{"id":2218,"date":"2010-07-12T13:54:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T17:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/?page_id=2218"},"modified":"2025-08-22T16:39:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:39:38","slug":"cs581","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/academic-programs\/courses\/cs581\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Information Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<style><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span> p {margin-bottom:0px;} .course-feed .cf-course h4 {display: none; white-space: wrap;} .button{width:125px;}<\/style>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Formerly named Electronic Health Records<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"course-feed\"><div class=\"cf-course\">\n\t<h4>Health Information Systems<\/h4>\n\t<p class=\"meta\">MET CS 581 (4 credits)<\/p>\n\t\n\t<p>Health Information Systems are comprehensive application systems that automate the activities of healthcare delivery including clinical care using electronic health records (EHRs), coordination of care across providers, telehealth, management of the business of healthcare such as revenue cycle management, and population health management. The course covers the functionality of these systems, the underlying information technology they require and their successful operations. It addresses challenges in this rapidly changing field such as complex data, security, interoperability, mobile technology and distributed users. The course emphasizes applied use of health information systems through case studies, current articles, and exercises.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<p class=\"\"><em>2026SPRGMETCS581O1, Jan 13th to Mar 2nd 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-table\">\n<table>\n\t<tr>\n\t\t<th>Days<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Start<\/th>\n\t\t<th>End<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Type<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Bldg<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Room<\/th>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<tr>\n\t<td>ARR<\/td>\n\t<td>12:00 AM<\/td>\n\t<td>12:00 AM<\/td>\n\t<td><\/td>\n\t<td><\/td>\n\t<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Format &amp; Syllabus:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"btn-group\">\n<div class=\"dropdown\">\n<p><button class=\"button\">On Campus<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"dropdown-content\"><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2024\/04\/CS581-Syllabus-Fall-2023.pdf\">CS581 FALL23<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2021\/09\/CS581-Syllabus-Fall-2021.pdf\">CS581 FALL21<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2019\/10\/CS581_A1_E1_Syllabus_FALL-2019.pdf\">CS581 FALL19<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/08\/CS581-Syllabus-Fall-2018.pdf\">CS581 FALL18<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/05\/CS581_A1_E1_Fall-2017.pdf\">CS581 FALL17<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2015\/08\/CS581_A1_Fall-2015.pdf\">CS581 FALL15<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dropdown\">\n<p><button class=\"button\">Online<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"dropdown-content\"><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/01\/MET-CS581-2025-Spring-1-Syllabus.pdf\">CS581 SPRG25<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2024\/04\/CS581OL-Syllabus-Spring-2024.pdf\">CS581 SPRG24<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2022\/08\/MET_CS581-O1_Spring-2022_Health-Info-Sys.pdf\">CS581 SPRG22<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2019\/12\/MET-CS581-Electronic-Health-Records-Fall-2019.pdf\">CS581 FALL19<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2019\/08\/CS581_O1_Syllabus_Spring-1-2019.pdf\">CS581 SPRG19<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/06\/CS581_O1_SPRG-1-2018.pdf\">CS581 SPRG18<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dropdown\">\n<p><button class=\"button\">Blended<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"dropdown-content\"><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/08\/CS581-Syllabus-2025-Fall.pdf\">581 A1\/E1 FA25<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2024\/08\/CS581-Syllabus-Fall-2024-revised.pdf\">581 A1\/E1 FA24<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfloat\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formerly named Electronic Health Records Format &amp; Syllabus: On Campus CS581 FALL23CS581 FALL21CS581 FALL19CS581 FALL18CS581 FALL17CS581 FALL15 Online CS581 SPRG25CS581 SPRG24CS581 SPRG22CS581 FALL19CS581 SPRG19CS581 SPRG18 Blended 581 A1\/E1 FA25581 A1\/E1 FA24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2828,"featured_media":0,"parent":7301,"menu_order":88,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2828"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30355,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2218\/revisions\/30355"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}