Biomedical Informatics Foundations and Methods I

3 credits · Graduate School

This two-semester introductory course examines the unique characteristics of clinical and biomedical data, the context of their production and use, and the methods for representation and transformation of health data, information, and knowledge to improve health care. Students will be introduced to concepts, theories, and methods underlying contemporary and emerging biomedical informatics applications, including knowledge discovery, information retrieval, medical decision making, evaluation of evidence, knowledge representation, human factors, and qualitative methods. Students will also get exposure to the history of biomedical informatics and principles of ethical and equitable computing, as well as develop foundational concepts of analytical thinking and computation that are instrumental in solving challenging problems in biomedical informatics. PREREQ: Enrollment in the biomedical informatics graduate program or permission of the instructor; FALL; Anker [3]