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Health Information Systems
Location
Internet
Term
2nd Term
Department
International Health
Credit(s)
3
Academic Year
2024 - 2025
Instruction Method
Asynchronous Online
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Prerequisite
Introduction to Online Learning.
Systematically presents population-based and provider-based methods by which data are secured and analyzed to provide indicators of health service use, health risk behavior, and outcomes relative to health status. Targets health status indicators as the basis of planning and evaluation across a wide range of health objectives and measurement characteristics examined. Introduces health information resources available through the World Wide Web and develops skills to search and access data through the Internet.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Explain the objectives of a health information system (HIS)
- Recognize the types of decisions that HIS are designed to make
- Interpret the types of information (typical health indicators) needed for each of the decisions HIS is designed to make
- Identify the major systems of health information with special reference to methods of data collection and problems of measurement
- Demonstrate the use of different systems of health information for public health practice
- Evaluate the strengths and limitations of different systems of health information
- Decide the best health information system in a given context for calculating typical health indicators