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DAT254 Health Informatics

Course description for academic year 2018/2019
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Contents and structure

Credits: 10
Health Informatics (HI) is a multidisciplinary field that uses various
methods of information technology to improve health care through
any combination of higher quality, higher efficiency, and new
Campus: Bergen
opportunities (optimize care, patient's well-being and healthcare
worker's performance and work satisfaction - while decreasing the
costs).
Semester of instruction: Spring
The disciplines involved include computer science, social science,
information science, cognitive science, behavioral science,
management science, and others. HI deals with the resources, Language of instruction: English
devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage,
retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine. HI
tools include amongst others computers, clinical guidelines, formal Semester of assessment: Spring
medical terminologies, and various information and
communication systems. It is applied to the areas of clinical care,
public health, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, occupational therapy, Course coordinator: Svein-Ivar
physical therapy, alternative medicine and (bio)medical research. Lillehaug

This course will provide the participants with a broad insight into a
highly multidisciplinary field where focus will be on central HI key Syllabus-/bibliography
challenges such as ICT to support patient-centered care; integration
and standardization of medical data; data security and patient
safety; HCI and user acceptance; cognition and medical problem Part of studyprograms:
solving; how to make common platforms for research and use for
stakeholders with different backgrounds; and the path from the Joint Master's Programme in Software
pioneering research in medical artificial intelligence, towards the Engineering
vision of a future learning healthcare system. The participants will
experience and learn that these key challenges are tightly
intervened, and where the success within one area usually requires Exam exercises
successful solutions within other areas. This will be exemplified
through various areas of HI applications.

Learning Outcome

Knowledge

On successful completion of this course, the student

has knowledge about the recurrent themes in Health Informatics including their
history, development and challenges over the years
has knowledge about the main areas of Health Informatics Applications
has knowledge about the challenges and future of informatics in health care

Skills

On successful completion of this course, the student should be capable of

identifying relevant research and challenges within Health Informatics and it¿s
related research fields
explaining the need for and challenges of Health Informatics being a multidisciplinary
field of both applications and research
explaining important general key factors required to ensure success for various types
of HI applications
explaining general principles and challenges of data security, patient safety and ethics
related to ICT-based applications and services within health care research

General competence

On successful completion of this course, the student has

gained knowledge and experience necessary to extract and present knowledge from
HI research projects and HI research literature as scientific survey papers and survey
presentations
the ability to evaluate different ICT-based services within health care with respect to
various success factors
the ability to participate in the design of ICT-based services for health care that are
built on current research status, current standards and other principles required for
good ICT applications within health care.

Entry requirements
General admission requirements for the study programme, or holding a degree at the
bachelor level (or higher) within relevant health care disciplines.

Teaching methods
The course consists of six hours of combined lectures and "hands-on exercises" per
week, where some lectures might be given as flipped-classroom lectures or by the
students presenting topics to be covered. In addition, there are smaller mandatory
assignments and a larger project. The larger project work will be either as individual
research survey studies of relevant problem areas, or as practical pre-projects of possible
development projects (done in groups). The project must be documented in an
approc.15 pages written reports for individual projects, and longer for group projects.

Course requirements
Taking the oral exam requires that the mandatory assignments and the larger project
have been approved.

Assessment

Letter grading on the basis of a 30-minute oral exam and the project work. The project
report has a weight of 30 % in the final grade. Both the oral part and the project report
part must result in a pass grade in order to pass the course.

Grading scale is A F where F is fail.

Examination aids
None

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