Medical Informatics

B232 - Summer 23/24
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Medical Informatics - A6M33LI

Credits 5
Semesters Winter
Completion Assessment + Examination
Language of teaching Czech
Extent of teaching 2P+2C
Annotation
The course explains specific problems of information systems in health care, protection of medical data, processing of medical data, and intelligent monitoring systems. Possibilities of application of telemedicine in different fields of health care are discussed.
The computer labs are focused on practical tasks in medical informatics, as for example database technology, data protection and security, examples of health care information systems, applications of mobile technologies, resources of medical information.
Study targets
The course explains specific problems of information systems in health care, protection of medical data, processing of medical data, and intelligent monitoring systems. Possibilities of application of telemedicine in different fields of health care are discussed.
Course outlines
1.Data, information and knowledge in medicine.
2.Standardization and classification systems in medicine (ICD, ICF; UMLS, MESH, SNOMED).
3.Ontologies, medical guidelines, evidence-based medicine.
4.Electronic health record (EHR), standards (OpenEHR, CEN, HL7).
5.Privacy and protection of data and its transmission, data storage and archivation.
6.Health care information systems - types, architectures.
7.Dedicated information systems (clinical, laboratory, radiological, primary care, etc.).
8.Decision support systems.
9.Distributed systems - types, architectures.
10.Intelligent monitoring systems.
11.Telemedicine.
12.Mobile applications (e-Health, m-Health, p-Health).
13.Medical information resources, quality of health care information on the Internet.
14.Reserve.
Exercises outlines
http://cw.felk.cvut.cz/doku.php/courses/a6m33li/start
Literature
[1] Shortliffe, E.H. and Perreault, L. (eds), Wiederhold, G., and Fagan, L.M. (assoc. eds.). Medical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2000.
[2] Xiao, Y., Chen,H.: Mobile Telemedicine - A Computing and Networking Perspective. CRC Press, 2008.
Requirements
We expect programming knowlege (skills) programování as specified in the courses
B6B36PJV/A7B36PJV or equivalent. In case student does not show the skills required
(in test in the first week or by passing 36PJV),
he/she looses the right to obtain assessment.