Analysis and Design of Health Information Systems

Catalog description

This course provides the student with basic concepts of analysis and design of health information systems within healthcare organizations. Special emphasis is assigned to the information system development life cycle methodology, applying the phases of ana lysis and design from the specific components (micro level) through the whole system (macro level). Different methodologies, tools and technologies are applied to support these two phases of the information system development life cycle. In addition, this course provides the student with the basics concepts required to understand databases. The methodology of prototyping is used for the development of a health information system using a relational database management system model. The student concludes the course preparing the technical and user manuals related to the system prototype developed. This is a Web Enhanced course.