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

• Devoted to the study of the fields of medical informatics and bioinformatics, health sciences, nursing science and related disciplines.

• „Health and life sciences university“

Students and staff

• ~ 1.200 students• Bioinformatics• Health sciences• Nursing sciences • ….

• ~ 50 senior faculty (Post-Doc and Professors)

Funding

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

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)

Organization at UMIT

Dept. forBiomedical Sciences and

Engineering

Dept. forHuman and Economic

Sciences

Dept. forManagement and Medical Sciences

Dept. forNursing Sciences

Dept. forPublic Health,

Information Systems and HTA

• 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

Biomedical Department: Research

Biomedical Department: Education

B.Sc. in Biomedical Informatics(~ 50 students)

M.Sc. in Biomedical Informatics(~ 20 students)

Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics(~ 15 students)

B.Sc. in Mechatronics(~ 40 students)

M.Sc. in Mechatronics(planned)

All programs are in German, Ph.D. also in English.

B.Sc. Curriculum: 1st Year

Medicine Anatomy and Physiology, Clinical Medicine

Health Care Health care organization, medical documentation

Computer science Theoretical Informatics, Technical Informatics, Algorithms, Programming

Mathematics 1 + 2

B.Sc. Curriculum: 2nd Year

Medicine Genomics, Physics, Laboratory diagnostics

Computer science Databases, Software Engineering

Biomedical Informatics Health information systems, Knowledge Representation, Image and Signal Processing

Mathematics 3 + 4

B.Sc. Curriculum: 3rd Year

Biomedical informatics Model-based Image Analysis Data MiningBioinformatics

Health Care Healthcare economy

Computer science IT Project ManagementSoftware Project Communication systemsCryptography

M.Sc. Curriculum: Year 1 + 2

Medical BiometryeHealth and Telemedicine

Clinical information systemsStrategic Information Management

Biomedical Image ProcessingBiomedical Signal Processing

Decision Support SystemsPervasise Health Systems

Data WarehousingSoftware Project

Master Thesis…

BioinformaticsBiomathematics

Retrieval SystemsBiological Databases

Clinical GenomicsBiomarker Discovery

Modelling and SimulationSoftware Project

Master Thesis…

Track: Health Informatics Track: Biomedical Informatics

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

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