Biomedical Informatics Day Two (and Three)
September 28th, 2005 Stewart
Ah well, lofty goals. I seem to have fallen a little behind in getting these posts up. It is to the credit of this course that the days are so filled with instruction and other networking activities (read “beers at Cap’n Kidd“) that I’ve found it difficult to find time to post.
Yesterday there were presentations by Jim Cimino on controlled vocabulary and desiderata for terminology systems, and by Ted Shortliffe on the nature of diagnostic support systems. This could have been intimidating, sort of like being taught physics by Stephen Hawking, but the actual sessions were exceptionally worthwhile and the presenters themselves were very approachable.
And, yes, the informal networking has been really useful as well. Like-minded, interested budding informaticians from many different disciplines and different walks-of-life, frankly, get together and share some knowledge. In fact, my only real criticism of the structure of the course is that it is mostly lecture-based. Those times when the students have gotten involved in the discsussion have really been the shining moments of the course so far.
This morning, in fact, we had two of our best presentations, one on consumer health informatics and the other on public health informatics. The dialogue has been crisp, useful, and interesting.
Okay, enough for now. I’ve got about a half-dozen new ideas for various projects to start-up on my return to Buffalo, and I need to get them written down somewhere. More to come.
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