Medical Informatics 301

301 Medical Informatics -Course Outline

The course is conducted in the form of lectures and practical sessions, which covers the following topics:

• Introduction to Health Informatics
• Medical Data and Database
• Medical Search
• Hospital Information systems
• Interoperability and Integration
• Decision support Systems
• Electronic Health Records
• Medical Errors 
• Image Systems
• Computerized Physician Order Entry and Laboratory Systems
• New Technologies, Mobile Health
• The Computer meets Medicine and Biology
• Bioinformatics
• Evidence Based Medicine
• Standards in Meadical Informatics
• Consumer Health Informatics
• E- Learning
• The Future of computer applications in healthcare.

Refer to attached document for the objectives of each lecture

Evaluation

Students will be evaluted as follows:

• 20 Marks- divided between practical lectures, quizzes and essay reports
• 40 Marks- Midterm Exam
• 40 Marks - Final Exam 

Reference Book 

Shortliffe, Perreualt, wiederhold, Fagan & Fagan (eds).Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Healthcare and Biomedicine.