HI 5310 Foundations of Health Information Sciences I

This course provides an overview of topics, concepts, theories and methods that form the foundations of health information sciences.  It gives students the fundamental knowledge and skills to pursue further study in health informatics.

Foundations I presents a general framework for health information science as the construction and use of symbolic, mathematical, and computational models for solving problems throughout the range of biomedical science, from genetics, to clinical care, to public health.  It covers concepts, theories and methods that deal with how biomedical information is acquired, discovered, represented, managed, organized, communicated, retrieved, and processed.  It also provides an overview of the primary research and application areas in health information science.

This course will be taught every semester as a web based course. Must get approval code from Student Affairs.

Topic Outline

Introduction

Models

Information and Information Systems

Medical Computing

Medical Decision Making

Standards

Evaluation and Technology Assessment

Computer-based Patient Records, Patient Care Systems, Integrated Delivery Systems and Patient Monitoring Systems

Clinical Decision Support Systems

Computers in Medical Education

Public Health Informatics

Consumer Informatics

Imaging Systems

Information Retrieval

Prerequisites

None