Text: 

Medical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine. 2nd edition.

eds. Shortliffe et al.

 

Supplementary texts:

Healthcare Information Systems. ed. Davidson. Auerbach Publications

Telemedicine: National Academy Press

Networking Health: National Academy Press

For the Record: National Academy Press

The Computer Based Patient Record: National Academy Press

 

Lecture schedule

Feb 5 -  Introduction to Medicine (PDF) (PPT) Chapter 2

Feb 7 -  History of Computing in Medicine (PDF) (PPT) Chapter 1

Feb 12 -  Networks in Health Systems (PDF) (PPT) Chapters 5,10

Feb 14 - Universal Medical Record Chapter 9

Feb 19 - Assignment #1 - Home Health Network on the display wall

Feb 21 - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act: 1996 (guest: Mark Weiner MD) (PDF) (PPT)

Feb 26 - Confidentiality, Privacy and Security (PDF) (PPT) Chapters 4,7

Feb 28 - Computers in Medical Education (PDF) (PPT) Chapter 17

March 5 - Computer Simulation in Medicine

March 7 - Medical Imaging (guest: Jonathan Cohen MD)

March 12 - Medical Informatics (guest: Edward Shortliffe MD)

March 14 - Midterm

March 19-21-  Spring Break

March 26 - Computers in Medical Education (continued)

March 28 - Internet Medicine (PDF) (PPT)

April 2 - Internet Medicine (continued)

April 4 -  PDA's in Medicine (guest: Vernon Huang MD) (PDF) (PPT)

April 9 - Medical Devices and Biosensors/Telerobotics (guest: Erica Thaler MD) (PDF) (PPT)

April 11 - Assignment #2 - CPR on the Display Wall

April 16 - Computers, Medicine and the Law (PDF) (PPT)

April 18 - Clinical Decision Support Systems over the Past Three Decades (guest: Randy Miller MD) (PDF) (PPT)

April 23 - Data Mining and Data Visualization

April 25 - Neurotech and Nanomedicine

April 30 - Home Health Networks

May 2 - Final Projects due

N.B. Schedule subject to revision