2015-2016 Graduate Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2015-2016 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HCM 681 - Strategic Planning in Health Care Information Systems


This course empowers health care students with the skills and knowledge to create business value through information systems. The alignment of business and IT strategies as a source of competitive advantage and mission fulfillment is the focus of this course. Students learn how to develop a strategic IT plan that addresses the social, organizational, economic, cultural and political dimensions encountered in deployment of major systems. Case studies from other industries will be analyzed to better understand how the challenges and opportunities entailed in the strategic management of information systems can be successfully addressed in a health care environment.

Prerequisite: HCM 532  and HCM 651 
3 credits