Description

Overview:

Analyzes computational needs of clinical medicine reviews systems and approaches that have been used to support those needs, and the relationship between clinical data and gene and protein measurements. Topics: the nature of clinical data; architecture and design of healthcare information systems; privacy and security issues; medical expertsystems; introduction to bioinformatics. Case studies and guest lectures describe contemporary systems and research projects. Term project using large clinical and genomic data sets integrates classroom topics.

Subject:

Allied Health

Level:

Graduate/Professional

Material Type:

Full Course

Author:

Alterovitz, Gil, Szolovits, Peter

Provider:

MIT

Provider Set:

MIT OpenCourseWare

Date Added:

01/01/2010