S
Units: 4
Instructor: 
Alberto Odor, M.D.
Associate Adjunct Professor
Betty Irene School of Nursing, Health Informatics Graduate Program

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: 4
Instructor: 
Wasyl Malyj, Ph.D.
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

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
Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Director, Pathology Informatics, Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

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.
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
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
Units: 4
Instructor: 
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.

SU                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            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

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.

SU
Units: 4
Instructor: 
Sean Peisert, Ph.D., M.S.
Assistant Adjunct Professor
Department of Computer Science
Research Scientist, Computational Research Division - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Course description: Critical thinking about basic concepts in computer security and privacy. How the computer security and privacy impact health informatics, ranging from electronic health records to telemedicine to remote, virtual surgery. 

S
Units: 1-5                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Instructor: 
Wasyl Malyj, Ph.D.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Course description: Special topics in data acquisition.

W
Units: 4
Instructor:
Alberto Odor, MD
Associate Adjunct Professor, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing
Health Informatics Graduate Program

Course description:  Introduces the student to how modern computer graphics have led to VR-Sim-Rob applications, and how they are modifyting the teaching of medicine and in some cases, the diagnosis and treatment of patients.

W
Units: 4
Instructor:
Michael Hogarth, MD
Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Director, Pathology Informatics, Dept. 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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Units: 1
Instructor: 
Alberto Odor, M.D.
Associate Adjunct Professor
Betty Irene School of Nursing, Health Informatics Graduate Program

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 - 12

Instructor: Health Informatics Faculty

Course description:  Research in Health Informatics.

Courses are offered quarterly

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