HCI 5003 Intro to Health Informatics
This course examines the principles of health informatics. Students will analyze health informatics processes including the storage, retrieval, acquisition, and utilization of healthcare information with an aim to improve care quality, reduce errors, and engage patients in their care processes. This course provides students with fundamental ideas, concepts, and technology and information systems to aid in providing care. This course will demonstrate the role of informatics and utility in healthcare delivery, incorporating practical examples of operational systems currently in the field of informatics. Topics covered in this course include primary principles governing clinical decision, information retrieval, telemedicine, evidence-based medicine, and bioinformatics.
Lab Hours
0
Lecture Hours
3
Cross Listed Courses
None.
Prerequisite
None.
Corequisite
None.