Description:

Lectures are oriented on medical informatics definition and basic characteristic of the different specialized areas. The relations between IS and health care structure, financing and controlling are analyzed as well. Some basic information technology, HW and SW tools are described in relation to IS design. A special attention is paid to medical data coding and interpretation, data and communication standards. Different types and features of clinical and hospital IS, decision support systems and regional health care IS are analyzed and discussed. Methodology of IS development, implementation and support are presented as well.

Contents:

1. Medical Informatics and IS definition
2. Diagnostic-therapeutic cycle
3. Model for structuring computer applications in health care
4. Mathematical definition of information
5. Information entropy
6. Database management system (DBMS)
7. Relational data model
8. Hierarchical data model
9. Communication in health care (HL7)
10. Decision-support models
11. Performance of decision models, Quantitative semiology (TP, FP, FN, TN), The ROC curve
12. Medical data types
13. Security and data protection, Data encryption principles
14. Summary

Seminar contents:

1.-2. Introduction to Healthcare Information Systems (HIS), Electronic Health Record
3.-4. Introduction to Different HIS- Primary, OpenMRS, OpenEMR
5.-6. Databases Introduction, DB Tables Design, SQL- Basic Queries
7.-8. 1st Control task (15 pts.), Advanced SQL Queries
9.-10. Healthcare Informational Standarts and Classifications, Mirth
10.-11. Introduction to HTML, PHP, Data Presentation
12.-13. 2nd Control Task (15 pts.)

Recommended literature:

[1]J.van Bemmel, M.A. Musen, Mark A. Musen, Handbook of Medical InformaticsSeptember, 2002, ISBN-10: 3540633510
[2]C. William Hanson, Healthcare Informatics, 2005, ISBN-10: 0071440666
[3]Larman, C.: Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development. Upper Saddle River, Prentice Hall, 736 p., 2005, ISBN 0-13-148906-2.
[4]Kanisová, H., Müller, M.: UML srozumitelně. Computer Press, 2004, 160 s., ISBN: 80-251-0231-9ISBN: 80-251-0231-9.
[5]Frank Sullivan and Jeremy Wyatt, ABC of Health Informatics, Apr 2006, ISBN: 9780727918505
[6]Jules J. Berman, Biomedical Informatics, 2007, ISBN-10: 0763741353
[7]Athina Lazakidou, Handbook of Research on Informatics in Healthcare and Biomedicine, 2006, ISBN-10: 1591409829
[8]Edward H. Shortliffe, James J. Cimino, Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine (Health Informatics), 2006, ISBN-10: 0387289860

Keywords:

biomedical informatics, information systems, data and communication standarts.

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar