Introduction to Biomedical and Health Informatics

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide a survey of the major topic areas in medical informatics, especially as they apply to clinical research. Through a series of lectures and demonstrations, students will learn about topics such as medical data standards, electronic health record systems, natural language processing, clinical research informatics, clinical decision support, imaging informatics, public health informatics, consumer health informatics, perioperative informatics, and mental health informatics. It is recommended that students have basic familiarity with biomedical concepts. Non-majors need permission from the department.