2023-2024 / INFO9010-1

Medical records and hospital IT

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

 Master in biomedicine (120 ECTS)5 crédits 

Lecturer

Laurent Debra, Philippe Kolh, Michel Raze

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

1. Introduction

  • The hospital information system
  • Legal context, invoicing and financing
2. Architecture of IT infrastructures
  • Client-server architectures
  • Inter-server data exchange and technical structure of the datacenter
  • Different types of architectures
  • Private and public cloud
  • Data storage
3. Server virtualization
  • Concepts, interests,
  • understanding of goals
  • Performance management
  • Evaluation of the technical strategy
4. High availability of IT systems
  • Notions of high availability
  • Synchronization modes and adaptation to needs
  • Cost-benefit ratio and management of critical systems
5. Identity management
  • AAA - Authentication - Authorization - Accounting
  • Understanding of authentication methods
  • Notions of authentic sources, access rights management scheme and structure, "enterprise directory", ...
6. IT risk analysis - Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) and Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
  • Risk identification and analysis method
  • Risk treatment
  • Definitions of DRP IT and BCP Business.
7. Hospital application mapping
  • Standard systems (Human resources management, Accounting, Mail, web, telephony, etc.)
  • The laboratory management system (LIS)
  • The medical imaging management system (RIS / PACS)
  • The patient journey (outpatient and hospitalization)
  • The computerized patient record
  • Identity-vigilance
  • The drug circuit Logistics flows
  • Specialized systems
  • The difference between configuration and development
  • Decision support
  • Support for clinical routes, care routes and chronic pathologies, home hospitalization
8. Standards and communication, interoperability
  • Interoperability standards (HL7, FIHR, DICOM, IHE, ...)
  • Codification standards
  • Telemedicine and telecollaboration
  • Communication with external stakeholders (eHealthBox, RSW, hubs, etc.), hospital networks
  • Providing data to authorities
  • The digital offer for patients
  • Federal initiatives (eHealth, e-health plan, BMUC, etc.)
  • Cryptography concepts
9. Governance
  • Steering and management of the Hospital Information System (HIS)
  • Project management (project development, project team, initialization plan, stages, steering, planning, management process, etc.)
  • PRINCE2 concepts

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Understand, through an organizational, methodological, technical and application approach, hospital IT in order to use it optimally and pragmatically.
Get an overview of data mapping and key functions of hospital IT.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

No prerequisite

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Face-to-face teaching; visit of the ULiège datacenter

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Enseignement présentiel

Recommended or required readings

PPT slides accessible on MyUliege 

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

written exam ( open-ended questions ) AND oral exam


Additional information:

Oral examination with preparatory time; written examen with open-ended questions

Work placement(s)

No internship

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

Opening of the course ith a minimum of 3 registrants

Contacts

Pr Philippe Kolh
04/3665196
philippe.kolh@uliege.be
Michel Raze
04/3668872
michel.raze@chuliege.be
Laurent Debra
04/3664863
ldebra@uliege.be 

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