SYLLABUS 4 JNTU BME - MEDICAL INFORMATICS (Elective-II)

MEDICAL INFORMATICS
(Elective-II)

UNIT-I
Introduction and Overview of hospital information system. Patient history taking mechanisms.

UNIT-II
Patient Data Processing, Database Management, Communication of Medical data across different hospital units. Networking and Integration of patient data.

UNIT-III
Data from Patients, Coding and Classification , The Patient Record, Biosignal Analysis, Medical Imaging, Image Processing and Analysis.

UNIT-IV
Patient-Centered Information Systems ,Primary Care, Clinical Departmental Systems, Clinical Support Systems, Nursing Information Systems.

UNIT-V
Medical Knowledge and Decision Support, Methods for Decision Support, Clinical Decision-Support Systems, Strategies for Medical Knowledge Acquisition, Predictive Tools for Clinical Decision Support.

UNIT-VI
Institutional Information Systems, Modeling of Health Care for Information Systems Development, Hospital Information Systems: Clinical Use, Technical Choices, Health Information Resources.

UNIT-VII
Methodology for Information Processing , Logical Operations, Biostatistical Methods, Biosignal Processing Methods, Pattern Recognition, Modeling for Decision Support, Structuring the Computer-based Patient Record, Evaluation of Clinical Information Systems.

UNIT-VIII
Methodology for Information Systems: Human-Computer Interaction in Health Care ,Costs and Benefits of Information Systems, Security in Medical Information Systems, Standards in Health-care Informatics and Telematics, Project Management,

TEXT BOOK
1. Bemmel, J.Van; Musen, M.A. Handbook of Medical Informatics 1st ed. 1997.

REFERENCES:
1. R.D.Lele ,Computers in Medicine Tata McGraw Hill, 2005.
2. Davidson, P., Best Practice Series: Healthcare Information Systems, Auerbach Publications, 2000