CHS 225

The course focuses on the application of information technology (IT) in healthcare to improve individual and population health, education and research. The goal is to stimulate and educate students about the current knowledge in Health Informatics, which is a rapidly changing field. Topics include HI overview, electronic health records, evidence based medicine, consumer health informatics, HI ethics and more. Lectures are aimed to be supplemented with field trips. This course also covers web/ mobile applications development lifecycle. It provides an overview of web/mobile technologies and platforms, and then looks at the application development methodologies that are widely used.