Connecting for Data Science
Department brings HMS and four affiliated hospitals together for Clinical Informatics Lecture Series
The first Harvard Clinical Informatics Lecture Series of 2016 is underway, having kicked off in January with Grand Rounds hosted by DBMI Chair Zak Kohane. Dr. Kohane spoke about the intersection of precision medicine with clinical informatics and operations. He implored the audience to join him in the creation of two prerequisites to fulfilling precision medicine’s promise: educational programs for clinicians that bake quantitative reasoning into all medical decision making, and a genuine nationwide health-monitoring network.
This weekly series is a collaboration between DBMI, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital. While designed for clinical informaticians and fellows, it is open to anyone in the Harvard community as well as the general public.
The core content of clinical informatics is covered through lectures, grand rounds, journal clubs and works in progress. Meetings are on Tuesdays from 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm, with location determined by speaker's home institution. All grand rounds are held in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. Attendees are welcome to bring lunch to most locations. Events are delivered via WebEx for those unable to attend in person.
Here is the full list of meetings held so far:
| Title | Speaker | Format | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Precision Medicine Success? MD’s Don’t. MD’s Can’t. MD’s Won’t. You Can & Will. | Zak Kohane, MD, PhD Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital |
Grand Rounds | Harvard Medical School, Countway Library, Lahey Room | 1/12/16 |
| Well… How Did I Get Here? (and other musings on being an informatician in a leadership role) | Dan Nigrin, MD, MS Senior VP and Chief Information Officer Division of Endocrinology, Boston Children’s Hospital Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School |
Lecture | Boston Children’s Hospital, Wolbach Board Room | 1/19/16 |
| Graphical Display of Diagnostic Test Results in Electronic Health Records: A Comparison of 8 Systems & Improving Health Care Proxy Documentation Using a Web-Based Interview through a Patient Portal |
Justin Rousseau, MD & Mark Zhang, DO |
Journal Club | Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Eugene Eppinger Library conference room | 1/26/16 |
| Innovation in Medical Technology and Practice | Stan Finkelstein, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Senior Research Scientist, Engineering Systems Division and HST, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Lecture | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Clinical Informatics | 2/2/16 |
| Knowledge Representation for Scientific Discovery and Clinical Research | Alexa T. McCray, PhD Professor of Medicine Department of Biomedical Informatics, HMS; Division of Clinical Informatics, BIDMC |
Grand Rounds | Harvard Medical School, Countway Library, Classroom 403 | 2/9/16 |
| Development of an Integrated Data Management System | Jonathan Bickel, MD Assistant in Medicine; IT Physician Lead, BCH Biorepository; Senior Director, Business Intelligence and Clinical Research Informatics Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School |
Lecture | Boston Children’s Hospital, Gamble Library | 2/16/16 |
| Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) | Shawn Murphy, MD, PhD Medical Director of Research Computing and Informatics, Partners HealthCare; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Associate Neurologist, Massachusetts General Hospital |
Lecture | Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Cardiac Surgery Conference Room | 2/23/16 |
| ICD-10 Implementation Panel: Experience and Challenges in Practice | Ebrahim Barkoudah, MD, MPH Medical Director and Associate Chief of Hospital Medicine Unit at Brigham and Women's Hospital Jonathan Hron, MD Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program Director and Medical Informatics Lead for Communication & Education at Boston Children’s Hospital Amy Goldman Director of Ambulatory Operations & Strategic Initiatives at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center |
Panel Discussion | Harvard Medical School, Countway Library, Classroom 403 | 3/1/16 |
| Past, Present, and Future: A Conversation With Howard Bleich and Warner V. Slack on Informatics, Leadership, and Change | Warner V. Slack, MD Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Howard Bleich, MD Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School |
Grand Rounds | Harvard Medical School, Countway Library, Minot Room | 3/8/16 |