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(3) Prerequisite: Admission to program or permission from department. An overview of basic concepts in medical and healthcare informatics. These core concepts include an introduction to the foundational theory and practical application of clinical decision making; computerized decision support; healthcare systems and their organization; the special issues of administration, security, and operations of electronic records in the healthcare setting; human factors issues; information science in the biomedical domain; imaging informatics; tele-health technology; public health informatics; standards, terminologies, and the uniqueness of biomedical data; and a special focus on emerging technologies. (Required for all biomedical informatics graduate students.)

(1.5) Prerequisite: Admission to program or permission from department. This course includes an introduction to fundamental concepts in bioinformatics and will introduce students to the data that is being managed, databases where this data resides, knowledge bases which are used to associate concepts with each other, and tools of analysis of this data. The course will have a short introduction to terminology and concepts, although it is strongly recommended that students will have had an introduction to molecular biology and genetics concepts in their undergraduate coursework. This course serves as the first course for students who wish to take more advanced courses in these topics. (Required for all biomedical informatics graduate students.

(3) Prerequisite: BMI 6010. Quantitative and symbolic approaches to medical decision-making. Statistical methods (discriminant functions, Bayes theorem), decision analysis, utility theory, artificial intelligence, and expert systems. Survey of operational decision-making systems; strengths and weaknesses of a group of approaches. Expert system techniques used in medical decision-making. Conceptual framework for computer-based medical decision-making. Student works with an expert in a medical discipline to conceive and develop an operational expert system.

(2) Prerequisite: Admission to program or permission from department. Public health informatics is an emerging interdisciplinary field focusing on the use of information technology in public health practice, research, and education. This course provides an introduction to the field through exposure to core concepts of public health and epidemiology and examination of national and local public health informatics initiatives. Students will become familiar with informatics problems in the public health domain by evaluating existing surveillance systems and examining the breadth of existing information management systems.

(3) Cross listed as NURS 6804. Prerequisite: BMI 6010. This course addresses the planning, implementation and outcomes of information systems in health care settings. Concepts related to the whole systems life cycle are applied. National and international informatics trends are analyzed. Project management techniques including risk mitigation are woven throughout the course. Electronic Health Record architecture, Information Technology processes, and major implementation issues are defined, evaluated and applied. Approaches for maintaining health information systems and evaluating the outcomes of such systems are analyzed.

(1 to 4) Special projects and clinical internships as announced or arranged by the department.

(1 to 4) Special projects and clinical internships as announced or arranged by the department.

(1 to 4) Special projects and clinical internships as announced or arranged by the department.

(1) Weekly research presentations by University faculty, visiting faculty, and graduate students. Fall and Spring Semesters

(1) Weekly discussions of current medical informatics topics and/or in-depth discussions of papers published in the refereed peer-reviewed literature. Section 01 is for general topics in Biomedical Informatics. Section 02 is for Public Health Informatics. (Required for PhD students) Fall and Spring Semesters

2 to 10) Prerequisite: For senior Medical students only. Students participate in a selected research project using computers. These projects may include creation of medical-decision logic for use by computers, clinical research using computers, or evaluation of existing medical computer services.