M03-08 · AI + Healthcare Operations

Professional Practice in Healthcare IT

AI + Healthcare Operations →

Integrates all healthcare IT competencies into an extended capstone practice that simulates professional work across FTE, consulting, and health-tech startup contexts. Students manage a multi-week clinical systems project from requirements through deployment, handle realistic incidents including compliance events and system outages, navigate cross-departmental politics, and build career development artifacts.

60 Hours
7 Learning objectives
Create Bloom's ceiling (?)
5 Competencies

Learning Objectives

Objectives

Depth
  • Create and deliver a complete healthcare IT project spanning requirements gathering, clinical stakeholder alignment, EHR configuration, testing, staged deployment, and outcomes measurement Create
  • Evaluate and respond to a simulated compliance incident (unauthorized PHI access, breach event, or clinical data integrity issue) following proper escalation, documentation, and remediation protocols Evaluate
  • Apply incident response procedures for a clinical system outage, including downtime coordination, communication cadence, root cause analysis, and post-incident review Apply
  • Analyze career development paths in health IT (analyst, senior analyst, informatics manager, architect, director, CMIO advisory), identifying certification milestones and skill transitions at each level Analyze
  • Create a vendor management strategy for evaluating AI tools in healthcare, including BAA review, clinical validation criteria, workflow integration assessment, and risk analysis Create
  • Apply health IT consulting engagement management in a simulated multi-week project, including client communication, scope management, documentation, and deliverable presentation Apply
  • Evaluate their professional readiness across all M03 competency areas through a self-assessment mapped to industry role requirements Evaluate

Levels: Remember · Understand · Apply · Analyze · Evaluate · Create — highest demands most original thinking.

What You'll Master

End-to-End Project Delivery

Full lifecycle healthcare IT project management, clinical stakeholder alignment, phased deployment, outcomes measurement, lessons learned documentation.

Incident & Crisis Management

Compliance incident response, system outage management, clinical communication during downtime, post-incident review facilitation, prevention measures.

Healthcare AI Evaluation

Vendor assessment (BAA, data handling, training data practices), clinical validation methodology, workflow integration planning, risk/benefit analysis for AI deployment.

Career Development in Health IT

Certification planning (Epic, CAHIMS, CPHIMS), professional networking (CHIME, HIMSS, AMIA), progression from technical to advisory roles, specialization strategy.

Consulting Engagement Delivery

Applying CORE-08 freelance foundations to health IT contexts, engagement scoping for regulated environments, compliance-grade deliverables, client relationship management in hospital settings.

What You'll Build

Healthcare IT Professional Capstone — Student completes a comprehensive capstone combining three deliverables: (1) a full healthcare IT project from requirements through deployment with clinical outcomes data, (2) an incident response case study documenting their handling of a simulated compliance or system outage event including post-incident review and prevention recommendations, and (3) a 3-year career development plan with certification milestones, specialization rationale, networking strategy, and a consulting or employment market positioning statement.

Industry Tools, Not Toy Projects

Epic (Simulated)

Full simulated EHR environment covering all modules used across the M03 curriculum.

Mirth Connect

Healthcare integration engine for interface management and interoperability projects.

SQL

Querying Clarity/Caboodle for clinical data analysis and outcomes reporting.

Power BI / Tableau

Business intelligence platforms for clinical dashboards and project outcomes visualization.

ServiceNow

IT service management for change management, incident tracking, and project coordination.

Jira / Linear

Project tracking tools for managing implementation tasks and capstone project milestones.

Claude

AI assistant (approved instance, de-identified) for analysis, planning, and documentation support.

Google Docs

Career planning, proposals, and professional development documentation.

Prerequisites

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