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Systems and Technologies for eHealth

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Course Unit Code450-4088/01
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated4 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory type B
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *Second Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredSummer Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
CER275prof. Ing. Martin Černý, Ph.D.
OCZ0005Ing. David Oczka, Ph.D.
Summary
The course focuses on the principles, design, implementation and commercial applications of eHealth approaches to monitor health status, improve the quality of life of physically and mentally handicapped people, therapeutic applications and fitness applications. Using existing knowledge of students in the field of diagnostic and therapeutic medical devices will be lectured and practically excercised their possible applications in the above mentioned areas. The necessary knowledge and skills in the areas of body sensor networks, eHealth approaches, assistive technologies, User interface design and an effective way of interpreting measured data for users and experts will be added.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
The student will be able to describe and explain eHealth and its applications to remote home care from both diagnostics and therapy, assistive technologies for physically and mentally handicapped people, fitness, effective user interface design for different users, and ways of interpreting results for patients and expert physicians. The student will be able to analyze these systems but also to manage and developed them.
Course Contents
Lectures:
1. Design of the user interface for the specific needs of users.
2. eHeatlh - concept, vision, development, legislation, application area, constraints.
3. Remote home care systems - introduction to the problem, technical means for realization
4. Remote Home Care Systems - Effective Design of Diagnostic Systems.
5. eHealth Systems - therapeutic applications.
6. eHealth Systems - Human Behavior Monitoring - Technical, Mathematical, Statistical, Artificial Intelligence Approaches.
7. Assistive Technology - Idea, Vision, Development, Application Area.
8. Assistive technologies - technical analysis of current solutions for physically disabled, implementation into practice.
9. Assistive Technology - Means of Technology for Mentally Disabled and Combined Disorders.
10. Cognitive dysfunction, description, techical and software tools for training.
11. Fitness of eHealth systems.
12. system co-operation - technical means, solutions, pitfalls.
13. Testing eHealth systems.
14. Knowledge test.

Labs:
1. Design of a device user interface for people with disabilities
2. Remote Home Care Systems - Diagnostic Devices of Biological Signals 1. - Practical exercises in a Living Laboratory..
3. Remote Home Care Systems - Diagnostic Devices of Biological Signals 2. - Practical Exercise in Living Laboratory.
4. Remote Home Care Systems - Therapeutic Devices 1. - Practical training in a Living Laboratory.
5. Remote Home Care Systems - Therapeutic Devices 2. - Practice in a Living Laboratory.
6. Remote home care systems - Analysis of the behavior of persons in the apartment 1. - technical means - practical exercises in the Living Laboratory.
7. Remote home care systems - Behavioral analysis of persons in the apartment 2. - Techniques - practical exercises in the Living Laboratory.
8. Remote home care systems - Analysis of the behavior of people in the apartment - Computational means - Practical training in the Living Laboratory.
9. Assistive Technology - Techniques - Practice in a residential lab.
10. Cognitive function - technical and software tools for training of cognitive functions - practical exercises in the Living Laboratory.
11. Fitness application - technical and software tools for fitness - practical exercises in the Living Laboratory.
12. Intelligent household resources - technical and software resources - practical exercises in the Living Laboratory.
13. Cooperation between systems - practical exercise in a residential laboratory - system tests, simulation of critical situations in the Living Laboratory to verify the functionality of the installed systems
14. Verification of the practical skills of working with systems in the Living Laboratory.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
LONGHI, S., Andrea MONTERIÙ a Alessandro FREDDI, ed. Human monitoring, smart health and assisted living: techniques
and technologies. London: The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2017. ISBN 978-1-78561-150-6.

MAHEU, Marlene M., Pamela WHITTEN a Ace ALLEN. E-health, telehealth, and telemedicine: a guide to start-up and
success. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, c2001. ISBN 0-7879-4420-3.
LONGHI, S., Andrea MONTERIÙ a Alessandro FREDDI, ed. Human monitoring, smart health and assisted living: techniques
and technologies. London: The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2017. ISBN 978-1-78561-150-6.

MAHEU, Marlene M., Pamela WHITTEN a Ace ALLEN. E-health, telehealth, and telemedicine: a guide to start-up and
success. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, c2001. ISBN 0-7879-4420-3.

Recommended Reading:
COOK, Albert M. a Janice Miller. POLGAR. Cook & Hussey's assistive technologies: principles and practice. 3rd ed.
/. St. Louis, Mo.: Mosby/Elsevier, 2008. ISBN 978-0323039079.

MANN, William C. Smart technology for aging, disability, and independence: the state of the science. Hoboken, N.J.:
Wiley-Interscience, c2005. ISBN 978-0-471-69694-0.

HELAL, Abdelsalam A., Mounir. MOKHTARI a Bessam. ABDULRAZAK. The engineering handbook of smart technology for aging,
disability, and independence. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2008. ISBN 978-0-471-71155-1.
COOK, Albert M. a Janice Miller. POLGAR. Cook & Hussey's assistive technologies: principles and practice. 3rd ed.
/. St. Louis, Mo.: Mosby/Elsevier, 2008. ISBN 978-0323039079.

MANN, William C. Smart technology for aging, disability, and independence: the state of the science. Hoboken, N.J.:
Wiley-Interscience, c2005. ISBN 978-0-471-69694-0.

HELAL, Abdelsalam A., Mounir. MOKHTARI a Bessam. ABDULRAZAK. The engineering handbook of smart technology for aging,
disability, and independence. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2008. ISBN 978-0-471-71155-1.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Individual consultations, Experimental work in labs, Project work, Field trip
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Credit and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        CreditCredit45 20
        ExaminationExamination55 (55)20
                Written examWritten examination55 20