HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS

CPH5HIS

2020

Credit points: 15

Subject outline

In this subject, students in the China Health Program cover topics including: information systems; basic concepts of information in health including structure, environment, networking, media, language, data collection, storage, access, analysis and retrieval; characteristics of effective health information systems, IT strategies, requirements specification and system development and evaluation for health system applications; sources of information for health professionals; administrative policies and procedures for health service organisations; types of health information systems. This subject is taught in Mandarin and English.

School: Psychology and Public Health (Pre 2022)

Credit points: 15

Subject Co-ordinator: George Liu

Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: Yes

Subject year level: Year Level 5 - Masters

Exchange Students: No

Available as Elective: No

Learning Activities: N/A

Capstone subject: No

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: N/A

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: N/A

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Quota Management Strategy: N/A

Quota-conditions or rules: N/A

Special conditions: N/A

Minimum credit point requirement: N/A

Assumed knowledge: N/A

Learning resources

Working with information (in English and Chinese)

Resource Type: Book

Resource Requirement: Recommended

Author: Liu CJ, Grain H

Year: 2009

Edition/Volume: N/A

Publisher: BEIJING: PEOPLE'S MEDICAL PUBLISHING

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Career Ready

Career-focused: No

Work-based learning: No

Self sourced or Uni sourced: N/A

Entire subject or partial subject: N/A

Total hours/days required: N/A

Location of WBL activity (region): N/A

WBL addtional requirements: N/A

Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes

Graduate Capabilities

Intended Learning Outcomes

01. Theoretical knowledge of health information systems used in health care and how such systems inter-relate.

02. Identify health information infrastructure needs in terms of policies, standards and procedures.

03. Critically review the use of specific information including diagnosis related groups (DRGs), casemix, classification, clinical indicators and performance audit, quality management and population health indicators.

04. Reflect critically on new directions in health information systems and their potential impact on health system development.

05. Master understanding of the requirements for effective information systems including specification and system development processes.

China (Harbin Medical Uni), 2020, Semester 1, Day

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Enrolment information: N/A

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: George Liu

Class requirements

Block ModeWeek: 0 - 0
Ten 5.00 hours block mode per study period on weekdays during the day from week 0 to week 0 and delivered via face-to-face.
Teaching hours are extended to allow bilingual delivery

Assessments

Assessment element	Comments	Category	Contribution	Hurdle	%	ILO*
1.5 hour examination (1500-word equivalent assignment)	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	40	SILO1, SILO3
3,000-word assignment and data/systems exercise	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	60	SILO1, SILO2, SILO4, SILO5

China (Harbin Medical Uni), 2020, Semester 2, Day