School Of Computing, Engineering And MathematicsHealthcare Data EnvironmentsWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 300955.1
Discipline: SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
Student Contribution Band: 2
Level: 3
Credit Points: 10
Equivalent Units
300567 - e-Health
Prerequisite
300566 Introduction to Health Informatics
About this Unit
This unit extends the students knowledge of Health Informatics by introducing concepts relating to electronic communications within the Health Industry. It exposes students to a variety of environments used to create, store, transfer and deliver healthcare data. Areas include minimum data sets, data linkage, messaging concepts/standards, terminologies, healthcare evaluation, electronic health records and related Standards, security, privacy and trust, epidemiology and population health together with TeleHealth/ TeleMedicine approaches, methodologies, tools and techniques.