Advanced Healthcare Informatics

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide students with an in-depth analysis of healthcare informatics. Emphasis will be on developing a comprehensive under-standing of the use of information systems in health care. Topics covered include health care data, information and knowledge, health care classifications and coding systems, and use of ethical and legal principles with information systems. In this course the focus is on applying computer, information, and health care concepts to real world problems in health care.