HI-5310 Foundations of Health Information Science I is a survey of most areas of interest to Biomedical/Health Informaticians, starting with what Health Informatics actually is.
Like most classes at SHIS, Foundations I requires instructor consent.
Please contact me through my University email. You may take the class
for a Pass/Fail or for a letter grade. I evaluate each of these differently. Please specify your intentions
when you request consent. The class covers the following topics:
1. Introduction and Overview of Health Informatics
2. Models
3. Information
4. Information systems
5. Medical Computing
6. Medical Decision Making
7. Standards
8. Evaluation and Technology Assessment
9. Computer-based Patient Records
10. Patient Care Systems
11. Patient Monitoring Systems
12. Integrated Delivery Systems
13. Clinical Decision Support Systems
14. Computers in Medical Education
15. Public Health Informatics
16. Consumer Health Informatics
17. Imaging Systems
18. Information Retrieval
19. Bioinformatics
Foundations I has a Twitter account. Feel free to follow it, but don't expect it to be official. Official class announcements are posted to Moodle and delivered automatically to your UT-Houston email address. Check it regularly!
The class page in Moodle has a FAQ page. Please read it.
Caleb Goodwin is the TA for the class.