Advanced Healthcare Information Systems

Catalog description

This course expands the concepts taught in HIT 360 - Healthcare Information Systems . The course focuses on the application of information technology in specific skill areas such as clinical decision-support, disease and demographic surveillance, imaging and simulation, and care delivery. Case studies of systems as well as their opportunities and limitations in these areas will be discussed. Legal and ethical issues related to training, security, confidentiality, and the use of informed consent are also addressed.