Transformational Technologies for Biology, Medicine & Health
How are new information technologies affecting health care and medicine? When you visit the doctor, is he/she using modern information management methods? Are medical errors more likely or less likely to occur with new technologies? And how will new knowledge about the human genome affect health care?
As a career, there are growing opportunities at the intersection of medicine, information science, and big data science. In this new course, we introduce the field of biomedical & health informatics through three modules that focus on current technologies in the field:
(1) Electronic health records,
(2) Consumer health informatics and
(3) Translational bioinformatics & personalized medicine.
Each module will include hands-on exercises, and course evaluation will be based primarily on team projects that explore the technologies involved.
5 Credits, with 2 lectures and one lab session / week.
Prerequisites: Enthusiastic interest in biomedical informatics
No required text: readings will come from primary literature with an occasional textbook chapter.
BIME 498, Spring Q 2018, Tues/Thurs 10:30-12:20; lab Wed 12:30-1:50
