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  • Tuesday, January 17, 2017; 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

    Lecture: Introduction

    What is informatics, Overview of EHR and Research Informatics, Data vs. information vs. knowledge, Machine Learning and Likely Disruptions

    Faculty:  Ida Sim

    Location:      Mission Hall 1407

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture #1 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

    • Resources:

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

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

       

    • Problem Set #1 File

    • Assignment Due Date: 

    • Monday, January 23, e-mail to ida.sim@ucsf.edu by 5 PM. Please put your name inside your Word document, and call your file Name.ProblemSet#.doc (e.g., Lee.2.doc). Thanks!

  • Tuesday, January 24, 2017; 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:       Byers Hall 212

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture #2 File

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

    • Required Reading:

    •  Watch Dr. Sim's 3rd Annual Cochrane Lecture, 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgOgcs95fRk. The main ideas are summarized in the Annals of Internal Medicine paper Two Ways of Knowing.

    • Two Ways of Knowing File
    • Slides for 3rd Annual Cochrane Lecture File

    • Optional Reading:

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

  • Tuesday, January 31, 2017; 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:

    • Effectiveness of Electronic Differential Diagnoses (DDX) Generators File
    • CDSS Grand Challenges File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Problem Set #2 File

    • Due:     Monday, February 6, e-mail to ida.sim@ucsf.edu. Please put your name inside your Word document, and call your file Name.ProblemSet#.doc (e.g., Lee.2.doc). 

  • Tuesday, February 7, 2017; 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:

      "The merging of humans and machines is happening now." Perspective from the previous head of DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which funds AI research for the military), with relevance to biomedicine. 

      http://www.wired.co.uk/article/darpa-arati-prabhakar-humans-machines?

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

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

  • Tuesday, February 14, 2017; 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

    Lecture: Research in Mobile/Internet-Enabled Learning Health(care) Systems (Part 1)

    Using recently funded Learning Health System and Precision Medicine projects as examples to illustrate IRB considerations and informatics involved in assembling a diverse cohort and in recruiting, consenting and enrolling participants using EHR and mobile technologies. 

    Faculty:  Ida Sim

    Location:       Mission Hall 1407

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture #5 File

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

    • Required Reading:

    • My Heart Counts File

    • Optional Reading:

    • Ecological Momentary Assessment File
    • Digital Health: Tracking Physiomes and Activity File

    • Final Report: Optional narrative description

    • Final Report File

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

  • Tuesday, February 21, 2017; 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

    Lecture: Research in Mobile/Internet-Enabled Learning Health(care) Systems (Part 2)

    Using recently funded Learning Health System and Precision Medicine projects as examples to illustrate novel outcomes assessments, interventions, and intervention designs enabled by mobile and Internet technologies.  

    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

    • Optional Reading:

    • N-of-1 Studies File
    • 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):