Principles of Information Technology and Applications in Health

General

• Code: 278-190405
• Semester: 4th
• Study Level: Undergraduate
• Course type: General Background
• Teaching and exams language: Greek
• Teaching Methods (Hours/Week): Theory (2) / Laboratory (1)
• ECTS Units: 3
• Course homepage: https://moodle.teithe.gr/course/index.php?categoryid=196
• Instructors: Minos Georgios

Course Contents

Theory:

• Introductory Computer Science concepts. Characteristics of central computer processors of main and secondary memory of peripheral devices. Windows operating system, Operation (desktop, control panel, folder management, searching, creating, moving, copying, deleting, decompressing files or folders). Printing, Backup, Maintenance and Performance.
• Introduction to Bioinformatics. The history of bioinformatics and the computational biology. The interdisciplinary nature of bioinformatics. Current situation in the world and Greece.
• Use of computers in biomedicine. Terminology.
• Information Systems in Health.
• Bioinformatics Applications. Electronic Health Record, Electronic Medical Patient Record, Patient Record Archive, Hospital Information Systems.
• Medical Imaging Systems, Special Applications, Internet in Health Care.
• Telemedicine, Tele-health and Tele-education in Health, Telemedicine Applications, Mobile Health and Applications, Virtual Reality & Health.
• Biological Databases. Primary and Secondary databases, Integrated systems for retrieving information from databases.
• The future of informatics applications in Biomedicine.
• Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) in Medicine, Clinical decision making process, Problem solving through CDSS, Examples of CDSS systems in practice.
• Biomedical Signals. Definitions, Unidimensional biomedical signals, Biomedical Imaging, Higher dimensional signals.

Laboratory:

• Use of Windows operating system. Basic operation, Keyboard shortcuts.
• Introduction to Word. Basic Word functions, Text editing – formatting functions, page layout, preview and printing, WORD functions. Graphics, tables, templates. Exercises with different types of documents (scientific paper, thesis etc).
• Introduction – Basic functions of EXCEL. Formatting worksheets, data entry – data processing, creating formulas, introduction to functions. Functions of EXCEL Graphs, printing and page layout, data lists and data analysis (scatter plot with trend line, descriptive statistics, correlation, regression).
• Introduction – Basic functions of POWERPOINT. Adding slides and content, other techniques to enhance a presentation, managing slides, formatting a presentation, adding effects, timing, recording, sharing, viewing a presentation. Creating a 15-slide presentation (conference presentation, thesis examination). Using as an example, a project retrieved from a web search.
• Computer networks. Internet. Web browsing. E-mail.
• Web browsing. Searching medical literature and scientific articles in Google Scholar and PubMed. Impact factor control.

Educational Goals

The aim of the module is to enable students to manage medical and nursing informatics applications through up to date computer systems. Upon successful completion of the theory course the student will be capable of using modern computer systems for nursing applications.

General Skills

• Adapting to new situations.
• Decision-making.
• Working independently.
• Team work.
• Project planning and management.
• Respect for difference and multiculturalism.
• Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues.
• Criticism and self-criticism.
• Working in an interdisciplinary environment.
• Production of free, creative and inductive thinking.

Teaching Methods

• Face to face.

Use of ICT means

• Powerpoint presentations.
• Use of video and web applications in teaching.
• Support of the learning process through the electronic platforms E-class, Blackboard and moodle.

Teaching Organization

Students Evaluation

• Written exams.