Survey of Medical Informatics

At the end of the course, students should be able to: 1. define Medical Informatics and explain its component competencies as they relate to various roles in the practice of medicine, including clinical care, research, and lifelong learning; 2. retrieve, appraise, and apply medical information for clinical decision-making and patient education using a variety of decision support tools and other information resources; 3. discuss the impact of the electronic health record, government systems/resources, and “big data” on patient care, biomedical research, and practice management; 4. define health literacy concepts and utilise them in patient education and communication; and 5. develop a personal information management plan that demonstrates basic knowledge of information technologies, tools, and resources.

Introduction to the use of computers for processing, organising, retrieving and utilising biomedical information at the molecular, biological system, clinical and healthcare organisation levels. Description of essential concepts in biomedical informatics that are derived from medicine, computer science and the social sciences.