ELEC MEDICAL RECORDS:COMP IMP

Course No.

CS 639

 

Sections

002

 

Title

Medical Terminologies and Electronic Medical Records (In the catalog abbreviated as ELEC MEDICAL RECORDS:COMP IMP)

 

 

Course

Website

http://web.njit.edu/~geller/639/index.html

 

Prerequisite(s)

CS 631 or Undergraduate Database course or practical experience with a Database system or Permission of Instructor.

Some knowledge of programming in any modern high-level procedural programming language such as Java or C++ is helpful but not required.

 

Instructor

James Geller

·  Office Room No.: 4307 GITC

·  Office Phone: 973 596-3383

·  Fax : 973-596-5777

·  Email : geller@njit.edu

 

Instructor

Office Hours

TUE 1:45  – 3:15

WED 10:45 – 12:10

THU 11:30 – 2:30  BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

(Tentative; Subject to Change; Other hours by appointment)

 

Description

This course presents an introduction to Medical Informatics for Computer Science students by covering two important topics from Medical Informatics, namely (1) the design, use and auditing of medical terminologies and (2) principles of Electronic Medical Records, and its closely related “brethren” Electronic Health Records and Personal Health Records.

 

This is not a programming course.  However, there will be hands-on work with several browsers and EMR systems. 

 

The class will be held in a mixed lecture/seminar format. The professor will lecture roughly half of the class time.  After that we will read and discuss chapters in the text book or papers that will be handed out and/or do hands-on experiments with EMR systems and terminology systems. Every student will be expected to contribute to discussions. 

 

BRING YOUR LAPTOP if you have one.

 

Introductions to Medical Informatics assume a good knowledge of the language of medicine, which may not be assumed for Computer Science students.  However, Medical Informatics makes heavy use of computational tools and databases and is an area of intensive commercial growth. Thus, students taking this course will be prepared to work in what is undoubtedly a growth industry, namely medical software development.

 

This course is intended for graduate computer science students.  Graduate students in Information Systems, might also elect this course.  We hope to attract some UMDNJ students who might be interested in a deeper understanding of computational issues.

 

 

Topics
  • Introduction
  • An overview of the SNOMED medical terminology
  • The CliniClue SNOMED Browser
  • Theoretical underpinnings of the SNOMED
  • Other SNOMED-based systems
  • An overview of the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)
  • The NAT Browser for the UMLS
  • The UTS Browser for the UMLS
  • Auditing of Medical Terminologies – A state of the art review
  • An Intro to Electronic Medical Records
  • The Practice Fusion System
  • The MEDCIN System
  • Privacy, security and HIPAA issues in EMR/EHR systems
  • HITECH and Meaningful Use of EMR systems
  • Problem Lists
  • The future of EMR systems
  • EMR commercial products and Open Source systems 

 

Topics are subject to change or omission, depending on time.

 

Text Book(s)

1) REQUIRED

Electronic Health Records

By Richard Gartee, 2011.

Publisher: Pearson

ISBN: 0-13-261927-X

It is important that you get exactly this copy of the book NEW because it includes a key to access the software.

 

It is most likely that you get the correct book if you order from

www.MyPearsonStore.com (I believe free shipping is included.)

 

2) REQUIRED

Aspects of Electronic Health Record Systems

Second Edition

Harold P. Lehman, Patricia A. Abbott et al.

Springer Verlag

2006

ISBN 0-387-29154-7

 

3) RECOMMENDED but expensive

Edward H. Shortliffe, James J. Cimino, (Eds.), Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine (3rd edition), Springer-Verlag, 2006. 

 

4) REQUIRED

Handouts of research papers.

 

 

Time & Place

Monday  10:00AM – 12:55PM

CKB 212  SUBJECT TO CHANGE

(Central King Building, what used to be the Highschool).

 

Other Info

Exams:

There will be one Midterm Exam, and one Final Exam. 


Homework:

There will be four homework assignments involving working with EMR systems and terminology browsers. Some writing or Web research may be required.

 

Attendance and Participation:

Repeated absence is STRONGLY discouraged and will logically and definitely lead to students not doing well on exams.  


Grading: 
The assignments will be assigned points from the following maximum: 

Midterm: 200 
Final: 200 


Homework 1: 50 
Homework 2: 50 

Homework 3: 50 
Homework 4: 50 
______ 
Total 600 

At the end of the semester, I will add up your total points and curve the results for the whole class. 

 

Normal curving rules of the CS Department will be applied.

 

Note that most students typically get all the points on the 
Homework assignments. Thus your position in the curve and your class grade depend almost entirely on the exams. On the other hand, missing a single homework is highly likely to lower your grade at least one letter grade. 

 

Students expecting an A should aim to get at least 560 points.

However, this is NOT a guarantee.  It goes by the curve. You might have 560 points and still not get an A if everybody else had more points.


Computer Use:

You have to get an AFS account (ID), if you don't have one. 

 

You will need a printer, Web access and a text editor (notepad will do). 

Media Services can be reached at (973) 596-3005. 


If there is a password problem, try this: 
https://mypassword.njit.edu/db

 

 

In order to work from home on certain systems you need to install VPN. 
See Here: http://telecom.njit.edu/vpn/

 
Other details will be announced in class.

 

Cheating: 
The NJIT Honor Code will be upheld. 

Any violation will be brought to the immediate attention of the Dean of Students.