Course Description

ΥΠΙ8 - Medical Information Technology and Telemedicine
Code:	ΥΠΙ8
Title Course:	Medical Information Technology and Telemedicine
Semester:	2nd
Category:	REQUIRED (Medical Informatics)
Lecture hours:	3
Instructor:	Spyropoulos (ΤΕΙ-Α)
Course web page:	http://eclass.uoa.gr/courses/D451/
Course Description:
1. The 21st Century Hospital: Biomedical Technology, Medical Informatics and Medical Decision-making. 2. Contemporary Medical Inference Models. 3. Electronic Health Records, Medical Guidelines and Evidence-based Medicine (The Greenes - Shortliffe Model). 4. Laboratory Information Systems. 5. Picture Archiving and Communication Systems and the DICOM quasi-Standard. 6. Computer-integrated Interventional Medicine (Surgical “Robots”). 7. Information Technology in Transfusion Medicine. 8. Medical Procedures Cost Estimation Methods and Software. 9. Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs). 10. The modern Telemedicine: Home-Care Information Technology Systems. 11. Nursing-Informatics: Codifications and Software. 12. Medical Information Retrieval Systems: The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) and the employment of ICD-9/10, SNOMED etc. Medical Codifications. 13. Semantically Annotated Web-Services and the employment of the Health Level Seven (HL7) and Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) quasi-Standards. 14. Liability issues related to Decision Supporting Systems in Medicine and Continuous Digital Medical Education. [Previous page]