82202 - Informatic

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Speech and Language Therapy (cod. 9080)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student will have the basic IT skills necessary for both using the main computer tools and managing the information systems of services, as well as for using the internet for research and medical informatics.

Course contents

Basic Knowledge

  • The computer, the algorithm, software and hardware
  • Computer networks and the Internet

Introduction to Health Informatics

  • Main areas of informatics in healthcare activities
  • Dematerialization of documents in clinical-healthcare settings
  • Validation and transmission tools for an electronic document
  • Digital archives and preservation of medical documents in public healthcare organizations
  • Protection and processing of health-related data

How to process a text document with a word processing program

  • Electronic writing
  • File formats
  • Creating documents with MS-Word

How to organize, process, and analyze biometric and clinical data with spreadsheets

  • Organizing, synthesizing, processing, analyzing, and representing data with MS-Excel
  • Importing/Exporting data
  • Creating, storing, and sharing spreadsheets with Google Drive and Google Sheets

How to create a relational database

  • Database structure
  • Database architecture
  • Relational model
  • Designing a database:
    • Database objects (tables, forms, queries)
    • Elements of Access

How to present and communicate data on screen

  • Presentations in MS-PowerPoint

Introduction to bibliographic search engines
The future: an introduction to big data and telemedicine.

Teaching methods

Lectures alternated with practical exercises, both individual and in small groups.


Assessment methods

Groups project presentation during lessons an exam with multiple-choice test and exercises

Office hours

See the website of Michela Fantini