Health Informatics Course Materials
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(OLD. See HCA 720) HIN 720 – Leadership and Strategic Management in Health Settings
Required Textbooks
DuBrin, A. J. (2016). Leadership: Research Findings, Practice and Skills (8th Ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning ISBN: 978-1285866369
Harrison, J. P. (2016). Essentials of Strategic Planning in Healthcare (2nd Ed). Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press ISBN: 978-1567937916
HCA 601 Introduction to Health Administration
Required
Shi, L. & Singh, D. A. (2018). Delivering health care in America: A systems approach (7th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers. ISBN: 9781284124491
American Psychological Association. (2019). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. ISBN: 978-1-4338-3217-8
HCA 610 – Healthcare Quality for Enhanced Value-Based Patient Outcomes
Required
Spath, P. L., & DeVane, K. A. (2022). Introduction to healthcare quality management, fourth edition. Health Administration Press. ISBN: 9781640553637; EBOOK ISBN: 9781640553620
Strome, T.L. (2013). Healthcare analytics for quality and performance improvement (1st ed.). [Books24x7 version]. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1118519691 (available as an e-book in UNE Library)
Waterson, P. D. (Ed.) (2014). Patient safety culture: Theory, methods and application. Ashgate Publishing Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1409448143Â (available as an e-book in UNE Library)
American Psychological Association. (2019). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). American Psychological Association. ISBN: 978-1-4338-3217-8
HCA 705 — Emergency Management
Coppola, D. P., Haddow, G. D., & Bullock, J. A. (2020). Introduction to emergency management (7th ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann.
Recommended:
- American Psychological Association. (2019). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). American Psychological Association. ISBN: 978-1433832154. E-text: 978-1433832185
HCA 760 — Healthcare Finance and Revenue Cycle Strategy
Required Textbooks
Nowicki, M. (2016). Introduction to financial management of healthcare organizations (6th ed.). Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press.
HCA 765 – Communication for Healthcare Leaders
Required
- Hicks, N & Nicols, C. (2016). Health Industry Communication: New Media, New Methods, New Message (2nd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Recommended:
- American Psychological Association. (2019). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). ISBN: 978-1433832154. E-text: 978-1433832185
HIN — Preparation for Practicum in Health Informatics
HIN 600: Orientation for Health Informatics
Required
UNE College of Graduate and Professional Studies Handbook
Fandl, K. & Smith, J. (2013). Success as an online student: Strategies for effective learning . New York, NY: Routledge. (This is an eÂbook available to read online for all UNE students. To access this resource, you will need to login to the UNE library with your UNE username and password.)
Recommended
American Psychological Association (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. (This is a required textbook for HIN 601.)
Beins, B.C. (2012). APA style simplified: Writing in psychology, education, nursing, and sociology (1st ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. (This is an eÂbook available to read online for all UNE students. To access this resource, you will need to login to the UNE library with your UNE username and password.)
HIN 605 Introduction to Health Informatics
Textbooks
Wager, K. A., Lee, F. W., & Glaser, J. P. (2022). Health care information systems: A practical approach for health care management (5th ed.). Jossey-Bass.
Recommended
American Psychological Association. (2019). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). ISBN: 978-1433832154. E-text: 978-1433832185
HIN 615 – Advanced Computer Information Technologies for Health Informaticists –
Recommended
American Psychological Association. (2019). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). American Psychological Association. ISBN: 9781433832154. E-text: 9781433832185
HIN 620 – Database Design, Standards, Access, Modeling
Textbook:
Coronel, C., & Morris, S. (2019). Database systems: design, implementation, and management (13th ed.). Cengage Learning. IBSN: 978-1-337-62790-0
Installation Guide:
Recommended:
American Psychological Association. (2019). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). American Psychological Association. ISBN: 978-1433832154. E-text: 978-1433832185
HIN 625: Health Information Legislation, Compliance, Privacy and Security
Required
- Brodnik, M. Rinehart-Thompson, L. A., & Reynolds, R. B. (2023). Fundamentals of Law for Health Informatics and Information Management. Fourth Edition. American Health Information Management Association. ISBN: 978-1-58426-880-2
- Rinehart-Thompson, L. (2023). Introduction to health information privacy and security. Third Edition. AHIMA. ISBN: 978-1-58426-923-6
Recommended:
- American Psychological Association. (2019). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). American Psychological Association. ISBN ISBN: 978-1-4338-3217-8. E-text: 9781433832185
HIN 700 – Project Management
Required Textbook
Shirley, D. (2020). Project management for healthcare (2nd ed.). Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780367252014; eBook ISBN 9781000029819Â
Recommended:
American Psychological Association. (2019). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). ISBN: 978-1433832154. E-text: 978-1433832185
HIN 715 – Health Data Analysis, Visualization, and Storytelling
Required:
Benevento, D., Rowell, K., Steeger, J., Cutrell, A., Morales, M. (2017). Best boring book ever of tableau for healthcare (3rd ed.). HealthDataViz. ISBN: 978-0692938508
Knaflic, C.N. (2015) Storytelling with data. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 978-1119002253; eText 978-1119002062 Â (Available as etext via UNE Library)
Required Software Tools:
- Microsoft Excel —This is the most commonly used and commonly available software for data visualization in the world and can be expected to be available in almost every healthcare setting.
- Tableau Desktop —Tableau is a leading data visualization and business intelligence tool that supports the cycle of visual analysis to rapidly manipulate and see data. Tableau offers free licenses to students, academics, and smaller non-profits. As part of this course, you will be getting a free license for the duration of the course. License and download instructions provided in Blackboard.
- MySQL/MySQL Workbench — MySQLâ„¢ is a free, open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) that utilizes both the user-friendly interface, MySQL Workbench, and a multiuser database server. Further, MySQL allows users to utilize Structured Query Language (SQL) to manipulate the data in the structured databases.Â
Recommended:
- Alexander, M., et al. (2018). Excel 2019 Bible. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (Available as etext via UNE Library)
- American Psychological Association. (2019). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). American Psychological Association. ISBN: 978-1433832154. E-text: 978-1433832185
Helpful Resources:
Online help for Tableau  – You will find lots of helpful tutorials here that you may wish to consult as you go through the course. You may wish to bookmark this site.
Tableau Community – Highly recommend setting up a free account to ask questions, read solutions to your hair-pulling Tableau issues, to get introduced to a robust data community, and to view a multitude of Tableau views. Worth a bookmark and a frequent visit!
HIN 730 – Human Factors for System Development
Required Textbook:
Carayon, P. (Ed.). (2012). Handbook of human factors and ergonomics in health care and patient safety (2nd ed.).  Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. ISBN: 978-1-4398-3033-8
HIN 735 Measuring the User Experience
No formal text required. Readings and videos will be linked in the course.
Recommended:
- American Psychological Association. (2019). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). American Psychological Association. ISBN: 9781433832154. E-text: 9781433832185
HIN 740—Health Informatics Capstone
All materials for this course will be online. There is nothing to purchase.
HIN 745 — Cumulative Experience in Health Informatics
All materials for this course will be online. There is nothing to purchase.
HIN 745 — IS Cumulative Experience in Health Informatics: Independent Study
All materials for this course will be online. There is nothing to purchase.
HIN 750 – Applying Consumerization Principles to Health Informatics Strategy
Required Textbook:
Wetter, T. (2016). Consumer health informatics: New services, roles, and responsibilities. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. ISBN: 978-3319195896
Required Case Studies:
In addition to the textbook above, this course requires students to purchase case studies from the Harvard Business Review Web site (HBR Online). The price of each case study is in the range of $9 – $15. Â Please purchase the following case studies
Please review the detailed course schedule section of the syllabus for case study details and deadlines.
Recommended:
- American Psychological Association. (2019). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). ISBN: 978-1433832154. E-text: 978-1433832185
HIN 770 – Foundations of Healthcare Data Analytics
Required
Harrison, E. and Pius, R. (2021). R for Health Data Science. 1st Edition. Routledge.Â
ISBN 9780367428198
Recommended:
- American Psychological Association. (2019). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). ISBN: 978-1433832154. E-text: 978-1433832185
HIN 775 – Advanced Concepts in Healthcare Data Analytics
Required
Marc, D. & Sandefer, R. (2016). Data analytics in healthcare research: tools and strategies. AHIMA Press.
R:Â https://cran.r-project.org/
R Studio Desktop Open Source License:Â https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/
Recommended:
- American Psychological Association. (2019). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). American Psychological Association. ISBN: 978-1433832154. E-text: 978-1433832185
HIN 776 – Python for Health Data Analysts
Textbook
Kumar V. Healthcare Analytics Made Simple : Techniques in Healthcare Computing Using Machine Learning and Python. Packt; 2018. – available for free via the UNE library
Other Course Materials
All course tools will be provided within the course. Please note, you will need to download and install a number of programming applications to complete the assignments in the course. Follow all directions in the first week to guarantee they are properly set up.Â
HIN 785 — Health Informatics Capstone
All materials for this course will be online. There is nothing to purchase.
Recommended:
- American Psychological Association. (2019). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). American Psychological Association. ISBN: 978-1433832154. E-text: 978-1433832185
HIN 785 — Health Informatics Capstone
All materials for this course will be online. There is nothing to purchase.
Recommended:
- American Psychological Association. (2019). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). American Psychological Association. ISBN: 978-1433832154. E-text: 978-1433832185
