Certificate in Healthcare Informatics Curriculum
The Certificate in Healthcare Informatics program consists of 9 credits and is organized in 10-week quarters.
Course Descriptions
INFO648 - Healthcare Informatics
This course is an introduction to Healthcare Informatics, broadly construed. Healthcare Informatics studies the organization of medical information, the effective management of information using computer technology, and the impact of such technology on medical research, education, and patient care.
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INFO731 - Organization & Social Issues in Healthcare Informatics
Presents an overview of sociotechnical issues in healthcare informatics, focusing on patient care and biomedical research settings. Deals with human, social, and technological aspects of healthcare IT. Focuses on the role of information professionals in applied healthcare IT settings.
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INFO780 - Advanced Issues in Healthcare Informatics
This course is intended to provide a broad overview of the concepts, terminology and strategies needed to design and evaluate projects in healthcare informatics. Through online lectures, readings and discussion of case studies, students will acquire a basic familiarity with various approaches to planning and evaluation. The major projects, which will be developed over the duration of the course, will provide students with an opportunity to develop a proposal for a potential implementation in a setting of their choice, and select an evaluation approach that is appropriate.
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