Standards and Integration Profiles in Biomedical Informatics

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Lecturers

Adj. Asst. Prof.
Miroslav Končar

Course Description

Interoperability layers in system communication. Standards and profiles in eHealth and mHealth (HL7v2, HL7v3, CDA, openEHR). Implementation of IHE industry profiles for system integration and interoperability. HL7 FHIR as industry leading integration and implementation framework for mobile and cloud technologies. Health data and clinical concepts modeling, in context of designing and implementing lifelong Electronic Health Record (EHR). Mobile health and telemedicine, remote patient monitoring, patient related outcomes measurements.

Study Programmes

University graduate
[FER3-HR] Biomedical Engineering - study
Elective Courses (2. semester)

Learning Outcomes

  1. Differentiate key healthcare standards for data exchange in healthcare ICT
  2. Apply HL7 methodology when modeling and implementing clinical systems interfaces for data exchange
  3. Apply IHE methodology for various use cases within IT infrastructure and application systems
  4. Describe main modeling methodologies for Electronic Health Records system design
  5. Recognize the key aspects of health and administrative terminologies, and application of those vocabularies with structured clinical data.

Forms of Teaching

Lectures

Seminars and workshops

Week by Week Schedule

  1. Lectures: HL7 mission and vision. Basic assumptions, methodology and frameworks for constructing HL7v2 messages, segments and fields. Dynamic model of message exchange, acknowledgement, processes mapping and implementation
  2. Lectures: HL7v2 messages, segments and fields. Data types and domains.
  3. Lectures: HL7v3. Reference information model. Message Development Framework, use cases, domain models, interactions and application roles. Examples from implementation practice.
  4. Lectures: HL7 CDA Clinical document architecture. Human and computer interoperability concepts. CDA Levels of structuring document information data.
  5. Lectures: HL7 CDA templates, conformance profiles, data elements. Examples from practice (e.g. specialist notes, discharge letters)
  6. Lectures: HL7 FHIR, mobile health, cloud systems. FHIR domain resources, FHIR API, exchange paradigms.
  7. Lectures: HL7 FHIR, mobile health, cloud systems. FHIR domain resources, FHIR API, exchange paradigms, data types
  8. Lectures: Midterm exam
  9. Lectures: openEHR methodology for Elecronic Healthcare Record architecture and system design. Process mapping, clinical entries, AQL
  10. Lectures: openEHR (cont'd) methodology for Elecronic Healthcare Record architecture and system design. Process mapping, clinical entries, AQL.
  11. Lectures: IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise). Industry profiles for system and application interoperability. Technical frameworks, profiles and implementation paradigms.
  12. Lectures: IHE continuation. ITI framework. XDS document exchange
  13. Lectures: eHealth, national and regional EHR systems. EHR architectures, key components for data exchange and management
  14. Lectures: Seminar presentation and discussion
  15. Lectures: Final exam

Literature

(.), J. Kern, M. Petrovečki (Ur.) (2009.), Medicinska informatika, Medicinska naklada, Zagreb,
(.), H. Van Bemmel, M.A. Musen (1997.), Handbook of Medical Informatics, Springer Verlag,
(.), E.H. Shortliffe, L.E. Perreault (Eds.) (2001.), Medical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine, 2nd Ed., Springer Verlag,
(.), Miroslav Končar (2010.), Interoperability of Health Systems. HL7 Compliant Implementation Model: Framework for Localizing Health Care IT Solutions Based on HL7 Standard, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing,
(.), Tim Benson, Grahame Grieve (2021.), Princpiples of Health Interoperability 4th Edition, Springer Nature Switzerland,

For students

General

ID 261439
  Summer semester
5 ECTS
L3 English Level
L1 e-Learning
30 Lectures
0 Seminar
0 Exercises
15 Laboratory exercises
0 Project laboratory
0 Physical education excercises