COSY

• Core Literature: Public Health Informatics and Information Systems

• Intro to Python: Teach yourself Python Visually

Part 1 - Collaboration, Organization and Complex Systems (Own Material)

• Forms of Organization
• Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom
• Complexity and Chaos
• Digital Ecosystems
• Forms of Organizing in Digital Ecosystems

Reading:

• https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-06123-4_5
• https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-06123-4_6

Part 2 - The History and Science of Public Health Informatics | Core Literature, Part I

• Knowledge Pyramid
• Decision-making under uncertainty
• Heuristics and Cognitive Biases:
  • https://helpfulprofessor.com/heuristics-examples-types/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
  • https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9783969750056/BP000016.xml

Reading:

• https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/th-deggendorf/reader.action?docID=6311514&ppg=27

Part 3 - Public Health Information Systems | Core Literature, Part II

3a - Architectures, Systems, and Data Sources

• Information Architecture for Public Health

  • https://ohie.org/framework/
  • https://openhie.github.io/instant/
  • https://github.com/openhie/instant

• Data Sources and Data Tools: Preparing for the Open Health Ecosystem -> Using SAAS Tools to build data gathering applications (Google Sheets, Zapier, Airtable, Slack,...) -> Combine with existing Data Sources or Web Apis

Reading:

• https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/th-deggendorf/reader.action?docID=6311514&ppg=88
• https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/th-deggendorf/reader.action?docID=6311514&ppg=110
• Chapter 17

3b - Public Health Information Standards

• HL7
• ICD 10
• Snomed CT
• HL7 FHIR

Reading:

• https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/th-deggendorf/reader.action?docID=6311514&ppg=133
• Chapter 18

3c - Publicat Health Applications and Case Studies

• 11: Electronic Health Records: Origination, Adoption, and Progression

• 14: Informatics in Disease Prevention and Epidemiology

• 15: Public Health Laboratories

• 16: Syndromic Surveillance: A Practical Application of Informatics

• 19: Geographic Information Systems

• 20: Public Health Decision Support Systems

• (12: Public Health Analytics and Big Data)

• (13: Project Management and Public Health Informatics)

Part 4 - Hands-on Information Systems Implementation

See for an overview on all projects.