CMED 301

An in-depth study fo the basic concepts surrounding clinical information systems, with emphasis on electronic health records - terminology and standards, clinical configuration, user interface design, computerized physician order entry, clinical decision support, and clinical reporting. The course then focuses on the practical application of these concepts, including implementation, clinical workflow, privacy and security, certification, medical device integration, and community health information exchange; includes guest lecturers presenting real-world case studies.

CMED 301 Covers wide range of topics, which some of them are:

  • Introduction to Biomedical and Health Informatics
    • What is Biomedical and Health Informatics?
    • What Biomedical informatics is not!
    • Why Biomedical Informatics?
    • Goal of Biomedical Informatics
  • The Computer Meets Medicine and Biology: Emergence of a Discipline
  • Biomedical Data: Their Acquisition, Storage and Use 
  • Biomedical Decision Making
  • Electronic Medical Records
  • Essential Concepts for Biomedical Computing
  • System Design and Engineering
  • Standards in Biomedical Informatics 
  • Natural Language and Text Processing in Biomedicine
  • Imaging Informatics
  • Ethics and Health Informatics: Users, Standards, and Outcomes
  • Evaluation and Technology Assessment
  • Computer-Based Patient-Recording Systems
  • Managment of Information in Integrated Delivery Networks
  • Consumer Uses of Biomedical Informatics Systems and Telemedicine
  • Public Health Informatics
  • E-Health
  • Health Information Infrastructure 
  • Patient-Care Systems
  • Patient Monitoring Systems
  • Radiology Systems
  • Information-Retrieval and Digital Libraries 
  • Clinical Decision-Support Systems
  • Computers in Health Science Education.- Bioformatics.- 
  • Health Care and Information Technology: Growing Up Together

One of the used books for this class:  Source of topics 

Sample Questions from Chapter 2: Medical Data: Their Acquisition, Storage, and Use | By Edward H. Shortliffe and G. Octo Barnett

 

1. Why is greater standardization of terminology necessary if computers rather than humans are to manipulate patient data?

2. How would medical practice change if nonphysicians were to collect all medical data? 

Questions' Source:

Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine Book 

 

Book's Front Matter (an overview from the publisher of the book)


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