BHI 502 - Health Informatics Methods

Catalog Year 2014-2015

This course provides an in-depth study of biomedical informatics methodological approaches and their applications, bearing in mind their present day and future impact on health information systems. Main topics include electronic health records, terminologies, biostatistics, mathematical and computational modeling, quantitative and qualitative methods, evaluation methods in biomedical informatics, including usability studies, and information sciences, are covered, with special emphasis on applications to health information systems. For each topic, the course goes over historical developments, the state of the art and potential future directions. Furthermore, students are exposed to the present situations in the world for each topic.

PREREQ: Graduate standing or instructor permission
credit: 3