HLTH 613Information Technology for the Health Professional
- Units
- 0.50
- Level
- Graduate
- Faculty
- Health
- Subject
- Public Health Sciences
HLTH 613 as listed in the Winter 2025 Graduate Calendar. The main page has the current version, when it runs, and seats.
This course introduces health professionals to the conceptual and physical building blocks of large scale distributed health information system. Network architectures, web architectures, distributed processing, securing information, database structures, and other technical topics are covered with a specific focus on the concepts that need to be understood by health professionals to facilitate interaction with technical system specialists.
Prerequisites
- Enrolled in Master of Health Evaluation (MHE), Master of Health Informatics (MHI), Master of Public Health (MPH), MSc in Public Health Sciences, MSc in Public Health Sciences-Water, PhD in Public Health Sciences, PhD in Public Health Sciences-Aging, Health & Well-Being, or PhD in Public Health Sciences-Water
Antirequisites
None listed.
Leads to
Check it elsewhere for Winter 2025
- Graduate Calendar, Winter 2025The archived entry
- Requirements for Winter 2025Waterloo’s requisite checker
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
Calendar versions
Graduate Calendar
- Spring 2024
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025 (shown here)
- Spring 2025 requisites changed
- Fall 2025