Medical Information Systems

Objectives

To endow the students with knowledge about the organization of medical information, the creation and exploration of data analysis tools and computer aided diagnosis, the easy and efficient access to the information and the sharing of this information between medical entities, the standards for electronic health record, the basic techniques for the creation of clinical databases, the basic principles of the Internet and its influence in healthcare, the telehealth techniques and the design of decision support systems

General characterization

Code

7661

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

José Manuel Matos Ribeiro da Fonseca

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - Available soon

Teaching language

Português

Prerequisites

The student must have acceptable knowledge about computer programming (preferably C/C++ or C#).

Bibliography

Enrico Coiera (2003). “The Guide to Health Informatics”-2nd Edition. Oxford University Press.

J.van BemmelM.A. MusenMark A. Musen (Eds). “Handbook of Medical Informatics”. Springer Verlag.

Teaching method

Available soon

Evaluation method

Available soon

Subject matter

Computer communication
 - serial communication
 - parallel communication
- data networks
Online systems technology
 - HTML
 - PHP
 - Data bases (SQL)
Decision support systems
- Deduction, abduction and induction
- Logic and probabilities
- Bayes Theorem
- Baysean classifiers
- Nearest neighbour classifiers
- Decision trees
- Neural networks
- Genetic algorithms
- Fuzzy classifiers
Data representation standards for medical information
Medical information sharing
Data security
Ethical issues on medical information systems
 Internet and health

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