INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS

MEDICINE 911

Clinical Informatics and the role of informaticians. Hands-on experience in Clinical Informatics within UW Health's Information Services and Physician Informatics infrastructure. Population health informatics. The principles of usability, human-computer interaction, and the Five Rights of clinical decision support. The components of implementing novel informatics tools in a large health system. The usability and impact of new Electronic Health Records (EHR) features on various users and populations and the various factors involved in decisions to approve or deny EHR requests.

MEDICINE 750

Collective application of all other Clinical and Health Informatics graduate degree coursework. Addresses all ten American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) competencies through a summative project to demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for successfully working in health care informatics.

MEDICINE 702

Clinical and health information and communication systems form the backbone of our health care delivery system and public health infrastructure. Overview of the core systems used in health care delivery to explore the processes used to analyze, design, implement and evaluate these systems.

BMI/MEDICINE 918

Biomedical Informatics is an interdisciplinary field that combines knowledge of information sciences and medical sciences to optimize the use and application of biomedical data across the spectrum from molecules to individuals to populations. Offers an overview of the field of health informatics by providing students with the fundamental knowledge of the concepts of health informatics and how technology can be used in the delivery of health care.

BMI/POPHLTH 694

Provides an introduction to key concepts, methods, and tools of biomedical and health informatics used in precision medicine and population health, with emphasis on collection, management, and analysis of real-world data.