Medical Informatics

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Department of Cybernetics

Synopsis:

The aim of the subject is to provide students with knowledge of specific problems of information system development in health service, with protection of medical data, medical data processing and with intelligent monitoring systems. Telemedical systems and their potential within different areas of health care is also analyzed. The main goal of medical informatics is to present and to practise a set of basic principles of the information system design in health service.

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Syllabus of lectures:

1. Information and its characteristics, data and knowledge in medicine

2. Clinical reasoning and studies, investigation evaluation

3. Models of communication

4. Medical terminology in information systems

5. Protection of medical data, standards

6. Knowledge acquisition from data

7. Methods of prediction

8. Information system of a physician practitioner

9. Hospital information systems

10. Intelligent monitoring systems

11. Telemedical systems, mobile applications

12. Organization of Czech health service with respect to informatics

13. Classical and electronic medical documentation, chip technology

14. Medical information resources

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Analysis of a clinical study

2. Clinical study - autonomous tasks assignment

3. Medical data and its processing

4. Excursion to a clinical workplace

5. Clinical application examples

6. Demonstration of statistical techniques for knowledge acquisition from data

7. Demonstration of machine learning tools for knowledge acquisition from data

8. Excursion to a clinical workplace

9. Information system of a physician practitioner

10. Solution of assigned tasks, test

11. Excursion to a clinical workplace

12. Data standard of Czech Ministry of healthcare, National code-list of laboratory items

13. Solution of assigned tasks

14. Conclusions, credits

Study Objective:

Study materials:

1.Kline, J.: Handbook of Biomedical Engineering. Academic Press, New York 1988

2.Nilsson, N.J.: Artificial Intelligence A New Synthesis. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco 1998

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: