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This module introduces the field of healthcare informatics. It aims to equip students with the basic conceptual vocabulary and intellectual skills required to respond to problems in health informatics. It explores how the delivery of healthcare is changing in response to the potential of new technology.
The focus is on the principles governing the rational management of health information and health knowledge. The module considers these principles and discusses them in the context of the most interesting and important questions affecting healthcare today.
Students consider the challenges involved in recording, analysing and interpreting patient data in order to create new knowledge and provide improved access to knowledge to support improved patient care.
Module code
CHMEGH23
UCL credits
15
Module organiser
Dr Paul Taylor Please direct queries to courses-IHI@ucl.ac.uk
Content
- Learning Health Systems
- Electronic Healthcare Records
- Clinical Coding
- eHealth
- Elementary database theory
- Approaches to knowledge representation
- Infrastructure projects
Teaching and learning methods
Blended learning: web-based distance learning in the UCL Virtual Learning Environment plus a 3-day face-to-face teaching session.
Assessment
Written exam.
Selected reading list
Taylor P. (2006) From Patient Data to Medical Knowledge: the principles and practice of health informatics.
Wachter R. (2016) Using information technology
to improve the NHS.
Greenhalgh T, Potts H, Wong G, Bark P et al. (2009) Tensions and paradoxes in
electronic patient record research: a systematic literature review using the
meta-narrative method.