Computer applications in health care and biomedicine, 10 credits
Informationssystem i hälso- och sjukvården, 10 hp- Course code
- 5HI001
- Course name
- Computer applications in health care and biomedicine
- Credits
- 10 credits
- Form of Education
- Higher Education, study regulation 2007
- Main field of study
- Health Informatics
- Level
- AV - Second cycle
- Grading scale
- Fail (F), fail (Fx), sufficient (E), satisfactory (D), good (C), very good (B) or excellent (A)
- Department
- Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics
- Decided by
- Programnämnd 5
- Decision date
- 2012-03-29
- Revised by
- Education committee LIME
- Last revision
- 2017-03-30
- Course syllabus valid from
- Autumn 2017
Specific entry requirements
A Bachelor's degree or a professional degree equivalent to a Swedish Bachelor's degree of at least 180 credits in health care, biomedicine, medical technology, computer and systems sciences, informatics or the equivalent. Knowledge of the English language equivalent to English B at Swedish upper secondary school.
Objectives
The general aim of the course is that the students should acquire knowledge and skills to be able to participate in the requirements engineering, the development, the introduction, the improvement and the evaluation of computer applications in healthcare, including heterogeneous settings, while considering interoperability, organizational, ethical and legal aspects.
On completion of the course the student should be able to:
Knowledge and understanding
- analyse, discuss and reflect on the information and communication needs in the health care and describe common sources of information,
- analyse, discuss and problematize the use of information systems or computer applications in health care.
Skills and ability
- describe the structure, functionality and use of information systems or computer applications (e.g: medical record systems, telemedicine applications) in healthcare including consumer health, medical education or public health.
Assessment ability and attitudes
- reflect on the integration problems between different information systems that are used in health care,
- analyse, discuss and reflect on legal/ethical aspects concerning the structure and the use of information system in health care.
Content
- Business processes, care processes, care logistic and referral management
- The care information needs – communication – sources of information – transfer and use (basic informatics – collection processing and presentation of a patient-related data)
- Realisation of evidence based care and the connection to research.
- Operational follow up, quality assurance and Quality Register
- Information retrieval – information structures – standards (introduction to classifications, terminologies and ontologies)
- Exemplification/description of information systems in the areas of Clinical informatics, Consumer health informatics and Public health informatics.
- The structure, contents and the use of the patient record - Legal and ethical aspects
- Integration problems between different systems
- Data Security - Legal and ethical aspects
Teaching methods
The course is divided into four separate parts in which experts give lectures and demonstrations. These four parts are:
- General part (Health informatics) (G)
- Clinical Informatics (CI)
- Consumer Health Informatics (CHI)
- Public Health Informatics (PHI)
and its practical use.
Examination
The examination is performed by two individual assignments. Each individual assignment will be graded with A-F. A mandatory group activity will provide groundwork for the second individual assignment. To pass the course the student must get at least E grade in both of the assignments. The final grade for the course is an average of the grades of the two assignments.
Limitation of number of occasions to write the exam
The student has the right to write the exam six times. If the student has not passed the exam after four participations he/she is encouraged to visit the study counsellor.
Compulsory participation
Participation in the group activity is compulsory. The course director assesses if and, in that case, how absence from participation in the group activity can be compensated. Before the student has participated in all compulsory parts or compensated absence in accordance with the course director's instructions, the student's results for the course will not be registered in LADOK.
Transitional provisions
Examination will be provided during a time of two years after a possible cancellation of the course. Examination can take place according to an earlier literature list during a time of one year after the date when a major renewal of the literature
list has been made.
Other directives
Course evaluation will be carried out in accordance with the guidelines established by the Board of Higher Education.
The course is given in English.
Literature and other teaching aids
4th ed. 2014. : - XXVI, 965 p. 253 illus., 135 illus. in color. ISBN:9781447144748 LIBRIS-ID:16200023 URL: Table of Contents / Abstracts Library search
3. ed. : Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, cop. 2015 - xxvi, 683 s. ISBN:9781444170498 LIBRIS-ID:18591934 Library search