BMI Course Information
BMI 501 Introduction to Biomedical Informatics (3)
Instructor Information |
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Fall 2009 |
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Spring 2009 |
Course not offered |
Catalog Description
Overview of the field of biomedical informatics for use of computers and information in healthcare and the biomedical sciences.
Prerequisites
General BMI Admission Criteria
Some experience with computers and a passing familiarity with medicine will be useful. This course will not teach you how to program a computer.
Textbook and Other Materials
Shortliffe EH and Cimino JJ (eds). Biomedical Informatics Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine, 3rd edition. 2006.
Course Learning Outcomes
Students who complete this course will be able to:
Understand theoretical foundations and current applications of informatics in health sciences and health care delivery systems.
- Clinical information systems (includes telemedicine)
- Biological information systems (includes Bioinformatics, Pharmacy informatics, and Computational Biology)
- Imaging systems
- Population health information systems (includes consumer health systems)
- Health care management and reimbursement systems)
Understand theory and application information of biomedical informatics standards and lexicons.
- Ontologies and standards: what are they and why are they needed
- Controlled medical vocabularies (includes the UMLS, the Standardized Nomenclature of Medicine, Clinical Term (SNOMED-CT, CD-9, CPT), Logical Observation Identifiers, Names and Codes (LOINC) or OpenGALEN Common Reference Model
- Electronic Health Record standards (DICOM, HL7, ASTM, ANSI X12, ISO, TC215)
Understand the legal and ethical aspects of biomedical informatics.
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of HIPPA and other privacy related issues
- Demonstrate the ability to recognize and address ethical or legal implications of informatics applications.
- Demonstrate the ability to recognize and address ethical and legal aspects of software usage and development.
- Review legal and ethical issues related to biomedical research (includes stem cell research, animal research, rare disease drug development, etc.)
- Discuss issues related to intellectual property (include patents)
Major Topics and Time Covered
This course integrates the perspectives from medicine, computer science and cognitive/social science for use of computers and information in health care, and the biomedical sciences, covering specific applications and general methods, current issues, capabilities and limitations of biomedical informatics.
- Introduction to Biomedical Informatics
- Clinical Informatics
- Bioinformatics
- Public Health Informatics
- Imaging Informatics
- Consumer Informatics
- Information Retrieval in Biomedicine
- Language and Text Processing
- Cognitive Issues in Medical Informatics
- Telemedicine
- Evaluation of Information Systems
- Health Care Financing and Information Systems
- Legal Issues and Ethics
- Biomedical informatics standards and lexicons
- Biological background information in cell biology and the nature of genetic disease
- Introduction to Computational Biology
- Biological Databases
- Future Directions