HTH RS M 724 / eHealth: Fundamentals of eHealth and the Canadian Health Care System

3 unit(s)

(cross-listed as EHEALTH 724)

Prerequisite(s): Enrolment in HRM; or eHealth/Health Policy programs plus permission of instructor.

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.