To give an overview of issues around health care, social and well-being industries’ information systems, and to prepare students to follow and take part in the national discussion on the topic, and to provide them capabilities to take part in information system development projects as a user representative.
Contents
Health and social care currently form a fast-growing and important area for information technology application. As any other industry, health and social care too have their own characteristics that make application of information technology a difficult task. This course presents application areas within the field and discusses the needed system development methods and approaches in the industry. One key application area is that of integrated electronic patient records system (EPR) with subtopics such as experiences with EPR systems implementation, possibilities of further use of ERP, and a European perspective on ERP. Other topics include governance structures for IT in health care, assessment and evaluation of health care information systems and the tradition of usability studies in health care applications, just to name a few. Content of course: - Information systems in the health care domain - Evaluation of information systems in health care - Issues around Automatic Drug Dispensing - Management of Healthcare Information Systems - IT and communication standards in health care field - ERP-systems in healthcare environment - Electronic patient records - Picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) in health care - Electronic prescribing - The Finnish outlook - towards a national information system architecture for health care
Teaching methods
Teaching method
Contact
Online
Lectures
24 h
0 h
Group work
9 h
0 h
Lectures, visiting lectures and seminar. Work done in groups on some actual topics.
Modes of study
Option
1
Available for:
Degree Programme Students
Other Students
Doctoral Students
Exchange Students
Written exam
In
English
Exercise(s)
In
English
Participation in classroom work
In
English
Written exam
In
English
Exercise(s)
In
English
Participation in classroom work
In
English
Evaluation: Examination of lectures and literature, assessment Exam 093053 TJS5 Healthcare Information Systems, lectures, 2 ECTS cr, obligatory. Exam 093054 TJS5 Healthcare Information Systems, literature, 2 ECTS cr, optional. Excercise work 093052 TJS5 Healthcare Information Systems, 2 ECTS cr, optional
Evaluation
Numeric 0-5.
Recommended year of study
4. year autumn
Study materials
1. Health Informatics: Practical Guide For Healthcare And Information Technology Professionals (Fifth Edition) (Hoyt... by Robert E Hoyt, Nora Bailey and Ann Yoshihashi (Feb 1, 2012)).
2. Critical Issues for the Development of Sustainable E-health Solutions - Wickramasinghe, N., Bali, R., Suomi, R., Kirn, S. (Eds.) Springer 2013.
Further information
Target group: 1) Students of School of Economics considering a career in health and well-being providing organizations and enterprises, 2) students of medical sciences wishing to get an overview of the issues around information systems in the health care setting and 3) foreign exchange students wishing to get an overview of the western welfare state health care governing mechanisms.