MS1MI - Medical Informatics

Course specification
Course title		Medical Informatics
Acronym		MS1MI
Study programme		Electrical Engineering and Computing
Module		Biomedical and Environmental Engineering
Type of study		master academic studies
Lecturer (for classes)
Lecturer/Associate (for practice)
Lecturer/Associate (for OTC)
ESPB		6.0	Status	elective
Condition		None
The goal		The MI program gives to students basic principles for sistematic and standardized preparation and use of relevant health information.
The outcome		Prepare students for the use of new technologies in medical informatics: creating electronic health record, access to information datasets and searching/retrieval of desired information, enabling privacy, security, and data protection.
Contents
Contents of lectures		Biomedical data and signals. Electronic health record. Processing and standardization of medical information. Data archieving. Databases and searching. Institutional information systems: hospital, radiology, farmacology information system. Establishing the medical information network. Benefits from the use of medical information network.
Contents of exercises		Auditory and computer-aided exercises, where practical knowledges related to medical informatics are enabled.
Literature
http://www.centc251.org (Original title) http://isotc.iso.ch/livelink/ (Original title) http://medical.nema.org/dicom.html (Original title) Paul Taylor, From Patient Data to Medical Knowledge, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2006 (Original title)
Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
Lectures	Exercises	OTC	Study and Research	Other classes
3	1
Methods of teaching		Lectures, auditory exercises, homeworks, and seminar work/project.
Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
Pre obligations		Points	Final exam	Points
Activites during lectures		10	Test paper	30
Practical lessons		0	Oral examination	0
Projects		30
Colloquia		30
Seminars		0