The course examines the impact of information technology on a wide variety of health care fields. These include telemedicine, radiology, pharmacy, dentistry, surgery, rehabilitative therapies, and public health.

The course includes information technology infrastructures and software in general, the latest information on medical informatics, informational resources, and electronic record keeping in the Health Information Technology decade, information technology in public health. Common software applications (i.e. word processing, spreadsheet, etc.).

The students will learn about the most current computer and medical technologies. Privacy and Security issues are also discussed. (for Nursing, Public Health and MLS students)