Years ago, I used to get asked on a regular basis, What is Medical/Biomedical/Health Informatics? To answer this question, I created a Web site that attempted to answer it. Later on, I added some voice-over-Powerpoint lectures, which also provided me the opportunity to demonstrate the technologies we use in our distance learning program at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). In 2007, the site was accepted for listing in the Association of American Medical College (AAMC) online medical educational resource, MedEdPortal.
Keeping a site like this up to date is no small feat, especially at a time like this, when many people in the field are very busy carrying out work related to the Health Information Technology for Clinical and Economic Health (HITECH) Act. As readers of previous postings in this blog know, I have been very busy leading OHSU's contributions to the HITECH Workforce Development Program.
For this reason, the site had grown out of date, with its last major update in 2009, when the HITECH Act had just been passed. I am pleased to announce that I have now updated the lecture and references on the site to include not only everything related to HITECH, but also advances in other areas of biomedical and health informatics, including bioinformatics, information retrieval, and telemedicine.
The site still includes my voice-over-Powerpoint lectures, which have now expanded to about 2 hours and 40 minutes, but are still divided into seven segments. On almost every slide, I could go into even more detail. If nothing else, this site will hopefully whet peoples' appetites for the 10x10 program, the OHSU graduate program, or other programs.
The educational methods I use on this site mirror my on-line teaching. I have always found great value in voice-over-Powerpoint lectures, especially using the Articulate tool that provides the slides and sound in Flash format and also allows easy navigation among the slides. I also provide MP3 files of the slide audio (one MP3 per segment) as well as PDF files of the slides themselves (one PDF per segment). In addition, I provide another PDF that has references to all of the papers, reports, books, and other citations in the lecture. The site also contains a list of key textbooks as well as links to some of my papers and to important organizations and other sites for the field.
I look forward to receiving feedback from people and take full responsibility for any errors in any of the materials I have produced.
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Monday, September 5, 2011
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Overview of the OHSU Biomedical Informatics Program
People sometimes ask me for a big picture overview of all the programs available in the Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program in the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE) at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). I provide that in this posting.
Biomedical informatics is the field that uses information and related technologies to advance individual health, healthcare, public health, and biomedical research. Students enter with a variety of backgrounds and upon graduation take jobs in a diverse array of settings, including healthcare organizations, industry, research labs, and public health agencies. The OHSU program has offerings along many dimensions.
One dimension is the degree/certificate type:
The following table shows the degree/certificate and track dimensions, with each cell indicating whether or not the program is offered on-campus or on-line.
Where does the 10x10 ("ten by ten") program fit into this? The 10x10 curriculum is essentially equivalent to the introductory course (BMI 510) in the CI and HIM tracks.
More information is available on our program Web site: http://www.ohsu.edu/informatics/
Biomedical informatics is the field that uses information and related technologies to advance individual health, healthcare, public health, and biomedical research. Students enter with a variety of backgrounds and upon graduation take jobs in a diverse array of settings, including healthcare organizations, industry, research labs, and public health agencies. The OHSU program has offerings along many dimensions.
One dimension is the degree/certificate type:
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Biomedical Informatics
- Master of Science (MS) in Biomedical Informatics
- Master of Biomedical Informatics (MBI)
- Graduate Certificate (GC) in Biomedical Informatics
- Clinical Informatics (CI) - focus on health care, individual health, and public health
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) - focus on computational aspects of genomics and molecular biology, especially their relation to human health
- Health Information Management (HIM) - focus on Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) certification
The following table shows the degree/certificate and track dimensions, with each cell indicating whether or not the program is offered on-campus or on-line.
| Track Degree | CI | BCB | HIM |
| PhD | oc | oc | |
| MS | oc | oc | oc |
| MBI | oc/ol | oc | oc/ol |
| GC | oc/ol | oc/ol |
Where does the 10x10 ("ten by ten") program fit into this? The 10x10 curriculum is essentially equivalent to the introductory course (BMI 510) in the CI and HIM tracks.
More information is available on our program Web site: http://www.ohsu.edu/informatics/
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