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UMIT University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology Elske Ammenwerth

UMIT University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology Elske Ammenwerth. Introduction. UMIT was founded in 2001 D evoted to the study of the fields of medical informatics and bioinformatics, health sciences, nursing science and related disciplines.

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UMIT University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology Elske Ammenwerth

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  1. UMIT University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology Elske Ammenwerth

  2. Introduction • UMIT was founded in 2001 • Devoted to the study of the fields of medical informatics and bioinformatics, health sciences, nursing science and related disciplines. • „Health and life sciences university“

  3. Students and staff • ~ 1.200 students • Bioinformatics • Health sciences • Nursing sciences • …. • ~ 50 senior faculty (Post-Doc and Professors)

  4. Funding • Budget: Funded by • State of Tyrol (owner of UMIT) • Student fees • Third-party research funding

  5. Partners • Good links and cooperations with a lot of partners • University of Innsbruck (Joint programme in bioinformatics) • TILAK (owner of Tyrolean hospitals) • Industrial partners (mainly in Tyrol) • Academic partners (EFMI, IPHIE)

  6. Organization at UMIT Dept. for Biomedical Sciences and Engineering Dept. for Public Health, Information Systems and HTA Dept. for Management and Medical Sciences Dept. for Nursing Sciences Dept. for Human and Economic Sciences

  7. Biomedical Department: Research • 22 staff members • Examples for funded research projects: • Archetypes to structure the Electronic Health Record • Patient portals within the EHR • Contextualisation within CPOE systems • Systems biology of prostata cancer • Personalized cancer treatment • Data mining in bioinformatics • Segmentation of medical images using prior knowledge • Robotic systems for search and rescue operations

  8. Biomedical Department: Education B.Sc. in Biomedical Informatics (~ 50 students) B.Sc. in Mechatronics (~ 40 students) M.Sc. in Biomedical Informatics (~ 20 students) M.Sc. in Mechatronics (planned) Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics (~ 15 students) All programs are in German, Ph.D. also in English.

  9. B.Sc. Curriculum: 1st Year

  10. B.Sc. Curriculum: 2nd Year

  11. B.Sc. Curriculum: 3rd Year

  12. M.Sc. Curriculum: Year 1 + 2 Medical Biometry eHealth and Telemedicine Clinical information systems Strategic Information Management Biomedical Image Processing Biomedical Signal Processing Decision Support Systems Pervasise Health Systems Data Warehousing Software Project Master Thesis … Bioinformatics Biomathematics Retrieval Systems Biological Databases Clinical Genomics Biomarker Discovery Modelling and Simulation Software Project Master Thesis … Track: Health Informatics Track: Biomedical Informatics

  13. Student Exchange at UMIT • Member of IPHIE since 2001 • Erasmus Student Exchange Contracts with several universities in Europe (Amsterdam, Tampere, Barcelona, …) • Students often do their recommended internships outside Austria • IPHIE students are invited to come to UMIT

  14. Info: elske.ammenwerth@umit.athttp://www.umit.at

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