Computer Applications in Health Information System

At the end of the course, the students should be able to: 1. appreciate the review and expansion of telecommunications and its related technologies; 2. describe the history of the development of network and explain why network fails; 3. describe networking configurations trade-offs between telecommunication and storage in system design; 4. differentiate between physical and logical configuration; 5. discuss compatibility and standard gateways, interconnections, economics of networking, data flows and privacy; and 6. elucidate the governance and policies relating to networks copyright and downloading.

Review and expansion of telecommunications and its related technologies, telephone, modems , telex, videotext, tele text,VANs packet switching, LANs satellite, microwave, fiber optics, and many others. History of the development of network , and why networks fails , networking configurations (star, ring, distributed and many others). Trade-offs between telecommunication and storage in system design, physical; vs. logical configuration, compatibility and standard gateways and interconnections, economics of networking, data flows, privacy and many others. Governance and policies relating to networks copyright, downloading and many others.