• 096257 - MEDICAL INFORMATICS [1]

Goals

The goal of the course is to enable students to acquire expertise in the engineering methodologies and processes required for management of medical and clinical data for clinical, research, design and development purposes. The basic processes of health care data management are described in order to make the student able to work in clinical environment, inside the health care system, and in companies developing medical devices and services.

In the course Medical Informatics [1], the basic topics of health-care information and communication technologies are described for both the clinical and the bio-medical research settings.

Expected learning outcomes

Lectures and exercise sessions will allow students to:

• Analyze and understand the goals, assumptions and requirements associated to a data-base system for health applications
• Model formally the data-base, define its architecture and design using proper tools
• Model heath care processes through proper tools
• Be familiar with the main standards for medical data
• Be familiar with the main health-care applications related to Medical Informatics

The project laboratory will allow students to:

• Use the basic tools for data base design and management
• Define requirement specifications for a given application
• Write design specification documents
• Develop the applications

Topics

Electronic health record (EHR)

• The structure of the EHR for hospital departments
• Data types

Clinical and medical databases

• Basic definition
• Databases lifecycle
• Databases management systems (DBMS)
• Relational algebra
• Logical data models: relational, hierarchical, network, object oriented
• Entity relationship diagrams
• Database design methodology: conceptual and logical design, translation to database schema
• Examples of clinical and medical databases

Medical decision support systems.

• Automatization of the medical design process.
• Computerized clinical practice guidelines

Protection of medical data

• Basic concepts on security and privacy for clinical data

Interoperability and standards for medical informatics

• Definition of standards and standard lifecycle
• Description of standard organizations for Medical Informatics and Electrical field, at Italian, European and World level.
• HL7 standard
• DICOM standard

Pre-requisites

The contents of the course Informatica e Elememnti di Informatica Medica (or equivalent) are pre-requisites for the course

A  written exam and project presentation