Unit Lecture Topic Reading Assign Projects/Assignments
Announcements
One, week 1 Introduction to the course. Hebda ch 1 Each unit the student is
Informatics in the Health Care responsible to read the
professions (ch 1) Self revision on Windows material covered during the
and other introductory unit. This includes the chapter
Review of MS Windows Vista and material and Cases.
Office 2007 interface and format Review on your own of
issues. Note that general MS Word Discuss any difficulties for
computing skills are working on the group project
expected to be known by the with the instructor by email or
student from previous in class before Unit 2.
courses. You may use the online
tutorials by Microsoft to refresh
your knowledge.
Two, week 2 Overview of hardware and Hebda ch 2,3 Finalize your work plan on the
software (ch 2 – not examinable, team project.
only for self review)
and Test 1 on the second Monday
Ensuring the quality of information of September at 9.30 pm
(ch 3)
Homework 1 due

Three, week 3 Review of Units 1and 2; plus new: Hebda ch 4.
Electronic communication and the Project Review
Internet (ch 4)
Creating a simple web page using
MS Publisher





Four, weeks Healthcare Information Systems, Hebda ch 5 Homework 2 due
4-5 ch 5

Five, weeks Selecting a healthcare information Hebda ch 7 Test 2 (midterm) on the
6-7 system, (ch 7) second Monday of October at
Introduction to decision making And additional materials 9.30 pm
on spreadsheet modeling
Spreadsheet modeling and decision making Homework 3 Due

Revision of all past material


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