LF:BVVT021c Computer science - Course Information
BVVT021c Health Computer Science
Faculty of Medicinespring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- MUDr. Aleš Bourek, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Erik Staffa, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Daniel Vlk, CSc. (seminar tutor)
MVDr. Halina Matějová (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- MUDr. Aleš Bourek, Ph.D.
Department of Biophysics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: MUDr. Aleš Bourek, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Biophysics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine - Prerequisites
- Basic skills used in data, information and knowledge management and work with ICT.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Nutritive therapist (programme LF, B-SZ) (2)
- Dietitian (programme LF, B-NUT)
- Human Nutrition (programme LF, B-SZ) (2)
- Course objectives
- This course is focused on discusing possibilities, limitations and risks of information and communication technologies in the healthcare environment. It is not predominantly targeted at teaching computer skills.
- Learning outcomes
- The student will be able to independently and actively seek and use tools, procedures and processes facilitating the correct use of information society environment for more effective study of medicine and more efficient provision of medical services in individual medical specialties; The student will understand the possibilities and risks of digitization and use of digital information and communication tools in the process of providing medical services; The student will get a general overview of the benefits of the information society in the medical domain and will acquire basic basic behavioral habits;
- Syllabus
- In the seminars devoted to "Health Infomratics" focus is on obtaining insight and basic skills and habbits in data handling and processing: 1. Searching, retrieval, storage, use of data, information and knowledge in medical decision making in diagnostics, treatment.
- 2. Improvement of skills in critical thinking.
- 3. Understanding the logics of the health and health care environment, communication with professionals and lay community (patients and their families).
- 4. Gaining innitial insight in the core areas of health care informatics competences (possibilities, limitations and risks) in use of information and communication technologies in a medical environment.
- It does not focus on training activities related to specific hardware or software resources. This is not a course in computer literacy (working with concrete software programs). Basic overview of the courses may be found through the use of the MS Powerpoint presentations available through links at the bottom of the WWW document located at http://www.med.muni.cz/~bourek/
- Literature
- KASAL, Pavel and Štěpán SVAČINA. Internet a medicína (The Internet and Medicine). 1st ed. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2001, 224 pp. ISBN 80-247-0119-7. info
- MORNSTEIN, Vojtěch. Healthcare informatics and overview of computer literacy for medical students. In: Fundamentals of biophysics and medical technology. In BOUREK, Aleš. Healthcare informatics and overview of computer literacy for medical students. In: Fundamentals of biophysics and medical technology. 1st ed. Brno: MU Press, 2007, p. 292-317, 27 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-4228-5. info
- BOUREK, Aleš. Programy kvality a standardy léčebných postupů (základní dílo včetně 1. aktualizace). In Programy kvality a standardy léčebných postupů - praktická příručka pro nemocnice, polikliniky a ambulantní péči. Praha: Verlag Dashöfer,s.r.o., 2002, p. vol.listy, 67 pp. ISBN 80-86229-29-7. info
- KASAL, Pavel and Štěpán SVAČINA. Lékařská informatika. Praha: Karolinum, 1998, 543 s. ISBN 8071845949. info
- Teaching methods
- practical exercises, class discussion
- Assessment methods
- class exercises, colloquium
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 30. - Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- Teacher's information
- http://www.med.muni.cz/~bourek/
- Enrolment Statistics (spring 2025, recent)
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