Clinical Terminologies and Code Systems in Biomedical Informatics

Data is displayed for academic year: 2024./2025.

Lecturers

Adj. Asst. Prof.
Miroslav Končar

Course Description

Health service delivery models (primary, secondary, tertiary care). Reimbursement models. Identification of the needs and values of using structured data designs and management in healthcare service delivery. Interoperability layers in system communication. Coding systems and code values management within ICT solutions and EHR infrastructures. References in clinical data towards SNOMED, ICD and LOINC clinical terminologies and data sets. DRG, casemix and application for clinical concepts in driving the payment.

Study Programmes

Learning Outcomes

  1. Explain the importance of using structured clinical data and coding systems in medical informatics
  2. Differentiate clinical and administrative coding systems
  3. Differentiate coding systems in biomedicial informatics (ICD, LOINC, SNOMED)
  4. Apply clinical coding system binding (ICD, SNOMED, LOINC) in clinical documents
  5. Explain the usage of ICD and procedures codes in service reimbursements

Forms of Teaching

Lectures

Seminars and workshops

Week by Week Schedule

  1. Lectures: Healthcare service delivery system and organizational setup. Healthcare financing. Trends in health systems – impacts of the chronic diseases, personalized care, mobile health, remote patient monitoring. Importance of clinical terminologies with structured clinical data
  2. Lectures: HL7 mission and vision. Basic assumptions, methodology and frameworks for constructing HL7 messages, segments and fields. Data types, references to terminologies and data sets.
  3. Lectures: HL7 assumptions, methodology and frameworks for constructing HL7 messages, segments and fields. Data types, references to terminologies and data sets. HL7 CTS.
  4. Lectures: HL7 CTS practical examples, implementations
  5. Lectures: Clinical terminology in practice – ICD, SNOMED, LOINC
  6. Lectures: Clinical terminology in practice – ICD, SNOMED, LOINC
  7. Lectures: Clinical terminology in practice – ICD, SNOMED, LOINC
  8. Lectures: Midterm exam
  9. Lectures: Admininistrative coding systems with HL7 messages, procedures coding
  10. Lectures: Terminologies and Code systems in EHR infrastructures
  11. Lectures: Terminologies and Code systems in IHE infrastructures
  12. Lectures: DRG – Diagnosis Related Groups, casemix index, reimbursement models in healthcare
  13. Lectures: DRG – Diagnosis Related Groups, casemix index, reimbursement models in healthcare
  14. Lectures: Seminar presentations and discussions
  15. Lectures: Final exam

Literature

(.), J. Kern, M. Petrovečki (Ur.) (2009.), Medicinska informatika, Medicinska naklada, Zagreb,
(.), Tim Benson, Grahame Grieve (2021.), Princpiples of Health Interoperability 4th Edition, Springer Nature Switzerland,
(.), E.H. Shortliffe, L.E. Perreault (Eds.) (2001.), Medical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine, 2nd Ed., Springer Verlag,

For students

General

ID 261444
  Winter semester
5 ECTS
L3 English Level
L1 e-Learning