Perspectives of Health Informatics

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The health care industry is composed of many different disciplines, specialties, and professions. Designing and developing informatics solutions requires an understanding of the roles, approaches and information needs of the many diverse user groups in delivering health care services for patients and health populations. This course will focus on the overlapping and divergent requirements of a comprehensive electronic health record from the perspectives of patients, health care providers (physicians, nurses, pharmacists, etc), health care payers, public health structures, biotechnology firms and researchers. Group projects will be required.