BM4073 Tele Health Technology Syllabus:

BM4073 Tele Health Technology Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

 To teach the key principles for telemedicine and health.
 To make student understand telemedical technology.
 To introduce the students with the knowledge of telemedical standards
 To design and develop m-Health platforms for telemedical applications. diagnosis
 To make student understand the applications of health care sectors

UNIT I TELEMEDICINE AND HEALTH

History and Evolution of telemedicine, Functional diagram of telemedicine system, Telemedicine, Tele health, Tele care, Organs of telemedicine, Global and Indian scenario, International regulations in e-health and telemedicine, 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: GSM satellite, and Micro wave, Modulation techniques, Types of Antenna, Integration and operational issues, Communication infrastructure for telemedicine – LAN and WAN technology. Satellite communication. Mobile hand held devices and mobile communication. Internet technology and telemedicine using world wide web (www). Video and audio conferencing. Clinical data –local and centralized

UNIT III TELEMEDICAL STANDARDS SECURITY AND LEGAL ISSUES

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 phone based ISBN) T. 120, H.324 (Video phone based PSTN), Video Conferencing, Realtime Telemedicine integrating doctors / Hospitals, Clinical laboratory data, Radiological data, and other clinically significant biomedical data, Administration of centralized medical data, security and confidentially of medical records and access control, Cyber laws related to telemedicine.

UNIT IV m-HEALTH AND TELEMEDICINE

Mobile Devices : Smart phones, Tablet PCs, iPads, PDAs, Wearable computers – m-Health technology and communication infrastructure – Healthcare Apps – m-Health applications: Education and awareness, Remote data collection, Remote monitoring, Communication and training for healthcare workers, Disease and epidemic outbreak tracking, Diagnostic and treatment support – m-Health and the Transformation of Clinical Trials – Harnessing data, advanced analytics, and the Internet of Things to optimize digitized clinical trials

UNIT V TELEMEDICAL APPLICATIONS

Telemedicine access to health care services – health education and self-care. · Introduction to robotics surgery, telesurgery. Telecardiology, Teleoncology, Telemedicine in neurosciences, Electronic Documentation, e-health services security and interoperability., Telemedicine access to health care services– health education and self-care, Business aspects – Project planning and costing, Usage of telemedicine. Telemedicine and in loco assistance of patients, Interactive videoconferencing consults, Store and forward consults, Remote monitoring and home care.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

On completion of this course the student will be able to:
CO1: Describe the key principles for telemedicine and health
CO2: Understand telemedical technology
CO3: Introduce the students with the knowledge of telemedical standards
CO4: Design and develop m-Health platforms for telemedical applications
CO5: Acquire knowledge of evaluating the force in implants.

TOTAL:45 PERIODS

REFERENCES

1. Wootton, R., Craig, J., Patterson, V. (Eds.), Introduction to Telemedicine. Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd (ISBN 1853156779), 2006.
2. Teresa L. Thompson, Roxanne Parrott, Jon F. Nussbaum, The Rout ledge Handbook of Health Communication, Routledge, 2011.
3. David Dagan Feng, Biomedical Information Technology, Academic Press Series in Biomedical Engineering, Elsevier Inc, USA, 2008
4. Ilias G. Maglogiannis, Kostas Karpouzis and Manolis Wallace, Image and Signal Processing for Networked E-Health Applications, Morgan & Claypool Publishers’ series, USA, 2006
5. Bernard Fong, A.C.M. Fong, C.K. Li, Telemedicine Technologies: Information Technologies in Medicine and Telehealth, Wiley, 2011.
6. Bemmel, J.H. van, Musen, M.A. (Eds.) (1997). Handbook of Medical Informatics. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. (ISBN 3-540-63351-0).
7. Ferrer-Roca, O., Sosa-Iudicissa, M. (editors), Handbook of Telemedicine. IOS Press (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Volume 54). (ISBN 90-5199-413-3), 2002.
8. Magnuson, J.A., Fu, Jr., Paul C. (Eds.), Public Health Informatics and Information systems, ISBN 978-1-4471-4237-9, Springer, 2014
9. Simpson, W. 2006. Video over IP. A practical guide to technology and applications. Focal Press (Elsevier). ISBN-10: 0-240-80557-7.