• 098465 - E-HEALTH METHODS

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is a key component to ensuring quality, safety, access and efficiency in healthcare. This course introduces current approaches and future directions in e-health and the use of ICT in healthcare in general, as well as key concepts and tools from the underlying discipline of health informatics.

Topics include: electronic health records (EHRs); hospital and primary care and public health information systems; supporting clinical decision-making for health professionals through ICT; e-health in the community for preventive healthcare and for patient and career support; regulatory influences on e-health including management and governance, privacy, security, and confidentiality; the role of data standards, vocabularies, and nomenclatures in e-health; research and development in e-health.

DETAILED PROGRAM

Please note that this list is purely indicative and class arguments may change due to teaching needs in this highly evolving field.

Introduction to e-health

• Overview of e-health data
• Data types
• Data collection and recording
• Use of e-health data

E-health for healthcare professionals

• E-health in the context of health, social and self-care
• E-health applications for healthcare professionals:

• Who are the healthcare professionals?
• Different healthcare professionals and their way of using e-health
• Different types of e-health for healthcare professionals

• Decision making in e-health:
• Integration of e-health information: cognitive science principles
• Management of uncertainties for decision making
• Electronic Medical Records / Electronic Health Records and the safety and quality of patient care
• Clinical Decision Support Systems / Mining hospital data to predict patient outcomes
• Electronic prescription and delivery / Electronic medications management

• Imaging informatics

Design and implementation of e-health

• Technical demands on e-health systems
• Technical infrastructure
• e-health system architecture

• Health informatics standards and terminologies
• DICOM
• HL7
• Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)
• Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)
• Systematized Nomenclature for Medicine (SNOMED CT)

• Information retrieval techniques for data-mining of medical records
• Natural language processing

The final grade will be composed as follows: 50% result of the assigned project over the course; 50% result of a final written test. In addition, an oral examination will be optional.