Day
Date
Subject
Pre-reading
Assignment due
M
8/27
Introduction to class
Chapter 1
W
8/29
Context – Healthcare systems
F
8/31
Context – Health information systems profession
Chapter 2
9/3
Labor Day (NO CLASS)
9/5
Writing annotated bibliographies
Handout
9/7
Context - Human resource management
Chapter 15
9/10
Context - Operational management
Chapter 16
9/12
Context - Financial resources matters
Chapter 17
9/14
Context – Patient privacy and legal matters
Chapter 14
annotated bib #1Hersh, A Stimulus to Define Informatics and Health Information Technology
9/17
Rosh Hashanah (NO CLASS)
9/19
Context - Patient privacy and legal matters
9/21
REVIEW
GRADS - project guideline project topic description
9/24
FIRST MIDTERM
9/26
Yom Kippur (NO CLASS)
9/28
Data – Health information infrastructure
Chapter 3
annotated bib #2Mayes, The Origins, Development, and Passage of Medicare’s Revolutionary Prospective Payment System
10/1
Data – Health data concepts
Chapter 4
10/3
Data – Electronic health records
Chapter 5
10/5
Data – Classification and coding
Chapter 6
annotated bib #3Chaudry, B et al. Systematic Review: Impact of Health Information Technology on Quality, Efficiency, and Costs of Medical Care
10/8
Data – Classification and coding examples
10/10
Data – Clinical terminologies
10/12
Data – Technological landscape
Chapter 7
10/15
Data – Creating databases
10/17
Data – Querying databases
assignment #1
10/19
10/22
Data – Statistics
Chapter 10
10/24
Data – Research and epidemiology
Chapter 11
10/26
Review
GRADS - draft project proposal
10/29
SECOND MIDTERM
10/31
Data – Information systems evaluation
Chapter 12
assignment #2Hospital Stays Database
11/2
Data – Data preparation
Chapter 13
11/5
Searching the biomedical literature (Guest lecture by Natalie Sturr)
11/7
11/9
Data – Classification
11/12
Data – Prediction
11/14
Data - Clustering
Article
assignment #3classification in SPSS
11/16
Artificial intelligence in medicine
11/19
Robots in the clinic
11/21
Thanksgiving (NO CLASS)
11/23
GRADS -project annotated bibs and project plan
11/26
Managing the EHR
11/28
Human computer interfaces for the disabled
assignment #4
11/30
Simulations and visualization in biomedicine
12/3
Clinical decision support systems
12/5
Bioinformatics
12/7
Smart environments
annotated bib #4
12/10
2pm – 4pm
FINAL PRESENTATIONS
GRADS -final project proposalportfolioUNDERGRADS - explanatory paper
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