Healthcare Information and Technology

Catalog description

This course explores the sources and data contents of health-care information as well as proper presentation of it for different usage levels. Topic addressed include: 1) data structure and use of health information (individual, comparative, and aggregate), 2) type and content of health record, 3) data quality assessment, 4) secondary data source, 5) healthcare data sets, 6) Health information archival systems, and National Healthcare Information Infrastructure (NHII). The course will also cover topics in bioinformatics.