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 Write this down 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 Intense Synthesis Paper Techniques to use when conducting medical informatics research Final Project 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 Database Retrieval 1958 National Library of Medicine and IBM work to create bibliographic database 1966 Massachusetts General Hospital Utility MultiProgramming System Key piece missing in the definition information technology Database Retrieval Clinician Support 1973 Robert Ledley creates Computer Topography Scans at NIST 1974 MYCIN created expert system to help diagnose infections Key piece missing in the definition information technology Database Retrieval Clinician Support Spread Mobile Support 1997 Apple researchers use Newton PDA in India 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Key piece missing in the definition information technology Database Retrieval Clinician Support Spread Mobile Support Field Split 2000 Consumer Health Informatics 2002 UbiHealth 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 Toscos 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 To Be Submitted 2007 Computing Systems Montr al Qu bec Jan 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 Improving the Effectiveness of Medical Treatment with Pervasive Computing Technologies Christian Floerkemeier and Frank Siegemund UbiHealth 2003 Floerkemeier and Siegemund 2003 Want to see how much nutrition your consuming fast Mobile 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 Siek Rogers Connelly IU 2005 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