Course detail

Medical Information Systems

FEKT-FZISAcad. year: 2011/2012

Information systems, patient data, databases, protection of health information, possibilities of processing and presentation of data, application of health information systems.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Valentine Provazník, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Biomedical Engineering (UBMI)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Knowledge of generation, processing, presentation, use and protection of health data in health information systems. Building health information systems.

Prerequisites

The subject knowledge on the Bachelor´s degree level is requested.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Requirements for completion of a course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every year.

Course curriculum

Data processed in healthcare, selection of database of health information system, information systems on all levels of patient healthcare and relations between them, hospital information systems, coding medical information, electronic patient record, communication between health information systems, data standards for data transfer, health information security, backup and archivation of databases, use of Internet for medical informatics, management information systems in healthcare.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Aim of the course is to discuss information electronically processed in health information systems. Structures and types of data will be discussed including their archivation in databases and their presentation. Study of relations between data, understnding data transfer, health standards and specific health information systems.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Limitations of controlled teaching and its procedures are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

MUNZ, J. Informační technologie ve zdravotnictví - Informační systémy. ČVUT Praha, 2011. ISBN 978-80-01-04720-0. (CS)
ŠPUNDA, M., DUŠEK, J. a kol. Zdravotnická informatika. Karolinum, Praha, 2007. (CS)
BEAVER, K. Healthcare Information Systems, Second Edition (Best Practices). Auerbach Publications, 2002. ISBN 978-0849314988. (EN)
KASAL, P., SVAČINA, Š. Lékařská informatika. Karolinum, Praha, 1998. (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BTBIO-F Master's

    branch F-BTB , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Miroslav Dvořák, CSc.

Syllabus

1. Organization of Czech health service, data being processed in a health care system
2. Choice of a correct database, problems of large databases' processing
3. Differencies between various health care information systems
4. Hospital information system, build-up of HIS - one of the most difficult tasks of medical informatics
5. HIS with centralized and with distributed databases
6. Information coding, National Health IS master files (coding lists), medical information coding, nomenclature, WHO coding systems
7. Electronic patient record, alternative free text processing
8. Communication between different IS, data standards, Czech standard for medical data transmission, standard HL-7, standard DICOM
9. General rules of large HIS build-up
10. Data security from various points of view, database backup and archiving
11. Use of Internet for medical informatics, Czech project IZIP, Document Imaging Systems
12. Planning systems, Scheduling, electronic questionaries in medical informatics
13. Management and decission support information systems

Exercise in computer lab

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Jaroslav Balogh
Ing. Petr Fedra