ELEC MEDICAL RECORDS:COMP IMP
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Course No. |
CS 639 |
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Section # |
850 |
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Title |
Medical
Terminologies and Electronic Medical Records (In the catalog abbreviated as ELEC MEDICAL RECORDS:COMP IMP) |
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Course Website |
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Prerequisite(s) |
CS 631 or Undergraduate Database course or practical experience with a Database system is extremely helpful for this class. However, we will not actually use a database system. |
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Instructor |
James
Geller · Office Room No.: 4307 GITC · Office Phone: 973 596-3383 · Fax : 973-596-5777 · Email : geller@njit.edu |
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Instructor Office Hours |
As this is a distance learning course office hours are by appointment only. |
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Description |
This
course presents an introduction to Medical Informatics for Computer Science
students by covering two important topics from Medical Informatics, namely
(1) the design, use and auditing of medical terminologies and (2) principles
of Electronic Medical Records, and its closely related “brethren” Electronic
Health Records and Personal Health Records. This is
not a programming course. However,
there will be hands-on work with several browsers and EMR systems. For
every class there will be downloadable powerpoints
and a voice recording of a little over one hour. Students are responsible for
listening to the voice recording and studying the powerpoints.
There will be reading assignments also. Introductions to Medical Informatics assume a good knowledge of the language of medicine, which may not be assumed for Computer Science students. However, Medical Informatics makes heavy use of computational tools and databases and is an area of intensive commercial growth. Thus, students taking this course will be prepared to work in what is undoubtedly a growth industry, namely medical software development. This course is intended for graduate computer science students. Graduate students in Information Systems, might also elect this course. We hope to attract some UMDNJ students who might be interested in a deeper understanding of computational issues. |
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Topics |
Topics
are subject to change or omission, depending on time. |
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Text Book(s) |
1) REQUIRED Electronic Health Records By Richard Gartee,
2011. Publisher: Pearson It is most likely that you get
the correct book if you order from www.MyPearsonStore.com (I believe
free shipping is included.) 2) REQUIRED Aspects of Electronic Health
Record Systems Second Edition Harold P. Lehman, Patricia A.
Abbott et al. Springer Verlag 2006 ISBN 0-387-29154-7 |
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Time & Place |
Online |
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Other Info |
Exams:
There
will be one Midterm Exam, and one Final Exam. Both will be done
on the Moodle system. Moodle Exams can
be set up in a way such that they are only accessible for a limited time
period (in our case 2.5 hours).
Details will be announced later on. However, we will find exam times
which will work for everyone of you.
There
will be weekly questions that will have to be answered on Moodle. These questions will be about the audio
recording and/or the reading assignments.
You will have several days access to the
questions. Projects: There
will be two “bigger” homeworks called projects.
There will be no programming but you will need to use certain systems and
collect information in a Word file.
11 weeks of homeworks, 9 points each: 99 points
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I reserve the right to phone students if their homeworks
or exams are “problematic.” <<< However, normally I will not do
this. Normal
curving rules of the CS Department will be applied. Note
that most students typically get all the points on the Students
expecting an A should aim to get at least 560 points. However,
this is NOT a guarantee. It goes by
the curve. You might have 560 points and still not get an A if everybody else
had more points.
You
have to get an AFS account (ID), if you don't have one. You
will need email, a printer, Web access, a PDF reader and MS Word. You
will need access to Moodle. If
there is a password problem, try this:
In
order to work from home on certain systems you need to install VPN. Cheating:
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