introduction to medical informatics class 1. agenda 3:00-3:15 announcements 3:15-3:30 about the...

Introduction to Medical Informatics

Class 1

Agenda• 3:00-3:15 Announcements

• 3:15-3:30 About the course

• 3:30-3:50 Introduction - What is medical informatics?

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Course website:

http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ksiek/Teaching/CSCI5312/F08/

Note: Lecture notes/slides will be posted before each class

Who am I?

Katie Siek, Assistant Professor

- ksiek@cs.colorado.edu

- ECOT 743 by appointment

-Put MI: in email subjects

Classroom Policies

Where to sit

Laptops

Information Appliances

Absentee Policies

• Religious Observances (2 weeks notice)

• Documentation

• Illness (must say cannot attend class)

• Death

• Law Incidents

• Travel (2 weeks notice)

Who is this class for?

• People interested in medical informatics or interdisciplinary research

• People interested in gaining research skills

• People interested in user interface design, human computer interaction, ubiquitous computing

• There will be a lot of reading

• There will be a lot of group collaboration

• There will be some programming within groups

What are we going to do in this class?

Topics in Medical Informatics

Techniques to use when conducting medical

informatics research

Synthesis Paper

Final Project

Intense

More time for project

Class Goals

1. To develop the skills and practices necessary to collaborate with medical researchers and create assistive and performance support applications.

2. To develop practical research oriented skills for interdisciplinary (or transdisciplinary) research.

3. To provide an overview of ongoing and emerging research topics in medical informatics.

About the Course• 20% Quizzes

• 8 short quizzes based on readings• 20% Class Participation

• Grad• 5% class participation• 15% research paper, paper approval, 15 minute presentation, 10 minute

discussion (includes CAETE students)

• 30% Synthesis Paper• 3 papers from highly selective conferences or journals• Construct a taxonomy and use the taxonomy as an

organizing principle for the paper• 30% Final Project

Course Management• Course Website

• Links to readings, slides, handouts, assignments• Google Group (CSCI5312)• Google Docs (wiki usage)• Assignments posted on the week they are assigned, not day

they are due (see Due Date table)

• Who has used Google Docs before?

When did Medical Informatics start?

A definition

Medical informatics is a systematic study of

the identification, collection, storage,

communication, retrieval, and analysis of data

about medical care services to improve

decisions made by clinicians.

H. Small. The “coxcomb”: Florence Nightingale’s most famous statistical diagram (1858). http://www.florence-nightingale-avenging-angel.co.uk/Coxcomb.htm.

Standard idea of medical informatics

…or…Good or Bad?

Different Idea, Same Medium

Key piece missing in the definition - information technology

1958National Library of Medicine and IBM work to create bibliographic database

1966

Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System

Database Retrieval

Key piece missing in the definition - information technology

1974

MYCIN created - expert system to help diagnose infections

Database Retrieval

1973Robert Ledley creates Computer Topography Scans at NIST

Clinician Support

Key piece missing in the definition - information technology

1996

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

Database Retrieval

1997

Apple researchers use Newton PDA in India

Clinician Support Spread Mobile Support

Key piece missing in the definition - information technology

2002

UbiHealth

Database Retrieval

2000

Consumer Health Informatics

Clinician Support Spread Mobile Support Field Split

Exertion application for preventative healthcare

Mueller, F. '. and Agamanolis, S. 2005. Sports over a distance. Comput. Entertain. 3, 3 (Jul. 2005), 4-4. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1077246.1077261

Assistive systems to help children and families

To Be Submitted: Jan. 2007Toscos, T., Faber, A., An, S., and Gandhi, M. P. 2006. Chick clique: persuasive technology to motivate teenage girls to exercise. In CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 22 - 27, 2006). CHI '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 1873-1878. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1125451.1125805

Want to help a pre-term baby?

Siek, IU, 2005

Ever forget to take your medicine?

Floerkemeier and Siegemund, 2003 Improving the Effectiveness of Medical Treatment with Pervasive Computing Technologies. Christian Floerkemeier and Frank Siegemund, UbiHealth 2003.

Want to see how much nutrition your consuming fast?

Siek, Rogers, Connelly, IU, 2005Mobile Applications that Empower People to Monitor their Personal Health. Kay H. Connelly, Anne M. Faber, Yvonne Rogers, Katie A. Siek, and Tammy Toscos. In Springer e&i, 123(4):124, 2006.

Help evaluations become more consistent with multiple users…

Kientz, J.A., G.R. Hayes, G.D. Abowd, and R.E. Grinter. From the War Room to the Living Room: Decision Support for Home-based Therapy Teams. To appear in the proceedings of CSCW 2006. Banff, Alberta, Canada. 2006.

Let’s try thinking of a solution…

• Hospital Waiting Room

• Waiting room is too small

• Need to utilize technology

• Decrease wait time

• Efficient use of resources

• Goal: Maximize the patients’ time getting medical attention

This is a real problem happening at local hospital!

Looking forward• Week 1 – Medical Informatics – Overview, Finding Papers• Week 2 – Pervasive Healthcare

• September 1 NO CLASS – Labor Day• Week 3 – Assistive Technologies• Week 4 – Qualitative Field Methods and Exercises

• September 17 NO CLASS – Field Exercise

Assignment• Create your account with the google group• Introduce yourself in the google profile

• Questions in Assignment (Due: Friday, August 29)• 2 Assigned readings (Quiz: Wednesday, September 3)• Grad: Sign up for your top three picks for class participation

presentations on the Google doc (Due: August, 31)