Princeton University
Computer Science Department

Computer Science 495
Special Topics in CS: Medical Informatics 

C. William Hanson M.D.

Schedule and Readings

Spring 2004

 

General Information | Schedule and Readings | Assignments

Text: 

bullet Medical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine. 2nd edition. eds. Shortliffe et al.

 

Supplementary texts:

bullet Healthcare Information Systems. ed. Davidson. Auerbach Publications
bullet Telemedicine: National Academy Press
bullet Networking Health: National Academy Press
bullet For the Record: National Academy Press
bullet The Computer Based Patient Record: National Academy Press
bullet The Visual Display of Quantitative Information: Edward Tufte
bullet Envisioning Information: Edward Tufte
bullet Visual Explanations: Edward Tufte

 

Lecture schedule
bullet February 3 - Introduction   ppt pdf
bullet February 5 - class cancelled
bullet February 10 - Challenger Data Visualization/Medical Errors ppt pdf
bullet February 12 - History of Computing in Medicine ppt pdf (Shortliffe ch 19)
bullet February 17 - Wall assignment # 1
bullet February 19 - History of Computing in Medicine (cont)/ Networks in Medicine ppt pdf
bullet February 24 - Networks in Medicine (cont) (Shortliffe ch 10)
bullet February 26 - Confidentiality (Shortliffe ch 7) ppt pdf
bullet March 2 - Guest lecture - Dr. Randy Miller (Vanderbilt) - Clinical Decision Support Systems (Shortliffe ch 16) ppt pdf
bullet March 4 - Confidentiality (cont)
bullet March 9 - Confidentiality/Universal Medical Record (Shortliffe ch 9)
bullet March 11 - Universal Medical Record (cont) ppt pdf
bullet March 16 - Spring break
bullet March 18 - Spring break
bullet March 23 - Guest Lecture - Dr. George Hripcsak (Columbia)
bullet March 25 - Midterm
bullet March 30 - Computers, Medicine and the Law ppt pdf
bullet April 1 - Computers in Medical Education ppt pdf/Computers and the Internet ppt pdf
bullet April 6 - Guest Lecture - Dr. Mark Weiner (Penn) - HIPAA
bullet April 8 - Guest lecture - Dr. Don Rucker (Siemens) - Computerized Physician Order Entry
bullet April 13 - in class presentations (Carnevale, Chang, Clarke, F-M)
bullet April 15 - in class presentations (Halliday, Hebden, Kwak, Moore)
bullet April 20 - Guest Lecture - Dr. Erica Thaler (Penn) - Biosensors and Robotics
bullet April 22 - in class presentations (Ong, Parker, Sanders)
bullet April 27 - Wall assignment # 2
bullet April 29 - AI/Data mining
 

N.B. Schedule subject to revision