
Clinical Professionals such as doctors and nurses need to acquire familiarity with fundamentals of Health Informatics to work effectively and efficiently in contemporary healthcare environments.
Healthcare administrators and support personnel, from clerical and managerial roles through to executives and policy makers, also need to gain awareness of Health Informatics concepts.
Computing and information systems specialists must increase their knowledge of technical aspects of Health Informatics, to gain the ability to contribute to the development of new solutions and systems.
Researchers and postgraduate students in Health, Business, Computing and Science must understand specific topics in Health Informatics in order to use electronic health data methods in their studies.
The University of Western Sydney will host a Health Informatics “Summer School” consisting of a series of short courses during the week of 6-10 February 2012 to address these needs. Each short course will be run as a full day intensive mode classroom or workshop style session delivered by a team of invited national experts and UWS Health Informatics staff. Each short course will be limited in attendance to a maximum of 30 participants, to ensure an adequate level of personal interaction with the presenter is achievable. Notes from presentations and certificates of attendance will be provided. The short courses are not intended to be eligible for academic credit in university degree courses.
Each daily course topic in the Summer School will be delivered in two parts: the morning sessions will be at introductory level (where little prior knowledge of the topic is expected), followed by afternoon sessions at more advanced level (for which the introductory level content will be adequate background). The planned schedule for the week is as follows:
| Monday | Health Informatics Scope: Basic Concepts and Principles |
| Tuesday | Representing Health Data: Health Data Coding/Terminologies |
| Wednesday | Using Health Information: Clinical Information Systems |
| Thursday | New Models of Care: Clinical Decision Support and Telehealth |
| Friday | Emerging and Future Trends: Selected Specialised Topics |
If you have any questions, please email hisummerschool@scm.uws.edu.au
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