BM4011 Medical Informatics Syllabus:
BM4011 Medical Informatics Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
To learn about operating systems and their uses
To understand basics of medical informatics
To study about databases and their types
To learn about processing of data
To study about recent trends in health informatics
UNIT I OPERATING SYSTEM, SEARCH ENGINE AND MEDICAL STANDARD
Introduction to Operating systems, Linux commands, File transfer protocols ftp and telnet – Search Engine – Online Medical Resources – Electronic Health Records – Network – Evolution of Medical Standards – IEEE 11073 – HL7 – DICOM – IRMA – LOINC – HIPPA
UNIT II INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL INFORMATICS
Introduction –Medical Informatics– Health Informatics – Structure of Medical Informatics –Functional capabilities of Hospital Information System – On-line services and Off – line services – Dialogue with the computer
UNIT III DATABASE AND HEALTH INFORMATICS
Data management – data life cycle – database technology – interfaces and implementation – biological databases and their uses – Database management system models, Basics of Structured Query Language (SQL). Genome projects, Clinical informatics, Nursing informatics, Public health informatics
UNIT IV MEDICAL DATA STORAGE AND AUTOMATION
Representation of Data, Data modeling Techniques, Relational Hierarchical and network Approach, Normalization techniques for Data handling – Plug-in Data Acquisition and Control Boards – Data Acquisition using Serial Interface – Medical Data formats – Signal, Image and Video Formats – Medical Databases – Automation in clinical laboratories – Intelligent Laboratory Information System – PACS
UNIT V RECENT TRENDS IN MEDICAL INFORMATICS
Medical Expert Systems, Virtual reality applications in medicine, Virtual Environment – Surgical simulation – Telemedicine – virtual Hospitals – Smart Medical Homes – Personalized e-health services – Biometrics – GRID and Cloud Computing in Medicine – Artificial Intelligence in health informatics
45 PERIODS
PRACTICAL EXERCISES: 30 PERIODS
1. Computer and Internet basics
2. Operating systems – Linux and Windows Basics
3. PubMed search engine
4. Types of computer database
5. Typs of graphs
6. Retrivel of data from biological and medical database
7. Data handling and analysis using Excel
COURSE OUTCOMES:
CO1: Explain the function of hospital information systems
CO2: Explain basic concepts of artificial intelligence
CO3: Explain the various concepts of hospital management and information system
CO4: Explain the importance of medical record storage for easy access
CO5: Compare different medical standards
CO6: Explain the concepts of expert system
TOTAL:75 PERIODS
REFERENCES
1. Orpita Bosu and Simminder Kaur Thukral, “Bioinformatics Databases, Tools and Algorithms” Oxford University press, 2007
2. Yi Ping Phoebe Chen, “Bioinformatics Technologies”, Springer International Edition, New Delhi, 2007.
3. R.D.Lele, “Computers in medicine progress in medical informatics”, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Ltd, 2005
4. Mohan Bansal, “Medical informatics”, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Ltd, 2003
5. J.H. van Bemmel and M.A. Musen. Handbook of Medical Informatics. Bohn Stafleu Van Loghum,. Springer
6. Robert E. Hoyt. Medical Informatics. Practical Guide for the Healthcare Professional. Published by: Lulu.com