Ateneo - UPO

Basic knowledge of health information systems: Data collection and processing tools, electronic medical records, health information systems

- Buccoliero, Mattavelli “ECDL EALTH” Tecniche Nuove 2008
- Teti, Festa “ECDL HEATH Sistemi informativi per la sanità” Apogeo 2009
- D.P. Curtin, K.Foley, K.Sen, C. Morin, "Informatica di base", McGraw-Hill, sesta edizione.
- Bracchi, Francalanci, Motta “SISTEMI INFORMATIVI D’IMPRESA”, McGraw-Hill
- Rosotto “INFORMATICA MEDICA”, McGraw-Hill

The module aims, after regaining few basic concepts, to frame issues instruments and requirements of automatic management of data and information in the field of health information systems. It also describes the context in which the student will be working.
It also describes the informative context in which the professional figure is working to increase awareness of its role within the information cycle. Finally, the issues of security and privacy are addressed.

The course expected the basic knowledge of computer science acquired during the course of studies

Presentation in MS-Power Point format. Contents on the e-learning platform

The course starts with a section that deals with databases with some notions of reality modeling. A theoretical and preponderant part, in terms of number of hours, continues on information systems with particular focus on health systems where the medical record is also dealt with. Finally, the topics of security and privacy are debate.
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The exam consists of a written test of 20 questions with a choice of 4 answers, of which only one is true. Each correct answer is 1,5 points. No penalties are awarded for incorrect answers.
The test aimed at verifying if the knowledge, skills and abilities expressed in the "Expected learning outcomes" are acquired.

INTRODUCTION AND BASIC ELEMENTS
- Course overview

THE DATABASES

- The company database
- Entities and relationships
- The DBMS
- SQL
- Data operations
- Information tools for companies
- Clinical Decision Support System
- Internet of things
- Big data
- The cloud

INFORMATION SYSTEM AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM
- the information system - a definition
- characteristics of the information system
- information and data
- computer science, the information science
- The health information system - a definition

HEALTH CARE SYSTEM AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM
- The corporatization of health care - a bit of history
- DRG
- ambulatory services
- the health planning
- the need of an information system

FEATURES OF THE HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM
- Features of H.I.S.
- levels of H.I.S. (Ministerial, regional, corporate)
- the processes managed by H.I.S. in hospital

ELECTORINC MEDICAL RECORD
- Evolution
- Decision support
- Traditional medical record
- Automated medical record
- Types of medical record
- Health: Electronic health record, electronic health file

ARCHITECTURE OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS
- Why the architecture
- reference framework
- H.I.S. integrated system
- The central store of serviceable
- Interoperability
- Coding of information
- HL7

INFORMATION FLOWS
- Introduction: data sources
- Types of flows
- SDO
- The health card
- CUP
- The electronic prescription
- Data quality

INDICATORS
- Why the indicators
- Definitions
- What and how to measure
- The information sources for the construction of the indicators
- Categories of indicators
- The choice of the system of indicators
- Indicators to "do"
- Reporting

INDICATORS IN THE NATIONAL HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM: THE DATABASES OF NSIS

SECURITY AND PRIVACY
- Security
- Privacy and data protection
- Notes on the rule of copyright and licenses for use for the software

RIS / PACS
- Radiology Information System (RIS)
- Picture Archiving Comunication System (PACS)
- DICOM format
- Features and types of PACS

HEALTH RESEARCH ON THE INTERNET
- Internet and searches
- Information on the internet
- Thesis where to find sources?
- Shall we go to the library?
- Internet ?
- Wikipedia?
- Research in the medical-scientific field

Knowledge and understanding
At the end of the course students are able to:
- describe the informative context in which a health professionist is working
- distinguish the various degrees of implementation of the elettronic medical record
- know the basic security aspects of information processing and privacy
- know fundamentals of database and modeling of reality
This knowledge is verified through the written test

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
At the end of the course, students are able to:
- Apply the acquired knowledge to model reality and represent it through its data in a database
- classify and choose the attributes and entities necessary for the representation of a specific reality
- apply the basic operators of Boolean logic to formulate research
- evaluate the adequacy and choose the tools used in a health information system for data management
- understand internal and external company information flows

Transversal skills
At the end of the course, students are able to:
- Make models of simple realities
- Distinguish between the different computerized approaches to health data management
- Identify the different types of malware through analysis of the effects of infection