BMI 6203 - Clinical Database Design

Clinical database is the foundation and essential components of clinical information systems such electronic health records, clinical decision support systems, and big data warehousing environments. Designing a clinical database may require thorough understanding of the theories of database systems, underlying information models, and architectural features of clinical information systems. The course provides systematic learning activities for fundamentals of clinical databases and practices of database design. In addition, students spend time learning SQL (Structured Query Language) to develop relational databases and use SQL queries to answer clinically relevant questions using example data sets in the databases. Lastly, the course will cover learning of how clinical information models are associated with database design and state-of-the art trends in the healthcare IT industry.