MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2014 Activities by Sponsor - Institute for Medical Engineering & Science

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Big Data in Critical Care: Workshop & Conference

Leo Anthony Celi, Research Scientist - IMES

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

On behalf of the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Hacking Medicine and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, we would like to invite you to attend the Big Data in Critical Care: Workshop & Conference.
The event will bring together various disciplines - computer science, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, biostatistics, epidemiology, informatics, business, health policy, and the social sciences - from both academia and industry, with the goal of learning from routinely collected clinical data, as outlined in a recent discussion paper from the Institute of Medicine.

Workshop - January 3rd-5th

Participants will be divided into teams of data scientists and clinicians who will use the MIMIC database to work on pre-selected clinical questions or projects. Findings will be presented at the end of the workshop. The best presentation will be awarded a cash prize as well as the opportunity to present at the conference. We are also inviting teams from around the world to participate via WebEx.

Conference - January 7th

The purpose of this one day event is to bring together clinicians and data scientists to learn about and discuss the oppportunities and challenges facing meaningful, secondary use of critical care data.

Keynote speakers: Professor Jeffrey Drazen, editor-in-chief of New England Journal of Medicine, and Professor John Ioannidis

4th Floor, Stata Center, MIT
32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139

Register early: http://criticaldata.mit.edu/events.html

 

Sponsor(s): Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, SANA
Contact: Leo Anthony Celi, E25-505, (617) 253-7937, lceli@MIT.EDU


How will Big Data, Systems on a Chip, and Field Programmable Gate Arrays affect Measurement and Control Systems?

Joshua Brown, Boston Academic Field Engineer, National Instruments

Jan/29 Wed 01:00PM-03:00PM E25-119

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: None

Researchers often need to leverage the latest technology to develop measurement and control systems. These technologies often require a high level of specialized knowledge to implement successfully. However, researchers typically work in small teams with limited development resources. This seminar will discuss what technologies are impacting system design, provide an overview of National Instruments' platform approach to system design, and discuss how this approach can increase the productivity of small research teams.


No advanced registration necessary, but interested participants can register at http://sine.ni.com/nievents/app/offering/p/offeringId/1763790/site/nic/country/us/lang/en to access technical resources and interact with the developer community.

Sponsor(s): Institute for Medical Engineering & Science
Contact: Thomas Heldt, 617 324-5005, THOMAS@MIT.EDU