Department of Medical Informatics

About Us

The Department of Medical Informatics (MI) was established in 2003 to train students specializing in medical informatics used in the medical applications. To serve this education purpose, the department has been cooperating with the Chung-Shan University Hospital, local health industries, and the government agencies in central Taiwan region. Throughout years of development, the department has been regularly renewing its teaching equipment, software, and curriculum to meet the needs for future challenges.

Academics

Currently, this department hosts 9 full-time faculty and roughly 200 undergraduate and graduate students. Our education objective focuses on both information technology and its application in medicine. For the purpose, this department organizes a series of core courses to actively cultivate students with knowledge and skills on medical information technology and system integration management through learning multiple information technologies, clinical medical knowledge, and artificial intelligence applications. In order to achieve our goals, this department has set up the following objectives for students.

1. Strengthen medical ethics education
2. Enhance students’ knowledge of therapeutic information and management
3. Encourage students’ interdisciplinary learning and application
4. Stimulate students’ life-long learning and feedback to society.

Activity

The faculty members of this department actively encourage students to participate in various competitions related to information technology every year, including four major larger-scale national competitions organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Education, and semiconductor companies. Among these competitions, this department has frequently received many outstanding awards. For examples, participants from this department were awarded the 16th National Innovation Award, the 25th the International ICT Innovative Services Awards (InnoServe Awards), the "first place" and "Third Place," "Gold Medal" of the 2nd Intelligent IOT Project Competition. Moreover, to enhance students’ professional capability, the department organizes related workshops and seminars for our students to acquire first-hand information from industry annually. For example, the department holds workshops on career guidance, student-mentor counseling, internship experience sharing seminars, job fairs, career consultations, alumni feedback, and international visits. In addition, the MI department established a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the University of Tsukuba in Japan in 2019 for future academic exchange activities for faculty and students.

Faculty profile

Please refer to the faculty profile link.

Research

A variety of research projects are currently carried out this department ranging from health care, intelligent healthcare, big data analysis, medical decision science, medical data analysis, biomedical signal and medical image processing, smart living, and assistive technology, etc. The individual research interests of each faculty member should be able to find on the faculty profiles.