Clinical Informatics

3 credits · Graduate School

Clinical informatics is the subdiscipline of biomedical informatics focused on clinical applications, particularly clinical information systems such as electronic health records. Topics covered include inpatient, outpatient and departmental information systems; clinical decision support; terminology and data standards; quality and safety; patient computing; population health; and innovation, governance, and leadership. The course broadly explores how information systems and informatics principles are applied in clinical settings and is intended to be useful to students interested in these application areas, including students with a clinical background or those new to the clinical environment. Prerequisite: BMIF 6101 or permission of instructors. SPRING. [3] Wright, McCoy