This course will introduce students to different types of healthcare information systems, systems specifications for interoperability, and the flow between these systems. Learners will cover principles, policies, frameworks, and accountability for maintenance of data in technology systems, security of technology platforms, access to systems, and personal health information security. Students will learn about standards for transmission, translation, and transformation of data including consideration of natural language processing and transformation between data standards. The course will include development, functional requirements, and maintenance of an MPI and EMPI and personalized information needs and information-seeking behaviour and the development of consumer health portals. Technologies such as cloud storage, blockchain, virtual care will be highlighted. The IT Procurement process, project management, change management, and systems implementation will be covered. The course will include topics such as data integrity, disaster recover, cybercrime, ransomware, and hacking.
