Course Description
This course presents the unique characteristics of biomedical data, clinical data, and the representation methods of life science; data, information, and knowledge. All utilized to improve human health and provide a wider understanding of biomedical data related to health care. It covers basic concepts and provides a solid background for research related to the exploration of computational and analytical aspects of biomedical information systems. It encompasses topics such as information sharing and management, clinical informatics and decision-making, clinical information retrieval, imaging informatics, patient monitoring systems, cognitive science/natural language processing in bioinformatics, and translational applications of informatics. There will be hands-on assignments and term paper to familiarize students with those concepts.