COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT
Biomedical Informatics G4001 (Introduction to Biomedical Informatics)
Semester: Fall 2008
Location: Mudd 327 (Morningside Campus)
Date/Time: Mon & Weds (4:10-5:25pm)
Lecturers: Michael F. Chiang, MD; Other speakers from Biomedical Informatics
Prerequisites: None, although experience with computers and a passing familiarity with medicine will be useful. The course is open to health sciences students, graduate students, and undergraduates.
Description: An overview of the field of biomedical informatics, combining perspectives from medicine, computer science, and social science. Course will discuss the use of computers and information technology in health care and the biomedical sciences, covering specific applications, general methods, current issues, capabilities, and limitations of biomedical informatics. Biomedical informatics studies the organization of medical information, the effective management of
information using computer technology, and the impact of such technology on medical research, education, patient care, and public health. The field explores techniques for assessing current information practices, determining the information needs of health care providers and patients, developing interventions using computer technology, and evaluating the effect of those interventions.
