Health Database Fundamentals
UndergraduateLTU-HIM20072025
Course information for 2025 intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 20 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Start dates
- 28 July 2025
- Price from
- $1,164
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Health Database Fundamentals
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Apply national health data standards and models for data storage design.
- Implement basic database design principles (eg. modelling techniques such as entity-relationship diagrams) to design and construct a relational database.
- Apply structure query language (SQL) to manipulate and extract clinical and administrative health data to improve health information analysis and reporting.
- Apply principles of effective data visualisation and use them to develop reports and dashboards.
- Investigate and apply database security principles and processes and data quality improvement activities.
- Apply national health data standards and models for data storage design using standardized models to create efficient and secure data storage systems.
- Construct, manage, and query health databases from large datasets using SQL to maintain data integrity, extract meaningful information, and generate detailed reports for decision-making.
- Implement basic database design principles using ER diagrams to construct relational databases, including visualising database structures, applying normalisation techniques, and ensuring databases accurately represent health information systems.
- Utilize contemporary design principles to create effective user interfaces through user-friendly interfaces for health databases, ensuring usability and accessibility.
- Investigate and apply database security principles, implement security measures like encryption and access controls for health data protection, conduct data quality assessments for accuracy, and enforce policies to maintain data quality standards.
In this subject, you will learn design, management, extraction, integration, and reporting of health data. You will gain practical skills in developing and maintaining fully relational health databases using national health data standards and models. Theoretical and logical principles of health database and system administration will be introduced, including entity-relationship diagrams, normalisation, meta-data and an introduction to SQL for relational database queries and reporting. Specialised tools for visualisation of health data sets will also be taught.
- Design Health Database (300 word equivalent) (10%)
- Health database creation (700 words equivalent) (20%)
- Create health database queries and reports (1,250 words equivalent) (35%)
- One x 1.5 hour individual exam (1500 words equivalent) (35%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- LAT-HIM-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Health Information Management
Elective
- LAT-AHS-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Health Sciences
- LAT-HSC-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Health Sciences
Others
Prerequisites: Students must be admitted in the following course: HB001O
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of Health Information Management
UndergraduateLAT-HIM-DEG
Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Health Sciences
UndergraduateLAT-AHS-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-HSC-DEG