After successful completion of the course, students are able to have basic knowledge of the essential IT systems and IT infrastructures, the special requirements in design and implementation (medical environment, usability, communication, and data exchange, data protection and data security) and thus basic skills for responsible handling of medical data.

In addition, a graduate of this module is able to critically consider such information systems in their entirety and to actively participate in the design of these systems (individually and in combination).

• Definitions of terms and introduction to eHealth
• Introduction to types and structure of healthcare information systems
• Integration and communication between IT systems
• Architectures, implementation variants, and system context
• Basic aspects of medical documentation
• Domains, institutions, and stakeholders in healthcare based on patient journeys
• Introduction to important standards for medical data transmission and coding (HL7, DICOM, IHE Profiles, ICD, SNOMED CT, ...) Basic application possibilities and design principles for security aspects with a focus on the healthcare domain
• Practical application in selected case studies
• Independent development, testing, and experience in conceptualization, sub-projects, and implementation variants of information systems and IT infrastructure in the health care sector appropriate for the LVA as part of the exercise.

The responsible research group teaches engineering perspectives. Didactically, this means for the present LVA: Teaching of the necessary technical basics, definition and delimitation of terms, guidance for situational research in case of need for more in-depth knowledge, presentation of real, often large case studies in the context of the lecture, independent elaboration, testing and experience in concept formations, sub-projects and applications in the field of eHealth appropriate for the LVA as part of the exercise.

Estimated effort (ECTS Breakdown):

Preliminary meeting: 2h
Lecture units: 24h
Exercise elaborations:: 134h
Presentation of results incl. elaboration: 20h

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Total: 180 hours (6 ECTS)

In the lecture exercise, the necessary technical basics are taught, instructions are given for further research if more in-depth knowledge is required, and real, often large case studies are presented. In the practical exercises, in addition to the theoretical content of the lecture, different aspects of information systems and IT infrastructures in healthcare are further deepened or independently expanded in an exercise environment.