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MHI Competencies
The MHI program is designed to train
students in the following:
1. Knowledge of the breadth and depth of information technology
applications in medical care.
2. Ability to use web-based technologies to disseminate and collect
health-related information.
3. Understanding of the role and function of data communications
in health care.
4. Ability to design and build a database application that will
support patient care using a systematic, software engineering process.
5. Ability to develop an information technology solution to a
problem in health care using methods of systems analysis.
6. Ability to design and carry out a project to evaluate the impact
and success of introducing an information system into a medical
environment.
7. Knowledge of methods of decision support in health care.
8. Knowledge of the legal, ethical and security issues in the
use of medical information.
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