Interprofessional Health Care Information (Elective 1)

The course presents the intersection of information science, computer science, and health and medical care. It introduces the fundamental principles, concepts, and technological resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine, and Information Technology (IT) components in clinical processes which include not only computers but also clinical guidance, formal medical terminologies, and information and communication systems. It also covers the concepts of population health and precision medicine and the information systems that support them, basic principles of knowledge management systems in biomedicine, various aspects of Health IT standards, and IT aspects of clinical process modeling related to multidisciplinary practice.