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Decision Support Systems - PHCM9922
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Course Outline: See Course Outline
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 0
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

This course enables participants to become familiar with the goals and different forms of decision support in health care, and gain knowledge of the practical issues of implementation. The course examines systems based on statistical and logical approaches to decision making that include statistical prediction, rule-based systems, case-based reasoning, neural networks, fuzzy logic etc. It gives an overview of the various computerized clinical decision support techniques together with a detailed assessment of successful and unsuccessful applications developed. The actual and potential impact of the technology together with the challenges associated with this kind of application will be examined.

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