Health Information Technology

Course aim

To familiarise students with specificities of application IT into health domain. To explore key techniques and applications of Information Technology that have been developed for the healthcare domain.

Course content

Specificities of IT implementation into the health environment, data in health, clinical coding, health statistics (probability density function, multiple regression, logistic regression), methods of data mining (clustering, association rules, emerging patterns), decision support technology, knowledge representation, automated reasoning techniques (expert systems, neural networks, Bayesian networks), Uncertainty representation and handling (sensitivity and specificity, confidence intervals, conditional probability, Bayesian networks, influence diagrams, fuzzy sets). Medical signal processing. Medical image processing. Standards for interoperability. User interface design issues and approaches. Security and confidentiality in health. Health information systems architectures.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAWSON LAKES
Lecture	2 hours x 13 weeks
Tutorial	1 hour x 13 weeks
INTERNAL, CITY EAST
Lecture	2 hours x 13 weeks
Tutorial	1 hour x 13 weeks
EXTERNAL, MAWSON LAKES, DISTANCE EDUCATION
External (On-line materials)	N/A x N/A
External (Monitored discussions and other on-line tools)	N/A x N/A

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Critical review on selected topics & presentation, Examination, Specific issues in using IT in health context

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 2)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.