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 Bemmel, M.A. Musen, Mark 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
Programs
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