Social and Technical Context of Health Informatics

Improving health and healthcare institutions requires understanding of data and creation of interventions at the many levels at which health IT interact and affect the institution. These levels range from the external “world” in which the institution operates down to the specific technologies. Data scientists find that, when they aim at implementing their models in practice, it is the “socio” components that are both novel to them and mission critical to success. At the end of this course, stude

• Articulate a coherent problem definition and plan for a healthcare informatics issue
• Create an Informatics Stack analysis of a health informatics problem
• Describe social and technical aspects of health informatics problems or solutions