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Graduate Diploma in Biomedical and Health Informatics (International Programme), Bangkok School of Tropical Medicine
 
 
  Diploma in Biomedical and Health Informatics
>>Curriculum
Course Description
  Required Courses | Elective Subjects
Required Courses
 
Credit (Lecture-Practice-Self Study)
 
TMHG 523 Principles and Foundations of Public Health Informatics  3 (3-0-6)
  Principles and foundation of public health informatics. Tools, methods, data source, data standard, terminologies, and policies related to public health informatics. Roles of information systems in public health practice, information technology personnel and change management. eHealth, mobile health, and health decision support systems, ethics in access and use of public health information
TMHG 524 Challenging Issues in Health Care and Public Health Systems 2 (2-0-4)
  Organization structure and management of major healthcare systems of the country. Operation of healthcare systems under the financial and expenditure management at national level. Analysis and integration of strategic information system plans at the level of healthcare organizations. Infrastructure, interoperability and standards in information systems employed in healthcare organizations. Assessment of the effectiveness of the information systems within the healthcare organizations.
TMHG 525 Health Information System Design and Implementation 2 (2-0-4)
  Strategic planning, administration and management of information system. Case study in IT networking, internet, data interchange, data access, data management. System security, standard and regulatory issues. Establishing and implementing essential applications at different levels of healthcare organization.
TMHG 526 Organizational Behavior and Management Skills 3 (2-2-5)
  Principles and practices aimed to build international core competencies and develop skills for health informatics personnel. Personal skills, administrative skills, coping with change, social and relationship skills, IT related skills, learning skills, planning and organizational skills, leadership skills, communication skills and resource management skills.
TMHG 527 Data Standards and Interoperability 1 (1-0-2)
  Uniform use of common terms and common approaches in representing and exchanging health data. Overview of utilizing data standards in health care and public health. Advantages and disadvantages of implementing data standards.
TMHG 528 Disease Surveillance and Public Health Investigation 2 (2-0-4)
  Disease surveillance and public health concepts. Methods and procedures of case and outbreak investigations. Issues related to public health surveillance data, data source, data standard, modern methods for early recognition of epidemics and early warning system. Steps in disseminating and communicating public health surveillance information. Application of information technologies to assist public health surveillance practices. Observation of the existing surveillance system.
TMHG 529 Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Informatics 1 (1-0-2)
  Legal and ethical issues regarding the proper use and dissemination of health related data. Principles underlying privacy protection, and impact of information technology on the right to privacy.
 
Elective Courses
Credit (Lecture-Practice-Self Study)
 
TMHG 533 Practicum in Health Information System 2 (1-2-3)
  Practices on health information system. Information technology support in the existing health care system. Role of health informatician in health information system at different settings. Field experiences in health informatics through several site visits.
TMHG 516 Application of Geographical Information System (GIS) in Epidemiology of Tropical Diseases 2 (2-0-4)
  Disease mapping of tropical diseases by Geographical Information System (GIS). Remote Sensing (RS) and Global Positioning System (GPS).
TMHG 517 Statistical Methods in Spatial Epidemiology 2 (2-0-4)
  Spatial epidemiology and spatial analysis. Spatial sampling, cluster analysis, surface analysis, spatial autocorrelation and regression
TMHG 534 Data Mining and Machine Learning 2 (1-2-3)
  Modern methods used to analyze data into useful decision making information. Various techniques for data exploration and data manipulation. Data characteristics in terms of their patterns, correlation, and constraints. Practices on data cleaning, establishing predictive models, association rules, decision tree analysis and cluster analysis. Using of healthcare data sources via data mining to improve operations and decisions in healthcare services.
TMHG 535 Mathematical and Economic Modeling Applications in Biomedicine and Public Health 2 (1-2-3)
  Relevant mathematical modeling concept and its application in epidemiological studies.  Differential equations. R Programming practice. Developing a mathematical model to answer research questions. Discussion on recent modeling articles. Economics modeling and cost-effectiveness analysis to link any conclusion on modeling interventions to health policy program
TMHG 536 Longitudinal Data Analysis 2 (1-2-3)
  Longitudinal data analysis commonly used in analyzing public health primary and secondary data. Fundamental concepts and practices of three designs: multiple cross-sectional, panel or repeated measures studies, and time series. Practices on examples of datasets extracted from the national and local public health databases using statistical software for the analysis of multiple surveys overtime, time series modeling of autocorrelation function and linear stationary models.
TMHG 537 Web-based Application Design and Development for Public Health 2 (1-2-3)
  Design and development of web-based applications. Software development life cycle (SDLC).  Essential skills for database design and management. Programming tools and guidances. Practices of web-based programming skills with HTML, ASP.NET, VB.Net, PHP, and XML. Database Connectivity, scalability, security and various aspects of web technologies.
TMHG 538 Seminar in Public Health Informatics 1 (1-0-2)
  Special lectures from guest speakers. Students’ presentation and discussion on current research of their own interest and/or selected topics suggested by their advisors in public health informatics and related fields.
TMHG 539 Project Development and Management in Health Care Programs 2 (2-0-4)
  Project management concepts and terminology covering stages of project management from project conceptualization, planning, design, implementation, monitoring and final project evaluation. Analyses of workflow and design features. Needs assessment, considerations in people and process, balancing risks and benefits of the project, evidence-based monitoring and evaluation. Practice on proposal writing for a healthcare project.
 
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