This unit introduces key concepts and skills required in the emerging Health Informatics domain including: Australian and International healthcare data representation and interchange standards; health care data modelling including patient journey modelling; overview of health information systems with a focus on decision support and clinical systems; telehealth and communication technologies; and electronic health records.

Building on material covered in Programming Fundamentals this unit introduces students to the basics of developing interactive and dynamic web applications from both the client and server perspective. The unit covers web site design, web site development, web page accessibility and usability, XHTML, CSS, client side and server side scripting, database interaction, web site promotion (SEO), legal issues and web security.

This unit exposes students to the processes and techniques of the development of e-Health applications. It extends the students knowledge of Health Informatics by introducing concepts relating to electronic communications within the Health Industry. Areas include the Electronic Health Record Standards, Security, Privacy and Trust together with TeleHealth and TeleMedicine approaches, methodologies, tools and techniques.

This unit is only for Bachelor of Computer Science (Advanced) students in year one of their studies. Students will participate in industry and research based extension activities (non-assessable). These activities will be identified with the goal of exposing students early in their degree and integrating them into a culture of academic enquiry, problem solving, knowledge generation and scholarship and an awareness of the challenges and current issues confronting the computing/IT industry. The unit will be used to record student activities and a satisfactory/ unsatisfactory grade will be applied at the end of each year.