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  • Tuesday, January 12, 2016; 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

    Lecture: Introduction

    What is informatics; Data vs. information vs. knowledge; Role of IT and informatics in improving health care and clinical research.

    Faculty:  Ida Sim

    Location:      Mission Hall 1407

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture #1 (best not to look at the slides before class) File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Required Reading:

    • Bellinger G, et al. Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom. URL
    • The Challenge of Complexity in Health Care File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • John Lennon's Elbow File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

    • Resources:

    • Basic Concepts in Medical Informatics File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

       

    • Problem Set #1 File
    • Sim Cochrane Keynote, slides File

  • Tuesday, January 19, 2016; 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

    Lecture: Using Electronic Health Records for Clinical Research

    Data models and vocabularies; costs/benefits of EHRs and their adoption; personal health records; implications for clinical research.

    Faculty:  Ida Sim

    Location:       Mission Hall 1407

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture #2 File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Required Reading:

    • JAMIA MentalModels File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

    • Optional Reading:

    • Desiderata-for-controlled-medical terminologies File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

  • Tuesday, January 26, 2016; 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

    Lecture: Clinical Decision Support Systems

    Clinical decision support systems (CDSSs); how they work; evaluating CDSSs.

    Faculty:  Ida Sim

    Location:       Mission Hall 1407

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture #3 File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Required Reading:

    • Critical Questions for Big Data File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

    • Optional Reading:

    • CDSS Grand Challenges File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Problem Set #2 File

  • Tuesday, February 2, 2016; 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

    Lecture: Web X.0

    Interoperability, Web X.0, the Internet of Things, setting the stage for 21st century science.  

    Faculty:  Ida Sim

    Location:       Mission Hall 1407

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture #4 File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Required Reading:

    • Optional Reading:

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Tool Files:

    • Datasets:

    • SAS Files:

    • Stata Files:

  • Tuesday, February 9, 2016; 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

    Lecture: Precision Medicine: A Case Study (Part 1)

    Using the Precision Medicine Initiative as an example to illustrate informatics involved in assembling a diverse cohort, and defining and collecting a variety of big data. 

    Faculty:  Ida Sim

    Location:       Mission Hall 1407

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture #5 File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Required Reading:

    • Optional Reading:

    • Participant Ownership of Clinical Trial Data File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Ecological Momentary Assessment File

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

    • Final Problem Set #3 File

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Tool Files:

    • Datasets:

    • SAS Files:

    • Stata Files:

  • Tuesday, February 16, 2016; 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

    Lecture: Precision Medicine: A Case Study (Part 2)

    Continuing the case study, from collecting data to ensuring participant engagement. Concluding with possibilities and methods for a data driven learning health(care) system. 

    Faculty:  Ida Sim

    Location:       Mission Hall 1407

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture #6 File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Required Reading:

    • Rapid, Responsive, Relevant (R3) Research File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • N-of-1 Studies File

    • Optional Reading:

    • Complexity, Simplicity, and Epidemiology File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Tool Files:

    • Datasets:

    • SAS Files:

    • Stata Files:

    • Final Exam: Optional narrative description

  • Tuesday, March 1, 2016; 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

    Lab Session:

    UC ReX Data Explore lab

    Faculty:  Ida Sim

    Location: MH-2105