UM SPH Academic Courses

HMP668 Introduction to Health Informatics

Fall term(s)
3 Credit Hour(s)
Instructor(s): Zheng, Kai; Friedman, Charles
Prerequisites: Graduate status
Description: This course introduces students to the concepts and practices of health informatics. Topics include: a) an introduction to the health informatics field; b) major applications and commercial vendors; c) decision support methods and technologies; d) analysis, design, implementation, and evaluation of healthcare information systems; and e) new opportunities and emerging trends. A semester-long group project provides students with hands-on experience in planning and building healthcare information systems; associated ethical and legal topics, software engineering and human-computer interaction issues, and user adoption and outcome evaluation methodologies will also be addressed.
This course is cross-listed with SI542, BI668 in the School of Information, School of Medicine (tentative), and Bioinformatics Graduate Program at Center for Computational Medicine and Biology (tentative) department.
Syllabus for HMP668 (PDF, 94089 bytes, last modified on Thursday, September 13, 2012)