Health Information Concentration

Goals and Objectives

You will learn how to:

• Locate, evaluate, synthesize, and share authoritative health information, research studies, and medical evidence
• Identify and design tools, methods, and systems for solving health information problems in a variety of different settings including consumer health information seeking, clinical care, and patient decision-making
• Organize and make available health information resources and collections for specific audiences using appropriate technologies
• Understand and facilitate the interaction between users and health information resources and systems within the contexts of their lives and/or work roles, including acquiring and imparting critical information literacy skills
• Articulate the effects of individual, interpersonal, community, institutional, and geopolitical interactions on the creation and use of health information and on health information behaviors and practices
• Communicate and collaborate with their constituents and people in the allied health professions to provide and improve upon ethical and equitable health information services

Courses focus on:

• Human information behavior
• Organizing information
• Management principles in information organizations
• Knowledge and society
• Health sciences information
• Health informatics

This course of study is appropriate for those who wish to work as clinical research librarians, health information scientists, health engagement well-being coordinators, health sciences librarians, systematic review librarians, and analysts for community health and wellness.