Academic Programs
Drexel University's Institute for Healthcare Informatics offers a three-course Certificate in Healthcare Informatics designed to increase students' knowledge of health information technology, and management of the complex social and organizational issues surrounding this major change in healthcare. Graduates of the program gain knowledge and skills useful in taking on additional healthcare IT-related responsibilities or embarking upon new careers as managers or developers of healthcare IT systems. Increasingly, consumer advocates and citizens are choosing to expand their knowledge about this fast-growing area and its impact on their personal health.
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Drexel Courses in Healthcare Informatics
INFO 648: Healthcare Informatics
This course is an introduction to Healthcare Informatics, broadly construed. Healthcare Informatics studies the organization of medical information, the effective management of information using computer technology, and the impact of such technology on medical research, education and patient care.
INFO 731: Organization & Social Issues in Healthcare Informatics
Presents an overview of sociotechnical issues in healthcare informatics, focusing on patient care and biomedical research settings. Deals with human, social, and technological aspects of healthcare IT. Focuses on the role of information professionals in applied healthcare IT settings.
INFO 780 (Special Topics): Advanced Issues in Healthcare Informatics
This course is intended to provide a broad overview of the concepts, terminology and strategies needed to design and evaluate projects in healthcare informatics. Through online lectures, readings and discussion of case studies, students will acquire a basic familiarity with various approaches to planning and evaluation. The major projects, which will be developed over the duration of the course, will provide students with an opportunity to develop a proposal for a potential implementation in a setting of their choice, and select an evaluation approach that is appropriate.
NURS 204: Nursing Informatics
This course is designed to examine computer technology and tools of the Internet and World Wide Web, with a focus on the use of cyber technology and selected computer applications. The automation of data management through information systems, expert systems, and telecommunication, and the impacts of these technologies on nursing administration, education, practice and research are addressed in the context of nursing informatics. Actual problem-solving and mini-design projects on how computerization and automation can improve the efficiency of nursing care delivery will be emphasized.
NURS 404: Nursing Informatics for BSN Completion
Designed for registered nurses in the RN-BSN completion program. Examines computer applications, technology and Internet tools. Focuses on healthcare informatics context for data management, information systems, and telecommunications in nursing administration, education and practice. Problem solving and mini-design projects related to increased efficiency in nursing care delivery.
NURS 526: Information, Innovation & Technology in Advanced Nursing Practice
This course is designed to provide an in-depth introduction to information systems and technologies that support practice and improve patient care and outcomes. Students develop an understanding of relationships between patient care and information and data issues involved in clinical practice, in addition to examining informatics issues within complex healthcare systems.
