week 1 lecture

1. The Concept of Health Informatics
182 DEN
Academic Year 2010-2011G [1431-1432H]

2. Course Director
Dr. Ebtissam Al-Madi
ealmadi@ksu.edu.sa
http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/ealmadi/default.aspx

3. Health Informatics
Health care informatics or medical informatics
• Is the intersection of information science, computer
science, and health care.
• It deals with the resources, devices, and methods
required to optimize the acquisition, storage,
retrieval, and use of information in health and
biomedicine.
• Health informatics tools include not only computers
but also clinical guidelines, formal medical
terminologies, and information and communication
systems.
• It is applied to the areas of nursing, clinical care,
dentistry, pharmacy, public health and (bio)medical
research.

4. Course 182 DEN
• Broad introduction to the health informatics
• Understand how informatics can most
effectively help their efforts and how its
methods can be exploited to elevate the
state of the art in education, research, and
patient care.
• Presents a global view of health informatics
and its sub disciplines in order to allow the
students to appreciate the context in which
health informatics functions.
• Special emphasis will be directed toward
electronic health records and the use of
computer and technology in dentistry.

5. The Course Components
• On-line lectures and reading material will
be presented via Blackboard.
• The mode of delivery of the course is
designed to be synonymous with it’s
content (i.e computer applications).

6. Concepts & Skills
• Build and emphasis the concepts learned in the
computer skills course given in the preparatory
year to solidify these skills.
• Develop self-learning skills and life-long learning
skills through online learning and web-searching
• Understand concepts of medical and dental
informatics and its scope and Different
applications and domains of dental informatics
applications.

7. Concepts & Skills…cont
• Understand benefits of dental
informatics, as well as computer
applications in dentistry and medicine
• Recognize the differences between
Information Technology (IT), computer
science and health and dental informatics
• Familiar with Electronic health records
uses and concepts
• Appreciate Information retrieval and data
organization

8. COURSE REQUIREMENTS

9. 1. Weekly Work (30%)
1. View all the lectures online
2. Read posted material (handout or articles)
online
3. Participate in online discussions: (10%)
4. Submit homework online: (10%)
5. Answer quizzes online: (10%)
Attendance will be counted through online
activities (discussion, quizzes and homework
submission) on time. (Saturday to Friday)
Non-participation on time will be counted as an
absence, which will be reported to the
administration when it reaches 25% or above.

10. • All course content will be delivered via
Blackboard (http://lms.ksu.edu.sa ) as well
as on course director’s website
• (http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/ealmadi/default.aspx).
• In case of system down, lectures and
reading material can be viewed from course
director’s website, and online discussion,
homework and quizzes can be sent through
email for timeliness, but later sent to
blackboard for logistic evaluation.

11. 2. Term Paper (30%)
• Prepare and submit a term-paper on a chosen subject of
dental informatics. The paper should cover any dental
informatics topics covered (or not covered) by the course
that interests the student. Students my work alone or in
groups of two.
• Submission of topic, student(s) name, and a brief 1-2
sentence synopsis (proposal) should be done in week 5
(latest).
• This should be submitted on the week 12 of the
semester (latest).
• The paper should be between 3000- 4000 words (approx
12-16 pages, double spaced, Times New Roman, Font
12, 1 inch margins).
• Care must be taken that the work is done by the
student(s) themselves, no plagiarism or copying off the
net, and no spelling or grammar mistakes.

12. 3. Final Exam (40%)
• During the final exams week in person.
• The exam will be multiple choice and will
cover topics presented in lectures,
posted material, discussions, homework,
and weekly quizzes.

13. Introduction
1
Overview and introduction to health informatics &
2 Dental Informatics (DI)
3 Basic overview of Information technology & uses in
Medicine and Dentistry
4 Standards of dental informatics, security issues, privacy
and costs
5 Management of Information in health care organizations
6 Patient care and monitoring systems
7 Information retrieval and digital libraries
8 Evidence based dentistry and decision making
Midyear Break

14. 9 Decision support systems
10 Computers in dental education
11 Bioinformatics
12 Electronic Health Records and administrative applications
of DI
13 Imaging informatics & Teledentistry
14 Software support in dental disciplines
15 Other informatics disciplines: Consumer Informatics,
nursing informatics, public health informatics
16 General Exams
17 Final Exams
18

15. HOW TO LOG ON TO BB

16. http://lms.ksu.edu.sa

17. • You need to have an account (Username,
password) to access the system: your
student KSU email and PW.
• You may receive various security warnings
that pop up – select “Always”, ”Yes” or
“Run”.
• If you are unable to view discussion
postings, quiz windows, and download links,
then you need to disable pop-up blocking.
• Cookies must be enabled within the Web
browser

20. Tabs
• My Institution The My Institution tab contains
tools and information specific to each user’s
preferences.
• Courses Users click on a link from the Courses
tab to access a Course.
• Community The Community tab lists
Organizations specific to each user, the
Organization Catalog for the Institution, and
Institution Discussion Boards.
• Services The Services tab contains links to
other institutional offerings outside of
Blackboard Learn - Course Delivery.

21. • Personalize Page
– Color theme
– Layout
• Personal Information
– Change Password
– Change Personal
Settings
– Set Privacy Options

22. Course Content
• Course lectures
• Course reading material

23. Discussion Boards
The Discussion Board is a tool for sharing thoughts and
ideas about class materials. The Discussion Board is made
up of Forums that may appear anywhere in the Course but
are also all centrally located in the Discussion Board tool.
Course Groups can have their own Discussion Boards.

24. Discussion Boards
• Forum View
– lists the threads in
the Forum
• Thread
– Threads are a
series of posts
related to a similar
topic.
• Start a Thread

25. Discussion Boards
• Start a Thread
– Open a Discussion Board Forum.
– Click Create Thread in the action bar. The
Create Thread page appears.
– Enter a Subject and a Message. It is also
possible to attach files to the post.
– Click Save Draft to store a draft of the post.
Click Submit to create the thread.

26. Discussion Boards
• Reply to a Post
– Open a thread in a Forum.
– Find a post.
– Click Reply for that post.
– Enter a Subject (if different than the default)
and a Message. It is also possible to attach
files to the post.
– Click Save Draft to store a draft of the post.
Click Submit to create the thread.
– The post appears in the thread underneath
the original post.

27. Course Tools
• Address Book Save contact information.
• Glossary A link to a glossary of terms for
the course.
• User Manual A link to an online version of
the LMS User Manual.
• Calendar Manage events for Courses,
personal events, and system-wide events.
• My Grades Check Grades for a Course.
• Tasks Organizing tasks, defining task
priorities, and tracking task status.

28. Announcements
Users can view important messages from Instructors in the
My Announcements module. Announcements are available
through the Tool Module (panel) on the Institution Tab and
inside a Course in the My Announcements module.

29. Messages
• View Message
• Create Message

30. Other Assessment Tools
• View Grades
• Submit Homework
• Take a Quiz
• Submit Term
paper

31. This weeks assignments
1. Log on to http://lms.ksu.edu.sa with your
user name and password
2. View this lecture online for review.
3. Read Syllabus
4. Participate in discussion
5. Submit Homework
No quiz this week!
View Read Discuss Homework Quiz

32. Thank you
ealmadi@ksu.edu.sa