HLTH230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Health Informatics, Health Promotion, Apple Watch
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Health informatics is a rapidly expanding area of expertise relevant to all aspects of health. Evidence-based decision-making, fundamental to effective health policy and planning, is dependent upon collection and analysis of new data as well as the analysis of existing data, and this, in turn, is increasingly dependent upon information technology. This option offers students interdisciplinary training in basic computer science and information management in addition to their training in health sciences. Successful completion of 20. 0 units, including the requirements for the honours health studies degree. Students are required to complete 3. 5 units from the following health informatics clusters: Cs 115 and cs 116 or cs 135 and cs 136. One of: cs 230 or cs 234 cs 338. One of: stv 100, stv 202, stv 205. About how we organize and deal with data in health care. A record room inside a hospital is a large amount of data (massive rooms)