Healthcare Analytics

MISSION

The Graduate Healthcare Analytics Program strives to continuously evolve and improve to prepare competent impactful professionals to best serve our community of interest related to health and healthcare quality and improvement. Faculty members strive to "foster intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and respect for persons in an environment where all are welcome". The high level of graduate academics challenges students to think critically and to seek new solutions to societal and healthcare problems. As outlined in the mission statement of the College of Health Sciences and Education, students in our Healthcare Analytics program collaborate as members of interprofessional teams while preparing to be high caliber independent professionals. Focus upon ethical foundations to deal with complex healthcare issues and ethical dilemmas is a significant part of the program. The need for life-long learning and maintaining currency and competency are stressed throughout the program. Students are encouraged to see issues through diverse lens and to view themselves as committed members of a global society requiring their engagement and concern.

GOALS

More specifically, the Graduate Healthcare Analytics Program is aimed at the following objectives:

1. Demonstrate competence in quality improvement, healthcare quality and skills used to undertake improvement and support change.
2. Critically and accurately assess healthcare quality status, measures and processes including attention to social justice, cultural appreciation and diverse groups to improve quality in healthcare.
3. Describe and interpret the role of the quality professional to providers, leaders and staff of health care organizations as well as to patients, payers, regulators and policy-makers.
4. Work in collaborative and inter-professional relationships, communicate effectively (orally and in writing), and embrace accountability in the context of social, political, ethical, regulatory and legal considerations of healthcare.
5. Critically evaluate and apply theories and research findings to provide impactful improvement efforts and contribute to an atmosphere of meaningful organizational learning.
6. Demonstrate critical thinking, information management, leadership and ethical behaviors in interactions with individuals, groups, organizations and populations.
7. Demonstrate critical self-assessment to support continual professional development.
8. Demonstrate curiosity and critical thinking to foster exploration and research that contribute to scholarship and knowledge creation.