Syllabus
Handouts, Assignments and Readings
MEBI 530, Fall 2011
Introduction to Biomedical
and Health Informatics
Assignment Calendar: (will be updated throughout the quarter)
| Week of | Topic | Reading
assignments due this day |
Homework
due this day |
| Week 1 Sept 29 |
Diversity of
Motivations and Backgrounds in BHI (slides) |
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| Week 2 Oct 4 |
Biomedical Context of
BHI (slides) |
Chapter
1 of Shortliffe and Cimino ("S&C"), p. 3-45 S&C Series preface and Preface to the 3rd edition |
2
page essay |
| Oct 6 | (slides) | 1.
“Genomes for All” (Church) 2. Chapter “The Case of the Red Leg” from “Complications” (Gawande) 3. Health Care as a Human Right video (Paul Farmer) (one man's perspective on global health) (* optional Kidder chapter) 4. Neil's genome |
Lecture
2 handout |
| Week 3 Oct 11 |
Evolution of Concepts in
BHI (slides) |
Ch. 2 “Creation of a
New Discipline” M Collen. Ch. 2 “Mapping Medical Informatics Research” (Eggers, Huang, Chen et al) Altman: “2010 Translational bioinformatics year in review” (2011) Ch. 24 “The Future of Computer Applications in Biomedicine” Fagan and Shortliffe (S&C 2006) |
Lecture
3 handout |
|
Oct 13 |
Tables of
contents from each:
|
Lecture 4 handout | |
| Week 4 Oct 18 |
Driving Problems, Forces
& Politics of Importance to BHI |
1. http://web.archive.org/web/20100801062657/http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/overview.asp 2. http://web.archive.org/web/20101204070629/http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/clinicalresearchtheme/ 3. CTSA RFA Install R: http://www.r-project.org/ |
Lecture 5 handout |
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Oct 20 |
(slides) | Lecture 6 handout | |
| Week 5 Oct 25 |
NO CLASS - AMIA |
NO CLASS |
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Oct 27 |
Ch. 11 “Evaluation and TCP Friedman et al; S&C 2006 | Lecture 7 handout | |
| Week 6 Nov 1 |
Successes and Failures in
BHI: Evaluating and Assessing |
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Nov 3 |
Lecture 8 handout | ||
| Week 7 Nov 8 |
Cultural and Philosophical Context of BHI | 1.
“Engineering
Knowledge:
The
Construction
of Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence”,
Forsythe. 2. “Knowing Engineers?: A Response to Forsythe”, Fleck. 3. “STS (Re)constructs Anthropology: A Reply to Fleck”, Forsythe. 4. (Post one article of current cultural/philosophical relevance to informatics on the bulletin board) |
Lecture 9 handout |
|
Nov 10 |
1. “Culture Bias in
Medicine” in
Lynn Payer, Medicine &
Culture: Varieties of Treatment in the United
States, England, West Germany, and France, Owl Books 1996 2. “The Ideology of Machines: Medical Technology” in Neil Postman,Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, Vintage Press 1993 3. Read the Meaningful Use Fact Sheet. 4. Read TABLE #1 ONLY of the Interim Final Rule on EHR Certification |
Lecture 10 handout | |
| Week 8 Nov 15 |
Decision Making: Making Sense of Information(slides) | Ch. 2 & 3, S&C 2006 | Lecture 11 handout |
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Nov 17 |
(slides) | Ch. 4, S&C 2006 Introduction to Decision Analysis and TreeAge (to be posted) |
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| Week 9 Nov 22 |
(slides) |
–Please download and install TreeAge http://www.treeage.com/products/download.html –Watch this 5 min video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T76R6Zx1aHw |
1) Identify a clinical
scenario of interest to you 2) Create a decision tree of at least 10 nodes with probabilities and payoffs 3) Bring to class on Tuesday |
| Week 10 |
TreeAge
intro handout * sample TreeAge file |
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| Week 11 |
Problem set due 12/8 | ||
| Finals week | Final
essay due 12/16 |
In the above calendar, "Text" refers to the Shortliffe textbook:
“Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine” 3rd Edition,
Shortliffe and Cimino (2006).
All other reading assignments from the primary literature are listed above.
Reading assignments:
Please read assignments prior to class and come prepared
to discuss them in class. Your participation in
class is crucial to forming your ideas, and will
contribute to the quality of your assignments and essays.
Homework:
Please submit homework assignments by noon on the due date via the course CollectIt Dropbox.
Last Updated:
Dec 1, 2011
Contact the instructor at: neilaNOSPAM@uw.edu (remove "NOSPAM")