NURS648

The intended audience for NURS 648 is the student who is advancing their knowledge of health informatics through a substantive focus in informatics for PhD and as a future leader in health informatics seeking a DNP with Informatics specialty. This course focuses on the theoretical basis of healthcare informatics with an emphasis on management and processing of healthcare data, information, and knowledge. This course is guided by communication theory and will address the following: models used in healthcare informatics, healthcare technologies, human-computer interaction, and database design, artificial intelligence and machine learning, technology guided decision-making, predictive analytics, national issues and policy implications and continued advancements in healthcare technology.