Biomedical and Medical Informatics (BMI) is a very dynamic field undergoing rapid evolution and featuring centrally in health reforms across Europe. Emerging technologies in BMI are central to making healthcare more personalised, precise, reliable, safer and cost effective. The increased interest in BMI education and training is leading to transformative trends in creating new educational programs at higher education institutions in Europe offering a BMI degree. New emerging interdisciplinary domains are being added to the curriculum offering additional possibilities and challenges for engineers and system scientists to be involved, but at the same time imposing new demands on core teaching and learning competences.The development and implementation of the Centre-BMI to support educational process and courses appropriately addresses this pressing and real problem. This Centre will exploit new innovative cloud technology to support the creation and delivery of new courses/subjects in BMI that is complex and multidisciplinary. Courses will be offered both at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels to address a wide spectrum of core competency requirements. The Centre will provide an invigorating environment for the cooperation of technical and medical universities, and enterprises in BMI that will provide a pool of supplementary expertise, skills, and competences in this area. Both universities and enterprises’ contemporaneous participation in the project fosters a new trend of integrated medicine and IT educational provision relevant for the definition of an emerging innovative BMI-related professional profile that is well sought after by enterprises. This Centre will be open to other non-consortium partners that would like to be involved in cooperative activities helping to ensure the project’s impact and sustainability.
The main objective of the project was establishment of a Centre of Biomedical and Medical Informatics (CeBMI). The goal of the centre is to support further development of BMI in European countries by providing an invigorating environment for the cooperation of technical and medical universities and enterprises in BMI. This was achieved by creation of the CeBMI online portal (https://cebmi.fri.uniza.sk/portal/), which is currently available to anybody interesting in BMI without any fees.
The increased interest in BMI education and training is leading to transformative trends in creating new educational programs at higher education institutions in Europe offering a BMI degree. New emerging interdisciplinary domains are being added to the curriculum offering additional possibilities and challenges for engineers and system scientists to be involved, but at the same time imposing new demands on core teaching and learning competences.
<< Background >> The increased interest in BMI education and training is leading to transformative trends in creating new educational programs at higher education institutions in Europe offering a BMI degree. New emerging interdisciplinary domains are being added to the curriculum offering additional possibilities and challenges for engineers and system scientists to be involved, but at the same time imposing new demands on core teaching and learning competences. << Objectives >> The main objective of the project was establishment of a Centre of Biomedical and Medical Informatics (CeBMI). The goal of the centre is to support further development of BMI in European countries by providing an invigorating environment for the cooperation of technical and medical universities and enterprises in BMI. This was achieved by creation of the CeBMI online portal (https://cebmi.fri.uniza.sk/portal/), which is currently available to anybody interesting in BMI without any fees. << Implementation >> To achieve objectives of the project, 13 institutions from 9 European countries established knowledge alliance consortium. The partners within the consortium have shared the best practices in teaching BMI and have developed online portal that belongs to the main visible outputs of the project. Currently, the portal is running and all teaching materials (lectures, comments to lectures, online lectures, practical tasks, video-tutorials) developed by the partners are available on it. << Results >> The Centre CeBMI is created. Its background is portal CeBMI (https://cebmi.fri.uniza.sk/portal/)which collected more than 350 teaching materials divided into 9 thematic modules and joined 175 registered users, 22 educational institutes, and 6 companies. Resources of this portal allow the development of 2 new study programs "Biomedical Informatics" and "Epidemiology and Biomedical Data Science" and modified 3 curricula at the universities of the consortium.