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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

311769 (v.1) Advanced Health Informatics 682

Area: School of Public Health
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 10.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Individual Study: 1 x 10 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 311273 (v.1) HTHM806 Advanced Health Informatics or any previous version
Prerequisite(s): 309935 (v.1) Introduction to Health Informatics 681 or any previous version
Syllabus (HB): Systems theory, enterprise and information architecture, information engineering, data modelling, geographic and international issues, leadership and team building in health informatics, health informatics policy formation and training guidelines and business case development.
Syllabus: Application of systems theory to health informatics, including the examination of geographical and international issues. Application of leadership and team building theory in a health informatics setting. The development and implementation of health informatics policy. Business case development for organizational change.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 069999 Health not elsewhere classified
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 2     Y    

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External