Health Care Informatics Certificate
As the health care industry continues to grow and evolve across the state of Tennessee, industry professionals are looking to supplement their health care knowledge with the business acumen that they need to excel in a management capacity.
Tennessee Tech has the resources and expertise needed to serve the growing needs of health care professionals by offering a graduate professional certificate that has been specifically tailored to the needs of the industry.
In collaboration with the College of Interdisciplinary Studies, the College of Business is offering students the opportunity to add a Certificate in Health Care Informatics (offered through the School of Professional Studies) to their resume by double-counting MBA credit toward both a master’s degree and a graduate certificate. This certificate requires 12 credit hours of coursework, consisting of...
Core Courses
Students will take DS 6570, DS 6530, and choose either ECON 6900 or PRST 6530.
- » ECON 6900 — Special Topics - Economics of Healthcare — 3 Credit Hours
A case course dealing with current topics in business.
- » PRST 6530 — Healthcare Systems Economics — 3 Credit Hours
The objective of this course is to facilitate your understanding of the traditional issues in health economics. This course will improve and broaden your knowledge of healthcare systems economics by exploring historical and current economic principles that guide the healthcare system.
- » DS 6570 — Cyber Security Management — 3 Credit Hours
The objective of this course is to provide students with a solid foundation and best practices for policy, governance, risk management and compliance with respect to an organization’s information technology and resources.
- » DS 6530 — Advanced Data Analytics — 3 Credit Hours
An introduction to expert systems, decision support systems, and executive information systems as they are employed in business organizations.
Plus, choose one of the PRST courses below:
Course Options
- » PRST 6540 — Health Informatics — 3 Credit Hours
This course is intended to expose students to the field of health informatics and to give them an understanding in the history, processes, and application of this field in the healthcare delivery system in the United States. Since health informatics is interdisciplinary, students must have already completed introductory courses in statistics, public health (or related subject), computer programming, and economics. Upon completion of this course, students will have a better understanding of healthcare delivery, the specific areas within health informatics, the application of computer technology in healthcare delivery, and the techniques, methodologies, and tools used in health informatics.
- » PRST 6550 — Computer-Based Decision-Making in Healthcare Administration — 3 Credit
Hours
This course will provide an introduction to the principles and practice of decision modeling for financial and operational evaluation in the healthcare industry. Basic business spreadsheet techniques will be used to create models for strong decision support to assist in optimizing business decisions. It will introduce the use of statistical analysis and model development to health administration, healthcare program develop and evaluation, healthcare information management, emphasizing the use of computer technology (specifically MS Excel) across these areas.
- » PRST 6560 — Biosciences for Healthcare Administration — 3 Credit Hours
The focus of the course is to provide healthcare administrators with a basic understanding of the pathophysiological principles, as well as drug classes used, in the treatment of common medical diagnoses requiring admission to healthcare facilities.
- » PRST 6570 - Public Health — 3 Credit Hours
The focus of this course is to explore the history and impact of public health initiatives in the United States and globally. Students will become familiar with public and private organized measures to prevent disease, promote health, and increase the quality of life among diverse populations. Students will learn to assess and monitor the overall health of populations, and use data to contribute to public health policy.
