HI 530         Computational Methods in Health Informatics

Methods for extracting, merging, organizing, processing, analyzing, and visualizing health data,
information, and knowledge. A practical overview of biostatistics in Health Informatics to
support medical decision making. Introduction to data mining and machine learning techniques.

HI 610         Databases and Knowledge Discovery in Health Care (3)

Overview of system development life cycle and prototyping methods. Practical approaches to assessing user needs in health care, data modeling, normalization, structured query language (SQL), data warehousing, and data mining. Review of NoSQL techniques for information storage, retrieval, and presentation practices to support clinical decisions and policy making in health care. Investigation of data transformation, patterns recognition, and knowledge discovery techniques in health care.