Medical Informatics
2
2023-2024
02000042
Optional
English
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
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)
NoSyllabus
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)
Jorge Manuel Oliveira Henriques
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Project: 50.0%
Exam: 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.