Tele-Health & Health Information Technologies in Public Health
Code
11182
Academic unit
Nova Medical School | Faculdade de Ciências Médicas
Department
TRA - Population Health
Credits
3
Teacher in charge
Prof.ª Doutora Carlota Louro
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Aims (Goals)
A general framework: Role and application of informatics and IT in health.
Provide opportunities for students to:
- Develop an understanding of Medical Informatics and informatics applications in Medicine and Public Health;
- Acquire skills in use and management of Information Technologies;
- Acquire basic knowledge of health data quality criteria (as users and producers);
- Motivate for the use of monitoring, surveillance and management applications;
- Develop awareness of IT use by health professionals;
§ Develop skills in Decision Support Systems.
Prerequisites
Subject matter
Course content (topics) / Subject matter
Tele-Health Historical view. Role of medical informatics in Health practice and basic Public Health application of informatics such as surveillance, reporting systems and health education and promotion.
The use of innovation for clinical triage or monitoring of chronic conditions.
Syndromic surveillance. Networks. Case-studies. Seminars, case-studies, demonstration and practice of applications, on-site visits.
Bibliography
- Bibliografia de consulta/existência obrigatória BIBLIOGRAFIA de apoio, livros recomendados, software disponível, sites mais importantes, vídeos.
- Introduction to TELEMEDICINE. Second edition. Richard Wootton, John Craig and Victor Patterson. The Royal Society of Medicine Press. 2011.
- Disease surveillance-A Public Health informatics Approach. Ed. Joseph S. Lombardo, David Buckeridge. Willey &Sons, 2007.
- Lauf Kuziemsky C, Price M, Gardner J. A review of systematic reviews of Health information system Studies. Journal of the American Information Association, 2010; 17:637-645.
- Hearsh, W R., 2002. Medical informatics: improving Health care through information. AMA:288(16), 1955-1958.
Bibliography consultation / existence obligatory sites: They followed the bibliography of each session
Teaching method
A written commentary to a case-study, project development or improvement, critical assessment of a clinical/PH Decision Support System or a capstone or synthesis project. (2/3)
Evaluation method
-Participation, problem solving and interventions (1/3). Completion and assessment of an e-learning module. Quantitative scale (0-20).