MDIF G4001 Introduction to Medical Informatics

Online Lecture Notes

Robert Jenders, Robert Sideli, George Hripcsak

About the notes

• Preface
• History and acknowledgement
• Distribution and copyright
• Corrections and contributions

Introduction: medical informatics and health care

• Medical informatics as a discipline
• IAIMS
• Medical process
• Managed care

Medical data

• Medical records
• Types of data
• Vocabularies, data coding, and classification
• Clinical databases and database models
• Data Review (Clinical and Research)
• Images

Interfaces

• Data Acquisition: Natural Language Processing
• Data Acquisition: Patient Monitoring
• Human-machine interface
• Networks
• Telemedicine
• Architecture
• Data exchange standards

Knowledge

• Probability and uncertainty
• Medical decision analysis
• Diagnosis and therapy aids
• Quick Medical Reference (QMR)
• Clinical event monitor
• Knowledge sharing and Arden Syntax
• Information retrieval
• Medical education

Systems

• Ancillary information systems
• Outpatient systems
• System implementation and CISs
• Evaluation

Sample homeworks

• Clinical Information System
• Coding Medical Data
• Vocabulary
• Vocabulary (Medical Entities Dictionary)
• Architecture
• Building a Research Query System
• Decision Analysis
• Decision Support Systems
• Information Retrieval

Sample examinations

• Midterm 1
• Midterm 2
• Midterm 3
• Final 1
• Final 2