Academic Year 2021-2022

DATA & TECHNIQUES FOR E-HEALTH

Teachers

Vincenzo Della Mea
Unit Credits
6
Teaching Period
Second Period
Course Type
Supplementary
Teaching Methods. Each student will deepen a course topic, by means of one of the following possibilities: an internal seminar during the course, a written report, or a short project. This is followed by an oral examination.
Verification of Learning. Each student will deepen a course topic, by means of one of the following possibilities: an intrnal seminar during the course, a written report, or a short project. This is followed by an oral examination.
More Information. Video recordings of the frontal lessons will be available.
Objectives
The Data & Techniques for eHealth course is aimed at introducing students to the problems related to introduction of ICT into the health care field.
Contents
• The Italian Healthcare System

• Data and reasoning in Medicine

• Electronic Healthcare Records

– the Electronic Health Record (FSE)

• Informatic standards in Healthcare

• Terminologies and classifications

• Protocol-based systems

• Biosignal and bioimage processing

• Telemedicine

• eHealth

• Examples: systems, scientific papers.

Texts
• E. H. Shortliffe, L. M. Fagan, G. Wiederhold, L. E. Perreault . Medical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine (Springer-Verlag, 2000, 2° ed.)

• J. Van Bemmel, M. A. : Handbook of Medical Informatics (Springer-Verlag, 2002, 2° ed.)

Further teaching material will be indicated by the teacher and will be available on the official eLearning platform.

• E.Coiera. Guida all’Informatica Medica, Internet e Telemedicina. (Pensiero Scientifico, 2000)

• F.Pinciroli, S.Bonacina. Applicazioni di sanità digitale. (PoliPress, 2009)

• F.Pinciroli, M.Masseroli. Elementi di Informatica Biomedica. (Polipress, 2005)