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Introduction to Health Informatics
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[ms_accordion_item title=”Coordination” color=”” background_color=”” close_icon=”” open_icon=”” status=”open”]Ricardo Cruz Correia 
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Provide the students with knowledge and skills to select, design and manage health information systems and electronic health records
Knowledge
• General characteristics of health information systems such as patient record, patient monitoring, imaging, public health, educational, bioinformatics and scholarly systems
• Core architectures and technologies of these core systems, focusing on commonalities and differences and design
• Architectures, components and examples of health information systems, especially hospital information systems, office/practice information systems, to support health care professionals and managers of health care institutions
• Specify IT system functions that support ethical, secure, efficient, and responsible use of information in clinical decision making and practice
• Architectures and examples of information systems to support patients and the public
• Architectures and examples of information systems to support policy makers and managers of community/district/regional health care services
• Different phases of the development of HIS, and current trends in the development of such systems
• Key components of clinical information workflows: identifying safety problems, medication delivery, test and results management, communication, documentation, information security and health IT deployment
• Organisational information strategy
Skills
• To use in an efficient and responsible way information processing tools, to support health care professionals’ practice and their decision making
• To plan Health Information Systems oriented to health services aims
• To address workflow and data collection issues from a clinical perspective, including quality measurement and improvement
• To define Health Information Systems requirements
• To analyze clinical process and information flows to promote patient safety and care quality and design UML diagrams on health processes
• To identify the main issues and constraints in the implementation of HIS
• To management Health Information Systems
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How can computers help healthcare: what is a system, functions of computer systems, the need for a computer system
Understanding Health Information Systems
Development and implementation of Health Information Systems: system acquisition, specifying information processes, building new systems, incorporating remote service, designing for effectiveness, planning for change
Functions of HIS: Patient management and billing, departmental management, care delivery and clinical documentation, clinical decision support, financial and resource management
Historical evolution of HIS: central systems, departmental systems, integrated systems from single vendors, architecture of a changing environment
The importance of shared concepts among HIS
Barriers in data collection, data integration and process integration
Change management
Current trends in HIS development
Main difficulties in HIS
Meaningful use
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The syllabus includes all necessary and sufficient concepts to support the students’ knowledge and skills needed to properly understand, apply and integrate these methods in real-world medical problems.
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Teaching methods
• Lectures with presentation and discussion of topics, group exercises and individual interpretation
• Research project in group with the presentation of a final scientific paper
Evaluation
• Final exam (10 points)
• Scientic paper (10 points)
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The practical classes are suitable for the transmission of theoretical concepts involved and allow the development of skills and behaviors needed to integrate these new scientific methods in daily practice.
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Shortliffe E, Cimino J. Biomedical Informatics – Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine. 3rd ed: Springer; 2006.
H. Pardes , Harold P. Lehmann , Patricia A. Abbott , Nancy K. Roderer , Adam Rothschild , Steven F. Mandell , Jorge A. Ferrer , Robert E. Miller , Marion J. Ball. Aspects of Electronic Health Record Systems. Springer; 2 edition (March 21, 2006)
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