PUBH6813

PUBH 6813 - Managing Electronic Health Information (2 Cr.)

School of Public Health - Adm (11162) TPUB - School of Public Health

PUBH 6813 - Managing Electronic Health Information (2 Cr.)

Course description

Managing health information is a central function of health care organizations. Information is used for managing population health, profiling providers, and measuring quality. This course describes relational data theory, normalization, and Structured Query Language (SQL) will be used to create and query databases. Students will be introduced to the basic programming skills necessary to manage data in research projects. Programming aspects of the course will use SQL procedure in the SAS language.

prereq: Admission to a University of Minnesota Masters program or Permission of instructor.

Minimum credits

2

Maximum credits

2

Is this course repeatable?

No

Grading basis

OPN - Student Option No Audit

Lecture

Typically offered term(s)

Every Spring