The aim of this course is to impart in-depth aspects of IT infrastructure planning and design in medical environment. These include topics such as the integration of various systems, communication infrastructure, data management, IT operations management, rules and regulations and their impact on the IT organization. After graduation students have the ability to consider the topics in the medical environments for the planning, analysis and implementation of IT infrastructure projects.

This course covers:

• Overview of IT infrastructure systems (technologies, processes, resources) in medical environments 
• Analysis, planning and implementation of IT infrastructure systems in medical environments 
• Integration of various systems in the medical environment 
• Typical rules, regulations and conditions and their impact on system design 

Didactic: The responsible research group communicates engineering and research views. Communication of the needed basics, information for additional research, presentation of real and often large case examples on IT infrastructure (eg organization-wide, national, or international IT infrastructure) in the medical environment, proving and experience in creating concepts, projects and applications.

Effort for the student (ECTS-Breakdown):

Preliminary talk: 1,5 h
Lectures: 18 h 
Preparation time for written exam: 54 h
Written exam: 1.5 h 

Total: 75 hrs (3 ECTS)