Course examines the nature of healthcare data, information, and knowledge.
It explores formal theories, methods, and tools for representing healthcare concepts for computer-based systems, including electronic health records, clinical data repositories, and decision support systems. Introduction to principles and techniques for computer-assisted decision making in the health sciences. Topics include rules-based systems, neural networks, and other statistical approaches to decision support. An introductory algorithms course covering basic concepts, terminology, and applications in bio computing. This course covers issues from the design and writing of grant proposals to choice of data, analytic techniques, presentation of results, publication strategies, and project management.