Health Informatics
Information and communication technologies are increasingly being applied to the healthcare context, with many new jobs opening up in areas such as health information management, electronic health records, and consumer and public health informatics. Explores the challenges and career opportunities provided by these recent developments. Discusses major issues-social, cultural, political, economic, technological, historical, and ethical-associated with health informatics. For each semester hour of credit earned, one lecture hour a week for one semester.
Prerequisites & course information
Information and communication technologies are increasingly being applied to the healthcare context, with many new jobs opening up in areas such as health information management, electronic health records, and consumer and public health informatics. Explores the challenges and career opportunities provided by these recent developments. Discusses major issues-social, cultural, political, economic, technological, historical, and ethical-associated with health informatics. For each semester hour of credit earned, one lecture hour a week for one semester.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027