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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INFO780 - Organizational and Sociological issues in Healthcare Informatics
This course covers the sociotechnical aspects of health informatics. The clinical workplace is a complex system in which technologies, people, and organizational routines dynamically interact. Organizations are simultaneously social (consisting of people, values, norms, culture) and technical (that is, with tools, equipment, procedures, technology, and facilities). The interactions among these sociotechnical factors will be discussed in the context of actual case studies of health information technology difficulties.
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INFO780 - Clinical Information Technology
This course covers major types of clinical information technology, with a focus on practical issues in design, implementation, enterprise integration, and iterative refinement in clinical care delivery settings. These systems include the electronic medical record (EMR), Computerized Practitioner Order Entry (CPOE), Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS), Clinical Data Repository (CDR), and ancillary systems (e.g, PACS, Pharmacy, Lab).
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