TBMI12 Medical Information Systems, 6 ECTS-points
/Medicinska informationssystem/

Advancement level:
C

Aim:
The aim of this course is to present the use of information technology for efficient information handling within the health care organisation with special emphasis on computer-based patient record systems, and infrastructure for data communication between different levels of health care. Other important aspects dealt with are security and privacy issues. A main goal of the course is to develop the ability to critically judge requirements and demands on medical information systems.

Prerequisites:
TBME02 Anatomy and Physiology or BME50 Biomedical Engineering

Course content:
Information retrieval, medical information sources, literature databases, search systems. Medical data and structured medical terminology. Computer-based patient records (CPR), laboratory information systems, ward information systems. Medical terminology services, nomenclatures and classifications Infrastructure for medical data communication. Security and privacy issues. Laboratory experiment: information retrieval, computer-based patient records, concept representation systems.

Course literature:
van Bemmel. Handbook of medical informatics. Springer 1997. Reference literature: Coiera E, Guide to medical informatics, the Internet and telemedicine (selected parts) Chapman Hall 1997. E Fleck, Open Systems in Medicine, IOS Press 1995 (selected parts). Benson, Neame. Healthcare computing (selected parts). Longman 1994.

TEN1Written examination, 2 p.
LAB1Labratory work, 2 p.
Course language is Swedish/english.