Introduction to Medical Informatics

Synopsis:

Technical aspects of medical informatics, computers in medicine, computer security and its role in medicine, databases in medical IS, IT in diagnostics and therapy, computer networks and network services, Internet & WWW, biomedical statistics, image processing & processing of biosignal, electronic medical records, information sources in medicine, computers and health, computer decision support in medicine, evidence based medicine.

Requirements:

Attendance on seminars and practical exercises, submission of homework and demonstration of basic knowledge from the course is required for acquiring credit from the course.

Syllabus of lectures:

Lectures will be taught as webinars (using MS Teams environment) in time as scheduled in your schedule. First lecture is scheduled on Wednesday 14th October 2021 from 16:45. Here is a link to the MS team.

1.4.11.2021Introduction to medical informatics.
2.11.11.2021Artificial intelligence in Medicine.
3.25.11.2021Information & information sources.
4.09.12.2021Computer networks and network services I.
5.06.01.2022Computer networks and network services II.
6.20.01.2022Computer security & cyber(crimi)nality.

Syllabus of practical excercises

1. Graphical representation of medical data I
2. Graphical representation of medical data II
3. Tabular processing of medical data I.
4. Tabular processing of medical data II.
5. Scientific data: Where to find relevant and truthful information