Course Syllabus

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Welcome to HI5300!

  • If you will be attending in person: the class will meet on Tuesdays from 10-1 Central time in room UCT 1414 at 7000 Fannin, Houston, Texas.
  • If you will be attending the class live via the web: the class will be broadcast via GoToTraining. Use this link:  https://go.uth.edu/HI5300  to participate in the course live on Tuesdays from 10-1:00 Central time.
  • If you cannot attend in person or live via GoToTraining: the lectures will be recorded and made available via Canvas.

This introductory graduate level survey course provides an overview to Health Information Technology, Health Informatics and Biomedical Informatics and introduces the student to the major areas of the evolving discipline.  The competencies for graduate education in the discipline are presented as well as the definitions of health and biomedical informatics.  A systems framework for understanding informatics is also considered.  The course focuses on the application of health information technology for healthcare delivery, education and research as well as the multidisciplinary nature of informatics.  The knowledge and skills presented in this course will help you progress to other more advanced or specialized courses throughout the curriculum since an understanding of health care, health information technology and recent governmental efforts is necessary in order to function in the health and  biomedical informatics discipline.  (3 semester credit hours)

Course Instructors

* Please contact the instructors only for issues that would not be appropriate for class discussion (e.g. grades). Otherwise use the weekly question and answer discussion forum. Thank you. 

Kimberly Smith, PhD, MT(ASCP)
Assistant Professor
E-mail: Use Canvas messaging to send email for private issues
Mobile: 512-413-3793. Send Canvas message for appointment (no text messages)
Office hours:

  • Room UCT 690K. Mondays 1:30-2:30 
  • Or by appointment by telephone or in GoToMeeting

Angela Ross, DNP, MPH, PMP, PHCNS-BC
Assistant Professor
E-mail: Use Canvas messaging for private issues
Mobile: 210-861-2361 (Monday-Friday) - Send Canvas message for appointment. (No text messages)

Office Hours: By appointment in office, by telephone or in GoToMeeting

Teaching Assistant

Olubukunola "Bukky" Okulate, MPH
Email: Use Canvas messages
Office hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 10-4 

 

 

Topic Schedule

Dates Week  Topic Instructor
8/31-9/6 1 Module 1: Getting Started Smith, Ross
9/7-9/13 2 Module 2: Introduction & overview: Health information technology & health informatics Smith
9/14-9/20 3 Module 3: The language of biomedical informatics: data, information & knowledge; standards and vocabularies Smith
9/21-9/27 4 Module 4: Databases and structured query language (SQL) Smith
9/28-10/4 5 Module 5a: EHR access agreement
Module 5b: Electronic health records (EHRs) 		Smith
10/5-10/11 6 Module 6: Evidence based practice (EVP) and clinical practice guidelines (CPG) Ross
10/12-10/18 7

Module 7: Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) and workflow
No class meeting: lecture will be recorded
October 16: Last day to drop courses & receive grade of 'WP' or 'WF' (may impact GPA)

 Ross
10/19-10/25 8

Module 8: Health information privacy, confidentiality, security, and ethics

Course poster project - team activity

Ross

Smith
10/26-11/1 9 Module 9: Quality improvement, patient safety, and computerized provider order entry (CPOE) Ross
11/2-11/8 10 Module 10: Usability: human factors and user-centered design

 Smith
11/9-11/15 11 Module 11: Health communications: consumer health, personal health information, social media, telemedicine, mobile technology
Reflection paper 		Ross
11/16-11/22 12 Module 12: Informatics specialties and medical imaging systems
AMIA national symposium: no class meeting; lecture will be recorded 		Smith
11/23-11/29 13 Module 13: Health data transmission, HL7, health information exchange (HIE), and network architectures
Thanksgiving week: no class meeting; lecture will be recorded 		Smith
11/30-12/6 14 Module 14: Knowledge Smith
12/7-12/13 15 Module 15: Bioinformatics, natural language processing, data analytics, and future directions Ross
12/14-12/18 16 12/14: Poster day
Final assignments due

 

Quizzes and Assignments

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