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Introduction to
Biomedical & Health Informatics
MEDED 530, Fall, '04

General Syllabus

Week 1 Introduction, motivation & definitions: What is biomedical & health informatics? Scoping the course. (Thursday only)
Week 2 The three domains: Clinical medicine, biology, and public health.
Week 3

Foundation #1: Decision Support

Week 4 Decision support in practice
Week 5 Foundation #2: Knowledge and Data Representation
Week 6 Knowledge and data representation in practice
Week 7 Foundation #3: Information Access (Tues only -- Veterans day)
Week 8 Information access in practice
Week 9
Foundation #4: Socio-technical Issues (Tues only -- Turkey day)
Week 10 Socio-technical issues in practice
Week 11 ?? TBD . . .

(See assignments for more detailed, week-by-week information)

Last Updated:
Sept 26, '04

Contact the instructor at: gennari@u.washington.edu