S
Units: 4
Instructor: 
Alberto Odor, M.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management

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.

W
Units: 3
Instructor: 
Wasyl Malyj, Ph.D.
Director, Bioinformatics Shared Resource Core (BSRC)
NCMHD Center of Excellence for Nutritional Genomics 

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.

S
Units: 4
Instructor: 

Michael Hogarth, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Associate, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Medical Director, Laboratory Information Systems

Glenna Gobar, D.V.M., M.P.V.M., M.S.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management 

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.

F
Units: 4
Instructor: 
Wasyl Malyj, Ph.D.
Director, Bioinformatics Shared Resource Core (BSRC)
NCMHD Center of Excellence for Nutritional Genomics 

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.

F, S
Units: 4
Instructors: 
Jose Galvez, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 

Mark Carroll, M.P.H.
Assistant Director, Health Informatics Graduate Program
Public Health Informaticist
Lecturer, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - Division of Pathology Informatics

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.

F, S
Units: 4
Instructors: 
Peter Yellowlees, M.B.B.S., M.D.
Director, Health Informatics Program
Chair, Health Informatics Graduate Program and Group
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science

Donald M. Hilty, M.D.
Director, Rural Program in Medical Education, School of Medicine
Co-Director, Hilty/Gandour-Edwards College of Advising, School of Medicine
Professor and Vice-Chair of Faculty Development,
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences 

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.

F, W, S, Su
Units: 3
Instructor:
Dick Walters, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science

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.

W
Units: 4
Instructor:
Cecil O. Lynch, M.D., M.S.
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

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 3^rd normal form and implementation of a physical data model.

F, W, S, Su
Units: 1
Instructor: 
Alberto Odor, M.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management

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.

F, W, S, Su
Units: 1 - 9
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.

Courses are offered quarterly

F =  Fall, W =  Winter, S = Spring, Su = Summer