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Spring 2006 talks

01/20/2006 Ping Ma, Statistics 
01/27/2006 Brendan Frey, Engineering (U. Toronto) 
02/03/2006 Charles Whitfield, Entomology 
02/17/2006 Jose Meseguer, Computer Science 
02/24/2006 Xinguang Zhu, Plant Science 
03/03/2006 Jing Jiang, Computer Science 
03/10/2006 Bioinformatics Summit Week 
03/17/2006 Carlos Santos, Bioinformatics (U. Mich.) 
03/24/2006 UIUC spring break 
03/31/2006 Mike Colvin, Natural Sciences (UC-Merced) 
04/07/2006 No meeting 
04/14/2006 Huixia (Judy) Wang, Statistics 
04/21/2006 Jay Mittenthal, Cell & Structural Biology 
04/28/2006 William Hersh, Medical Informatics (OHSU) 
05/05/2006 Michael Erdmann (Carnegie Mellon) 
Fall 2005 talks

08/26/2005 Sheng Zhong, Bioengineering 
09/02/2005 Richard LeDuc, NIDA Center for Neuroproteomics 
09/09/2005 Xifeng Yan, Computer Science 
09/16/2005 Xu Ling, Computer Science 
09/23/2005 Saurabh Sinha, Computer Science 
09/30/2005 Hui Fang, Computer Science 
10/07/2005 Bruce Schatz, Medical Information Sciences 
10/14/2005 Kathy Lu, Bioengineering 
10/21/2005 Peter Bajcsy, NCSA 
10/28/2005 Uriel Kitron, Veterinary Medicine 
11/04/2005 Denis Larkin, Animal Sciences 
11/11/2005 Matthew Hudson, Crop Sciences 
12/02/2005 Sandra Rodriguez-Zas, Animal Sciences 
Spring 2005 talks

Charles Whitfield (Entomology) 1/28/05 
Peter Bajcsy (Automated Learning Group) 2/4/05 
Wei Xie (Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering) 2/11/05 
Gustavo Caetano-Anolles (Crop Science) 2/18/05 
Bruce Schatz (GSLIS; IGB) 2/25/05 
Xinguang Zhu (Plant Science) 3/4/05 
Gary Olsen (Microbiology) 3/11/05 
Tao Tao (Computer Science) 3/18/05 
Sameer Varma (Biophysics and Computational Biology) 4/1/05 
Christine Elsik (Texas A&M Univ.) 4/8/05 
Xin He (Bioinformatics MS Option, Computer Science) 4/15/05 
Xinghua Lu (Medical Univ. of S. Carolina) 4/22/05 
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10/07/2005 Bruce Schatz, Medical Information Sciences UIUC Medical Information Science 

Title: Internet Health Monitors: Distributed Infrastructure for Measuring Population Health

Slide set: http://www.canis.uiuc.edu/~schatz/monitors/health.monitors.ppt

Streaming video: http://beespace.cs.uiuc.edu:8080/ramgen/schatz100705.rm (RealMedia Player required)

Abstract: Healthcare is the dominant item in modern economies, and rapidly growing as the population ages. Current health systems are oriented towards acute illness in hospitals -- there is no current infrastructure that can handle the coming scale of chronic illness in homes. New information technologies can support viable healthcare infrastructure. Health monitors can measure the status of people in their homes and automatically route them to the appropriate provider. Such an infrastructure can be supported on a national scale, by providing personalized interactions via computer that generate detailed databases of patient records. Local interactions track progress of chronic conditions, while global analyses of individual records discover similar cases to guide individual healthcare.
My laboratory is building health monitor prototypes. These systems perform adaptive question asking, using quality of life questionnaires to ask targeted questions to individual patients, customized to their current conditions. The patient answers build a structured vector for each individual, precisely describing their current health status. These vectors can then be statistically clustered, to determine cohorts of similar patients requiring similar treatments. This talk describes concepts of Internet Health Monitors and preliminary experiments, along with plans for large-scale clinical trials within my new department.

Bio: Bruce Schatz is Professor and interim head in the department of Medical Information Science at UIUC, currently an "empty" department following the retirement of Nobel laureate Paul Lauterbur. He is principal investigator with the UIUC BeeSpace Project (www.beespace.uiuc.edu) and is affiliated with the Institute for Genomic Biology and the College of Library and Information Science. He also led the CANIS project (www.canis.uiuc.edu) .