Biomedical Informatics

At the end of this course, students should be able to: 1. apply knowledge and awareness of the basic principles and concepts of biology, computer science, and mathematics; 2. design, deploy and use the various electronic health information systems; 3. simulate biomedical systems experimentation and design with the aid of computer systems; 4. explore the massive biological data available and their manipulation with the computer systems; 5. utilise existing software effectively to extract information from large databases and to use this information in computer modeling; and 6. develop problem-solving skills, including the ability to develop new algorithms and analysis methods.

Introduction to biomedical informatics; components of biomedical informatics. Bioinformatics: What is bioinformatics; components of bioinformatics; biological data; information complexity; bioinformatics applications? Medical informatics: Management Information Systems in biology and medicine-data acquisition, data storage and retrieval, data processing; components of Health Information Systems; types of Health Information Systems. Computer networking in the hospitals: the concept of computer networking, telemetry; e-Health. Software development in biology and medicine. Computer applications in medical diagnosis and therapy. Computer-aided simulation and experimentation.