IT in the Life Sciences

20 fevereiro 2015, 14:30 • Mário Gaspar da Silva

Questions on Health Informatics

Why is information and knowledge management a central issue in biomedical research and clinical practice?

What are integrated information management environments, and how might we expect them to affect the practice of medicine, the promotion of health, and biomedical research in coming years?

What do we mean by the terms biomedical informatics, medical computer science, medical computing, clinical informatics, nursing informatics, bioinformatics, public health informatics, and health informatics?

How has the development of modern computing technologies and the Internet changed the nature of biomedical computing?

How is health informatics related to clinical practice, public health, biomedical engineering, molecular biology, decision science, information science, and computer science?

How does information in clinical medicine and health differ from information in the basic sciences?

How can changes in computer technology and the way patient care is financed influence the integration of biomedical computing into clinical practice?

Organsation of the Course

19 fevereiro 2015, 14:30 • Mário Gaspar da Silva

Organization of the Course

Syllabus

A first overview of Health Informatics