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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: [email protected]://www.umit.at