Course Overview
Through readings and assignments, this course will provide a systematic overview of the first principles and concepts of healthcare informatics for cardiology technologists. First, a brief history of healthcare informatics is given, followed by an outline of computer, information, and healthcare informatics literacy needed for an understanding of healthcare informatics, the second major topic of this course. This section will highlight the essential elements, such as the purpose, structure, and function of healthcare informatics departments, applications, standards, electronic medical records, information security and confidentially, troubleshooting system integration requirements. The course concludes with a discussion of specialty applications in cardiology, radiology, education, research, and telehealth. Students are required to use the internet and other professional databases for the purpose of scholarly research.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
3.0
- Retired
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Define each of the following terms:
- Information Technology.
- Medical Informatics.
- Healthcare Informatics.
- Cardiology Informatics
- Trace a brief history of healthcare informatics.
- Identify the benefits of healthcare informatics and its application areas in medicine.
- Describe the major concepts of computers, information, and healthcare information literacy.
- State the purpose of healthcare informatics departments.
- Describe the structure and function of healthcare informatics departments.
- Access and assess online professional scholarly databases for research purpose.
- State the application areas of healthcare information systems in medicine.
- Identify two popular standards for healthcare information systems.
- Describe the essential elements of the computer-based patient record (CPR).
- Outline the characteristics of information security and confidentiality needed in a healthcare environment.
- Discuss the need for system upgrades, troubleshooting and integration.
- Identify and describe the basic features of the following applications of healthcare informatics:
- Telehealth
- Radiology and Cardiology
- Education
Effective as of Winter 2016
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