Courses persons responsible
Kari Mäkelä

Lecturers
Kari Mäkelä

Implementations

	Period 1	Period 2	Period 3	Period 4	Period 5	Summer
Lecture	-	-	3 h/week	-	-	-
Exercise	-	-	1 h/week	-	-	-
Exam

(Timetable for academic year 2006-2007)

Objectives
To introduce to the techniques and applications of telemedicine.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Concepts and terminology of telemedicine.
2.	Techniques of telemedicine: hardware, standards, hospital information systems, electronic patient record.
3.	Examples of telemedical applications.

Requirements for completing the course
Active participation in lectures and exercises and final exam.

Evaluation criteria for the course

Study material

Type	Name	Auhor	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability...	Exam material	Language
Summary of lectures	Telemedicine	Mäkelä, K.			On the Internet	Yes

Prerequisites

Code	Course	Credits	M/R
LTT-4016	LTT-4016 Introduction to Medical Informatics	5	Recommendable

Prequisite relations (Sign up to TUT Intranet required)

Distance learning

- In information distribution via homepage, newsgroups or mailing lists, e.g. current issues, timetables
- In compiling teaching material, particularly for online use or other electronic media
- In distributing and/or returning exercise work, material etc
- In the visualization of objects and phenomena, e.g. animations, demonstrations, simulations, video clips
- The course utilizes a learning platform, which? Moodle

- Contact teaching: 45 %
- Distance learning: 5 %
- Proportion of a student's independent study: 50 %

Scaling

Methods of instruction	Hours
Lectures	45
Exercises	9
Information and communication technology	20

Other scaled	Hours
Exam/midterm exam	3
Total sum	77

Additional information related to course
LTT-4056 replaces the course LTT-4050.

Correspondence of content
LTT-4050 Introduction to Telemedicine

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Last modified	09.03.2006
Modified by	Juha Nousiainen