Spring 2021 Update 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
Spring 2021 Update [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIN (0308) 690 - Consumer Health Informatics and Healthcare Quality Improvement


Credits: 3.00

Students are introduced to the fundamental concepts and knowledge in the field of consumer health informatics. This course will focus on the connections between health and information behavior models and evaluate how Internet and emerging technologies impact patients, health systems and healthcare providers.

Course Learning Goals: The students will be able to:

● Analyze the emergence of personal health records and their implications for patients and health systems.

● Identify and describe major types of factors found to influence patients’ health-related behaviors.

● Interpret the interrelationships between information and health behavior.

● Synthesize how consumerism influence the development of new health informatics systems and medical devices.

● Evaluate the role of genomics in consumer health informatics.

● Analyze how clinicians and patients use technology to improve the quality of care.