CS63061: Telemedicine

CS63061
Course name	Telemedicine
Offered by	Computer Science & Engineering
Credits	3
L-T-P	3-0-0
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Semester	Autumn

Syllabus

Syllabus mentioned in ERP

Introduction: What is Telemedicine? A historical perspective, Convergence of different technologies and services. Medical Information and Data: Representation, Acquisition, Presentation and Communication, Transducer, Analog Signal, Band-width of a signal, Digital Signal, Analog to Digital conversion, Quantization and Sampling, Encoding and Decoding, ECG, EEG, EMG and Phono-cardiogram, Digital Images and Video, DICOM standard, Image and Video compression: A brief introduction, Graphics Terminal and display. Fundamentals of Telecommunication: Signal, Channel, Channel Band-width, Carrier modulation and demodulation, Amplitude, Frequency and Phase modulation, Modulation of digital data: QAM, PSK, QPSK etc., Telephone line and modem, Communication media: Co-axial, UTP and STP cables, Fiber Optics Cable, wireless media, Satellite link, Mobile communication, Computer Network: OSI architecture, LAN and WAN. Protocols: Telnet, FTP, HTTP, TCP/IP, UDP/IP, Ethernet, Network security: Firewall, private and public IP, Encryption of digital data, public and private key encryption, digital signature. Health Care Management: Health care informatics: different components, Telemedical Information system, Organizational Management of Telemedicine, Implementation Barriers, HL7 standards, Security and Confidentiality. Telemedicine case studies. Evaluation and cost-benefit analysis of a telemedicine system. Medico-legal aspects of national and international telemedicine.