CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS

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Consumer health informatics as a field focuses on health informatics from the perspective of the consumer or patient, health literacy, and consumer education. Creative problem solving and fluency in this subdiscipline requires competence in information structures and processes that empower consumers to manage their own health. In this course, students will strategically review publicly available databases, datasets, and projects involved in consumer health. With this information in hand, students will design their own consumer health information system geared towards addressing a consumer or patient education and literacy challenge of their interest.