Quality Improvement in Healthcare

5 credits

Focuses on quality improvement, risk management, and utilization management in healthcare; design and management of quality improvement systems, including the use of data systems in quality improvement and visual daily management systems; health data retrieval, analysis, and presentation. Prerequisite: HIHIM 400 and HIHIM 410; recommended: descriptive statistics; probability; random sampling; simple linear regression; correlation; and tests of hypotheses (either BIOST 310, EDPSY 490, QMETH 201, STAT 220, or equivalent).