Basically, I would like to know the core courses that a medical or health informatics major must take in order to be awarded the BS and MS degrees in the field. Thanks much!
Given the current results the Biomedical Technologies, Electronic Health Record, Intrusive Medicine, Medical Telerobotics& Surgery, Pharmaceutical Research, Spread of Malicious Bacteria and Infectious Diseases, Healthy Food Production and Radiation and 5G Impact on Human Physiology.
These are my top four areas in alphabetical order:
1. Cognitive Computing and AI (Artificial Intelligence) in Health/care https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/40E-LE
2. Gamification, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in Health/care https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/UWt9LE
3. IoT (Internet of Things), Sensors and Wearables in Health/care https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/AXxFtB
4. Medical and Health/care Robotics https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/EvLEtB
MSc programmes in health informatics tend to cover the foundation topics, e.g., clinical decision making, databases, human-computer interaction, etc., that the above areas (and others) rely on, e.g., see p.6 in https://www.city.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/178687/PSHINF-MSc-Health-Informatics.pdf
P.S. You might also be interested in this classification of digital health interventions (v1.0, WHO) http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/mhealth/classification-digital-health-interventions/en/
I would go for:
- Clinical terminology, coding and identifiers
- Interoperability standards including FHIR
- Data protection including consent management
- Measurement of patient-reported outcomes
- Structure of electronic health records
- Identifiers for people, places and things
- Evaluation of complex systems
- Why all of the above create difficulties
To add to all of the above great answers, I have taught Medical Informatics now for over 15 years and I believe the core courses should be:
1. Medical Informatics and Computer Development
2. Medical Computing and Medical Data Management
3. Medical Decision Making
4. System Design and Engineering
5. Evaluation and Technology Assessment
6. Electronic Medical Records and Recent Applications
7. Patient Care and Patient Monitoring Systems
8. Medical Imaging Systems
9. Clinical Decision Support Systems
10. Telemedicine
You may also want to add more recent titles, such as eHealth/Mobile Health, Social Media and Public Health, or Healthcare Big Data, Business Intelligence and Data Mining.
In addition to Mohamed's and the others' responses, I would add the following pragmatic courses:
1. Near and long-term Future of Medicine and Information Technology based Solutions.
2. Healthcare’s current and near-term Medical Informatics applications
3. Best practices in justifying, planning, implementing, and supporting Medical Informatics Solutions.
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