Tecnologias de Informação e Decisão Biomédica

The most boring course I have ever taken. Most of the things we learned in class were common sense, and at times the teachers were literally just looking at the slides and listing things. The field trips, where we saw in person some of the things talked about in class, were the only cool part of the course. We went to Hospital da Luz, Hospital Santa Maria (twice) and to the Health Center in Sete Rios. The exercises we did for evaluation were mostly easy, but the exam was surprisingly difficult(?!) and focused on specific details of the metric ton of content we had talked about. Still, grades...

Course with a light workload. ## Contents This course relies heavily on common sense. It was taken alongside Biomedical Engineering students. Apart from a few lab questions where you do some small calculations or basic database exercises related to biomedical data, there’s no practical content. 90% is theoretical. The course content covers how information technologies are used in healthcare (databases, decision support systems, text data processing, nomenclatures and information normalization, a bit of bioinformatics, ethics and data privacy, public health, etc.)....