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Subject: Dec 6th - Mips, Gips and Metaclinicians: The longer-term effect
of Healthcare Informatics
December 6th - Free lecture
Dr Derek Meyer
University of Westminster
Mips, Gips and Metaclinicians: The longer-term effect of Healthcare
Informatics on health and healthcare provision.
Predicting the effect of computers on medicine has a long and
dishonourable history. In the 1970s Stanford's MYCIN project focused the
power of Artificial Intelligence on clinical medicine: MYCIN advised
physicians on the diagnosis in brain and spinal cord infections and
lists antibiotics for treatment. This and other work on decision-support
technology was widely cited and appeared to deliver good results but had
no lasting influence on the profession. Since then ICT has transformed
the practice of architecture, journalism and banking, among others, but
has had little effect on clinical medicine.
The past is not a good guide to the future, and the fact that ICT has
not had much impact on health and healthcare provision does not mean
that society is immune from change in this area. In this talk I discuss
the possible impact of ICT on health and healthcare provision.
Dr Derek Meyer graduated as a doctor from Witswatersrand University, and
went on to study Healthcare Informatics at the University of Cape Town.
He also practiced as a doctor in a hospital in Katlehong, one of the
more violent of South Africa's townships, and was very active in the
anti-apartheid movement.
After a short career as a junior doctor in the NHS Derek left medicine
for a career in mainstream IT. Before joning the University of
Westminster he worked as technology consultant for the Canadian Imperial
Bank of Commerce in Toronto, spend two years as an IT Manager for
merchant bankers S. G. Warburg and was a senior consultant for database
vendors Sybase Inc.
Time: 6pm - 8.00pm. Cost: Free. All welcome! Especially PG
students.
Room: CPLW Centre M Block. Tea/Coffee/Biscuits available.
Westminster Business School, Marylebone Road, (Opp. Baker Street
Station, and Mme Tussauds)
Elayne Coakes (Dr)
Senior Lecturer in Business Information Management Westminster Business
School Rm CG70
+44(0)207 911 5000 x3338
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