INTD 560 - Survey of Health Informatics
Overview
This course provides a broad survey introduction to health informatics, the field concerned with the application of information and communication technology (ICT) for the acquisition, storage, management and use of information in health care. The course provides an overview of current developments, issues and challenges in the emerging field of health informatics and covers various underlying themes including proper use of information technology, appropriate data entry, data privacy concerns, decision support, electronic health record, ethical issues, among others. The course, considering viewpoints in public health, nursing, ICT in medicine and computer science, is a series of lectures given by experts in various subfields of health informatics and culminates with a mini conference prepared by the students presenting selected topics of interest.
Objectives
- Understand the current landscape of the practice of applied health informatics
- Understand the basic foundations and the major issues in health informatics and health information systems
- Identify the basic tenets of health information management
- Better determine and define areas of interest in health informatics
- Understand the issues related to good communication between the ICT world and health care communities
Course Work
- Term Paper
- Poster Presentation
- Participation