Intro to Healthcare Informatics

Catalog description

This course is designed as an overview of healthcare informatics. It introduces students to the applications of informatics systems in healthcare practice, educate, research and administration. This course integrates healthcare science with computer technology and information science to identify, gather, process, and manage health information. Students are introduced to computer hardware, software, databases and communication applications. This course will also discuss Internet use by health care consumers and the current and future role of telehealth in medical practice. Ethical, security, and confidential issues as they relate to computer usage in health care will be discussed. Students will learn how the health care environment has evolved to include technology in assessing patients, developing and implementing healthcare information systems to work more efficiently, allocate resources more effectively and improve patient care.