Medicine and health systems

Code:

IM2014_02

Acronym:

MSS

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2020/2021 - 1S (of 01-09-2020 to 05-02-2021)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Master Programme in Medical Informatics

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIM	21	Current Studies Plan	1	-	6	55	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

Understand the diverse medical terminology and health services  processes and organization with emphasis to the Portuguese National Health Service. Learn the fundaments of medicine (intervenient, normal and disease concepts, clinical method and decision), health systems and current healthcare providing. Management and coding of clinical information and production of indicators.

Learning outcomes and competences

Competences:

• To know and discuss clinic nomenclatures and diagnosis related groups;


• Define strategies to audit the quality of information;


• Understand the importance of indicators for hospital management.

Skills:  

• Describe the institutions that compose the national health service;


• Keep informed of the developments in coding systems and nomenclatures in health;


• To have a critical spirit regarding the definition and use of standards in health;


• Evaluate the importance of standards and audit processes in the quality of biomedical information;


• Be able to search for and understand quality and performance indicators.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Introduction

• Objectives
•  Curricular unit structure
• Evaluation

Medicine

• Doctor: pre and postgraduate progression
• Clinical method and Medical Decision
• Terminology, Evidence based medicine and Decision

Health Systems

•  Structure and actors
•  Information and quality in health services

Standards in health information systems

• Terminologies and nomenclatures
• Classification and codification systems
• International classification of diseases (ICD and ICD-CM)
• Diagnosis related groups (DRG)

DRG in Portugal

Audit and quality of clinical information

• Data quality problems
• Auditing the quality of clinical information
• Auditing in NHS hospitals

Quality and performance indicators in health management

• Concepts of healthcare quality

Quality indicators in primary and secondary care

Mandatory literature

Shortliffe, E. and J. Cimino ; Biomedical Informatics - Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine, Springer, 2006
Michelle A. Green, Mary Jo Bowie; Essentials of Health Information Management: Principles and Practices, Cengage Learning,, 2010
Cruz-Correia RJ, Rodrigues PP, Freitas A, Almeida FC, Chen R, Altamiro C-P. ; Data Quality and Integration Issues in Electronic Health Records In: Hristidis V, editor. Information Discovery on Electronic Health Records: Chapman and Hall; p. 55-95., 2009

Teaching methods and learning activities

Online platform with syllabus content.
Theoretical lectures, seminars and practical lessons, with topic discussion (including examples in health), individual and group exercises, and hands-on training on medical scenarios.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	40,00
Participação presencial	10,00
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	5,00
Estudo autónomo	50,00
Frequência das aulas	27,00
Trabalho de investigação	80,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

At least 50% on the group assignment.

Calculation formula of final grade

Distributed evaluation: evaluation will include group assignments (with oral presentation) and a final exam.