NURS 727 - Healthcare Technology and Informatics

Credits: 3

This course focuses on conceptual foundations for understanding healthcare informatics including the analysis of a variety of applications of information systems within the healthcare system. Elements addressed include theoretical models of nursing informatics, healthcare computing, data management and information processing, data acquisition, nursing vocabularies, and knowledge representation. Managing organizational change, information security, social and ethical issues in healthcare systems, and the effects of informatics on the practitioner and consumer are studied.

Prerequisite(s): NURS 717 (grade of B or better).

Term(s) Offered: Fall

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