• To provide open discussion among the participants on the definitions and scope of medical informatics
• To identify the component disciplines witin the field of biomedical informatics
• To introduce a clinical case summary that will be used throughout the the course to show how theoretical and practical aspects of informatics relate to health care

At the conclusion of the session, participants should:

• Have a basic understanding of the components of medical informatics
• Be able to characterize these components as technologies, concepts and skills

Outline

I. What is Medical Informatics - An open discussion
II. Component Disciplines
III. Concepts, Technologies and Skills
IV. External Forces
V. Case Presentation
VI. Course Overview

This lecture will discuss some research opportunities in Medical Informatics.

At the completion of the session, participants will:

• be able to accept or challenge this list of research opportunities
• be able to operate and understand ClinicalTrials.gov
• be able to access and evaluate examples of new Interactive Publications

Outline

1. Research Areas and Challenges in 2005
2. Electronic Health Record
3. Prospective Population Studies
4. Information for the Public: e.g., ClinicalTrials.gov
5. Interactive Publications

1. Be able to define Bioinformatics.
2. Compare and contrast bioinformatics and clinical informatics.
3. List several types of activities associated with the "OMICS": genomics, proteomics
4. Articulate the differences between microarray expression experiments and genomics.
5. Understand some of the ways in which bioinformatics is impacting electronic medical records.

• Describe terminology concepts and characteristics
• Provide examples of coding clinical data
• Examine the state of the art with respect to current standards
• Examine case studies of use and reuse of coded data

At the conclusion of the session, participants should:

• Understand the motivation for coding clinical data
• Understand the "desiderata" for high-quality controlled terminologies
• Be familiar with currently available terminologies

Outline

This pair of lectures is organized into six "threads" that will be woven together concurrently:

I. Clinical case
II. Use and reuse of data
III. Coding clinical data
IV. Available terminologies
V. Terminology concepts and desiderata
VI. Practical considerations

Outline

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• Define "database"
• Review the history of database architectures
• Teach the princples of database normalization
• Identify the basics for object-oriented database design
• Reinforce principles with a design exercise.

At the conclusion of the session, participants should:

• Understand the evolution of modern database architecture
• Understand some of the principles behind choices to be made when designing a database
• Have a basic understanding of database normalization

Outline

I. Definition
II. History of Database Architectures
III. Database Normalization
IV. Object-Oriented Table Design
V. Exercise: Database for Medline Records
VI. Exercise: Clinical Database

This session will consider issues in consumer health informatics with a special focus on health literacy. The role of information technology in addressing the needs of consumers will be discussed. Students will develop a working list of potential informatics interventions in their own institutional settings. At the conclusion of the session, participants should:

• Have an understanding of issues in consumer health informatics
• Have gained insight into the problems of health literacy
• Have an understanding of the role of information technology in consumer health

Session Outline

Session Outline

• NCBI Entrez Searching
• Parsing PubMed Queries
• Automatic Term Mapping
• What's New with PubMed
• Clinical Queries
• Journal Names
• Linking from Web Search Engines
• Spelling Suggestions
• Single Citation Matcher
• Full & First Author Searching
• My NCBI
• Automatic E-mail Updates
• LinkOut
• Mobile PubMed
• Gateway Overview
• NLM Catalog
• Hands On Lab Time

Outline

Educational Objectives:

• Learn four questions to ask to align enterprise and IT strategies
• Appreciate that IT can provide value to an enterprise in many ways, each with distinct costs and benefits
• Recognize trends in technology and informatics that are changing the art of the possible
• Appreciate the discontinuous nature of change in work process required to benefit from IT

1. Framework to guide thinking about alignment of enterprise and IT strategies.
2. Picking the purpose of IT in your business
3. Key trends in IT and informatics
4. One vision of how ready access to information might change health care in the near term
5. Status check

Outline

Educational Objectives:

• Appreciate that the fragmented nature of the health care information technology industry is a barrier to optimal clinical information access
• Appreciate how an architectural strategy of managing information separately from information systems might overcome the problems caused by this fragmentation.
• Distinguish between what may be purchased from a vendor and what must be provided by the enterprise

1. Health care information technology industry profile
2. An architectural approach to managing information as a corporate asset
3. Enterprise-vendor responsibilities
4. Case studies of system integration.

Outline

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• Understand the regulatory context for research data management approaches
• Be aware of specialized information technologies that are useful for clinical research
• Understand basic principles of information security as applied to research data
• Have access to curriculum materials for teaching this topic to healthcare professionals

Outline

1. Importance of information management methods for clinical research
2. Federal regulations: Good Clinical Practice standards and 21 CFR 11 guidance on electronic systems
3. Rational forms design
4. Specialized data acquisition technologies
5. Data archiving: database design principles
6. Using the Internet to conduct multi-center studies
7. Data Security: requirements of the HIPAA Security Rule
8. Availability of curriculum materials for this topic

Outline

This lecture discusses several aspects of upcoming technologies that are having and will have an impact on the way we view and use the Internet. At the completion of the session, participants will:

• Have received an introduction to the elements that underpin the Internet
• Be introduced to protocols present and emerging
• Receive a quick tour of the 802.xx wireless stew
• Be aware of some truly fascinating new technologies on the way
• Receive links to useful sites tracking developments in these fields

Session Outline

• The Internet is ...
• Protocols, addresses, names, oh my
• Routing
• Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Unlimited bandwidth
• Digital spread spectrum
• Bluetooth
• 802.egad
• New tech
• Ubiquity
• Dissemination