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Students are introduced to the fundamental concepts and knowledge of emerging health technologies. This course will cover topics such as wireless medical devices, web-based health applications, social networking, mobile health, e-Health, connected health, personal medicine, hardware sensor, and software sensing technologies, wearable computing, and robotics in medicine.

Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to: 1. Describe the purpose, attributes, and functions of patient monitoring systems.2. Analyze how the integration of data from many sources assists in making clinical decisions.3. Discuss how telehealth communication technologies support clinical care.4. Define an information system.5. Describe specialized information systems.6. Explain how information systems are used in healthcare.7. Describe the latest advances in medical technology.

*The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here.