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Oct 23, 2026
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BMED 2510 - Database Management for the Medical Device Industry
Credits: 3
Catalog Description
This course is designed for all those interested in an interesting, well-compensated career path. Database management is an interesting field with responsibilities for organizing data from many sources, assuring data integrity, and helping to design systems and software to run on those systems. This course is an opportunity for anyone working in the medical device industry to learn the opportunities and challenges offered by database management. The course covers relational databases, programming languages, life cycles, validation, compliance, security, backup and archive, ethics and privacy, regulations, and regulators. Coursework includes database model comparisons, vendor demonstrations, setting up your own company’s validation procedures, security model, and code of ethics.
Prerequisite(s) (must have a grade of C or better): BUS 1119
Additional fee to student: No
Learner Outcomes
- Design a relational database.
- Compare the advantages and disadvantages of relational databases and other options.
- Discuss a database manager’s customers and their responsibilities.
- Apply various programming languages in form design.
- Discuss the components of product and software life cycles.
- Demonstrate an understanding of compliance, compliance technologies, and compliance processes.
- Describe system validation and effectiveness.
- Demonstrate an understanding of change and release steps.
- Compare security at various levels as it relates to role based access and the design and reasoning for SOPs.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance backup and archiving including media, timing and storage options.
- Demonstrate an understanding of ethics and privacy, the relation of these to HIPAA and other agencies.
Major Areas of Course Content
- Relational databases
- Programming languages
- Life cycles
- Compliance
- Validation
- Change and release
- Security
- Backup, archive
- Ethics, privacy
Credit for Prior Learning Options
No credit for prior learning option is available for this course.
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