6.872 Biomedical Computing
Fall 2006
Instructors: Peter Szolovits, Marco F Ramoni
Course Secretary: Fern D Keniston
Lecture: TR 2:30-4 P.M. (26-328)
Information:
Analyzes computational needs of clinical medicine, reviews systems and approaches that have been used to support those needs, and the relationship between clinical data and gene and protein measurements. Topics: the nature of clinical data; architecture and design of healthcare information systems; privacy and security issues; medical expert systems; introduction to bioinformatics. Case studies and guest lectures describe contemporary systems and research projects. Term project using large clinical and genomic data sets integrates classroom topics.
Announcements
Eta Kappa Nu Course Evaluation
The on-line course evaluation is available at https://sixweb.mit.edu/evaluate/6.872-f2006Please take a moment to do this, despite our having already done a paper evaluation form for HST. Note that the evaluation site officially closes at the end of Dec. 22.
Announced on 18 December 2006 10:50 a.m. by Peter Szolovits
Kaiser implementation troubles
You may find the following Computerworld article about technical problems with the implementation of the new Kaiser/Epoch e-health system instructive:http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005004
Announced on 16 November 2006 5:14 p.m. by Peter Szolovits
Planning Project
You should be thinking about the class project. I have posted a list of previously-investigated topics as Previous Projects under course materials. Gil has also contributed a list of potential topics in proteomics and biomolecular networks.Announced on 13 October 2006 3:34 p.m. by Peter Szolovits
Textbook available
The new edition for our textbook is now available. The citation isE. H. Shortliffe and J. J. Cimino (eds.) Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine, 3rd Edition. Springer 2006.
Be sure you do not get the earlier editions, which are quite out of date. I have not found local booksellers that stock this text, but it should be available at the usual on-line stores.
Announced on 19 September 2006 3:31 p.m. by Peter Szolovits
Class Information
Instructors may be reached most conveniently by email: Marco Ramoni or Peter Szolovits. Fern DeOliveira serves as class secretary. You may reach her by phone at (617) 253-5860 or by email. You may also use the Forum for the class to communicate with the staff and other students.Announced on 29 August 2006 12:14 p.m. by Peter Szolovits
