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CSCI 5312: Medical Informatics
Description
Explores the role of technology in healthcare environments to improve clinician performance and patient/care-giver quality of life. Topics covered include techniques for working with interdisciplinary groups, ethics surrounding technology and healthcare, developing assistive technologies, developing performance support systems, and evaluating applications in situ.
Outline
- Introduction to Medical Informatics (MI)
- Pervasive Healthcare
- Research in MI
- Performance Support Systems (PSSs)
- Assistive Technologies (ATs)
- Meeting with a Medical Expert
- Emergency Response
- Interdisciplinary Collaborations
- Ethics
- Interviewing Techniques
- Prototyping Techniques
- Evaluating a prototype with users
- Evaluating a prototype without users
- Alternative ways to collect data for MI applications
- Evaluating a prototype in a hospital
- How to analyze and present data
- Healthcare for the underserved
- HL7 and Internet MI
Objectives
- To develop the skills and practices necessary to collaborate with medical researchers to create assistive and performance support applications.
- To develop practical research oriented skills for interdisciplinary research.
- To provide an overview of ongoing and emerging research topics in medical informatics.
Prerequisites
Comfort in programming in new languages, user interface design recommended.
Education Officer (EO)
Required
Textbooks
Peer review research papers will be posted to the class website.
Hardware & Software
Email access.
Sample Lectures and YouTube Vignettes
| Lecture Title | Semester | Year | Type |
| CSCI5312L02 | Fall | 2008 | Lecture |
| CSCI5312L01 | Fall | 2008 | Lecture |
Upcoming & Previous Offerings
Meeting Days Legend: Monday (M), Tuesday (T), Wednesday (W), Thursday (R), Friday (F), Saturday (S), Sunday (U)
Summer Terms: M = Maymester, A = 1st 5 weeks, B= 2nd 5 weeks, C = 8 weeks, D= 10 weeks
Refer to the Academic Calendar for specific dates.
| Semester | Term | Time | Days | Location | Instructor | Additional Instructors |
| Fall 2008 | 03:00 PM - 03:50 PM | MWF | ECCS 1B12 | Siek, K | ||
| Spring 2007 | 05:00 PM - 06:15 PM | MW | ECCR 118 | Siek, K |
