This course offers students a broad overview of health informatics as a foundation for further study of the topic. Designed as a survey of informatics domains as well as primer of informatics methods, this course serves as an introduction for anyone interested to ask good informatics questions, employ informatics tools, or design informatics systems across a broad range of biomedical applications.
Outcomes: Understand the differences between data, information, and knowledge, and analyze the processes to transform data into actionable knowledge in the context of health and biomedical domains; Understand the particular nature of data, information, and knowledge in health, analyze the importance and limitations of coding standards; Analyze and evaluate the role of health informatics and its societal impact; Analyze the current trends and current issues in health informatics.
Outcomes: Understand the differences between data, information, and knowledge, and analyze the processes to transform data into actionable knowledge in the context of health and biomedical domains; Understand the particular nature of data, information, and knowledge in health, analyze the importance and limitations of coding standards; Analyze and evaluate the role of health informatics and its societal impact; Analyze the current trends and current issues in health informatics.