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Course Description:
This course is designed to provide the student with knowledge about advanced computer technology and its application in the healthcare field. It will also introduce the student to technological innovations in healthcare informatics as a discipline, clinical decision-support systems, medical expert systems, telemedicine, telepharmacy and Internet health applications. The course will emphasize the use of computerized health information retrieval systems, the advanced features of the Internet information resources, patient-related programs and data manipulation software for application in profession-related tasks.
Course Objectives:
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To help students develop and consolidate their knowledge, skills and understanding in information technology.
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To acquaint students with current trends in medical informatics as they apply to the healthcare field.
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To help students to grow in their awareness of the ways in which information technology is used in practical and work-related situations.
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To enable students to explore computer applications in health education, practice, administration and research.
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To familiarize students with various definitions of information management.
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To enable students to perform online search in medical, pharmaceutical and other health literature through the World Wide Web (WWW).
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To train students to identify various types of information systems used within healthcare institutions.
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To acquaint the student with current trends in medical informatics as they apply to the health care field and the health profession.
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To familiarize students with some of medical and pharmaceutical applications of computers such as doctors’ information systems, hospital and pharmacy records, monitoring, expert systems and clinical decision-support systems.
Topics to be Covered:
- Types of Software packages and their use in healthcare.
- Choosing and evaluating biomedical software.
- Use Microsoft Office programs to create:
- Patient education materials (Brochures, pamphlets, etc)
- A presentation about one drug or disease.
- Create a health information website.
a. The use of plotting software (one or more of the following software can be used for this purpose):
- Stanford Graphics
- Sigma Plot **
- Graph Pad Prism
- Other free plotting software online.
b. The use of chemistry structure drawing software (one or more of the following software can be used for this purpose):
- ACD/ChemSketch ** ‡
- CambridgeSoft ChemDraw **
- Chemistry 4-D Draw ** ‡
- MDL ISIS
- Substructure searchable chemical database software ** ‡
(one or more of the following software can be used for this purpose):
- SPSS (must be used)
- SAS
- Systat ** ‡
- S-Plus
- Microsoft Excel
- Drug Interactions software
- Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN)
- Pharmacokinetic modeling
- Inventory Control
a. Internet resources:
- Internet terminology.
- Educational resources on the Internet
- Medical, pharmaceutical and dental resources on the Internet
- Free Medical textbooks (Merck Manual **‡, Clinical Pharmacology **‡, etc.)
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Communication:
- Professional communication:
- E-mail, mailing lists, newsgroups.
- Health-related Discussion groups and forums.
- Inter-professional communication:
- Intranet
- Telemedicine and telepharmacy
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Health Websites:
- PubMed
- Medscape
- Indexing and abstracting services.
- Factual databases.
- Information Retrieval
- Knowledge-based Information
- Retrieval
- Evaluation
- Digital Libraries
- MEDLINE Search
- Major MEDLINE sites **
- Search Strategies.
- Journals online.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs (Theory only).
Examples of such programs: MYCIN, ONCOCIN, etc.
- Medical Expert Systems (MES) (Theory and demonstration only)
- Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS):
CDSS Examples:
DXplain (demo) **‡
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Clinical simulations (demonstrations).
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Experimental technologies, such as virtual reality systems (demonstrations)
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Electronic patient record.
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Students’ Presentations on selected topics of the course.
Textbooks:
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· Abou-Auda HS. Computer Applications for Health Professions (Arabic text with detailed English terminology). 2004. ISBN: 966-10-921-6
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· Manuals of listed software.
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· van Bemmel JH, Musen MA, editors, Handbook of Medical Informatics, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer, 1997.
[Portions of the Handbook are available on the WWW at
http://www.mihandbook.stanford.edu/handbook/home.htm]
Optional Readings:
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· Shortliffe EH, Fagan LM, Wiederhold G, Perreault LE. Medical Informatics: Computer applications in healthcare and biomedicine. Springer Verlag. 2000. ISBN: 0387984720.
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· Davis MW. Computerizing healthcare information. McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. 1st edition. 1998. ISBN: 0070159467.
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· Degoulet P, Fieschi M. Introduction to Clinical Informatics,1997. ISBN: 0-387-94641-1
Suggested Websites:
Links to some of the SOFTWARE needed for the course:
(http://www.acdlabs.com/download/chemsk.html)
(http://www.molsearch.com/download.htm)
(http://www.cc.nih.gov/ccc/principles/)
(http://wwwlcs.mgh.harvard.edu/dxplain.htm) see first textbook for more systems.
** See on the Internet
‡ The full free software or a demo version can be downloaded from the Internet.
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