Fundamental Health Informatics

Catalog description

This course provides an introduction to the history, reasoning, and development of systems focused on the generation, aggregation, and analysis of health data. Students will gain exposure to usability requirements - elements of design which impact selection - in addition to the issues impacting data liquidity in the healthcare system. Key topics include electronic health records, computerized provider order entry, e-prescribing, decision support, telemedicine/telehealth and revenue cycle. The course will also consider the various types of health information systems that exist in organizations and serve as feeders to clinical repositories of information.