Informatics 324 - IntroClinicalHealthInformatics

This course aims to introduce the fundamentals of Clinical Health Informatics to prepare students as forerunners of the future of digital health care systems. More specifically, this course aims to teach students the fundamentals of and tools for quantitative analysis of clinical health data and the practical application of the tools on various health data. The detailed components of the course are as follows. Following an overview of the clinical health informatics industry, the course covers a broad range of introductory topics, including the structure of current health care systems, types of health data, the theory and practical use of quantitative analytic methodologies, and ethics related to healthcare. More specifically, this course will introduce key health informatics technologies and standards, including electronic health records, medical claims data, imaging data, free-text clinical notes, patient-reported outcomes, traditional and machine learning-based analytic algorithms, data visualization, and clinical research and experimental procedures. Note, however, that the course is not designed to introduce new types of machine learning or artificial intelligence algorithms for health-related data. This course fulfills a concentration core requirement for the Health and Life Sciences track, and it can be used to fulfill an elective requirement for the Data Science concentration of the Informatics major.

Open to INFORM majors. INFO 248 or STAT315/CS240 w C PREVIOUSLY INFO 390W. THIS COURSE IS A CORE IN THE INFORMATICS HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES (HLS) CONCENTRATION. KNOWLEDGE OF HEALTH DATA OR MEDICINE IS NOT A PREREQUISITE; THIS COURSE IS DESIGNED TO INTRODUCE THE CONCEPTS OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL DATA. STUDENTS NEEDING SPECIAL PERMISSION MUST REQUEST OVERRIDES VIA THE ON-LINE FORM: http://www.cics.umass.edu/overrides.