Handbook

This course will give students a thorough coverage of the foundations of Database Systems and their specific use and modeling in healthcare and biomedical environments. Students will learn through hands-on experience with the modeling and implementation of health-related databases using the relational approach. Topics include an overview of database models and architecture, database design, SQL, XML, and data warehousing as they are applied in clinical domains.  Students will also be encouraged to explore database-related topics of their own choosing that are relevant to a bioinformatics or clinical domain.