BMI Course Information
BMI 505 Foundations of Biomedical Informatics Methods II (3)
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Fall 2009 |
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Spring 2009 |
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Catalog Description
The second semester of a two semester course surveying the methods and theories underlying the field of biomedical informatics.
Prerequisites
BMI 502
Textbook and Other Materials
Shortliffe EH and Cimino JJ (eds). Biomedical Informatics Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine, 3rd edition. 2006.
Course Learning Outcomes
Students who complete this course will be able to:
Understand theoretical foundations and current applications of informatics in health sciences and health care delivery systems.
- Clinical information systems (includes telemedicine).
- Biological information systems (includes Bioinformatics, Pharmacy informatics, and Computation Biology).
- Imaging systems
- Population health information systems (includes consumer health systems).
- Health care management and reimbursement systems.
Major Topics and Time Covered
The course explores techniques in mathematics, logic, decision science, computer science, engineering, cognitive science, management science and epidemiology, and demonstrates the application to health care and biomedicine.
- Language Processing: Information seeking, Information retrieval, Grammars, Parsing, representation
- Cognitive Modeling of Biological Data
- Evaluation and Measurement (Survey instruments, Focus group interviews, etc., usability evaluation of systems).
- Topics in Population and Public Health
- Evidence based medicine theory including guideline development and application
- Heuristic rules in biomedical decision making
- Decision Science (probability, Bayes analysis, information theory, decision analysis, Markov models) and decision support systems.
- Pharmacogenomics
- Medical Imaging and Data Visualization
- Biostatistics (Rates, Ratios, Tables and Graphs, Descriptive Statistics, Correlation Analysis, Probability and Probability Models, Estimation of a Mean, Introduction to Hypothesis Testing). These methods will be taught in connection with the above topics and sequenced through BMI 502 and BMI 505.