Spring 2008

Master's level
10 studiepoeng
(Study points ECTS)

INF-3791 Telemedicine and e-health systems 

 

Work Load
10 credits (ECTS)

Level of course/Year of study
Master level course.

Language of instruction
English.

Examination semester
Spring

Contents
The course Telemedicine and e-health systems covers problems related to theory and construction of present and future telemedicine- and e-health systems, including standards, architecture, organization, security, and interoperability.

Form of teaching
Lectures: 30 hours, Colloquium: 30 hours, Laboratory: 30 hours.

Exam and assessment
Includes up to 7 written assignments. Oral presentation of the assignments and demonstration of a working system can be claimed. Grade by letter A-F.

Coursework
Up to 3 project work. Participation is compulsory. Oral presentation may be claimed.

Overlap other courses
None

Information
All lectures are held at the Research Park or in the MIT lab at the Computer Science dept.
First lecture Tuesday 8th January,  at 09:15-10:00, Room: Lecturing room 2 (B289) in Research Park Bld. No. 1, 1st floor

Teacher in charge
Associate professor Gustav Bellika

Lecurers
Associate professor Gustav Bellika
Research Scholar Klaske van Vuurden

Project supervisor / Colloquium leader
Research scholar Klaske van Vuurden

Lectures
Teaching period: 08.01.2007 to 15.06.2007

All lectures will be announced in advance.
The course has the following lecture reserved: Tuesday 09:15 to 10:00(B289), Wednesday 12:15-14:00 (B289), and MIT laboratory Thursday 09:15 – 12:00.

Lecturing room B289 in Research Park Bld. No. 1, 1st floor. However, we will only lecture when this is explicitly announced (see below).

Colloquium 1 (on demand)
Tuesday 14:15 to 16:00  (First time: 15th of January)
Lecturing room B289  in Research Park Bld. No. 1, 1st floor

Duration
1 Semester

 

Overview, Spring 2008

Teacher in charge

Assoc. prof. Gustav Bellika

 

Lecturers

Assoc. prof. Gustav Bellika (GB)

gustav at cs.uit.no

 

Research scholar Klaske van Vuurden (KVV)

klaske at cs.uit.no

 

 

 

TA

Research scholar Klaske van Vuurden

 

Email teachers

inf-3791-staff at list.cs.uit.no

 

Dist.list

inf-3791 at list.cs.uit.no

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 Lectures

Tue 8.1:  09:15

Introduction

1

GB

 

Tue 15.1:  09:15

NO LECTURE: Work with 1st assignment

 

 

 

Tue 15.1:  14:15

Working with literature and literature references. Install and use of Endnote

2

KVV

 

Wed 16.1:  12:15

NO LECTURE: Work with 1st assignment

 

 

 

Wed 23.1:  10:15-13:00

Introduction to telemedicine and ehealth #1 & #2

3

GB

Norris, 1-2; Wootton, 1

Thur 31.1:  10:15-12:00

Introduction to telemedicine – technology #3

2

GB

Norris, 3; Wootton, 2

Thur 31.1 -  12:15-13:00

Telemedicine services and applications I #4

Case Studies: Doris and Soria applications

1

GB

Norris, 4-5; Wootton, 3-5

Thur 7.2:  09:15

Paper session: Student presentation

1

GB, KVV + students

 

Thur 7.2:  10:15

Paper session: Prioritisation of telemedicine services for
large scale implementation in Norway

1

GB, KVV + students

Norum, J et al. Prioritisation of telemedicine services. JTT,13:185-192, 2007.

Thur 7.2:  11:15

Presentation of portfolio assessment exercise 2 + Large scale telemedicine services in Norway.

1

GB

 

Wed 13.2:  09:15

Paper session: Student presentation

1

GB, KVV + students

 

Wed 13.2:  10:15-12:00

Lessons learnt from 20 years of Telemedicine in Tromsø I

2

GB

MedInfo2007 Tutorial / JTT Articles

Thur 21.2:  09:15

Presentation of Portfolio assessment exercise 3

 

 

 

Thur 21.2: 09:30-12:00

Lessons learnt from 20 years of Telemedicine in Tromsø II

3

GB

MedInfo2007 Tutorial / JTT Articles

Thur 21.2:  15:00

Deadline Portfolio assessment exercise 2

 

 

 

Thur 28.2:  09:15

Ethical and legal aspects of telemedicine

1

GB

Norris, 6

Thur 28.2:  10:15

Introduction to Lab exercise

1

GB+KVV

 

Thur 28.2:  11:15

Video over IP

1

GB

Simpson

Thur 6.3:  09:15

Presentation of Portfolio assessment exercise 4

 

 

 

Thur 6.3:  09:15

Video over IP

2

GB

Simpson

Thur 6.3:  15:00

Deadline Portfolio assessment exercise 3

 

 

 

Thur 13.3 

NO LECTURE

 

 

 

Thur 20.3

NO LECTURE

 

 

 

Thur 27.3   09:15

How to be successful in telemedicine

3

GB 

 Wootton, 6-9, 13

Wedn 2.4:  13:15

Security in distributed health systems

1

GB

 

Wedn 2.4:  14:15

Development and deployment of TM and eHealth systems I

2

GB

Articles: Coiera, Haux, Grudin

Thur 10.4:  09:15

Presentation of Portfolio assessment exercise 5

 

 

 

Thur 10.4:  09:15

Telemedicine in the future

1

GB

Article: Andreassen et.al.

Thur 10.4:  11:15

Telehomecare, telemedicine in private homes

2

KVV

 

Thur 10.4: 15:00

Deadline Portfolio assessment exercise 4

 

 

 

14-18.4

PRACTICE WEEK AT NST

 

 

 

Thur 24.4:  09:15

Standardization in E-Health

3

GB 

 

Thur 24.4:

Presentation of Portfolio assessment exercise 6: Essay topics

 

 

 

Thur 24.4:  12:15

Interoperability in ehealth systems

2

GB

Articles:Beale, Eichelberg, Jinsoo, Schadow, Tolk

Wed 30.4: 15:00

Deadline Portfolio assessment exercise 5

 

 

 

Thur 1.5:

No lecture

 

 

 

Thur 8.5:

No lecture

 

 

 

Thur 15.5:

No lecture

 

 

 

Thur 15.5:  15:00

Deadline Portfolio assessment exercise 6: Essay

 

 

 

Thur 29.5:  09:15-11:00

Research issues 1: Presentation by Phd student Luis Fernandez Luque: Use of Internet by Patients (as creators of content)

MyHealthService and PhD project

2

 

 

Thur 29.5:  11:15

 Research issues 2: Available

1

 

 

Thur 29.5:  15:00

Deadline Lab exercise

 

 

 

Thur 5.6:  09:15

 Research issues 3: Available

3

 

 

 
 
Lectures are given in English.
 

Syllabus (Core books)

Norris, A.C. (2002). Essentials of Telemedicine and Telecare. Wiley (ISBN 0-471-53151-0) 150 pages

Wootton, R., Craig, J., Patterson, V. (Eds.) (2006).  Introduction to Telemedicine.  Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd (ISBN 1853156779)

Simpson, W. 2006. Video over IP. A practical guide to technology and applications. Focal Press (Elsevier). ISBN-10: 0-240-80557-7

Reference books

Bemmel, J.H. van, Musen, M.A. (Eds.) (1997). Handbook of Medical Informatics. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. (ISBN 3-540-63351-0)

Ferrer-Roca, O., Sosa-Iudicissa, M. (editors) (1998), Handbook of Telemedicine. IOS Press (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Volume 54). (ISBN 90-5199-413-3) page 1 – 209 = 209 pages


Recommended additional material

O'Carroll, P.W., Yasnoff, W.A., Ward, E., Ripp, L.H., Martin, E.L. (Eds) (2003). Public Health Informatics and Information Systems. Springer (ISBN 0-387-95474-0) (Part of the book)

Coiera, E. Guide to Health Informatics. Second edition. Arnold (ISBN 0340 764252). Chapter 21. Page 261-281. 20 pages.

Shortliffe, E.H., Cimino J.j., Biomedical Informatics. Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine. Springer (ISBN 0-387-28986-0)- Chapter 14. Page 511-536. 25 pages

Papers

Hartvigsen, G., et al., Challenges in telemedicine and eHealth: lessons learned from 20 years with telemedicine in Tromso. Medinfo, 2007. 12(Pt 1): p. 82-6.

 

Norum. et al. Prioritisation of telemedicine services for large scale implementation in Norway. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare 2007; 13: 185–192

 

Coiera, E. (2004), Four rules for the reinvention of health care. British Medical Journal; 328: 1197-1199, 2 pages.

 

Kakihara M, Sørensen C. Mobility: An Extended Perspective. International Conference on Systems Sciences 2002, Hawaii. 10 pages.

 

Grudin J. Eight Challenges for Developers. Communications of the ACM 1994; 37(1):93-105. 12 Pages.

 

Jinsoo, P. and R. Sudha. "Information systems interoperability: What lies beneath?" ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 2004. 22(4): 595-632.

 

Whitten, P., et al., A systematic review of research methodology in telemedicine studies. J Telemed Telecare, 2007. 13(5): p. 230-5.

 

Moser, P.L., et al., Publication output in telemedicine during the period January 1964 to July 2003. J Telemed Telecare, 2004. 10(2): p. 72-7.

 

Youngberry, K., Telemedicine research and MEDLINE. J Telemed Telecare, 2004. 10(2): p. 121-3.

 

Haux, R., Health information systems - past, present, future. Int J Med Inform, 2005.

 

Marco, E., et al., A survey and analysis of Electronic Healthcare Record standards. ACM Comput. Surv., 2005. 37(4): p. 277-315.

 

Tolk, A. What Comes After the Semantic Web - PADS Implications for the Dynamic Web. PADS, pp. 55-62, 20th Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS'06), 2006, http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/PADS.2006.39

 

Schadow G, Mead CN, Walker DM. The HL7 reference information model under scrutiny. Stud Health Technol Inform 2006;124:151-6.

 

Beale., T. Archetypes: Constraint-based Domain Models for Future-proof Information Systems.OOPSLA 2002 workshop on behavioural semantics, 2002. URL: http://www.oceaninformatics.biz/publications/archetypes_new.pdf

 

Source: Andreassen, H.K. et. al. European citizens' use of E-health services: A study of seven Countries. BMC Public Health 2007, 7:53 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-7-53

 

 

Handouts

Handouts (Acrobat) from the lectures:

Password is required for some of the handouts. Password is announced in the lectures.

Deadlines

Portfolio assessment exercise 1: Friday 8th February 15:00 (3:00 pm).

Extended deadline Portfolio assessment exercise 1: Wednesday 13th of February 15:00 (3:00pm).

Portfolio assessment exercise 2: Thursday 21th of February  15:00 (3:00pm).

Portfolio assessment exercise 3: Thursday 6th of March 15:00 (3:00pm).

Portfolio assessment exercise 4: Thursday 10th of April 15:00 (3:00pm).

Portfolio assessment exercise 5: Wednesday 30th of April 15:00 (3:00pm).

Portfolio assessment exercise 6:  Thursday 15th of may  15:00 (3:00pm).

Lab exercise: Thursday 29th of May 15:00 (3:00pm).

 
Last updated: Wedneday 7th of Februar 2008 .