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Clinical Decision Support and Knowledge Management

Clinical Decision Support and Knowledge Management. Staff Alan Rector email: rector@cs.man.ac.uk or Alan.Rector@man.ac.uk Format Lecture demonstration, discussion, Web, and lab 1-2 lecture-demo sessions per week interspersed with lab work Assessment

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Clinical Decision Support and Knowledge Management

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  1. Clinical Decision Support and Knowledge Management • Staff • Alan Rector • email: rector@cs.man.ac.uk or Alan.Rector@man.ac.uk • Format • Lecture demonstration, discussion, Web, and lab • 1-2 lecture-demo sessions per week interspersed with lab work • Assessment • Web searches and summary on a given topic 20% • Continuous assessment lab projects 40% • Exam 40% • But you must pass the exam to pass the course! www.cs.man.ac.uk/ai/modules/cds

  2. Conferences • Conferences • MEDINFO 2004 • -triennial • AMIA Fall Symposium (JAMIA) • MIE – Medical Informatics Europe • AIME – Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe • Journals • Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) • Journal of Biomedical Computing (Computers in Biomedical Research) • Methods of information in Medicine • International Journal of Biomedical Computing • IEEE transactions on biomedical computing www.cs.man.ac.uk/ai/modules/cds

  3. Course Web Site • Much of the course will use material from the web • Part of your assessment will be to contribute to the web site Course Web Sitewww.cs.man.ac.uk/~rector/modules/cds (last year’s …/cds-2003) Medinfo Ontology Tutorialhttp://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~rector/tutorials/medinfo • Bookmark the web site ASAP • Look at the cds_links.htm file - it is also part of the handout. www.cs.man.ac.uk/ai/modules/cds

  4. Texts • There just is no good single text • Readings to be distributed • Readings through web page • Handbook of Medical Informatics • See Web page “Good General Sites and Books” • Official texts – both badly out of date! • Clinical Decision Support Systems: Theory and Practice Ed Berner ES. Ball MJ1st Edition Jan 1988, Springer Verlag : ISBN0387985751 • Additional textEvaluation Methods in Medical Informatics Friedman CP, ed Wyatt JC, 1st Edition Jan 1987, Springer Verlag : ISBN0387942289 www.cs.man.ac.uk/ai/modules/cds

  5. Assessment details • Web sites and review of a topic - Due Week 5: 20% • Mini-project and Paper - Due final day of course: 40% • Something implemented in one of the tools • Ideal is “End to end” - not likely possible • Exam - 90 minutes written paper: 40% www.cs.man.ac.uk/ai/modules/cds

  6. Goals of Module • Understand the context of medical decision support, guidelines and protocols • Understand the difficulty of compiling protocols. (The task of gathering the evidence for protocols via “systematic review” requires a separate module. • Understand some of the difficulties in translating guidelines for human interpretation into computable form • Basic understanding of some of the technologies used • Basic understanding of the foundations required www.cs.man.ac.uk/ai/modules/cds

  7. Technologies & Tools • Primary Technologies • Structured text guidelines - Gemcutter • New version expected in March – currently sabotaged by Microsoft updates • Knowledge Representation and Ontologies Protégé-OWL • Rule based systems and Protocol Engines – Tallis/ ProForma / Protege • Belief Nets – Hugin or Netica (http://www.norsys.com/) • Object Oriented Design and UML - Universal Modelling Language - ArgoUML and HL7 RIM • Supplementary technologies • XML - the underlying syntax for just about everything these days • XML related technologies - at least to know their names XSLT, RDF, etc. • Best source is http://www.w3schools.com/ (not w3school (singular) which is a commercial squatter) www.cs.man.ac.uk/ai/modules/cds

  8. Fundamental Knowledge • Bayes theorem and utility theory • Enough to understand what makes good evidence and how evidence flows around a network • The difference between probability and expected utility • Elementary formal logic • Enough to understand the underlying connections between Knowledge Representation, Rules Based Systems and Object Oriented Modelling • Taught in half-hour a week mini-chunks plus problem sets www.cs.man.ac.uk/ai/modules/cds

  9. Plan for the Course • Week 2 • Gemcutter (we hope) • Week 3-6 • Knowledge Representation, Ontologies, Logic, Object Oriented Design, and UML • Weeks 7-8 • Statistical Methods and Belief nets and Utility • Weeks 9-10 • Formal Reasoning and ProForma (we hope) • Week 11 • Review and catch up. www.cs.man.ac.uk/ai/modules/cds

  10. Feedback and Supplementary Material • Up to you really • Please email me suggestions to add to the course web site. • rector@cs.man.ac.uk • alan.rector@manchester.ac.uk www.cs.man.ac.uk/ai/modules/cds

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