• Module

Health and Medical Informatics Module

  • 10 Days
  • 2 Lessons
  • 42 Students Enrolled

Health and Medical Informatics Module

  • Updated on Thursday 11th of September 2025

Module Overview

Health informatics (HI) (also called medical informatics) focuses on information technology to positively impact the patient-physician relationship through effective collection, safeguarding, and understanding of health data.

health informatics arose as multi-disciplinary professional field studies and pursued the effective use of biomedical data, information, and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem-solving, and decision-making. 

The advancement of technology in the medical field, accompanied by the requirements to keep sensitive data confidential, has created a robust need for health informatics specialists, who work at he intersection of information science, computer science, and health care.

Health informatics combines health care with data analytics. Learn more about this increasingly important multidisciplinary field

This course looks forward to empowering you with core concepts in health and medical informatics as an undergraduate student or as a professional with an interest in this amazing field.

Module Requirements
  • A medical science background
  • Self-motivation
  • Free or premium Medcrine account

Module Curriculum

  • 1: Introduction to health informatics
  • 2: Definitions of Health Informatics
  • Module assessment
  • Downloadable module materials
  • Module completion digital certificate
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Module Details

Free Plan Module
Module Features
  • 2 Chapters
  • 8 Points
  • 42 Enrollments
  • Assessment
  • Certificate
About The Author
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Dan Ogera

Founder and Editor
Medical Educator and instructor