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Course Catalog 2010-2011

BME-2606 eHealth, 5 cr

Person responsible

Kari Mäkelä

Lessons

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures
Excercises
Assignment
 4 h/week
 1 h/week
 30 h/per



 



 



 



 
BME-2606 2010-01 Tuesday 12 - 14, SH304
Wednesday 9 - 12, SH304

Requirements

Accepted project work, seminar presentation and final exam.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Learning outcomes

After completing the course students can explain the basic terminology of eHealth. Students can describe different telemedicine techniques and how information technologies are applied in health care and medicine. Students can explain the eHealth solutions used in home care. Students can explain the role ans structure of different information systems, especially the electronic patient record system in eHealth. Students can recognize different safety and ethical issued in eHealth.

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Definitions and terminology of eHealth, basic concepts.   History of eHealth.   
2. Telemedicine application types (Telemonitoring, Telediagnostics, Teleconstultation)     
3. Home care and home monitoring. Internet health care applications.   Developing technologies in eHealth    
4. Electronic Patient record systems and Hospital software systems.  Examples of health care information systems.    
5. Safety and ethical issues of eHealth.     

Study material

Type Name Author ISBN URL Edition, availability, ... Examination material Language
Lecture slides   eHealth   Mäkelä, K.            English  

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Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
BME-2606 eHealth, 5 cr LTT-4056 Introduction to Telemedicine, 3 cr  

More precise information per implementation

Implementation Description Methods of instruction Implementation
BME-2606 2010-01       Contact teaching: 0 %
Distance learning: 0 %
Self-directed learning: 0 %  

Last modified25.02.2010