Courses

Below you will find descriptions for courses offered in this field of study.  You will find a general overview of the topics covered and any prerequisite course(s) or grade requirements, credit value and exclusions.

Some courses are listed as exclusionary to one another.  This means that students may not take both courses as designated.

Not all courses are offered each year.  Please consult the current timetable for this year’s offering.  For further information please contact the department. 

Course Descriptions

Courses Notes

First Term (Fall Term)

• Introduction to Health Informatics (one-day orientation- non-credit)
• Health Information: Flow and Use
• Networks and the Web or Fundamentals of Clinical Care for Non-Clinicians
• Health Information Systems and Issues
• Statistics for Health Informatics

Second Term (Winter Term)

• Health Information: Flow and Standards
• Knowledge Management for HI
• Research Methods
• IT Project Management
• CSCI 8890.00 Co-op Seminar (for those students interested in taking a work term).  This course must be successfully completed in a term prior to when the work term is taken.  Please note that there may be an extra fee for taking this course.

Third Term (Summer Term)

Registration required with instructor permission.

For work-term students this term will be a work term. The Co-op Seminar course must be successfully completed prior to this term. Such students will be placed with an industry, health system partner, or health research organization. This will give them an opportunity to apply the program to specific practicum/work situations. A project report is required at the end of the work term. For thesis students, this will be a start of their research and writing work.

Fourth Term (Fall Term)

• Management Skills Development
• Database and Data Mining for HI
• Three elective courses for work term students
  OR
• Research work for thesis students
• One elective for thesis students
• CSCI 8890.00 Co-op Seminar (for those students interested in taking a work term in the fifth term, and have not yet taken the co-op seminar course).  This course must be successfully completed in a term prior to when the work term is taken.  Please note that there may be an extra fee for taking this course.

Fifth Term (Winter Term)

Registration required with instructor permission.

For work-term students this term will be a work term (if not completed in the third term). The Co-op Seminar course must be successfully completed prior to this term.  Such students will be placed with an industry, health system partner, or health research organization. This will give them an opportunity to apply the program to specific practicum/work situations. A project report is required at the end of the work term. For thesis students, this will be a continuation of their research and writing work.

Research

For students conducting research for a thesis, supervisors are available from medicine and computer science. Research interests of the faculty include electronic health records, data mining, health outcomes, machine learning and decision support systems, knowledge management, patient information systems and the application of standards for the exchange of health information electronically.