FUNDAMENTALS OF MEDICAL INFORMATICS
Stampa
Enrollment year
2016/2017
Academic year
2017/2018
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
ING-INF/06 (ELECTRONIC AND INFORMATION BIOENGINEERING)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL,COMPUTER AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Course
BIOENGINEERING
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Year of study
Period
(02/10/2017 - 19/01/2018)
ECTS
6
Lesson hours
105 lesson hours
Language
Italian
Activity type
WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST
Teacher
BELLAZZI RICCARDO (titolare) - 3 ECTS
SACCHI LUCIA - 3 ECTS
Prerequisites
Basic informatics and programming skills
Learning outcomes
The course aims to provide the basic elements of Medical Informatics as a discipline. Medical Informatics can be seen as the "logic" of healthcare, or as the rational study of the entire process of patient care. Students will then learn the basic elements of healthcare organization in Italy and abroad and the problems related to the representation of medical information. The course will develop along two lines: the study of issues related to the exchange of data and information in health care information systems and finally on learning MATLAB, and XML. At the end of the course the student will have acquired the basic skills necessary to understand what are the tasks and activities of information systems in health care
Course contents
Elements of health care organization
The organization of health care in Italy
The reimbursement of hospital services
The DRG system
Indicators of efficiency and effectiveness
Representing information
Coding Systems: ICD9, ICD9-CM, ICD10, ATC, LOINC
Terminology: SNOMED
meta-thesaurus: UMLS
Standards: HL7
Information systems and computer networks in healthcare
The structure and key elements of health information systems
UML diagrams, use case, activity and sequence
Computer Networks
The ISO / OSI model
Ethernet, TCP / IP
Internet and the HTTP protocol
Security and privacy: elements of legislation
Digital signature and HTTPS
Matlab
Matlab: a software environment for numerical computation and engineering
Matlab as a programming language, toolboxes
Vectors and matrices, cell arrays, structures
Control structures
Functions
Reading and writing files
Development of graphical user interfaces
Writing and Reading XML documents in Matlab
XML
Introduction to XML and Markup Languages ​​in
Documents well formed
Introduction to DTD
Valid documents
Using XML editor
XML Parsers
XML Schemas
Practical Activities with Matlab
Students will work in groups to program a Matlab application with a graphical interface for the management of hospital data. The available files are samples of real hospitals data.
Teaching methods
Lectures (hours/year in lecture theatre): 30
Practical class (hours/year in lecture theatre): 0
Practicals / Workshops (hours/year in lecture theatre): 50
Reccomended or required readings
Slides and notes available at: http://elearning2.unipv.it/ingegneria/

D. Comer. Internet e Reti di calcolatori. Addison-Wesley.

Joe Fawcett, Danny Ayers, Liam R. E. Quin. Beginning XML, 5th Edition (ebook).

Dan Pilone, Neil Pitman. UML 2.0 in a Nutshell. O'Reilly.
Assessment methods
Written exam. Software projects.
Further information
Written exam. Software projects.
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