Improving health and healthcare institutions requires understanding of data and creation of interventions at the many levels at which health IT interact and affect the institution. These levels range from the external “world” in which the institution operates down to the specific technologies. Data scientists find that, when they aim at implementing their models in practice, it is the “socio” components that are both novel to them and mission critical to success. At the end of this course, students will be able to make a quick assessment of a health informatics problem—or a proposed solution—and to determine what is missing and what more needs to be learned.
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While there are no prerequisites, prior experience with, or knowledge of, health, healthcare, technology, and statistics are helpful.
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Articulate a coherent problem definition of, and a plan for addressing, a healthcare informatics problem.
Create an Informatics Stack analysis of an informatics problem.
Describe eleven socio-technical aspects of a health informatics problem or solution.
Skills you will gain
- health
- Digital Health
- Health Informatics
- Decision Analysis
- Informatics
While there are no prerequisites, prior experience with, or knowledge of, health, healthcare, technology, and statistics are helpful.
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Overview of Health Informatics
World, Organization, Roles, Function
Workflow, Information System, Modules
Data, Information, Knowledge, Technology
Reviews
- 5 stars57.46%
- 4 stars23.13%
- 3 stars8.95%
- 2 stars3.48%
- 1 star6.96%
TOP REVIEWS FROM THE SOCIAL AND TECHNICAL CONTEXT OF HEALTH INFORMATICS
Content and delivery are very clear and concise, would appreciate some more reading material or reference list for each module but otherwise a wonderful learning resource.
Informative course, I learned about the definition of Health Informatics and related about it. Good course to learn especially about Health IT which also can help in your work.
As a healthcare worker, I did not pay much attention to health informations systems, this course has integrated and expanded my worldview
The final peer review project helped make sense of the preceding 4 weeks. That was the bit I enjoyed the most.
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