NURS 7600 - Health Care Informatics

3 cr.

This course provides an overview of the role of information systems in health care. Current technologies and their impact on health care practice are explored. Organizational, cost-benefit, and ethical issues related to the application of technologies are discussed. Topics include medical devices, electronic health record, key health information systems and standards, telemedicine, administrative and clinical applications, evidence based health care, decision support systems, security and confidentiality, and information retrieval.

This course is open to licensed RNs.