B2954 - Digital Healthcare

Academic Year 2025/2026

  • Docente: Serena Moscato
  • Credits: 3
  • SSD: ING-INF/06
  • Language: English
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Pharmacy (cod. 5987)

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide students with the basic skills related to digital health and to the main solutions for improving health service and their cost-quality ratio and for reducing differences between territories. Knowledge of health standards and of the General Data Protection Regulation Compliance guidelinesare part of the course.The general concepts will be declined with practical examples such as electronic health record, CUP and telemedicine projects for biomedical data transfer.

Course contents

Introduction to Digital Healthcare
Interoperability Standards for communication between Healthcare Information Systems
Electronic Health Record (EHR), Electronic Medical Record (EMR), and Centralized Booking System (CUP)
Overview of biomedical diagnostics: from electrophysiology to biomedical imaging
Regulations on medical devices
GDPR and health data processing
New frontiers in Digital Healthcare: Mobile Health and Artificial Intelligence

Readings/Bibliography

Digital Health - From assumptions to implementations, Homero Rivas, Thomas Boillat, Springer
Part of the book series: Health Informatics, Springer

 

Teaching methods

In-class lectures

Assessment methods

Written examination with optional oral.

Teaching tools

PowerPoint slides, scientific articles.

Office hours

See the website of Serena Moscato