hours: 4.5
Lab Hours: 0.0
Internship Hours: 0.0
Clinical or Practicum Hours: 0.0

Course Objectives

Discuss healthcare issues in relation to quality management
Illustrate effective performance to applied situations
Recall terms pertaining to Quality and Performance Improvement
Research healthcare reports
Apply processes to determine outcomes
Recall healthcare measures and their use
Identify key concepts related to performance measures
Apply skills in reviewing healthcare data
Create and interpret graphs
Identify key quality performance improvement tools
Apply leadership skills, techniques, and tools
Contrast quality management and patient safety
Apply tools for patient safety and risk analysis
Compare and contrast different management concepts
Discuss population health
Identify different tools of which measure employee performance
Recall information pertaining to data analytics.
Creating Access Database

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