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School of Allied Medical Sciences

Course Description GuideDoctor of Philosophy in Health Information Management

(HIM)

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Program name and definition:Doctor of Philosophy in Health Information Management (HIM)

Course Names & Credits:The total number of credits includes as follows:

Compulsory dedicated units 20 CreditsOptional dedicated units 8 CreditsThesis 20 CreditsTotal 48 Credits

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Table A. Compensatory Units for Doctor of Philosophy in Health Information Management (HIM)

PrerequisiteHour(s)Credit(s)Course Titlecode

TotalPrac.The.TotalPrac.The.-2617910.50.5Medical Informatics

Systems01

-34-342-2Health Information Management

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-34-342-2Specialized English03

-34-342-2Analyzing Management Theories

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-51-513-3Data Structure and Programming

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-34-342-2Diseases Classification And Nomenclature Systems

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-34-342-2Health Economics07

-51-513-3Operational Research08

----170.516.5Total

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Table B. Compulsory Units for Doctor of Philosophy in Health Information Management (HIM)

PrerequisiteHour(s)Credit(s)Course TitlecodeTotalPrac.The.TotalPrac.The.

-513417211Designing And Developing Health Information Systems 1

09

09513417211 Designing And Developing Health Information Systems 2

10

-34-342-2 Data Mining And Knowledge-Based Systems

11

-34-342-2Managing Healthcare Information Systems

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-683434312 Intelligent Methods Of Health Information Systems

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-51-513-3Electronic Health Records14

-51-513-3Improvement Methods And Data Quality Management

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4

-51-513-3Research Seminar16

----20-20 Thesis17

----40--Total

Table. Optional Units for Doctor of Philosophy in Health Information Management (HIM)

PrerequisiteHour(s)Credit(s)Course namecode

TotalPrac.The.TotalPrac.The.-51-513-3Health Informatics18-51-513-3Communication

Network In Healthcare System

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0734-342-2Health Information Economy

20

-34-342-2Project Management of Health Information Systems

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-34-342-2Modern Technologies in Health Information Management

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-34-342-2Clinical Governance Information System

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-513417211Advanced Statistical Methods in Data Analysis

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34-342-2Health Observatory And Monitoring System

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-18117Total

Title: Medical informatics systems Prerequisite: None

No. of Credits: 1

Type of the Course: theoretical- Practical

getting acquainted with a personal computer and recognizing its functioning as well as windows operating systems , learning how to install and fix them , learning how to work with useful and vital applications learning how to use the library patterns as well as methods of searching in databases , being aware of library services of the university , recognizing the internet well known browsers in order to work with searching engines and getting to know the important and useful sites of the own related field of study , learning how to use electronic post for file and letter submission and receiving , recognizing pc hardwares and the accessories , recognizing the function and importance of any hardware and accessories , getting to know the operating systems , understanding the history of operating systems specially Windows , finding out the capability and traits of an operating system ,figuring how to use Help of Windows , identifying the useful computer applications , recognizing vital databases and

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experimental-practical softwares of the related field of study , introducing and finding out the terminology of information ( reforming ) , recognizing databases like Biological Abstract , Embase , Medline and so on , recognizing text-full electronic magazines existing on a compacted disk and methods of searchings in it , getting to know the informative ( reforming ) networks , finding out about important web browsers and learning them in all aspects , comprehending how to set an internet browser for connecting to the network , knowing how to work and search with important search engines , getting to know some well-known and vital sites in the related field of study .

Title: Health Information Management Prerequisite: None

No. of Credits: 2

Type of the Course: theory

Familiarity and the use of information management in health care organizations, data quality and management.

Health information management is a professional that attentions to health care data, and healthcare information resource management.

This professional cares about the nature, structure and translates the data into usable information for to advance the health of individuals and populations focuses on health care

. Health information professional’s collect, primary and secondary data, integrate and distribute information and analysis. They also manage sources of information on research, planning, delivery and evaluation of health care services. The definition of professional health information management (development of professional training programs, the creation of institutions, professional codes of ethics) Role of Health Information Administrators differences in the past and the future. Strategic and operational management concepts and information resources, information resources in the health care system (primary and secondary) A collection of minimal data. Health care data types. Minimum Data Set. Data quality. Reporting and production data.

Title: Specialized EnglishPrerequisite: None

No. of Credits: 2

Type of the Course: theory

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Improving academic 12 English language skills , translating specialized texts , realizing the methods of authorizing new 12 English articles , Using the skills considering provided articles in the related field of study , Proving information by improving the methods of abstracting , improving the skills of translation by correct methods of writing and reversing English sentences to Persian and vice versa , Authorizing C.V considering standard method of Resumes, Being capable of concluding an article or a thesis in English.

Title: Analyzing Management Theories

Prerequisite: None

No. of Credits: 2

Type of the Course: Theoretical

Identification and analysis of the management theory and management tasks from the past and

Care Information Management Effective and efficient management of social organizations such as care institutions need to analyze the actual structure ,organizational processes and their relationship with other relevant organizations and environmental factors . Obviously these studies and scientific analysis requires knowledge of various theories and theories of management and organization. In order to use them as appropriate care institutions such as hospitals and units (IU) of them, including medical records and information management surveillance Care by applying cutting-edge scientific methods of management and administration of the properties.

Management

. Management process and its challenges. An overview of the evolution of management theory and analysis. A review of the duties. Human Resources Management. New management styles.

Title: Data Structure and Programming Prerequisite: None

No. of Credits: 3


Training the important data structure of a computer and the related algorithms , Analyzing the algorithms and their complexity , knowing the recursive algorithm and its executive orders , getting to know one-dimensional and multi-dimensional arrays and the way of storing them in the memory as well

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as their algorithms , showing the functions of queues and types of them ( ringing and regular ones ) , realizing the use of queues , Defining the meanings and concepts of a tree , knowing the way of showing them and finding out about any types of them , recognition of graphs , defining the related formulas , showing graphs and functioning them in different ways , getting to know the spanning tree , realizing the uses of graphs , recognition of Sorting algorithms such as : insert-bubble-quick-heap-tree-merge .

Title: Diseases Classification and Nomenclature Systems

Prerequisite: None

No. of Credits: 2


Recognition of classification and nomenclature of disease systems , Providing methods for improvement of coding quality , getting familiar with national and international organizations like : WHO , HCFA . realizing the methods of establishing Classification and nomenclature of disease, recognition of the categories of national diseases such as ICD-10-AM , ICD-10-CA , ICD-10-CM .Classification of procedures and interventions such as: ICHI –ACHI -ICCI- ICD.10.PCS getting to categorize external cause of injuries like NCECI , ICECI. knowing the Classification and nomenclature systems in nursing like NANDA , NOC , NIC . categorizing first cares and the reasons of referring such as ICPC , ICHPPC , RFV , RFEC . finding out about methods of choosing categorizing and nomenclature systems for coding in different healthcare centers , getting to know the job opportunities for healthcare coders , realizing the responsibilities of coders in different healthcare centers , examining the reasons of malpractice and existing defections in coding processes and methods of coding quality improvement , Documentation of medical records and their impact on coding , proving related information by students

Title: Health Economics

Prerequisite: None

No. of Credits: 2

Type of the Course: 2 unit theory

Understanding the implications of the strategy and economic of health economics and build the capacity of health care systems.

Methods of applying the principles and concepts of microeconomics in analyzing the behavior of consumers, firms and governments in the field of health care are introduced. This understanding introduces the paves the way for economic assessment of the key issues raised in the context of health

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systems. Economy and health. Market health care system. Market structure in health. Analysis of the cost structure of the health market. Non-profit hospitals and theory. The mechanism of resource allocation in the health system. The cost of the health system analysis. Risk and insurance. Development priorities and identify targets

Title: Operational ResearchPrerequisite:

No. of Credits: 3


Recognition of different modeling techniques and solving mathematical programming issues , Emphasizing on the uses of mathematical programming in hospitals and healthcare centers , getting familiar with linear programming and integer programming modeling , recognizing the Graphical approach in cases of linear programming modeling , getting to know the branch algorithm and limitations in integer programming modeling , Introducing different states of decision making ( in states of confident , risk and unconfident ) and the related tree , Introducing multiple criteria decision making models , Introducing multiple indicators decision making models: AHP , TOPSIS , SAW . Introducing multiple aimed decision making models , Reviewing the possibilities and introducing queue models , Introducing applications for mathematical modeling .

Title: Designing and Developing Health Information Systems 1

Prerequisite: None

No. of Credits: 2

Type of the Course: Theory and Experimental

Integration of technology for systems , Designing and analyzing systems , getting to know the functions of Agile Approach , CASE TOOL . designing and establishing object oriented systems , Choosing methods of system establishment , showing the systems graphically ,

Showing the Use Case model and organizational culture .

Analyzing information requirements : methods of compiling information ( interview , JAD , questionnaire ) , simple methods of gathering information ( sampling , examining , checking the behavior of decision makers , observing the physical environment ) , establishing and developing prototypes , RAD , Agile Modeling and comparing Agile Modeling with structured methods ,

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Determining human requirements by using data flow approaches , establishing and developing data flow diagrams , getting to know physical and logical data flow , participating in the use of data flow diagrams , recognizing data dictionary and data warehouse, creating data dictionary and using them , getting familiar with decision making charts and decision making tree , recognition of object oriented and UML content , Use Case modeling , getting to know activity diagrams and connection diagrams as well as Class Diagrams . developing Class diagrams and State chart diagrams . using UML and finding out about its impact on modeling .

Title: Designing and Developing Health Information Systems 2Prerequisite: Designing and Developing Health Information Systems 1

No. of Credits: 2

Type of the Course: Theory and Experimental

Data base concepts and normalizationHuman- computer interaction (HCI) .How To Design Input Data Fields and procedures for efficient and effective data collection Introduction to ensure data quality through validation Introduction to Software Quality Assurance and Its Implementation Developing software for training information system’s users Security and crisis planning of traditional and web-based systems .The need to evaluate new systems and propose an appropriate assessment techniques Designing Effective Output Designing gadget ، widget ، dashboard Electronic commerce website design

Title: Data Mining and Knowledge-Based SystemsPrerequisite: noun

No. of Credits: 2


Comprehending the concept of data mining and knowledge discovery as well as data warehouse and knowledge-based systems , Understanding knowledge management generally and specially in health criteria , Defining data , information , knowledge and wisdom .

explaining information theories , data chains through knowledge and data chains through wisdom , understanding the data analyzing paradigms and learning about the machines , getting familiar with ontologies , defining and discovery of knowledge stages ( data mining ) and explaining the required infrastructures for knowledge creation , explaining Data warehouse , Data mart , OLAP and Decision support system , Managing the knowledge , Explaining the urgency and philosophy of data mining or

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knowledge discovery in health area , recognizing the ontology and managing knowledge in health area , explaining the knowledge discovery in the health area practically

Title: Managing Healthcare Information Systems Prerequisite: None

No. of Credits: 2

Type of the Course: 2 unit theory

The overall goal of this course is a comprehensive introduction to important aspects and theories in the field of health management information systems to being able to direct and manage information systems from the design stage to implementation. Organization of health information technology services, development of job descriptions for staff involved in information systems orders, role and tasks of CIO, Financial aspects of management information systems, change management, factors affecting success and failure management information systems, selection and purchase of information systems, Methods to analyze information systems needs, strategic plan, health information systems, organizational and human aspects of management information system implementation, alignment of strategic plans and strategic plans of health information systems, information systems life cycle.

Title: Intelligent Methods of Health Information SystemsPrerequisite: None

No. of Credits: 3 (2 Theoretical and 1 practical units)

Type of the Course: theory and practical

Introducing the modernization , explaining the issue and the searching atmosphere , getting to know the degree of temporal complexity of issues , getting familiar with the principles of modernizing networks , Learning with and without supervisions , recognizing the basics of decision making by the help of computers , Getting to know the Self Organization Maps and Support Vector Machine , Learning the primary concepts of artificial intelligence and expert systems as well as methods of searching , getting familiar with Prolog programming , Getting acquainted with the mail concepts of Neural Networks , perception , background propagation and recurrent networks , getting familiar with genetic algorithm and Fuzzy Logic , Studying the ability of Matlab software in the neural networks and fuzzy logic .

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Title: Electronic Health RecordsPrerequisite: None

No. of Credits: 3


Course objective :

Recognition of the designing steps of implementation of performance and maintenance of Electronic Health Records as well as technical and architectural instructions , knowing the data quality in the implementation of EHR on the basis of web , Teaching the concepts of Medical Computer Records such as : AMR , CMR , EMR , EPR , HER . Getting to know the content of EHR and its difference with PHR , Recognizing the structure standards and HER Content such as : CCR,CDA,CCD,MML EHR COM,OPEN EHR . Getting acquainted with the EHR Generating system and its implementation infrastructures , Getting to know the EHR Generating system and its architecture in the USA , Recognizing the effective factors of designing and implementing the EHR , Designing strategies for EHR , valuation of providing health services and requirements of using EHR , Finding out about the characteristics and the urgency requirements of EHR , implementation and maintenance of EHR , Getting familiar with technical instructions of EHR in the web , data mining and discovery of knowledge in EHR , knowing the EHR and its impact on the quality of patient caring .

Title: Improvement Methods and Data Quality ManagementPrerequisite: None

No. of Credits: 3


Understand the overall concept, particularly in the information and Understanding the need for improved methods and quality management and development of validation within the scope of health care information. The definition of quality and its history.

Concepts:

Audit , accreditation, assessment, evaluation , control & ,monitor And control concepts, quality assurance, continuous quality improvement, Kaizen and TQM Explaining the nature of the data.

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Explain the attributes or characteristics of data quality and expressed the need for data quality in information systems mechanized. Explain the nature of health data related to health. Explain the attributes or characteristics of data quality health care. Explain the quality control mechanisms for health care information. Validation health care organizations. Standards related to health data.

Title: Research SeminarPrerequisite: None

No. of Credits: 3


At the end of the subsequent master guide must be at least a research paper published in a journal covered by the ISI.An overview of the topics of research methods and style of writing. Review articles. Choose a theme. Research done. Paper prepared. Presentation or the result of research carried out for speech.

Title: ThesisPrerequisite: -

No. of Credits: 20


Application of theoretical methods learned during the course for presenting useful and practical solutions in order to improve efficiency of health information management , Choosing subjects , Implementation of all researching steps and providing the final report as well as defending the thesis according to contents of educational regulations in Ph.D courses .

Title: Health informaticsPrerequisite: None

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No. of Credits: 3


Recognition of subjects related to informatics in health fields , improvement of providing health services , strengthening the patients , managing the information effectively , developing the strategies related to technology , Managing the information , studying the effective factors of development and putting these strategies in work , studying information technology in health and analyzing the strengths and weaknesses , Creating and managing health information in these fields , checking the existing obstacles in management and dissemination of knowledge ,

getting to know the effective factors of successful information technology projects and the way of studying them , Studying the impacts of accreditation institutes on information technology , Getting familiar with Health Care Governance and information technology ,

Recognition of public health informatics and Health Information Infrastructures , checking the health infrastructures worldwide ,

Finding out about information describing structures and getting to know them , recognizing the Metadata and XML language as a basic language of describing information , getting to know XML schema as a data controller in XML ,

Getting familiar with descriptive language of RDF sources , Getting acquainted with RDF schema as a data controller in RDF , Compiling the heterogeneous data by RDF , sharing the health data , getting to know the anthology language in the web .

Title: Communication Network in Healthcare SystemPrerequisite: None

No. of Credits: 3


Trading with communications and communications technology and its application in health care system

IT concepts, process and its components.Wave and its variantsCommunication technologiesIT telecommunications and technologyWireless Technology

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Network communication and data transfer:Network communication equipmentNational and international infrastructureStandards and communication protocols and communication networksSecurity, privacy and confidentiality of communications

Title: Health Information EconomyPrerequisite: Health Economy

No. of Credits: 2


Getting to know the concept of Health Information Economy , Development of some abilities for using the information economy tools in order to analyze and evaluate health information markets , Recognizing the concept of health information economy ( aims and concepts of information , information economy , health information economy ) and the value of information , Recognition of the cost of getting information and the structure of information goods markets , Pricing the information , Getting familiar with networking impacts and the positive feedbacks as well as Locking , Commonly using the source information , prescribing the information , packing the information , Getting to know the health information as economic goods , Defining and evaluating health information , Recognition of health information characteristics as well as the efficient amount of health information , establishing and providing the health information , getting familiar with pricing mechanisms at health information , Finding out about Insurance theory such as contingent markets and Insurance as well as moral hazards , Getting to know the Adverse selections and tradings , choosing the agreements , competing among the other factors ,knowing the repeated agreements and the real examples , Finding out about heterogeneous information and efficient agreements , Motivating , Signaling , Screening , Getting familiar with costs and the use of Digital Health Information , Recognition of the costs of accessing the information and also the consumer's , Understanding the producer costs and the intermediates , Pricing the Digital Health Information , Getting familiar with the main health information economy .

Title: Project Management of Health Information Systems Prerequisite: Research method in health science

No. of Credits: 2


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The aim of this course is a comprehensive introduction to project management, health information systems so that at the end of the course be able to manage and control the design and analysis activities to meet the objectives of the project. An overview of the current state of health care and the role of information technology Project definition, information technology, integrated change management methodology to resolve the crisis as information technologyHow to choose and create projects Project ManagementIT integration project and change management The field of Information Technology Management

Title: Modern Technologies in Health Information Management Prerequisite: None

No. of Credits: 2

Type of the Course : Theoretical

Course Description: Getting to know the modern technologies of electronic health information systems,

Recognition of designing necessities and development of electronic health information systems such as Portal , Web services , architecture of the National health networks , Finding out about the structure of electronic health services systems in different countries by concentrating on adopting modern technologies , Getting familiar with the use of mobile technologies , Recognition of the comprehensive models of health systems based on mobile tools , Integration of the systems based on mobiles which are with health service database , Understanding the use of communication techniques at telemedicine , Getting acquainted with other actions which can be done through telemedicine such as the technology of wireless communications at telemedicine emergency , Getting to know the teleradiology by the help of third generation wireless networks , Getting familiar with health service security mechanisms , Recognizing the establishment of health service systems based on mobiles , Getting to know the electronic security health systems based on mobiles .

Title: Clinical Governance Information SystemPrerequisite: None

No. of Credits: 2


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Increase students' knowledge and capabilities in the design and implementation of information systems to improve the implementation of clinical governance and patient safety in health care organizations.

Clinical Governance. Fault management. The use of information systems in the implementation of various aspects of clinical governance. Types of medical errors and patient safety events reported. Clinical effectiveness. Risk management. A variety of data collection methods required for the implementation and evaluation of clinical governance and patient safety. Using data from the program patient safety and clinical governance and accountability of health care accreditation and transparency in service delivery.

Title: Advanced Statistical Methods in Data Analysis

Prerequisite: Vital statistics - Research

No. of Credits: 2

Type of the Course: Theoretical & Practical

Using the appropriate statistical methods for analyzing the data considering their types of study , Reviewing the main concepts of primary statistics including : types of variables , variable evaluating scales , central indicators , Diffusion indicators , Binomial probability distribution , Poisson , normal …. , Recognizing the surveys and its application in the sectional studies including : point and distance surveys of average parameters , ratio , the difference of 2 averages , the difference of 2 ratios . Getting familiar with hypothesis test and its application in different types of studies such as : Parameteric tests of single-group studies , Parameteric tests of 2 independent groups studies , Parameteric tests of 2 dependent groups studies , Parameteric tests of multiple independent groups studies . Recognizing Correlation analysis including : correlation of 2 quantitative traits , correlation of 2 qualitative traits . ANOVA ( Analyzing the one-way/two-way variance and their application ) , Analyzing the regression including : simple linear regression and its application , multiple linear regression and its application , logistic regression and its application . Getting to know some of the Nonparametric tests and the application of each of them : Goodness of fit test , Kolmogorov-Smirnov test , Mann-Whitney test , Wilcoxon test , McNamara’s test , Kreskas-Wallis test , Friedman test .

Title: Health Observatory and Monitoring SystemPrerequisite: None

No. of Credits: 2


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The definition of monitor system health. Experiences of other countries in the establishment of the patients. Component health monitoring system. Important indicators of population health and health care institutions. New sources of health information. Design collection tool for achieving the information you need in the community and hospitals. Provide appropriate feedback to the authorities and classified information. History of system health monitoring. Infrastructure. Health indicators in the community. Goal-based monitoring system institutions. Intelligence sources in hospitals. Some of the features available in hospitals. Indicators of the health situation in the country. How to collect information.

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