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FIMS 9841A-001 (Fall 2022)   Interdisciplinary Issues in Health Information Science

Instructor: L. Stark

Course Description
This course provides an overview of issues in the creation, provision and retrieval of information in the health care system.  A focus is on describing the ‘actors’ in the health area, their information behaviour, and consideration of how services provided by information professionals and other information sources meet these needs.  We also consider taking a critical approach, emerging issues in health care generally and health information specifically, and how these influence, and are influenced, by broader ethical, social, political, legal and economic considerations.

Course Syllabi for FIMS 9841A-001 (Fall 2022)
The syllabi for this course is a PDF file that requires a FIMS account to view

Antirequisites: HIS 9241 and GRADLIS 9841 are anti-requisites for this course.

Cross-listed with HIS 9241.  This course is open to MLIS students only with permission from the instructor.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, students should:

  • have a basic understanding the Canadian health care system, including the provision of health information at various levels.
  •  be able to describe the information seeking behaviours of the major stakeholders in the health system, including health professionals, policy makers, and the public.
  •  for each stakeholder group, be able to identify the resources and services that would best meet their information needs. have basic experience with searching online health-related databases (e.g., MEDLINE) and accessing health-related resources from a variety of sources.
  •  understand trends and issues in evidence-based health care, health informatics, health privacy legislation, knowledge translation, and health literacy.
  •  be able to critically evaluate and engage with not only health information policies, practices, and sources, but also some of the fundamental assumptions and ideas that underpin these.



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