MTech Health Informatics syllabus for 2 Sem 2020 scheme 20BBI244

Module-1 Introduction 0 hours

Introduction:

An interaction between health care and information systems. Acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine. Tools and techniques. Information systems in Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, surgery and diagnosis. Future prospects.

Module-2 Building blocks 0 hours

Building blocks:

Standards, types of standards. Modeling –principles of modeling for healthcare. Architecture of Health care system – models, subsystems, packages and components. Modeling framework for health care. Generic health care information model. Unified modeling language. Modeling methodologies in healthcare systems. Databases, types, and applications. Database Architecture; ANSI/SPARC three tier architecture. Data warehousing; architecture.

A d v e r t i s e m e n t
Module-3 Tools and techniques 0 hours

Tools and techniques:

Introduction, conditions for telemedicine development, applications, access techniques intelecare and Internet technologies in medical systems: Requirement of Medical systems in the internet environment, internet medical architectures, and internet based telemedical services, next generation point of care information systems, internet access technologies in Telecare Wireless communication technologies. Electronic Health records (HER): Challenges in clinical care, characteristics of good EHR, Generic HER representation, EHR Standards and Scope of the HER.

Module-4 Decision support systems and Telematicnetworks 0 hours

Decision support systems and Telematicnetworks:

Decision support systems, knowledge based and Expert based. Probabilistic and Logical decision systems. Transport layer in telematics networks, health digital data standards, E-health networks services.

Module-5 Applications of IT 0 hours

Applications of IT:

Methodology of hearing screening, computer aided adjustment of hearing aids, diagnosis, tinnitus treatment. Application of IT to diagnose chronic conditions patientcentered symptom monitoring. Computer aided techniques in Medicine: Laproscopic surgery navigation, Intro-operative imaging, multi-model imaging, Biosignal processing and algorithms. Biosignal databases.

 

Course outcomes:

At the end of the course the student will be able to:

  • Understand the concepts and building blocks of health informatics.
  • Understand the tools and techniques used in health informatics.
  • Understand the applications of IT in health informatics

 

Question paper pattern:

The SEE question paper will be set for 100 marks and the marks scored will be proportionately reduced to 60.

  • The question paper will have ten full questions carrying equal marks.
  • Each full question is for 20 marks.
  • There will be two full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions) from each module.
  • Each full question will have sub question covering all the topics under a module.
  • The students will have to answer five full questions, selecting one full question from each module.

 

Textbook/ Textbooks

1 Health Informatics: Transforming Healthcare with Technology MoyaConrick Thomson :Social Science Press 2006.

2 ABC of Health Informatics, Frank Sullivan, Jeremy Wyatt. Blackwell Publishing 2009

 

Reference Books

1 Information Technology Essentials for behavioral Health Clinicians, Naakesh A. Dewan, John Luo, Nancy M. Lorenz Springer 2010.

2 Information Technology Solutions for Healthcare Zielinski, Krzysztof, Duplaga, Mariusz, Ingram, David Springer 2006

3 Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach Ramona Nelson Nancy Staggers Elsevier 2017

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