Program Overview

MIS Health Care Informatics Concentration

The MIS Health Care Informatics Concentration is a program designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the intersection of healthcare and information systems.

Degree Requirements

To earn a Bachelor's of Science in Management Information Systems with Health Care Informatics, a student must:

• Complete at least 54 semester hours from a four-year baccalaureate-granting institution
• Complete at least 48 semester hours of upper-division (300-400 level) course work
• Complete at least one half of his or her business course work at UIS (college core and major)
• Earn a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.0 across all courses required for the major

Foundation Requirements

All majors in the College of Business and Management require foundation knowledge in accounting, economics, mathematics, and statistics. Students must earn a cumulative GPA of at least 2.0 across all foundation courses. The foundation courses include:

• ACC 211 and ACC 212: Introduction to Financial Accounting and Introduction to Managerial Accounting (6 hours)
• ECO 213: Statistics for Business and Economics (3 hours)
  • or MAT 121: Applied Statistics
• MAT 113: Business Calculus (or MAT 115 Calculus I or MAT 116 Calculus II) (4 hours)
• ECO 201 and ECO 202: Introduction to Microeconomics and Introduction to Macroeconomics (4-6 hours)
  • or ECO 315: Economics for Administration Total Hours: 17-19

College Core

The college core is required of all undergraduate College of Business and Management students. Students must earn a cumulative GPA of at least 2.0 across all college core courses. The college core courses include:

• BUS 302: Principles of Financial Management (3 hours)
• BUS 312: Principles of Marketing (3 hours)
• BUS 322: Principles of Operations Management (3 hours)
• BUS 331: Business, Ethics, and Society (3 hours)
• MGT 310: Managing Organizational Behavior (3 hours)
• MGT 488: Strategic Management: The Capstone (3 hours)
• MIS 352: Principles of Management Information Systems (3 hours) Total Hours: 21

Major Requirements MIS Core

All MIS undergraduate majors must complete 36 core credit hours to fulfill the degree requirements.

Health Care Informatics Concentration Requirements

The Health Care Informatics Concentration requires the following courses:

• CSC 225: Computer Programming Concepts I (3 hours)
• CSC 275: Computer Programming Concepts II (3 hours)
• MIS 325: Health Care Informatics Programming (3 hours)
• MIS 371: Enterprise Architecture (3 hours)
• MIS 385: Data and Information Management (3 hours)
• MIS 454: Systems Analysis and Design (3 hours)
• MIS 455: Human-Computer Interaction Design (3 hours)
• MIS 456: Networks and Telecommunications in Organizations (3 hours)
• MIS 458: IS Project Management (3 hours)
• MIS 468: Business Process Management (3 hours)
• MIS 469: IS Strategy Management and Acquisition (3 hours)
• MIS 478: Health Care Information Systems Security (3 hours) Total Hours: 36

Additional Requirements

• The Management Information Systems degree requires a minimum of three hours of internship course work consisting of an individualized field experience (IPL 300) or an individual project (IPL 301) in the area of Health Care Informatics.
• Students are encouraged to complete six hours of Internship.
• Internship hours will be used to fulfill the Engagement Experience ECCE category.
• Students must complete course work in at least one of the other ECCE categories including U.S. Communities and Global Awareness.
• Students with Health Care Informatics Concentration will take ECCE MIS 323 Social Health Care Informatics (three hours) instead of US Communities or Global Awareness.
• The one hour UNI 301 Speaker Series course fulfills the last hour of the ECCE requirement (10 Total ECCE hours required).
• Only in exceptional cases, using the Student Petition Form, with appropriate College of Business and Management approvals, students may request to waive the three-hour internship requirement and substitute an alternative ECCE course.
• Credit for Prior Learning (IPL 305) may not be used by College of Business and Management students to fulfill degree requirements.

Final Requirements

Students must complete a minimum of 18 hours in Management Information Systems prefix courses (MIS) at the UIS College of Business and Management.