spring 2012
INF-3795 Advanced telemedicine and e-health systems - 10 ECTS
Objectives of the course
The students will learn about the fundamental theorems and equations of medical informatics, ehealth and telemedicine.The students will learn about development, deployment, evaluation and outcome of advanced information systems usage in health care, including systems that support clinicians and patients like personal health systems and sensor-enhanced information systems. Usability engineering, human-computer interaction and usability evaluation aspects of patient and clinical systems are also covered as aspects of design and achieving system sustainability.
The students will learn and practice how to perform literature reviews and the importance of evidence-based medicine inhealth informatics. The student will learn about health research methods, including study design and evaluation methods as part of the process of advancing knowledge along with ethical aspect of decision support and telemedicine systems.
An important topic is the principles of clinical/medical decision making and diagnosisand how this influence system design and functionality.The students will be introduced to basic concepts for knowledge engineering, concept representation and data acquisition, probability theory,statistics and epidemiology as foundation for decision support systems.
A special attention is given to telemedicine, telementoring and mobile health applications.
Teaching methods
Lectures: 40-45 hours, Colloquium: 15 hours, Laboratory guidance: 30 hours. This course is given every spring semester. 0-8 hours of lectures pr. week in bulks. In addition comes colloquiums, paper/topic presentations and reading list discussion sessions. In the laboratory part the students work in development teams, specifying, designing and implementing solutions using the scrum methodology in close collaboration and interaction with the teaching assistant and responsible lecturer. The students have to complete up to 4 mandatory teamwork exercises (sprints) during the course/laboratory work.Assessment
Up to 8 portfolio assignment exercises. Oral presentation of the portfolio exercises and demonstration of a working system can be claimed. One overall grade will be given.Course requirements: Presentations and laboratory reports graded "Approved" / "Not approved".
Assessment scale: Letter grades A-F.
Re-sit examination:
It will not be given a re-sit exam in the teaching free semester for this course.
Postponed examination:
Students with valid grounds for absence will be offered a postponed examination for the module in question. The examination are arranged during the semester if possible, otherwise early in the following semester.
Ordinary examination in the teaching free semester (early exam):
It will not be given a new ordinary examination in the teaching free semester for this course.
See Regulations for examinations at the University of Tromsø for further details.
Recommended reading/syllabus
Syllabus:- Fundamental theorems and equations
- Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS)
- Ethical and legal issues in CDSS, telemedicine and ehealth
- Study design for medical informatics, ehealth and telemedicine
- Telementoring and advanced telemedicine systems
- Personalized health applications
- Evaluations methods for medical informatics, ehealth and telemedicine
- Current research topics
Recommended reading:
A list of books, book chapters, papers and pre-recorded slides matching the topics above is provided to the students.
Fronter usage:
All information from the lecturer is provided through the Fronter LMS. The front page of the room includes a short course description and the course news. The course news is updated with information from the lecturer. The Fronter page is divided into 7 other subcategories: Room, members, forum, resources, hand-in, news and portfolio. Members and portfolioare standard Fronter functions not discussed in details here. In "resources" relevant documents as lecture plan, the syllabus/reading list, information about the assignments, and information about the exam are uploaded by the lecturer. Subcategories: Additional resources, coursework, laboratory, lectures, papers and portfolio assessment exercises. In the coursework folder resources for and from the mandatory coursework is available. The "Laboratory" folder contains resources for the laboratory activities in the course. The lecture folder contains PDF versions of all given lectures. The "Papers" contains PDF versions of all papers included in the syllabus. The "Portfolio assessment exercise" folder contains description of the mandatory exercises (exams) that the students must hand in using the hand-in folder.
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- About the course
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- ECTS: 10
- Course code: INF-3795
- Responsible unit
- Department of Computer Science
- Contact persons