Biomedical and Clinical Informatics and Data Science

Catalog description

This course provides an overview of the many types of informatics approaches and data science techniques that are used in the realm of medicine and clinical practice. Clinical informatics is a field of medicine focused on transforming health care by analyzing, designing, implementing, and evaluating information and communication systems that enhance individual and population health outcomes, improve patient care, and strengthen the clinician-patient relationship. Bioinformatics is the field focused on how to process high-throughput data for deriving knowledge from it.