Spring 2027

Health Informatics for Medical Students Elective

An elective for medical students offering an overview of health informatics, covering fundamental concepts and the use of technology in health care delivery.

offering recorded2 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2018: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=78 letter grades); Spring 2019: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=53 letter grades); Fall 2019: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=78 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe main concepts and challenges in health informatics.

  • Identify the different aspects of electronic health records.

  • Recognize medical safety issues related to chart maintenance and poor systems.

  • Instruct patients in proper use of a personal health record (PHR).

  • Compare and contrast the concept of learning health systems that is patient-centered, population-based, and promotes learning from data.

  • Define population-based care and the informatics underlying it.

  • Recognize different types of clinical decision support.

  • Describe the area of quality measurement and improvement.

  • Formulate how the area of quality measurement and improvement applies to clinical practice.

  • Recognize the types and limitations of different types of quality measures.

  • Formulate a clinical question as an answerable one, and then be able to select the appropriate resource and make optional use of it.

  • Recognize growing role of genomics and personalized medicine in care.

  • Describe and manage ethical issues in privacy and security.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

Grade history

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Prerequisites

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Graduate/professional standing

  • Graduate/professional standing
BMI/MEDICINE 918

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  • Graduate/professional standing

Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 250
LEC 006Classroom Instruction0 / 250
LEC 012Online Only0 / 250
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 250
LEC 006Classroom Instruction0 / 250
LEC 012Online Only0 / 250

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2018: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=78 letter grades); Spring 2019: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=53 letter grades); Fall 2019: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=78 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

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Topics

  • Interdisciplinary combination of information sciences and medical sciences for biomedical data
  • Electronic health records and personal health records
  • Learning health systems and population-based care
  • Clinical decision support systems
  • Quality measurement, improvement, and evaluation of quality measures
  • Genomics and personalized medicine
  • Ethical issues in privacy and security
  • Formulating clinical questions and selecting resources

Skills

  • Describing main concepts and challenges in health informatics
  • Identifying different aspects of electronic health records
  • Comparing and contrasting learning health systems concepts
  • Recognizing different types of clinical decision support
  • Describing and applying quality measurement and improvement to clinical practice
  • Recognizing the role of genomics and personalized medicine in care
  • Describing and managing ethical issues in privacy and security

Grades

Latest available · Fall 2019— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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BMI/MEDICINE 918 · Spring 2027

Health Informatics for Medical Students Elective

Recorded 2026-10-14
BMI/MEDICINE 918 · Spring 2027

Health Informatics for Medical Students Elective

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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