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MHI course descriptions
MHI 202 — Computer-Based Patient Records (online format Winter '09)
Units: 4
Instructors: Turner
Course description: Introduction and overview of computer-based clinical record systems. Topics include data modeling, health system standards and terminologies; security, privacy and confidentiality; workflow modeling; data visualization; legal; decision support; public health; and evidence-based practice.
MHI 207 — Medical Decision Support Systems(online format Winter '09)
Instructors: Christopher, Hotz
Course description: Course explores decision support systems for medical application. Topics include medical decision making, uncertainty, review of existing decision support systems, knowledge engineering, data mining, and knowledge based systems.
MHI 208 — Medical Informatics Web-Based Enterprise Computing(classroom fomat)
Instructors: Gobar, Lynch
Course description: The purpose of the course is to introduce the student to the decision making processes and technologies that are involved in developing web based distributed enterprise applications in medicine. It should focus on the Informatician's role as a team member.
MDI* 209 — Clinical Data Acquisition and Analysis(classroom format)
Instructor: Malyj
Course description: The course examines the nature, acquisition, and analysis of medical data. Such data ranges from signals of electrical potentials, sounds, text, images (still and motion), and data from nucleic acid and protein expression and sequencing instruments.
MDI* 210 — Introduction to Health Informatics(online format)
Instructors: Galvez, Hotz
Course description: Overview course to give the student a broad exposure to the field of Health Informatics. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, networking, information systems, coding, HL7, Security,and HIPAA.
MDI* 211 — Telemedicine(online format)
Instructors: Yellowlees, Hilty
Course description: This course is designed to address necessary issues for the development and maintenance of a successful telemedicine program with focus on strategic planning, clinical applications, project management, risk management and legal issues; reimbursement and contracting; human resources and program sustainability.
MDI* 215 — Programming in M (MUMPS) (online format)
Units: 3
Instructor: Walters
Course Description: Project-oriented approach to fundamentals of programming in ANSI Standard M (MUMPS) language. Basic syntax, Hierarchical file structure; arrays and string subscripts, indirection and extrinsic functions.
MHI 289F — Clinical Databases(online format)
Instructor: Lynch
Course description: Introduces the student to the relational database concepts of normalization, SQL queries and interface design. Students start with basic text filed requirements and go through the process of sequential development of a logical data model followed by normalization to a 3rd normal form and implementation of a physical data model.
MHI 289D Decision Support: Artificial Intelligence Practicum(online format)
Units: 2
Instructor: Hotz
Course description:
MDI* 290 — Health Informatics Seminar Series(classroom format)
Instructor: Informatics Faculty
Course description: Monthly seminar covering research and evaluation methods, core concepts in health informatics, and classic and current informatics literature review. Includes monthly seminar featuring the latest informatics research by local, national, and international informatics professionals.
MDI* 299 — Research in Health Informatics(independent research format)
Units: 1 - 12
Instructor: Informatics Faculty
Course description: Study time that is designated for meeting with faculty advisors, research, topic selection and preliminary planning for tentative research material. This should be done as early as possible so the Health Informatics student is able to make a timely and informed decision about their thesis material.
*MDI become MHI Winter Quarter 2009