OMD553 Telehealth Technology Syllabus:
OMD553 Telehealth Technology Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2017
OBJECTIVES:
- To learn the key principles for telemedicine and health.
- To understand telemedical technology.
- To know telemedical standards, mobile telemedicine and it applications
UNIT I TELEMEDICINE AND HEALTH
History and Evolution of telemedicine, Organs of telemedicine, Global and Indian scenario, Ethical and legal aspects of Telemedicine – Confidentiality, Social and legal issues, Safety and regulatory issues, Advances in Telemedicine.
UNIT II TELEMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
Principles of Multimedia – Text, Audio, Video, data, Data communications and networks, PSTN, POTS, ANT, ISDN, Internet, Air/ wireless communications Communication infrastructure for telemedicine – LAN and WAN technology. Satellite communication, Mobile communication.
UNIT III TELEMEDICAL STANDARDS
Data Security and Standards: Encryption, Cryptography, Mechanisms of encryption, phases of Encryption. Protocols: TCP/IP, ISO-OSI, Standards to followed DICOM, HL7, H. 320 series Video Conferencing, Security and confidentiality of medical records, Cyber laws related to telemedicine
UNIT IV MOBILE TELEMEDICINE
Tele radiology: Image Acquisition system Display system, Tele pathology, Medical information storage and management for telemedicine- patient information, medical history, test reports, medical images, Hospital information system
UNIT V TELEMEDICAL APPLICATIONS
Telemedicine – health education and self care. · In t ro d u c ti on to robotics surgery, Telesurgery. Telecardiology, Teleoncology, Telemedicine in neurosciences, Business aspects – Project planning and costing, Usage of telemedicine.
TEXT BOOK:
1. Norris, A.C. “Essentials of Telemedicine and Telecare”, Wiley, 2002
REFERENCES:
1. Wootton, R., Craig, J., Patterson, V. (Eds.), “Introduction to Telemedicine. Royal Society of Medicine” Press Ltd, Taylor & Francis 2006
2. O’Carroll, P.W., Yasnoff, W.A., Ward, E., Ripp, L.H., Martin, E.L. (Eds), “Public Health Informatics and Information Systems”, Springer, 2003.
3. Ferrer-Roca, O., Sosa – Iudicissa, M. (Eds.), Handbook of Telemedicine. IOS Press (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Volume 54, 2002.
4. Simpson, W. Video over IP. A practical guide to technology and applications. Focal Press Elsevier, 2006.
5. Bemmel, J.H. van, Musen, M.A. (Eds.) Handbook of Medical Informatics. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer, 1997
6. Mohan Bansal ” Medical Informatics”, Tata McGraw-Hill, 2004.