Health Informatics Week 1

Week 1

 Health Informatics is a class to inform us on the basic understanding of the fundamental aspects of ICT within healthcare.

 What is health Informatics?

Health Informatics deals with the resources, devices, and methods required to help study healthcare and use the information gathered to improve health and biomedicine.

“the scientific field that deals with resources, devices and formalised methods for optimising the storage, retrieval and management of biomedical information for problem solving and decision making” (Shortliffe, 1995).

 Lecture 

In the first week lecture we were given an overview of the module and an explanation of Health Informatics. We were informed about the assignments and the exam content.

Following the lecture i found out more information on Health Informatics in the internet and also information on the module to help me prepare myself for future lectures,assignments and exams. 

Tutorial 

In week one tutorial we were introduced to Matlab and some of the basic components of Matlab in preparation for the first Matlab tutorial in week 3.

 Practical

We were given a few simple exercises to complete and here is a few examples of the exercises we were given.

Evaluate the following statements in Matlab.

1. a = [1 2 3 4 5]

2. b = [6, 7, 8, 9]

3. c = [1; 2; 3; 4; 5]

4. d = [

1 2 3

4 5 6

7 8 9]

The following screen dump is showing Matlab and the exercises I completed.

The practical helped me understand the fundamentals of using MatLab and how it works.

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