Melanie A. Sutton, Ph.D. Division of Life and Health Sciences, UWF msutton@uwf.edu Co-Director, Medical Informatics Program	Justice Mbizo, M.S., Dr.PH Course Facilitator mbizoj@gmail.com Medical Informatics Program, DLHS
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According to Dr. Lucean Leape at the Harvard School of Public Health, the equivalent of one jumbo jet of patients die every day due to medical errors. Many of these deaths are preventable by improved medical technology (1999).

Unlike courses at other universities, our approach emphasizes more than just the technological aspects of computer applications. You will apply your skills and develop solutions that involve interdisciplinary teams. In general, upon completion of this course, a student will acquire the skills to be able to serve as a liaison to public health officials, physicians, administrators, and other health care professionals in the use of current and emerging computer applications in public health. In addition, this course meets the following programmatic goals for the MPH degree and Certificate in Medical Informatics programs:

• Project Management:
  • Students will be able to plan and present cooperative solutions involving interdisciplinary teams (e.g., physicians, administrators, and other health care professionals) to issues addressed in case studies in public health.
  • Students will be able to develop and present a term project and oral/electronic presentation on a topic/case study in the area of computer applications in public health.
  • Students will be able to defend conclusions related to choices of alternative software packages in presented term project (addressing issues of data collection, analysis, interpretration and reporting).
• Integrity/Values:
  • Students will be able to lead a class discussion on the applicability of health care laws (e.g., HIPAA) and professional ethics (e.g., IEEE-ACM Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice) to a presented topic or case study (including documentation, security, and regulatory requirements).

Weekly Course Outline	Orientation to Online Components of Course
Texts - Prerequisite Courses	eLearning.uwf.edu
Course Policies	Medical Informatics Resource Site
Student Contact Information	Locations of Computer Labs - How to log in
Research Project: Getting Started

This course is taught off the main UWF campus, in the Division of Life and Health Science's Education Facility located at 5149 N. 9th Avenue, in the Payne Bldg of the Medical Mall area of Sacred Heart Hospital (SHH). The Payne Bldg is attached to SHH, faces Bayou Blvd and is just the west of the Cardiovascular facility at SHH. If you enter from 9th Ave. through the southern most access into the SHH property, make a left at the service road and follow the service road around to your right (you will see the Cardiovascular unit on your right and you will be traveling past the front of this unit). At the stop sign south of and just past the Cardiovascular unit look to your right and there will be a small, separate parking lot which services two bldgs, the building on the right is the Payne Bldg. Park in that lot and go to the left face of that bldg where there is an entrance (the entrance faces the second bldg in the set). Enter the small lobby of the Payne Bldg and take the elevator on the left side of the lobby to the third floor. Get off of the elevator and turn left and make an immediate left down the hall to the second to last door on your right (Suite 255). Enter our new facility, and we will be there to greet you. Looking forward to seeing you.

Students may also like to obtain specific driving directions from MapQuest. Just enter your starting address and our classroom address (5149 N. 9th Avenue, Pensacola, FL) as the ending address, then click on "Get Directions."

Certificate in Medical Informatics Program Division of Life and Health Sciences University of West Florida

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