HI 5300 Introduction to Health Informatics

Course Type: basic

Credit Hours: 3

This introductory course covers the discipline of informatics in health care delivery designed to be multi-disciplinary in nature. The course will focus on the clinical aspects of information technology and will give a broad overview to the nature of information technology, focusing on hardware, software and conceptual models of information. Students will explore different data types and data models, which are specific to their discipline and those, which can be shared across disciplines. The focus will be on comparing and contrasting the data types and data models of the different disciplines.

Topics

• Nature of Medical Data
• Medical Decision Making
• Medical Computing
• Standards
• Evaluation and Technology Assessment
• CPR and Pt care systems
• Pt monitoring systems,
• Management of Information in IDNs
• Clinical Decision Support systems and Computers in Education
• Public health and consumer informatics
• Imaging Systems, Information Retrieval
• Bio-Informatics
• Future directions

Prerequisites

Access to the internet, personal computer and consent of instructor.

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