Day

Date

Subject

Pre-reading

Lecture notes

M

8/27

Introduction to class

Chapter 1

notes #1

W

8/29

Context – Healthcare systems

Chapter 1

notes #2

F

8/31

Context – Health information systems profession

Chapter 2

notes #3

M

9/3

Labor Day (NO CLASS)

W

9/5

Writing annotated bibliographies

Handout

annotated bib guideline

F

9/7

Context - Human resource management

Chapter 15

notes #4

M

9/10

Context - Operational management

Chapter 16

notes #5

W

9/12

Context - Financial resources matters

Chapter 17

notes #6

F

9/14

Context – Patient privacy and legal matters

Chapter 14

notes #7

M

9/17

Rosh Hashanah (NO CLASS)

W

9/19

Context - Patient privacy and legal matters

Technical Security Example

F

9/21

REVIEW

M

9/24

FIRST MIDTERM

W

9/26

Yom Kippur (NO CLASS)

F

9/28

Data – Health information infrastructure

Chapter 3

notes #8

M

10/1

Data – Health data concepts

Chapter 4

notes #9

W

10/3

Data – Electronic health records

Chapter 5

notes #10

F

10/5

Data – Classification and coding

Chapter 6

M

10/8

Data – Classification and coding examples

notes #11

W

10/10

Data – Clinical terminologies

notes #12

F

10/12

Data – Technological landscape

Chapter 7

notes #13

M

10/15

Data – Creating databases

W

10/17

Data – Querying databases

notes #14

Hospital Stays Database

F

10/19

Data – Querying databases

M

10/22

Data – Statistics

Chapter 10

notes #15

W

10/24

Data – Research and epidemiology

Chapter 11

notes #16

F

10/26

Review

M

10/29

SECOND MIDTERM

W

10/31

Data – Information systems evaluation

Chapter 12

F

11/2

Data – Data preparation

Chapter 13

M

11/5

Searching the biomedical literature (Guest lecture by Natalie Sturr)

W

11/7

Data – Data preparation

notes #17

F

11/9

Data – Classification

notes #18
heart dataset

M

11/12

Data - Prediction

notes #19
cleveland dataset

W

11/14

 Data - Clustering

notes #20

F

11/16

Artificial intelligence in medicine

AAAI Medicine

notes #21

M

11/19

Robots in the clinic

Incorporating a Robot into an Autism therapy Team (Goodrich et al.)
AAAI Robotics

W

11/21

Thanksgiving (NO CLASS)

F

11/23

Thanksgiving (NO CLASS)

M

11/26

Managing the EHR

Electronic Patient Record in Norway (Ellingsen and Monteiro)

W

11/28

Human computer interfaces for the disabled

A Blind Person’s Interactions with Technology (Shinoara and Tenenberg)

F

11/30

Simulations and visualization in biomedicine

Interfaces that Heal: Coupling Real and Virtual Objects to Treat Spider Phobia (Hoffman et al.)

M

12/3

Clinical decision support systems

Case-based Reasoning in the Health Sciences: What’s Next ? (Bichindaritz and Marling)

W

12/5

Bioinformatics

Initial Impact of the Sequencing of the Human Genome (Lander)

F

12/7

 Smart environments

How Smart are our Environments? An Updated Look at the State of the Art (Look and Das)

M

12/10

2pm – 4pm

FINAL PRESENTATIONS

1- A Comparative Study of Classification Methods for Microarray Data Analysis
2- Online Search for Logically-Related Noninteractive Medical Literatures: A Systematic Trial-and-Error Strategy
3- Eigenfactor
4- Impact of a Computer-based Patient Record on Data Collection Knowledge and Reasoning