Graduate Healthcare Information Systems and Management Ethics Cluster

This course is designed to assist today's healthcare professionals and managers with understanding how to deploy and utilize the powerful resources that are available from today's IT industry. Project Management from an IM/IT perspective will be discussed as well as the importance of system integration and a general understanding of system functions. Government Initiatives with Healthcare Technologies and comprehensive IM/ IT governance strategies will also be reviewed.

This course will discuss standards for conduct and ethical uniformity of practice for the Health Information profession. Healthcare managers will learn how to resolve and address ethical issues in a proactive and effective manner. Ethical decision making matrices will be discussed as a guide to understanding the complexity of solving ethical problems. Offered at St. Charles and Westport locations each term and intermittently at select locations

Students will attain a clear understanding of individual and group behavior in healthcare organizational settings. Critical insight will be provided so students can understand workplace problems and dynamics as they relate to healthcare organizations. Conflict management, team building and managing organizational change will be reviewed along with leadership philosophies and behaviors.