The widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) has created a new source of “big data”—namely, the record of routine clinical practice—as a by-product of care. This graduate class will teach you how to use EHR and other patient data for better healthcare.

The course has 20 lectures. The first 8 lectures will review the primary sources of healthcare data, their advantages and limitations, methods to transform the raw data into an analysis substrate, and the use of ontologies in data-mining. The remaining lectures will review several problem areas and analysis methods used in that problem area ending with home work and assigned readings. In addition, there are 8 discussion sections that provide in depth explanation of the methods referred to in the lectures. For 2017, the discussions will NOT be recorded and will be used to hone our skills in critical reading of recent publications related to the topics covered in class.

The course will use real, de-identified, large size patient datasets for home work projects associated with the course. This course is also offered in a 2 credit version (BIOMEDIN 225) which meets at the same time but requires only one home work, which uses public data.

Prerequisites: CS 106A; familiarity with statistics and biology.
Highly recommended: STATS 216.
Recommended: one of CS 246, STATS 305, HRP 258 or CS 229.

Schedule: TUE, THU 1:30 PM - 2:50 PM
Lectures: Gates B3 (Fall 2017). Lectures are recorded
Videos: https://mvideox.stanford.edu/Course/777 (posted about two hours after the class ends)
Discussion Sections: Some Wednesdays 12 - 1 PM, in MSOB room 275 (see class announcements)
Office hours: Fridays 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, in MSOB X237
Syllabus: 2017 Syllabus

TAs: Alejandro Schuler (aschuler AT stanford.edu), Stephen Pfohl (spfohl AT stanford.edu), Craig Smail (csmail AT stanford.edu)

• Go to https://canvas.stanford.edu/ and join BIOMEDIN 215
• If already enrolled, click here BIOMEDIN 215 site
• For BIOMEDIN 225, click here BIOMEDIN 225 site

R-tutorial

older version when we had year end projects