COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Medical Informatics

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR OĞUZ DICLE

Offered to

Medical Informatics

Course Objective

Nowadays it has been started to record all the health and disease records in electronic environment. This area that required typical information management is the main topic of the medical informatics. It will be possible to gain a multidirectional knowledge and ability regarding the topic that has multidisciplinary dimensions.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

(1) Gunter, T.D. and Terry, N.P. 2005 The Emergence of National Electronic Health Record Architectures in the United States and Australia: Models, Costs, and Questions in J Med Internet Res 7(1)
(2) Habib JL. EHRs, meaningful use, and a model EMR. Drug Benefit Trends. May 2010;22(4):99-101.
(3) Berg, M. 1997. Of Forms, Containers, and the Electronic Medical Record: Some Tools for a Sociology of the Formal. Science, Technology, & Human Values 22(4):403 33
(4) http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/340/jun16_4/c3111 Greenhalgh T, Stramer K, Bratan T, Byrne E, Russell J, Potts HWW (2010). Adoption and non-adoption of a shared electronic summary care record in England: A mixed-method case study. BMJ, 340, c311
(5) Himmelstein DU, Wright A, Woolhandler S (2009). Hospital Computing and the Costs and Quality of Care: A National Study. American Journal of Medicine, doi:10.1016/j.amjmed.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation/lecturing and interactive discussion.

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Homeworks, Performance, Mid-term and Final exams

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance is an essential requirement of this course and is the responsibility of the student. Students are expected to attend all lecture and recitation hours. Attendance must be at least 70% for the lectures.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dokuz Eylül University, The Institute of Health Science, Department of Medical Informatics
e-mail: oguz.dicle@deu.edu.tr
Tel: 0232 412 59 01

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes