Introduction to Biomedical Informatics

Course Description

This course introduces the unique characteristics of clinical and life science data and the methods for representation and transformation of biomedical data, information, and knowledge to improve human health. The course will provide an overview of basic concepts and will serve as a Launchpad into other more focused courses that explore the computational and analytics needs of BMI, as well as the clinical, research and translational applications of informatics. There will be three major themes: Information representation, management and sharing: biomedical data representation and management; standards, terminologies, and ontologies such as HL7, IHE, SNOMED, ICD-9; Privacy, confidentiality and data sharing. Clinical Informatics: Health care environment and processes; electronic health records and management; clinical decision making clinical information retrieval clinical natural language processing. Imaging informatics: radiological image modalities; DICOM and PACS systems; computer-aided diagnosis; digital pathology; analytical pathology imaging. This course will provide hand-on assignments for the participants to familiarize the concepts. 3 credits Prerequisite: Graduate standing in BMI or permission of instructor. Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

Code

BMI 501

Credits

3

Subject

BMI

Programs That Include This Course

• Graduate Certificate Graduate Certificate in Biomedical Informatics
• Master's Master of Science in Biomedical Informatics