HINF 5101 — Introduction to Health Informatics and Health Information Systems

3 semester hoursGraduateLectureusually offered: fall, springBostonOnlineOnlineTraditional

Introduces the history and current status of information systems in healthcare: information architectures, administrative and clinical applications, evidence-based medicine, information retrieval, decision support systems, security and confidentiality, bioinformatics, information system cycles, the electronic health record, key health information systems and standards, and medical devices. Requires enrollment in Graduate Health Informatics Program.

Offering history

TermSectionsEnrolledCapacityFullOpen seats/section
Summer B 20231143047%16.0
Fall 20233699870%9.7
Spring 202434742511%126.0
Summer B 20241133043%17.0
Fall 20243589859%13.3
Spring 202536342715%121.3
Summer B 20251143047%16.0
Fall 20253469847%17.3
Spring 202625212741%37.5

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 0% · T 13% · W 17% · Th 12% · F 0%

Common patterns: async (58% of sections), W (17% of sections), T (13% of sections), R (12% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

Fall

Spring

Summer B

Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

Unlocks

HINF 6335, HINF 6350, HINF 6355

Courses that list HINF 5101 in their prerequisites.

Links

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