The increasing introduction of computing technologies into biomedical environments requires that well-trained individuals be available not only to teach students, but also to design, develop, select and manage tomorrow’s biomedical computing systems. There is a wide range of context-dependent computing problems that people can appreciate only by working on problems defined by the healthcare environment and its constraints. With this goal in mind, the course will present a typical application of information science to medical issues (such as electronic health record systems, public health informatics versus consumer health informatics, health information infrastructure, telehealth), considering some basic technologies such as: database systems, standard definition both at the technical and semantic level, Internet-based communication, natural language processing, decision support systems.
