Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates achieve professional competencies as currently defined by their respective profession.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Demonstrate appropriate content knowledge as required by either entry-level or post-professional practice
2. Demonstrate clinical, research and/or technical skills necessary for successful performance in the chosen discipline

Program Outcomes:

1. Describe the structure, roles and capabilities of information systems in various biomedical and health care management systems.
2. Demonstrate competency in health informatics by using theories and methods of data structures, algorithms, and programming.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates exhibit professional behaviors such as cultural sensitivity, integrity, respect, compassion, and altruism, and demonstrate excellence in delivery of service and a commitment to their profession.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Exhibit professional behaviors in all interactions
2. Exhibit a commitment to their profession through professional membership or participation in professional activities, and by interrelating with other professionals
3. Identify and evaluate the impact of culture and diversity on health beliefs, practices, and actions
4. Apply and/or demonstrate leadership principles and strategies in organization or professional settings

Program Outcomes:

1. Professional Conduct: Exhibit Professionalism in the coursework, projects and interactions within and outside of the program.
2. Societal Impact: Study and Evaluate the impact of Informatics Concepts and Implementations on human health and welfare

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates effectively communicate in oral, written, and technical formats.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Express concepts in writing using proper grammar and stylistic guidelines
2. Appropriately document health information according to professional standards
3. Demonstrate critical thinking by synthesizing, organizing, presenting, and/or disseminating information following established guidelines at a level appropriate for the target audience
4. Adapt appropriate interactions and/or strategies in order to accommodate diverse audiences

Program Outcomes:

1. Upon completion of the graduate project, the students will provide a comprehensive written synthesis of the project itself as well as an analysis of project outcomes, process, recommendations for the future.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates collaborate with health care team members and other stakeholders to facilitate the attainment of common goals.

Objectives: Within their scope of practice, SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Identify roles and responsibilities of team members in the provision of patient/client/community care
2. Identify opportunities and/or participate with others to set and achieve goals

Program Outcomes:

1. Plan, compose and run, as a group, a suitable program using statistical and/or analytical software, for solving a health informatics problem.
2. Present the code and the results of the statistical and/or analytical program with clear explanations as to its logic, syntax and operations.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates identify, critically evaluate, and practice professional, ethical and legal decision-making.

Objectives: Within their scope of their profession, SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Maintain and/or adhere to professional ethics and legal requirements
2. Articulate ethical and legal decision making practices (process by which an ethical/legal decision was made)
3. Apply ethical and legal principles to Identify breaches of professional ethics or legal requirements

Program Outcomes:

1. Describe the laws, regulations, and standards that govern patient confidentiality.
2. Discuss the HIPAA privacy regulations and their relevance to health care organizations and consumers.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates incorporate educational strategies into their roles.

Objectives: Within the scope of their profession, SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Identify relevant educational content for a target audience
2. Plan, implement and/or evaluate an educational program appropriate for a target audiences

Program Outcomes:

1. Choose an appropriate statistical and/or analytical technique for solving a health informatics problem.
2. Write a suitable program using a statistical and/or analytical software for solving a health informatics problem.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates apply methods of scientific inquiry and disseminate findings.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Propose a problem/topic and appropriate methods to investigate it
2. Use systematic search techniques to find and critically appraise research and other sources of evidence
3. Summarize and disseminate findings to appropriate audiences

Program Outcomes:

1. Problem Identification: Formulating research questions for a data analytic or system development project with the help of the supervisor
2. Design and Implement a Research Methodology: Select appropriate analytical or implementation tools for the research question being investigated
3. Presentation: Upon completing a research and/or system development project report the findings, conclusions, and recommendations for future research as a scientific report formatted according to specified guidelines.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates identify, critically analyze, and solve a variety of challenges.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Recognize and respond appropriately to various situations within their discipline regarding clinical, cultural, psychosocial, quality improvement and/or administrative problems
2. Design and/or implement solutions using best evidence and/or practice guidelines
3. Assess outcomes

Program Outcomes:

1. Write a suitable program using statistical and/or analytical software for solving a health informatics problem.
2. Study and Evaluate the impact of Informatics Concepts, Techniques and Implementations on human health and welfare

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates effectively access, manage and use scientific, health care and/or patient/client information while respecting the ownership and privacy of sources.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Identify and access sources of evidence/information to inform the decision making process for scholarship or patient care
2. Analyze evidence/information for quality, economic, legal, and social implications
3. Demonstrate proficiency in information privacy regulations, e.g. HIPPA and PHI
4. Adapt to changing technology in their field

Program Outcomes:

1. Use a variety of information technologies to address both theoretical and practical problems, enhance communication, and disseminate knowledge to applicable audiences and interest groups.
2. Comply with professional codes of ethics and display ethical behavior in practice, education, professional and scholarly activities.

Schoolwide Outcome:

SHP graduates create a safe practice environment for themselves and their patients.

Objectives: Within their scope of practice, SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Recognize medical, behavioral, and public health emergencies
2. Demonstrate skills to create safe environments and respond to health emergencies

Program Outcomes:

1. Study and Evaluate the impact of Informatics Concepts and Implementation on human health and welfare.
2. Apply good practice to ensure the design, implementation, and adoption of health information technologies and systems appropriately mitigating the risk of inadvertent harm to patients and organizations.