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Nursing and Digital Health Informatics

Programme Overview

Nursing Informatics is a combination of cognitive science, computer science, information science, and nursing science. It includes the development, analysis, and evaluation of information systems augmented by technologies that support, enhance and manage patient care. Nursing Informatics is an intersection between patient care and patient health information. It is focused on patient care, specifically by optimizing the technology used by nurses.

Health Informatics (also known as Healthcare Informatics) is a combination of computer science, information science and health science designed to assist in the management and processing of data, information and knowledge to support healthcare and healthcare delivery. Health informatics work provides electronic access to medical records for patients, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, insurance companies, and health information technicians.

This programme introduces participants to the following:
1. What is digital health and how health informatics has changed the way healthcare is delivered.
2. The definition and development of Nursing Informatics.
3. The current situation and trend of smart hospital nursing and health system construction.
4. Patient data security and privacy.
5. eHealth: The application of technology and data in modern health and social care services.

Participants will have a good understanding on:
1. Health Informatics
2. Nursing Informatics
3. Emerging technologies for eHealth solutions
4. Patient data security and privacy
5. Acting as a translator between nurses, system engineers, analysts, or designers
6. Applications of eHealth.

Prerequisites

Basic understanding of the use of technology and nursing

Programme Content

• Digital health informatics
• Nursing informatics
• Emerging technologies for eHealth solutions
• Patient data security and privacy
• The application of technology and data in modern health and social care services
• Final project presentation

Instructors

Assoc Prof Danny Poo

Assoc Prof Danny Poo brings with him 35 years of Software Engineering and Information Technology and Management experience. A graduate from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), England, Dr Poo is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Systems and Analytics, National University of Singapore. Prior to joining the University, Dr Poo was with the System Operations at DBSBank, Singapore. A Steering Committee member of the Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, Dr Poo is actively involved in Information Management and Healthcare Analytics research. A well-known speaker in seminars, Dr Poo has conducted numerous in-house training and consultancy for organizations, both locally and regionally. Dr Poo is the author of 5 books on Object-Oriented Software Engineering, Java Programming language and Enterprise JavaBeans.

Dr Poo notable teaching credentials include: