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Basics of Hospital Information System

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Course Unit Code450-2049/02
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated4 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *First Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites There are no prerequisites or co-requisites for this course unit
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
CER275prof. Ing. Martin Černý, Ph.D.
JUR51MUDr. František Jurek
Summary
The course lectures and practical exercises in the hospital information system, a practical introduction to model the NIS and its technical solution. It includes various modules of hospital information system, a single patient identification, medication administration records, ordering and business intelligence area.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
The goal of this lessons is to familiarize students with basic processes in the hospital with exercises on hospital information system. To acquaint students with HIS (Hospital Information Systems) practically. Students learn by working with the installation of NIS containing test data to work with the system from the perspective of users with different rights and in terms of system administrators with lower powers. Students will gain knowledge about the basis of database resources and to become familiar with the individual modules NIS. The xpert systems in Health care will be introduced too.
Course Contents
Lectures
1 Information systems for healthcare facilities.
2 The organizational structure of hospitals and its relationship to hospital information systems. The definition of the rights of individual users in the NIS.
3 Fundamentals of database systems from the perspective of the NIS database resources. Introduction to basic SQL commands, database structure.
4 During the process of hospitalization from the perspective of the IS. Organization from the perspective of the hospital and its projection into the NIS.
5 Processes in the hospital organization - laboratory information systems. Options and ways to link with other modules NIS.
6 The systems work with image data in NIS. Methods of obtaining, storing and providing video and high-volume data in the process of the hospital and its projection into the NIS.
7 Administrative NIS components - modules of health insurance statistics modules.
8. Expert system in Health care

Exercise
1 Introduction to practical exercises in hospital information systems. Introduction to NIS used by the teaching.
2 Processes in the NIS database - an example and work with the NIS from the perspective of a programmer
3 NIS modules for outpatient facilities
4 NIS modules for hospital operations
5 Working with NIS with different rights. Effect of user's rights to work with NIS. Setting user rights from the position of administrator
6 Patient records from the entrance to the hospital after discharge
7 Events hospitalization episodes
8 entering requisitions
9 Editing options in the basic modules of the NIS administrator position
10 Module Laboratory Information System
11 Module radiodiagnostického Department NIS
12 Module logistics and supply drugs
13 Module health insurance
14 Practical test
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
Winter, A. et al.: Health Information Systems: Architectures and Strategies, Springer, London, 2011, ISBN 978-1-84996-440-1
MÜNZ, Jan. Informační technologie ve zdravotnictví: informační systémy. 1. vyd. V Praze: České vysoké učení technické, 2011, 304 s. ISBN 978-80-01-04720-0.

Doseděl, T.: Počítačová bezpečnost a ochrana dat, Computer Press, Praha, 2004
Staudek, J., Hanáček, P.: Bezpečnost informačních systémů, ÚSIS, Praha, 2000

Recommended Reading:
Zielinski, K., Duplaga, M., Ingram, D.:Information Technology Solutions for Healthcare, Springer, London, 2007, ISBN 978-1-85233-878-4
Berger, J.: Informatika v klinické praxi pro lékaře a klinické biology. Grada, Praha 1993
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials, Experimental work in labs
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Graded creditGraded credit100 (100)51
        Písemný testWritten test40 20
        Laboratorní úloha 1Laboratory work20 10
        Laboratorní úloha 2Laboratory work20 10
        Písemný test na praktické dovednostiWritten test10 5
        Písemný test na praktické dovednosti 2Written test10 6