6.872/HST.950 Biomedical Computing
Fall 2009
Instructors: Peter Szolovits, Gil Alterovitz, Marco F Ramoni
Course Secretary: Fern D Keniston
Lecture: TR9.30-11 (32-144)
Information:
The US is about to invest at least tens of billions of dollars in healthcare information technology (HIT), hoping to create the information base for improving access to care, continuity of care, medical decision making, and reduction in errors. At the same time, we hope to make more rational the delivery of care, providing the most effective and least expensive interventions possible. This shift, if it is to be accomplished successfully, will require not only vastly improved infrastructure but also improved methods of learning from experience.
Contemporary medical care requires health care providers (and patients and their families) to know a great deal about the diseases, genetic predispositions, signs and symptoms, treatments and medications of each individual. To exploit the potential contributions of improvements in our understanding of genomics, proteomics and the “new biology,” we must combine such data with the clinical data that represent the patient’s phenotype. We must also develop new analytical methods to find the important relationships among these data, and then apply them in many settings to improve health care.
These needs form an intriguing engineering challenge described in this class, along with methods and practices aimed at their solution.
Announcements
Personal experiences with hospital information systems
As you know, I missed a significant part of the semester having cardiac surgery at Mass General Hospital. I have written a few personal blog entries, two of which are particularly relevant to the topic of our class. The entry of 11/5/2009 discusses my impressions of the information systems I encountered at MGH, and the entry of 12/11 summarizes my discussion of implementation approaches with three Boston-area CIO's. The blog may be found athttp://people.csail.mit.edu/psz/home/Pete_MEDG_site/Blog/Blog.html
Announced on 11 December 2009 4:26 p.m. by Peter Szolovits
Course evaluation site
The course evaluation site is at:https://sixweb.mit.edu/student/evaluate/6.872-f2009
Announced on 10 December 2009 9:41 a.m. by Gil Alterovitz
Final Project NEW Schedule
New schedule for the presentations next week.TUESDAY 12/8
Estaban
Julia
Jean
Steven O'Brian
Katrine
George Clemmer
THURSDAY 12/10
Imaging
Rock and Roll
Predicting Heath
Tammy and Alex
Lu Wang
Zahir, Caitlin and Jacinda
Shanta Griffin
There is still one slot on Tuesday. If you do not see the name of your group, email me as soon as possible.
Announced on 05 December 2009 9:17 p.m. by Marco F Ramoni
Final Project Rules of Engagement
Project reports are due to me by Tuesday morning 9:30AM, before the beginning of the presentations.Each presentation will last 15 minutes plus 3 minutes for questions from the audience. Please make sure that EACH member of the team presents his contribution. Time limits will be enforced by me.
We look very much forward to your presentations.
Break a leg!
Announced on 04 December 2009 3:06 a.m. by Marco F Ramoni
Final Project Schedule
Following today conversations in class, here is the schedule for next week presentations, listed by the chosen name of the team:TUESDAY 12/8
Estaban
Julia
Jean
Steven O'Brian
Katrine
THURSDAY 12/10
Imaging
Rock and Roll
Predicting Heath
Tammy and Alex
Lu Wang
Contact me if you do not see the name of your team in the list.
Announced on 04 December 2009 3:03 a.m. by Marco F Ramoni
