Medical Informatics

Year
2
Academic year
2023-2024
Code
02000042
Subject Area
Optional
Language of Instruction
English
Other Languages of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado

Recommended Prerequisites

Programming, Data Transform, Mathematic Analysis, Statistics, Algebra, Distributed Systems, Information Systems, Data Bases. 

Teaching Methods

Theoretical classes  (2 hours per week)

Presentation of the concepts, principles and fundamental techniques.

Examples of real situations to illustrate the practical interest of the techniques and its application to real cases.

Practical classes (2 hours per week)

Practical problems addressing the theoretical concepts, analysis and implementation.

Learning Outcomes

To provide the students with the main concepts and technologies to build and integrate information and decision support systems for clinical applications. Namely, the goal is to teach the main clinical informatics protocols (e.g HL7 and DICOM)  and approaches for clinical systems, architectures and technologies for telemedical health solutions (namely for pHealth systems) and diagnosis algorithms applicable for clinical decision support.

The course will contribute to the acquisition of the following competences:

Instrumental:

-   Analysis and synthesis of complex problems;

-   Problem solving, namely in the area of Medical Informatics.

Personal:

-   Team work;

-   Critical reasoning.

Systematic:

-  Self-learning

-  Research.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Chapter I: Medical Informatics

Basic concepts in Medical Informatics

Hospital Information Systems

Chapter II: Hospital Systems

Standards for clinical information representation and transmission (ICD9/10, SNOMED, SIPE);

Electronic Patient Record (CEN 13606, openEHR, HL/ CDA)

HL7 (v2.3 e v3),

Standard DICOM

Chapter III: Tele-medical Systems

Services and technologies for telemedicine

Telemedicine norms  (IEEE 11073 PhD e BSM; H323, H26x, RTP/RTCP/SIP, Sensor networks)

Middlewares

Chapter IV: Algorithms for Diagnosis and Decision Support

Clinical information analysis algorithms for Clinical Decision Support 

Study of ECG and PPG.

Head Lecturer(s)

Paulo Fernando Pereira de Carvalho

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 50.0%
Project: 50.0%

Bibliography

- Bas Revet, DICOM Cook Book for Implementation in Modalities: Chapter 1 and 2, Philips Medical Systems, 1997.

- Norma: ftp://medical.nema.org/medical/Dicom/

- Norma HL7: www.hl7.org

- Benson, Tim, Grieve, Grahame ; Principles of Health Interoperability; SNOMED CT, HL7 and FHIR; Springer,Third Edition, 2016.

- L. Schmitt, T. Falck, F. Wartena, D. Simons, Novel ISO/IEEE 11073 Standards for Personal Telehealth Systems Interoperability, 2007 Joint Workshop on High Confidence Medical Devices, Software, and Systems and Medical Plug-and-Play Interoperability, pp. 146-148, 2007. (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=04438177)

- M. Clarke, Developing a Standard for Personal Health Devices based on 11073, eHealth Beyond the Horizon-Get IT there, IOS PRESS, pp. 717-722, 2008. (http://www.hst.aau.dk/~ska/MIE2008/ParalleSessions/PapersForDownloads/10.Sta/SHTI136-0717.