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Medical Computing

Subjects: Biology · Computer Science · Technology

Art: after Jan Kalkar, Vesalius - Opera, 1725. Fig. 597, 1725 · Public domain

Instructors: Prof. Isaac Kohane, Prof. Lucila Ohno-Machado, Prof. Peter Szolovits
Term: Spring 2003
Level: Graduate
What's inside: 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 20 other files · 4 web pages
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Lecture 1: Introduction: Nature of Modern Medicine and Medical Practice

Lecture 2: Nature of Medical Data: Where it is and Where it is Not

Lecture 3: Genomics in Medicine: Centrality of Bioinformatics

Lecture 4: Patient Identification

Lecture 5: Countering Bioterrorism

Lecture 6: Workflow, Decision Support and Data Gathering

Lecture 7: Computing Support for the Enterprise

Lecture 8: Diagnosis, Standards, Codification

Lecture 9: Patient Data Confidentiality and Security

Lecture 10: Decreasing Variability in Health Care

Lecture 11: Computerized Physician Order Entry: Using Technology To Improve Patient Safety

Lecture 12: Integration and Data Sharing or Medical Data for Quality Improvement

Lecture 13: Telemedicine

Lecture 14: Genomic Medicine I: Population Genetics in the Post Genomic Era

Lecture 15: Genomic Medicine II: Expression Arrays, Gene Clustering and Distance Metrics

Lecture 16: Decision Analysis and Decision Support

Lecture 17: Getting to Causality in Functional Genomics

Lecture 18: Advanced Expert Systems

Lecture 19: Patient Monitoring

Lecture 20: Genomic Medicine III: Introduction to Genomics

Lecture 21: Genomic Medicine IV: Linking Genotypes and Phenotypes

Lecture 22: Genomic Medicine V: Reverse Engineering

Lecture 23: Student Presentations

Lecture 24: Student Presentations

Lecture 25: Student Presentations

Lecture 26: Student Presentations