EHEALTH 724 / Fundamentals of eHealth and the Canadian Health Care System

3 unit(s)

A. McKibbon (same as HTH RS M 724)

Prerequisite(s): One-day orientation to the Canadian health care system for students (non-health background) completed before the course starts.

This tutorial-based course will cover a broad range of eHealth topics from the perspective of health care delivery. Topics include a definition of eHealth; health care data; hospital and primary care information systems (i.e. electronic health records [EHR] systems); specialty components of an EHR system; how health professionals use data; human/cognitive factors in development and implementation of eHealth applications; patient safety; standards, vocabulary and nomenclatures and how used; aggregation of health information, especially for research purposes; patient information systems and consumer eHealth; and research and evaluation of eHealth applications and research using eHealth applications.