About Health Informatics
The course provides students a conceptual framework for understanding health informatics and information technology as applied in the healthcare environment. The course will include in depth discussion of ‘meaningful use” of technology in health care systems with an emphasis on leveraging technology to improve quality and efficiency in care delivery. The course will also highlight successes and failures in implementing health information technology and the critical role that informaticists play in each step of the developmental process from idea incepti