HI 5006 Information Technology for Biomedicine

This course is intended to provide an overview of principles and concepts of information technology with a focus on biomedical applications. The first portion of the course will be an introduction to computing hardware and software including architecture, distributed and parallel computing, operating systems, database concepts, data communications & networking. The rest of the course will focus on applications of IT in biomedicine such as electronic health records, biomedical imaging, and bioinformatics.

This class helps to meet the computer science core competencies.

This class is for students that have no computer science background. This class does count toward a certificate, however, it will not count on your degree plan.

Contact Student Affairs for approval code to register.

Topics

• Introduction
• Memory, Storage, Input/Output
• Display, Printing, Cabling, Connectors
• Silicon Economics
• Fundamentals of the Operating System
• Evolution of the Operating System
• Programming
• Databases
• Data Communications and NetworkFundamentals
• The Internet and Network Security
• Algorithms, Data Mining and Data Warehousing
• Introduction to Medical Imaging
• Sequence Analysis, Pairwise Analysis and Database Searching
• Tools for Genomics and Proteonomics
  

Prerequisites

Highspeed internet access, approval from Student Affairs