Introduction to Medical Informatics

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Introduction to Medical Informatics

• Class 1

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Agenda

• 300-315 Announcements
• 315-330 About the course
• 330-350 Introduction - What is medical
  informatics?

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Write this down
Course website http//www.cs.colorado.edu/ksiek/
Teaching/CSCI5312/F08/ Note Lecture
notes/slides will be posted before each class
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Who am I?

• Katie Siek, Assistant Professor
• ksiek_at_cs.colorado.edu
• ECOT 743 by appointment
• Put MI in email subjects

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Classroom Policies
Where to sit Laptops Information Appliances
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Absentee Policies

• Religious Observances (2 weeks notice)
• Documentation
• Illness (must say cannot attend class)
• Death
• Law Incidents
• Travel (2 weeks notice)

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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

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What are we going to do in this class?
Topics in Medical Informatics
Intense
Synthesis Paper
Techniques to use when conducting medical
informatics research
More time for project
Final Project
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Class Goals

• To develop the skills and practices necessary to
  collaborate with medical researchers and create
  assistive and performance support applications.
• To develop practical research oriented skills for
  interdisciplinary (or transdisciplinary)
  research.
• To provide an overview of ongoing and emerging
  research topics in medical informatics.

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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

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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?

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When did Medical Informatics start?
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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.
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H. Small. The coxcomb Florence Nightingales
most famous statistical diagram (1858).
http//www.florence-nightingale-avenging-angel.co.
uk/Coxcomb.htm.
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Standard idea of medical informatics
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orGood or Bad?
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Different Idea, Same Medium
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Key piece missing in the definition - information
technology
Database Retrieval
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Key piece missing in the definition - information
technology
Database Retrieval
Clinician Support
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Key piece missing in the definition - information
technology
Database Retrieval
Clinician Support
Spread
Mobile Support
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Key piece missing in the definition - information
technology
Database Retrieval
Clinician Support
Spread
Mobile Support
Field Split
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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/10.1145/107724
6.1077261
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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 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
To Be Submitted Jan. 2007
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Want to help a pre-term baby?
Siek, IU, 2005
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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
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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 ei, 123(4)124, 2006.
Siek, Rogers, Connelly, IU, 2005
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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.
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Lets 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

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This is a real problem happening at local
hospital!
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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

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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)