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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The Center for Computational Health will be hosting its first seminar in a monthly seminar series on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 2:00pm in the TSRB auditorium on the first floor of 85 5th Street, NW, Atlanta, GA 30308. Parking can be found in the Centergy parking deck accessed from Spring Street. Our first invited speaker will be, Prof. Bruce Schatz from the Department of Medical Information Science and Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign. He will be presenting a talk on Healthcare Infrastructure in the Era of Health Monitors on Mobile Devices. Please see the abstract below and consult the attached flyer for further information. If you would like to meet with our speaker while he is visiting, please add your name and location to this Google Doc or contact Prof. Jimeng Sun who is hosting his visit here at Georgia Tech. Please join us for coffee and refreshments at 1:30pm before the talk in the TSRB pre-function area on the first floor outside the auditorium.
Title:
Healthcare Infrastructure in the Era of Health Monitors on Mobile Devices
Abstract:
Widespread availability of mobile devices is leading a revolution in health monitoring. Smartphones are nearly ubiquitous, and fitness devices are becoming popular, but it is still unclear what health status can be monitored with clinical quality. This talk discusses how research technologies in information systems are transforming predictive modeling for chronic disease in health systems. Digital libraries have become routine applications, emerging from research projects such as the speaker’s national flagships of past decades utilizing high performance computing. Semantic clustering on big data is now possible at scale beyond that required for population measurement in health systems. Data analytics using machine learning can compute health status, emerging from research projects such as the speaker's clinical experiments predicting walking patterns using only phone sensors. These predictive models can establish new healthcare infrastructure with passive monitors during normal activities of daily living, with detailed diagnosis supported by text mining. Dynamic population measurement with situational analysis will produce health systems for effective management of chronic disease, enabling preventative healthcare by projecting health status forward into the future.
Biography:
Bruce Schatz is Professor and Head of the Department of Medical Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Genomic Biology. He was Principal Investigator of national flagship NSF projects in digital libraries during the 1990s, which pioneered semantic federation across heterogeneous sources, and in bioinformatics during the 2000s, which pioneered functional analysis across gene expressions. He has been the largest user of shared memory supercomputers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the largest user of the national cloud computing testbed hosted at the University of Illinois, Department of Computer Science. He won best paper at AMIA in 1999 for the first semantic indexing of Medline, on supercomputers. He is AAAS Fellow for developing the first network browser for multimedia documents, which led directly to the creation of the World Wide Web. He is co-author of the first technical book on using mobile devices to revolutionize medicine and public health, Healthcare Infrastructure: Health Systems for Individuals and Populations (Springer 2011), leveraging regional health systems.
