Medical Information Infrastructures and Internet Technologies

(Same as Information Studies M254.) Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours. Designed for graduate students. Introduction to networking, communications, and information infrastructures in medical environment. Exposure to basic concepts related to networking at several levels: low-level (TCP/IP, services), medium-level (network topologies), and high-level (distributed computing, Web-based services) implementations. Commonly used medical communication protocols (HL7, DICOM) and current medical information systems (HIS, RIS, PACS). Advances in networking, such as wireless health systems, peer-to-peer topologies, grid/cloud computing. Introduction to security and encryption in networked environments. Letter grading.

Review Summary

Clarity
8.3 / 10
Organization
8.3 / 10
Time
0-5 hrs/week
Overall
8.3 / 10

Reviews

    Quarter Taken: Fall 2023 In-Person
    Grade: A

    The first hour of class is a traditional lecture and the second hour is a class discussion of the papers. We are assigned two papers to read per lecture and for each paper one student is assigned to ask a discussion question and one student is assigned to answer that question to start the discussion. You are required to do 2 questions and 2 answers for the quarter. There are no exams and two group projects. Lectures are very well organized. Overall, I would definitely recommend taking this class. It doesn't take up much time, but is a really good introduction to Electronic Health Records. As long you read your papers and try for the group projects you'll be fine.

Course

Instructor
Alex A.T. Bui
Previously taught
24F 23F 22F 21F 20F 19F 18F 16F 15F 14F 13F 12F

Grading Information

  • Has a group project

  • Attendance required

  • No midterms

  • No final

  • 100% recommend the textbook

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