Public Health Informatics

Catalog description

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Overview of the field of public health informatics (PHI); informatics competencies for public health practitioners; key informatics challenges and current topics; evidence-based public health; data and vocabulary standards; interoperability and health information exchange; electronic health records for public health use; methods for evaluation of disease registries and public health surveillance systems; searching public health literature; sociotechnical components of public health information systems; matching business process and workflow analysis with user and functional requirements; database design; Structured Query Language (SQL); information visualization; bioinformatics tools. May be taken three times for credit.