EHEALTH 701 / Research and Evaluation Methods in eHealth

3 unit(s)

A. McKibbon

This course will provide background and basic principles of research and evaluation methods for eHealth students. The course will study research/evaluation methods of such eHealth applications as electronic medical records systems or handheld devices to provide decision support as well as research/evaluation using eHealth applications. Examples of these latter applications are data mining of electronic health records information to determine prognostic data on individuals or construction of and data analyses using data from large prospective population databases. The course is given in seminar (small group) format. Evaluation is based on participation, two written assignments, a final paper in the form of a research proposal or contract proposal to address a Request for Proposal from industry. Students will also review a project proposal done by another student.