• 098464 - E-HEALTH APPLICATIONS

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

• What is e-health?
• Concepts and definitions
• Types of e-health applications
• Overview, definitions and history of e-health and biomedical informatics

• What renders e-health specific?
• History of ICT in healthcare
• Success factors and barriers to e-health implementation

E-health for patients

• Who is the patient?
• Differences in patient groups
• E-patients and empowerment, activation, engagement, apomediation
• health literacy and digital literacy

• Patient data and ethics, e-health and ethics: appropriate use, quality standards, privacy, EU data protection
• Data lifecycle, data security, identity theft, standard for health data, de-identification, pseudo-anonymization

• E-health applications for patients:
• Personal Health Records / Clinical data linkage tools and services, the Lombardy example (FSE, CUP)
• Patient and family portal access to EMR systems - possibilities and challenges
• Patient monitoring / E-health solutions for chronic disease manageme

• Support groups and communities / Social media in health
• Telehealth and telemedicine:remote monitoring, remote interpretation, video-based telehealth
• Remote monitoring of implanted devices

E-health for lifestyle and prevention

• Consumer health informatics, communication tools and barriers for social media
• Body tracking and the Quantified Self
• Mobile devices and healthcare apps, app regulation, app quality assessment, examples of cardiovascular mobile applications
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Use of e-health data for research

• Geospatial data in health for citizens science applications
• E-health projects in low-income countries
• Big data for e-health: big data definition, economic impact of big data, big data in health, structure of big data, big data analytics
• Biometrics: definition, identification vs verification, multi-model systems

joint evaluation with the other part of the course.