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Opinto-opas 2013-2014
Medical Informatics, 35 cr |
Type of the study block
Advanced Studies
Contact
Ilkka Korhonen, Jari Viik
Learning Outcomes
| - | Students are able to apply information technology and software engineering in health care problems and produce solutions and services for health care according to international regulations and standards. |
| - | Students are able to model physiological and health care systems and their measurements, and able to construct computational models for different medical applications. |
| - | Students are able to identify and formulate problems and rise to these challenges in the field of medicine and health care by applying information technology. |
| - | Students are able to design and apply basic methods for processing and analyzing biosignals and for analyzing medical images. |
Prerequisites
The student should have previous knowledge from the field of information technology, computer science, or biomedical engineering. ( Mandatory )
Further Opportunities
| Study block | Credit points |
| Master's Thesis in Biomedical Engineering | 30 cr |
Content
Compulsory courses
| Course | Credit points | Class |
| ELT-62306 Research Project in Biomedical Engineering | 5 cr | II |
| ELT-62906 Master's Seminar on Biomedical Engineering | 1 cr | II |
| ELT-63306 Modelling of Physiological Systems | 5 cr | II |
| SGN-52606 Processing of Biosignals | 5 cr | I |
| SGN-57006 Health Care Processes and Systems | 3 cr | I |
| SGN-57206 Health Information Systems | 5 cr | I |
| Total | 23 cr |
Complementary Courses
Should be completed to the minimum study module extent of 35 ETCS
Additional information
The field of medical informatics is broad, covering different management activities of medical and biological data, information and knowledge. eHealth covers various applications of information and communications technology in medicine and healthcare. Special topics of medical informatics include biomedical signal processing and medical image analysis, computational modeling, and neuroinformatics. Minor subjects that support the medical informatics major include Signal Processing, Mathematics and Computational Biology. Biomedical Engineering is not allowed as a minor subject for this major.