Health Data, Information and Knowledge (ISYS90078)

AIMS

This subject develops familiarity with fundamental aspects of health information science and health information management – how health data is generated, collected, stored, communicated, integrated, analysed and converted into knowledge for clinical, research and administrative purposes.

INDICATIVE CONTENT

Lectures and tutorials will cover five topics:

1. Data Sources in Health

• Special features of biomedical and clinical data
• Types of data (clinical, molecular, images, environmental)
• Generation of biomedical and clinical data (clinical devices, laboratory equipment, populational surveys, sensors)
• Data repositories (Bioinformatics databases, literature, evidence-based practice, clinical databases)

2. Information Modelling in Health

• Modelling health information and clinical information systems
• Accessing and retrieving information
• Standards in healthcare (nomenclatures, terminologies, taxonomies, vocabularies and ontologies) MeSH terms, SNOMED-CT, LOINC, ICD9, ICD10, UMLS
• Standards organizations in Australia and worldwide

3. Information Processing in Health

• Information processing in biomedicine, healthcare and population health.
• Main software tools and methods, with a focus on clinical research, computerised physician order entry (CPOE) in hospitals, disease surveillance

4. Information Analysis and Visualization in Health

• Visualising information
• Knowledge management and discovery

5. Change Management in Health IT

• Management change and adoption
• Regulatory framework, ethical, security and privacy issues