By Maithilee Mitra – It started with a cloud infrastructure project that should have been straightforward. An enterprise IT team was tasked with building a cloud environment for researchers and data scientists, call them data users, to analyze findings and contribute to a multi-site data warehouse.
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By Maithilee Mitra – It started with a cloud infrastructure project that should have been straightforward. An enterprise IT team was tasked with building a cloud environment for researchers and data scientists, call them data users, to analyze findings and contribute to a multi-site data warehouse.
By William Hersh MD – In the last decade or so, a number of new names have emerged for the kinds of activities historically studied, disseminated, and taught by those who work in biomedical and health informatics. Each of these areas has emerged as a “hot topic” in biomedicine and healthcare, with resulting…
By William Hersh MD – I have written over the years about the need for all who work in biomedical and health informatics to have appropriate knowledge and skills in data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and related topics. I am now excited to announce that our OHSU Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program is launching a new course in…
By William Hersh – One of the most highly viewed posts of this blog is a 2015 posting, What is the Difference (If Any) Between Informatics and Data Science. One critique I have had of data science is the focus of most work on only showing prediction and not implementing prescription.
By William Hersh MD – Data Science is a broad field that intersects many other fields within and outside of biomedicine and health, including biomedical informatics. Data science is certainly an important component of research and educational programs in…
By William Hersh MD – Exactly 20 years ago, I organized a panel at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium that attracted so large an audience that the crowd spilled out of the room into the hallway.
By William Hersh MD – Over the last decade, I have had the fortunate opportunity to be involved in two efforts to develop widely available curricular resources in health information technology and data science.
By William Hersh MD – Like many academic health science universities, my institution has undertaken a planning process around data science. In the process of figuring how to merge our various data-related silos, we tried to look at what other universities were doing.