Health Information Systems

This module addresses key themes in healthcare information systems as they aim to provide the necessary  infrastructure needed to manage and produce relevant, timely and accurate information to support the healthcare organization and its users. Lectures will be used to introduce key concepts to of information systems within national (and international) healthcare services, supplemented with additional self-study material. The lecture course for this module is divided into three main sections: (1) Overview of Health Information Systems; (2) Developing the Information System; and (3) Supporting the Information System. Areas covered include: information systems theory, the healthcare organization and its environment(including administrative, acute and primary care settings), planning and strategy, systems development, evaluation, supporting infrastructures and technologies, and data protection and security.