Student Projects in Health Informatics (1) |
A list of projects for students taking DJ9991 Introduction to Health Informatics within the MSc in Computational Methods and Imaging in Medicine at Manchester University.
Students must undertake two projects, one broad overview assignment selected from this list, and another from a second list that is not available until week 9 of the module.
Each project has a total of 30% of course marks attached, divided between a written report and an oral presentation of the same material, as shown below:
Students should select from one of the topics below and prepare the following.
Presentations will be judged on the content, organisation of the material and presentation skills of the student.
Written material will be judged on content and coverage, clarity and presentation.
Presentations will be given in week 6 in front of all students plus two
examiners.
Your written report should be handed in on the same day (2nd November)
Time: Wednesday 2pm, G824
Marks will be given out within two weeks after the work is handed in.
Your Project 1 written report should have about 3,000 words or ten pages including title page, references and any diagrams.
Choose one of the following topic areas (ensure that no one else in your class is doing the same topic). The items listed for each topic represent the minimum you should cover in your seminar and report. You should also quote the references you use.
Please email me at tom.sharpe@man.ac.uk to reserve a project.
Select one of the following major events in the history medical informatics. Your report should state the facts concisely, describe the context and background in which the work was carried out, evaluate the outcome of the project and the reasons for success or failure, and discuss the project's importance and the lessons learned.
Identify a real-world project from one of the categories below: your report should include a brief history of the project/topic, what support it has, any evaluation that has been carried out, an assessment of the importance of the project, and the future direction of the project.
Identify a project-in-progress that fits one of the categories below: your report should describe what the project is trying to achieve, how it is going to do it, what are likely to be the obstacles to that achievement and how far it has got.
Your report should draw on available published information and course notes to consider the impact of or need for a strategy.
Your report should provide some background on "coding systems" and what they are for, and should describe one of the following in detail, explaining its strength and weaknesses and where it is used.
Your report should provide some general background on diagnosis and human diagnostic reasoning, and should explain what clinical decision support systems are. It should then describe one of the following systems, and discuss how successful it was/is and how much it is/was used in practice.
Useful links:
A critical review of one of the following:
" Clinical decision support systems: Theory and practice. Eta S Berner (Ed).Springer-Verlag, New York, Inc. 1999. "
Heathfield HA. The rise and fall of expert systems in medicine. Expert systems journal, Vol.16: No. 3. August 1999.
L. C.Sheppard, J. F.Shott, N. F.Roberson, F. D.Wallace, and N. T.Kouchoukos Computer controlled infusion of vasoactive drugs in post cardiac surgical patients Proc. IEEE-EMBS Conf., pp. 280-284, 1979.
L. C.Sheppard Computer control of the infusion of vasoactive drugs Ann. Biomed. Eng., vol. 8, pp. 431-444, 1980.