Transformational Technologies for
Biology, Medicine, and Health
HA&S 396A & MEBI 498A, Spring, '08
Assignment Calendar: (will be under construction throughout the quarter)
| Week of | Topic | Reading assignments | Homeworks, exams |
| March 31 | Intro & Motivation | Mon: (none) Wed: M Ball, 2007. |
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| April 7 | PHRs & EHRs | Mon: Text, Chapter 1 Wed: Text, Chpt 2, sect 1-3; Chpt 12, sects 1-3 |
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| April 14 | Personal Health | Mon: Pratt et al., 2006. (Guest lecture by Andrea Civan) Wed: No reading |
Project #1 due Wed |
| April 21 | Medical Imaging | Mon: Text, Chpt 9 Wed: Ackerman, 1998 |
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| April 28 | Medical imaging | Mon:Text, Chpt 18, sections 1 and 2. Wed: No reading |
Project #2 due Wed Catalyst Exam #1: 5/1 & 5/2 |
| May 5 | Bio-Informatics & Biomedicine | Mon: Text, chpt 22 (entire) Wed: Hunter 2003 |
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| May 12 | Systems biology & the physiome | Mon: Pertsimlidis, 2002 Wed: Ideker, 2001 (pp. 343-355 & 364-366) |
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| May 19 | Public Health Informatics | Mon: Text, chpt 15 (sects. 1-3 only) Wed: Henning, 2003 & Mandl 2004 |
Project #3 due Mon |
| May 26 | Public Health Informatics | Mon: HOLIDAY Wed: No reading |
Catalyst Exam #2: 5/29& 5/30 |
| June 2 | Final review & Decision making under uncertainty | Mon: Text, chpt 24 (entire) Wed: No reading |
Project #4 due Wed |
In the above calendar, "Text" refers to the Shortliffe textbook:
Shortliffe, EH & Cimino, JC (2006). Biomedical Informatics: Computer applications in health care and biomedicine (3rd edition). Springer.
All other reading assignments from the primary literature can be retrieved from the course Eres pages. (Please note: there are more readings on this site than those that are actually assigned!)
General expectations:
My goals for the assignments in the course are to (a) teach you something about the breadth of biomedical informatics research and (b) give you hands-on experience with some of the systems used in the field. I will teach the course largely as a research seminar -- this means that parts of most classes will include student-led discussion.
I expect you to be adult learners. I am assuming you want to be in class, and that you want to learn the material I'm advertising to teach. I will therefore also expect to learn from you -- teaching and learning work best when it is a two-way street.
Reading assignments:
In addition to (obviously) reading these prior to class, I also expect you to be able to discuss them in class. In some cases, this may require multiple readings; it certainly means that you must think about what you read, and perhaps taking some notes to help you offer discussion points and ideas during class. To help with this task, I am requiring (see grading page) for you to write and post at a couple of sentences or thoughts to the class message board (Catalyst GoPost).
Thus, for each reading assignment listed above, please tell me (and your peers) something new that you learned from the reading, and optionally a follow-up question. You should certainly read other students' posts, and you may also reply or respond to these postings. (As specified on the grading page, class participation is 16% of your final grade.)
Exams:
The two exams will be conducted as Catalyst on-line (& open book) exams, and will therefore occur outside of the classroom. They will be primarily short-answer questions, and will be designed to evaluate your understanding of the broader concepts and over-arching themes in biomedical & health informatics. There will be no cummulative, final exam, nor any requirements during finals week.
Projects:
There are four projects, and each is described in a separate web page: see Project #1 , Project #2 , Project #3 and Project #4. Projects are to be handed in electronically, via the course catalyst drop box.
Last Updated:
May 12, '08
Contact the instructor at: gennari@u.washington.edu