Introduction
From medical centers and individual physicians adopting electronic medical records, to patients keeping track of chronic diseases through websites and apps, we live in an era of unprecedented access to health data. These data enable inference of drug side effects, causes of disease, and new treatments, but the new terminologies, policies, and challenges in understanding the data itself can make it difficult for computational researchers to apply their techniques to this new area and for health professionals to begin using informatics to solve practical problems. This course will give both groups the foundation needed to propose, evaluate and develop projects such as secondary analysis of health data and will enable them to begin effective interdisciplinary collaborations. Students will learn how health data is collected (in both hospital and non-hospital settings), how the structure of record systems impacts the research process and interpretation of results, and how to design and evaluate studies involving secondary use of health data (while complying with HIPAA and IRB regulations) in order to gain new medical knowledge and improve healthcare delivery.
Teacher
David Pfeffer
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
Email: dpfeffer@stevens.edu
Education
Bachelors of Science in Computer Science
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ
Honors; Minor in Law and Public Policy
Masters of Science in Computer Science
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ
4.0 GPA; Graduate Certificates in Computer Systems, Databases & Service Oriented Architecture, Distributed Systems, Enterprise Computing, Quantitative Software Engineering, Service Oriented Computing
Professional Societies
Member of the IEEE Computer Society and ACM.
Courses
CS 521 TCP/IP Networking
CS 570 Introduction to Programming, Data Structures, and Algorithms
CS 465 Selected Topics in Computer Science
SSW 810 Selected Topics in Systems Centric Software Engineering