Health Informatics for Healthcare Professionals

Upon completing the course, learners are able to:

• Understand the inter-relation among Computer Science, Information Science and Health Science to support data and information management in healthcare.
• Apply Health Informatics to advance healthcare delivery and practice to ultimately improve patient outcomes.
• Apply relevant standards in health information systems to address systems interoperability issues.
• Explore as to how infrastructures can play a supportive role in the administration of healthcare services.
• Learn the various health information systems (e.g., Electronics Medical Records, Computerised Physician Order Entry System, Electronic Health Records, and Health Information System) and technologies deployed in the healthcare ecosystem to support healthcare services.

What You'll Learn

Health Informatics is an all-embracing term that encompasses every aspect of Information Science and Information Technology (IT) in support of data and information management in healthcare delivery systems. It covers the many facets of IT as applied in the healthcare environment. It begins with a definition of the term Health Informatics, discusses the various types of Health Information Systems and covers topics related to the implementation of IT in the healthcare settings including network infrastructures, standards such as Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine(SNOMED), International Classification of Diseases(ICD), and Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes(LOINC) and interoperability issues, good data integrity and management, and challenges associated with IT implementation in healthcare institutions.

Minimum Entry Requirement

Diploma