Syllabus Discussion Board CollectIt Dropbox Division Home Page Class Schedule Handouts, Assignments and Readings (coming soon)	Introduction to Biomedical and Health Informatics MEBI 530, Fall 2011
	Instructor: Neil Abernethy, Ph.D. Office: HSB I-264D Office hours: Thu 4-5 or by appointment Email: "neila" Class location: South Campus Center Room 303 Class times: Tue & Thu 2:30-3:50
	Course description: MEBI 530 provides an overview of biomedical and health informatics (BHI) from diverse perspectives, including:       - Motivations for BHI and drivers of change       - The biomedical contexts of BHI, including clinical, molecular, public       - health, and translational science perspectives       - The evolution of concepts and methods in BHI       - The cultural and philosophical context of BHI These perspectives are then used to look at some challenges for the field as a whole. The challenges explored include:       - Driving problems, forces, and politics of importance to BHI       - Successes and failures of BHI       - Making sense of information       - Representing information       - Biomedical data standards
	Announcements: Dec 2 Graded problem set posted - due Dec 8
Last Updated: 12/2/2011	Contact the instructor at:neilaNOSPAM@uw.edu (remove "NOSPAM")