This course aims at providing students with general and practical abilities about healthcare information systems and their latest technological developments.
Specifically, the student will be able to define the functional blocks of healthcare information systems, describe the information flows to be supported, the role of ICT and the critical aspects. We will focus also on provided services, privacy and communication issues.
The course provides an introduction to methods and tools concerning information systems devoted to patients, healthcare and administrative personnel that operate healthcare organizations or in healthcare executive management.
SYLLABUS
Representation and sharing of data
- Health Care Information Type, Regulations and Standards in health care organizations
- Interoperability issues in hospital and healthcare-oriented information systems
- Information coding systems, controlled vocabularies, medical ontologies
- Electronic Health Record, usage and support to the analysis
Communication modes
- Technologies for communications, interoperability, cooperation
- Safety and privacy in Healthcare Information Systems
Distribution of services
- Presentation of use cases and real services
Laboratory lectures
- use of the R language and environment for gathering, restructuring and visually analizing data
Representation and sharing of data
- Health Care Information Type, Regulations and Standards in health care organizations
- Interoperability issues in hospital and healthcare-oriented information systems
- Information coding systems, controlled vocabularies, medical ontologies
- Electronic Health Record, usage and support to the analysis
Communication modes
- Technologies for communications, interoperability, cooperation
- Safety and privacy in Healthcare Information Systems
Distribution of services
- Presentation of use cases and real services
Laboratory lectures
- use of the R language and environment for gathering, restructuring and visually analizing data. Data exploration techniques using the R language.
SUGGESTED:
(MAIN TEXTBOOK) Health Information Systems:Architectures and Strategies
Series: Health Informatics
Winter, A., Haux, R., Ammenwerth, E., Brigl, B., Hellrung, N., Jahn, F.
2nd ed. 2011, XLIV, 340 p.
Springer
Principles of Health Interoperability, SNOMED CT, HL7 and FHIR
Authors: Benson, Tim, Grieve, Grahame
3rd Edition, Springer, 2016
Karen A. Wager, Frances W. Lee, John P. Glaser,
Health Care Information Systems: A Practical Approach for Health Care Management,
3rd Edition, Jossey-Bass, 2013
Pinciroli F., Bonacina S., Applicazioni di sanità digitale
Polipress, 2009
The teaching method includes both lessons and laboratories with the use of software tools. The students will have also to perform laboratory exercises on learned concepts and tools.
In order to pass the exam, the students have to develop and discuss a project and making a written exam followed by a possible oral one.
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