1. Define telemedicine and e-health.
2. Identify and explain the value (pros) and cons of telemedicine to patients, clinicians and health care organizations. Identify and explain the human and technological barriers to telemedicine.
3. Illustrate the application of telemedicine with examples in different specialties (radiology, dermatology, pathology, etc.) and identify their requirements.
4. Apply the specific telemedicine and e-health solutions that have been learnt to new clinical and health scenarios.
5. Describe the different types of telemedicine: teleconsultation, telemonitoring, telerehabilitation and telesurgery.
6. Describe the different phases of information lifecycle: capture, manipulation/compression, transmission, storage, retrieval and display.
6.1. Illustrate different types of sensors (temperature, blood pressure, pulse rate, glucose, etc.) with examples, and identify their main features.
6.2. Describe the basis of digitization for the captured information.
6.3. Describe the importance in the diagnosis and its relationship with the file size for the following concepts: lossy and lossless compression, image/video resolution, color model and color depth.
6.4. Describe main networks technologies (wired and wireless) and their subtypes (twisted pair, optical fiber, bluetooth, zigbee, wifi, satellite, mobile, etc.).
6.5. Apply some features regarding information transmission (bandwidth, latency, jitter, packetization and packet loss) to determine the feasibility of using different types of communications for the practice of telemedicine.
6.6. Define the concept of Body Area Networks (BAN) and Personal Area Networks (PAN) and their use in telemedicine.
6.7. Describe the differences between asynchronous (store-and-forward) and synchronous (real-time interactive) operation modes and identify the most suitable approach in different applications.
6.8. Describe the concept of database and how is information stored.
6.9. Define Hospital Information System (HIS) and identify the main solution being used in Catalunya.
6.10. Describe some features of displays: size, resolution, color and refresh rate.
7. Describe how security, privacy and confidentiality can be provided or preserved: physical security, networks security (e.g.. firewalls), authentication, encryption, integrity, availability and backups.
8. Describe the main requirements imposed by the Spanish regulation regarding personal data protection: Ley Orgánica de Protección de datos (LOPD).
9. Identify and describe the legal issues concerning the practice of telemedicine.
10. Describe the concept of World Wide Web and how it is used for the provision of e-health services.
11. Describe the importance of standardization and identify the following telemedicine related standards, standardization organizations or bodies: DICOM, LOINC, SNOMED-CT, HL7.
12. Explain the differences among the following technologies and illustrate their applications in medicine with examples: mHealth, games and videogames, virtual reality and augmented reality.
13. Explain the importance of usability and accessibility in the design of telemedicine and e-health applications.