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    • Medical Informatics

      EPI 206 Winter 2014 (1 unit)
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      Course Director: Ida Sim, MD, PhD
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      Professor, Department of Medicine
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    • Monday, January 20, 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).

      Please also let me know if I can share your answer to Question 3 anonymously with the rest of the class. I will just cut and paste into a file so we can all learn from each other.

      Thanks!

  • Tuesday, January 14, 2014; 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

    Lecture: Introduction

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

    Faculty:  Ida Sim

    Location:      China Basin 6702

    • Session Slides:

    • Jan14.Overview 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

    • Resources:

    • Basic Concepts in Medical Informatics File

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

       

    • ProblemSet#1 File

    • Assignment Due Date: 

    • Monday, January 20, 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 21, 2014; 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

    Lecture: Using Electronic Medical 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:      China Basin 6702

    • Session Slides:

    • Jan21.EMR File

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

    • Required Reading:

    • JAMIA MentalModels File

    • Optional Reading:

    • Desiderata-for-controlled-medical terminologies File

  • Tuesday, January 28, 2014; 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:      China Basin 6702

    • Session Slides:

    • Jan28.CDSS File

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

    • Required Reading:

    • CDSS Grand Challenges File
    • Data Mining in Med File

    • Assignment:

    • ProblemSet#2 File

    • Assignment Due Date:  (e.g.,  1 pm on April 1 2013” or  “At the beginning of Small Group Section”)

    • Due:     Monday, February 3, 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). 

    • Final Exam: Optional narrative description

    • Epi206 Final Problem Set File

    • Final Exam Due Date: Due (date) at (time, i.e. “1pm”,” at the beginning of Small Group Section”)

    • Due:     Friday, March 21, 2014, at 5 pm. E-mail to ida.sim@ucsf.edu. 

  • Tuesday, February 11, 2014; 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

    Note: No lecture on February 4

    Lecture: Clinical Research Systems, and Beyond

    Accessing APEX and other data at UCSF, standardized variables for clinical research, and beyond EHRs

    Faculty:  Ida Sim

    Location:      China Basin 6702

  • Tuesday, February 11, 2014; 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

    Lecture: New Clinical Research Paradigms

    Web 1.0 to Web 3.0 to the Internet of Things; the shape of research to come

    Faculty:  Ida Sim

    Location:      China Basin 5759 (NOTE different room)

  • Tuesday, February 18, 2014; 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

    Lecture: Selected Topics in Design and Methods for the Digital Age

    Design and methodological considerations for developing and evaluating digital health technology

    Faculty:  Ida Sim

    Location:      China Basin 6702