AHL 823 - Introduction to IT and Computer Science

2 Continuing Education Units (CEU). This course is not for Credit(s).

This course is designed to enable the student to learn the basics of computer architecture, data organization, representation, and structure. Topics to be covered include data organization, structure of programming language, networking and data communication, and the development of IT systems in health care and public health.

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, the students should be able to:
1. describe network computing and commonly used communications hardware and software components;
2. demonstrate proper use of hardware, network, internet, and software computer technology in written and verbal communications;
3. write simple computer programs including constructs such as conditional statements, loops, functions, objects, and simple data structures;
4. design a simple database and querying statements;
5. identify security risks and potential solutions for systems;
6. explain the design and development process of a large system such as an Electronic Health Records (EHR);
7. identify and describe important historical events related to EHRs and systems; and
8. describe the evolution of privacy and security issues related to EHRs in the US.