[sbis_l] Fwd: [Health IT] "Innovations in global health informatics" Harvard-MIT course online starts Friday at 9 AM

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From: "GHDonline (Hamish Fraser, MBChB, MRCP, MSc)" <tech@ghdonline.org>

Subject: [Health IT] "Innovations in global health informatics" Harvard-MIT course online starts Friday at 9 AM

Date: February 7, 2013 4:52:13 AM GMT+02:00

To: Beatriz de Faria Leao <bfleao@gmail.com>

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Hamish Fraser, MBChB, MRCP, MSc added a new discussion to the Health IT community.

Title: "Innovations in global health informatics" Harvard-MIT course online starts Friday at 9 AM

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"We are commencing the third year of the Harvard-MIT HST course "Innovations in global health informatics" on Friday 8th February at 9am EST. This year in addition to posting slides and videos for classes we will be live streaming them. The details of the course are on the web site at: http://sana.mit.edu/course/hst936/ and the link for streaming will be added by Friday.

The course will run every Friday from 9 AM - 12 PM at MIT. This year, the Boston based students will be working with engineering students from partner universities in Uganda, Colombia, Brazil, and Taiwan. The emphasis is on a multi-disciplinary approach to creating innovations that address global health problems. We have students from the Harvard School of Public Health, the Harvard medical informatics fellowship program, the Kennedy School, Brandeis University and Northeastern University. There will be joint projects between these groups.

As people on GHDonline likely know, global health is a challenging domain. While there have been impressive successes there are also frequent underperforming or failed projects despite large investments over many years. Brilliant passionate people have been drawn to this field, and in the last decade, have created many technological innovations but without much measurable impact on mortality and morbidity. We do not think that we are smarter than the generation before us who have been trying to solve the these problems with engineering solutions, but we are more aware of the complexity of the problem, and the necessity for  comprehensive solutions that address systems-level problems identified by healthcare workers in low income environments.  There are also important trends in information systems that make more solutions viable, including better and more open software, mobile telephony, batteries and solar voltaics.

The course will address the importance of understanding real requirements, innovation,  high quality engineering, effective implementation, and evaluation of systems from the viewpoints of performance and use, clinical impact and costs.

In the first lecture we will have Dr. Jessica Haberer from MGH, a global health expert, discuss the challenges and frustrations of working in this domain.

Hamish Fraser
Leo Celi
Kenneth Paik"

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