Course detail
Introduction to Medical Informatics
FEKT-BUMIAcad. year: 2018/2019
The course is oriented to the use of information technology in medicine and biology. It is focused on medical data: acquisition, storage and exploitation, systems based on patients‘ computer records, health information systems, decision-making in medicine, standards imn medical informatics, introduction to bioinformatics, fundamentals of genetic information processing.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Learning outcomes of the course unit
- describe basic methods of processing of biomedical data,
- explain fundamental terms of medical informatics,
- describe principle of basic methods for probability decision-making,
- discus advantages and disadvantages of the methods,
- evaluate quality of decisio-making methods based on defined requirements.
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
up to 60 points from finel written exam
The exam is oriented to verification of orientation in terms of medical informatics and ability to apply basic principles of decision-making in medicine.
Course curriculum
2. Data and information in medicine.
3. Electronic health record.
4. Probability in decision-making I.
5. Probability in decision-making II.
6. Probability in interpretation of test results.
7. Fuzzy sets.
8. Fuzzy logic and decision-making in medicine.
9. Data standards in medical informatics.
10. Introduction to bioinformatics.
11. Processing of genetic information.
Work placements
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Zvárová, J. Biomedicínská informatika I. Karolinum, Praha, 2002. ISBN: 80-246-0609-7 (CS)
Zvárová, J. Biomedicínská statistika I. Karolinum, Praha, 2007. ISBN: 978-80-7184-786-1 (CS)
Recommended reading
J.H. van Bemmel and M.A. Musen: Handbook of Medical Informatics, Springer-Verlag, 1997. ISBN: 3540633510 (EN)
P. Degoulet, B. Phister, M. Fieschi: Introduction to Medical Informatics. Springer-Verlag New York, 1999. ISBN: 0387946411 (EN)
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
Data in medicine, types of data, approaches of their processing, ethics, medical databases, telecommunication, networks and medical data transfer
Patient data, patient record, coding and classification of patient data, data confidency and protection
Biosignals and images, medical diagnostic and imiganing systems as data sources, representation of signals and images
Analysis of signals and images, iterpretation, specific noise suppression, time-frequency anaysis and characterization
Medical information systems, structure and types of MIS, reliability, modeling of healthcare for MIS design
Hospital information systems, sources and types of medical data, HIS conception, data security and protection
Computer-aided medical diagnostics, methods, acquisition and representation of medical knowledge, clinical diagnostics systems
Modeling in diagnostics, modeling of data source
Methodology of information processing, biostatistics, expert systems and other artifficial intelligence systems
Modelling of biosystems, basic models in biologiy and epidemiology, tools of prediction in medicine
Simulation and planning in therapy, modelling, robots
Telemedicine as a medical-information discipline, integration and data transfer, remote diagnostics and therapy
Exercise in computer lab
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
Suppression of specific noise in biological signals
Basic medical image processing methods
Biostatistical methods in medicine
Use of diagnostic expert systems
Basic models in biology and epidemiology
Introduction to medical information system CLINICOM
Terminal emulation and modules in MIS CLINICOM
Input of textual data to MIS CLINICOM
Data representation in MIS CLINICOM
Administration and access rights in MIS CLINICOM
Output from MIS CLINICOM
Project