Courses
Health Systems Management-2026/2027
| Level 1 | ||||
| Take all of the following Mandatory Courses: | ||||
| INFO-6057 | Health Systems Management | 4 | ||
| This course explores how health systems are managed in Canada's changing and complex healthcare environment. Students will examine the governance, structure, and function of healthcare institutions, with a focus on the ethical stewardship of health information. Emphasis is placed on the secure collection, use, and disclosure of records, guided by legal, regulatory, and professional standards. Through the lens of leadership, communication, and change management, learners will engage with contemporary challenges in data quality, privacy, and system interoperability. The course fosters a deep understanding of the health information lifecycle, emphasizing the integration of policy, technology, and professional ethics. Graduates will emerge equipped to lead with integrity and insight in a data-driven, patient-centered healthcare system. | ||||
| INFO-6141 | Applied Clinical Knowledge | 3 | ||
| In this course, students will develop clinical knowledge through exploration and competencies in the subject areas of Anatomy and Physiology, Medical Terminology, and Pathophysiology. Emphasis will be placed on correct spelling, pronunciation, usage as it applies to the interpretation of patient data in the health information field of practice. | ||||
| INFO-6058 | Health Systems Environments | 3 | ||
| This course examines the health systems environment as a dynamic intersection of policy, practice, information, and infrastructure. Students will explore the contextual forces shaping healthcare, legal, technological, organizational, and ethical, while developing insight into the roles and competencies required of health information professionals. Emphasis is placed on the stewardship of clinical documentation, the governance of medical records, and the integration of classification systems and terminologies. Learners will engage with foundational concepts in information technology, data security, and continuity planning, while evaluating national digital health initiatives such as Canada Health Infoway and eHealth Ontario. Through applied analysis and reflective inquiry, students will cultivate the capacity to navigate and influence the evolving health environment with integrity and foresight | ||||
| INFO-6069 | Health Reporting Tools | 3 | ||
| Health systems management relies on data analysis and reporting. This course focuses on the tools used to collect relevant data and to present its meaning through visual reports and interactive dashboards. Data will be extracted and manipulated using various tools and queries. Numerous statistical functions will be introduced. | ||||
| INFO-6195 | Applied Electronic Patient Management | 4 | ||
| Students will gain an understanding of an electronic patient record and its relationship to Health Information and Systems Management. Students will explore, retrieve, analyze, and report on advanced elements of the electronic patient software for relative reporting requirements for fiduciary, judiciary, clinical and administrative purposes. | ||||
| HLTH-6050 | Canadian Healthcare System | 3 | ||
| Focusing on the Canadian health care systems, topics include: history of healthcare in Canada; role of federal and provincial/territorial governments; government funding models; practitioners and practice settings; population health; health and the individual; law and ethics; and current and future issues. | ||||
| ACAD-6002 | Graduate Success Strategies | 1 | ||
| This course presents and helps to develop some of the skills required to achieve academic and career success for graduate students. Areas of focus include college resources, study skills, and time management among other skills. The importance of Academic Integrity will be a main focus. | ||||
| Level 2 | ||||
| Take all of the following Mandatory Courses: | ||||
Group 1 | ||||
| INFO-6061 | Health Systems Environments 2 | 3 | ||
| This course builds on the concepts and features of health systems environments. An emphasis on electronic health records in a variety of practice settings will be investigated. An emphasis on legislation, professional ethics, privacy and confidentiality will be highlighted throughout the course. Health information and health systems management concepts of ethics will be developed. Contents related to risk management, program controls with an emphasis on privacy impact/threat and risk assessment will be explored. Disaster planning and readiness concepts and principles will be explored. With a focus on health systems environment, clinical decision support principles will be used for analysis and discussions. Skills will be further developed in order to share information and produce documents and reports accurately and effectively in healthcare delivery and planning. | ||||
| INFO-6082 | Health Information Coding | 4 | ||
| Students will expand their knowledge of coding Electronic Health records by utilizing the principles and guidelines of ICD-10-CA/CCI. The importance of accuracy and consistency will be evaluated using case studies. Students will also explore the relationship between data collection and the classification system as it relates to decision making and resource allocation. | ||||
| MGMT-6151 | Health Information Project Management | 4 | ||
| This course introduces the essentials of the project management discipline, and prepares students to manage project teams, project schedules, budgets and quality requirements in a health information management capacity. Students learn the process of analyzing, creating and managing a functional project plan - specific to health information management. | ||||
| INFO-6063 | Health Reporting | 4 | ||
| In a health care setting, accessing, editing, analyzing and presenting data is fundamental to successful practice management, and provides persons involved in care decisions with general and person-specific information, intelligently filtered and organized. Using multiple tools, students will work with and present data. This will provide students with the opportunity to apply advanced features to analyse, summarize, protect and share data. The importance of professional ethics, privacy and confidentiality will be highlighted throughout the course. | ||||
| MGMT-6181 | Organizational Decision Support | 4 | ||
| Managerial decision-making on operational efficiencies and effectiveness requires effective decision support. This course integrates theory and practice with leadership, operational finance, and the utilization of quality tools to improve performance and population health outcomes. Students will become familiar with leadership and operational factors that affect planning, implementation, and decision-making. | ||||
Group 2 | ||||
| Take INFO-6064 or INNV-6001 | ||||
| INFO-6064 | Applied Health Systems Management | 4 | ||
| This course is designed to give students a chance to apply their culminating applied skills and knowledge they have experienced throughout their health system management education to real-world situations using a variety of learning methods. Specifically this course will be focused on applied skills and knowledge to work within a health environment supporting information management related to administrative, financial and clinical system components. Emphasis will be placed on the communication and relationships between: patients, providers, systems and health information using various frameworks while maintaining ethical, professional, outcome-based thinking. Contents related to risk management, program controls with an emphasis on privacy impact/threat and risk assessment will be explored and assessed/evaluated. A comprehensive portfolio will be developed and produced by the students. | ||||
| INNV-6001 | Innovation Applications | 4 | ||
| Organizations and individuals need to be innovative to succeed in the complex and rapidly-changing global market place. In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of innovation and how innovation applies to your discipline or field. Using this foundational knowledge, you will select and apply the novel and adaptive thinking processes and tools presented in the course to complete an innovative learning project in collaboration with other students. The project will be based on a real-world scenario involving an external live client identified in consultation with your professor, and you will interact directly with the client. The project may involve a multi-disciplinary approach. Throughout the course, novel and adaptive thinking skills and collaboration skills will be evaluated through self assessment and peer assessment. This course is designed to give students in graduate certificate programs the opportunity apply innovative thinking to a real-world problem presented by an external client. | ||||
| Program Residency | ||||
| Students Must Complete a Minimum of 11 credits in this program at Fanshawe College to meet the Program Residency requirement and graduate from this program | ||||