School for Health, Unit Catalogue 2009/10 |
FH50001: Health informatics - an overview |
 Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Masters |
| Period: | Modular (no specific semester) |
| Assessment:
| CW 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
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| Description: | Aims & Learning Objectives: * Introduce the history and development of informatics as a specialty and its role and adoption in healthcare * Distinguish between data, information and knowledge and to promote an understanding of their hierarchical interrelationship * Set the scene for an electronic patient record that draws on all areas of healthcare informatics. On completion of this unit students will be able to: * Appraise the influences of history and policy on the current position of informatics as a specialty within healthcare * Describe the data-knowledge hierarchy and explain its relevance to healthcare issues * Analyse the concept of the electronic patient record as a linking structure between all areas of informatics. Content: This unit will introduce the student to the concept and history of informatics and explore its place in society and healthcare. This will include the following topics: * What is health informatics * The national and global context for healthcare informatics * The hierarchy of data, information, knowledge and its significance in healthcare * The development of the EPR and its relationship to all other aspects of healthcare informatics |