Readings

Below is a both an bibliography (in alphabetical order) of the readings associated with the lecture portion of the course and the readings by lecture session. See the labs section for the readings and assignments associated with each lab session. You may download a pdf version of the complete bibliography of all readings for both the lab and lecture sessions.

Allen, A. A. "Review of Cost Effectivness Research." Telemedicine Today (Oct. 98).

Annas, G. J. "The Health of the President and Presidential Candidates." NEJM 333, 14 (1995): 945-959.

Bazzoli, F. "Filling the Data Bucket." HealthCare Management (Nov. 1997): 62-74.

Bazzoli, F. "Justifying Where the Dollars Go." Health Care Management (Feb. 1998): 58-70.

Bero, C., J. Glaser, and J. Franklin. "Partners Community HealthCare Extranet (PCHInet): A Business Plan." Journal of Healthcare Information Management 14, 33 (2000): 41-54.

Berry, D. A., M. C. Wolff, and D. Sack. "Decision Making During a Phase III RCT." Controlled Clinical Trials 15 (1994): 360-378.

Betz, F. Managing Technological Innovation. New York: John Wiley, 1998, chap. 1 and 5 (pp. 1-18, 73-91), chap. 17 (pp. 279-297), chap. 19 (pp. 313-332).

Bloor, K., L. Davies, M. Drummond, and J. Mason. Costing Alongside Clinical Trials.

Brant, J. Confidentiality of Medical Information. 1996.

Chin, T. L. "A New Public Health Tool." Health Data Management (Feb. 1998): 32-34.

Christensen, M. Clayton, Richard M. J. Bohmer, and John Kenagy. "Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Health Care?" Harvard Business Review (September-October 2000): 102-117.

Coats, M. and T. Mellon. "Constructing Operational Specifications." Dr. Dobb's Journal (June 1995): 18-33.

Collen, M. F. "A Vision of Health Care and Informatics in 2008." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 6, 1 (Jan/Feb. 1999): 1-5.

Cushman, R. 'Serious Technology Assessment for Health Care Information Technology." JAMIA 4, 4 (July/Aug 1997).

D'Allessandro, M. P., J. R. Galvin, W. E. Erkonen, et. Al. "The Virtual Hosptial: An IAIMS Integrating Continuing Education into the WorkFlow." MD Computing 13, 4 (1996): 323-328.

Darkins, A. "The Management of Clinical Risk in Telemedicine Applications." J. Telemedicine. Telecare 2 (1996): 179-184.

Darkins, A., C. H. Dearden, L. G. Rocke, J. B. Martin, et al. "An Evaluation of Telemedical Support for a Minor Treatment Center." J. Telemedicine. Telecare 2, 2.

Drucker, P. Managing in Turbulent Times. New York: Harper Row, 1980, pp. 48-67.

Edmondson, Amy, Richard Bohmer, and Gary P. Pisano. "Speeding up Team Learning." Harvard Business Review 79, 9 (Oct. 2001): 125-134.

Einbinder, J., C. Rury, C. Safran. "Outcomes Research Using the EPR: BI Experience with Anticoagulation."

Fleishman, G. Turning to the Net to Lift the Shadows of Cancer's Dark Days. NYT.

Freeman, R. E. Strategic Management - A Stakeholder Approach. Boston: Pitman, 1984, pp. 1-27, 91-123.

Generic Competitive Strategies. Chap. 2, pp. 35-49.

Glaser, J. "Creating and Managing an Integrated Delivery System." MD Computing 17, 5 (September/October, 2000): 23-28.

Going to Market. President and Fellows of Harvard College, Harvard Business School Publishing, 1999, pp. 1-10.

Gray, J. E., C. Safran, R. B. Davis, et al. "Baby Carelink: Using the Internet and Telemedicine to Improve Care for High-Risk Infants." Pediatrics 106, 6 (2000): 1318-1324.

Grigsby, J. "Ineffective Cost Effectiveness." The Last Word. Telemedicine Today (Oct. 98): page 48.

Hafner, Katie. "Can the Internet Cure the Common Cold?" NYT, E1 (July 9, 1998).

Halamka, J., P. Szolovits, D. Rind, and C. Safran. "A WWW Implementation of National Recommendations for Protecting Electronic Health Information." JAIMA 4, 6 (1997): 458-464.

Hammer, M., and J. Champy. Rengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution. 1993, chap. 5, pp. 82-101.

Harris, L. M., "Confidentiality in Patient Centered Newtorked Health Care Systems." 1996.

Herzlinger, ePhysician, HBS Case. N9-302-021.

Herzlinger, R. "The Failed Revolution in Health Care. The Role of Management." Harvard Business Review (1989): 95-103.

Herzlinger, R. Market-Driven Healthcare: Who Wins, Who Loses in the Transformation of America's Largest Service Industry. Chap. 8-10, pp. 157-242.

Herzlinger, R. Market-Driven Focused Healthcare: The Role of Managers.

Herzlinger, R. The Truth About Managed Care. March 25, 1999.

Hisashige, A. HealthCare Technology Assessment and the Challenge to Pharmacoeconomics in Japan.

Houston, J. D., and D. C. Fiore. "Online Medical Survyes: Using the Internet as a Research Tool." MD Computing 15, 2 (1998): 116-120.

Hunt, D. V. "Integrated Product Development Today" (chapter 1). Rengineering. 1993.

Integrated Marketing Communications. President and Fellows of Harvard College, Harvard Business School Publishing, 1999, pp. 1-14.

Jay, A. Management and Machiavelli. 1994.

Joch, Alan. "Ready for Prime Time?" Health Care Informatics (Sep. 1998).

Kahn, M. Modeling Time in Medical Decision Support Program. October 22, 1990.

Kasper, J. F., A. G. Mulley, J. E. Wennberg. "Developing Shared Decision-Making Programs to Improve the Quality of Health Care." Journal of Quality Improvement 18, 6 (June 1992): 182-190.

Long, W. Medical Diagnosis Using a Probabilistic Causal Network. 1989, pp. 283-298.

Marletti, C. Imagine. HealthCare Informatics (Jan. 1998): 39-46.

Meador, C. L., L. G. Freeman, E. C. Zimmerman, and C. Safran. "The Millenium Bug, A Patient Centered Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment." MD Computing 15, 2 (1998): 88-94.

Musen, M. A., Tu, S. W. Das, A. K. Shahar, Y. "EON: A Component Based Approach to Automation of Protocol Directed Therapy." JAIMA. 3, 6 (Nov/Dec 1996): 367-387.

Nesheim, J. L. High Tech Start Up. Saratoga, CA: 1997, chap. 1 (pp. 1-12), chap. 3 (pp. 19-48), chap. 5 (pp. 63-86).

Networking Health: Prescriptions for the Internet (Executive Summary). Pp. 1-26. Committee on Enhancing the Internet for Health Applications.

New Economy Executives Face Longer Searches in Tough Market.

Note on Marketing Strategy. President and Fellows of Harvard College, Harvard Business School Publishing, 1997, pp. 1-16.

Note on Low-Tech Marketing Math. President and Fellows of Harvard College, Harvard Business School Publishing, 1998, pp. 1-9.

Object Domain Tutorial - Drawing Components Object Domain Systems Users Guide. September 1996, pp. 1-19.

"Object Oriented Databases." Software Digest 14, 7 (July 1997).

Ontario Guidelines for Economic Analysis of Pharmaceutical Products. Ministry of Health. Ontario. Pp. 1-15.

Ozbolt, J. G. "From Minimum Data to Maximum Impact. Using Clinical Data to Strengthen Patient Care." MD Computing 14, 4 (1997).

Patil, R. S., P. Szolovits. Information Acquisition in Diagnosis. PNAS conference. 1982, pp. 345-8.

Patil, R. S., P. Szolovits, and W. B. Schwartz. "Casual Understanding of Patient Illness in Medical Diagnosis." Readings in Medical Artificial Intelligence: The First Decade. Clancey and Shortliffe: 1984, Chap. 14, pp. 339-359.

Pilkington, G., and G. Pilkington. "Disease Management Theory versus Practice: What Lessons can be Learned from the US?" Dis. Manage. Health Outcomes 1, 3 (Mar. 1997): 121-128.

Pople, H. E. "Heuristic Models for Imposing Structure on Ill-structured Problems, the Structuring of Medical Diagnosis." Chapter 5 from Szolovits, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. 1982, pp. 119-190.

Porter, M. E., Competitive Strategy - Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors. New York: The Free Press, 1980, Introduction and Chapter 1, xiii - xx & pp. 1 - 33.

Product Policy. President and Fellows of Harvard College, Harvard Business School Publishing, 1984, pp. 1-7.

Rind, D., I. Kohane. "Confidentiality of Medical Records in the W3-EMRS Project." JAIMA (1997): page 989.

Roan, S. "Changing Their Role." LA times S1 (Jan. 24, 2000).

Safran, C., "High Tech or High Touch?: Rebuilding the Physician-Patient Relationship in a Time Starved Environment."

Safran, C., D. Rind, R. B. Davis, et al. "Implementing Practice Guidelines within a Knowledge Based Medical Record." 1993.

Sands, D. Z., J. D. Halamka, and D. Pellaton. "Patient Site: A Web-Based Clinical Communication and Health Education Tool."

Savas, S. D. "Health-e Opportunities in e-Health?" Goldman Sachs. November 11, 1999.

Schneider, P. "Toward a Global Medical Village." HealthCare Informatics (November 1997): 27-34.

Schwartz, W. B. "Medicine and the Computer." NEJM 283 (1970): 1257-1264.

Silverman, B. G., P. Jones, C. Safran, Reis, L…HOLON, June 1998.

Siwicki, B. "Applyibng the Internet in Health Care." Health Data Management (March 1998): 38-48.

------. "Health Data Security." Health Data Management (Sept. 1997): 46-50.

------. "Overcmoing Electronic Records Hurdles." Health Data Management (May 1998): 59-70.

Slack, W. V., G. P. Hicks, C. E. Reed, and L. J. Van Cura. "A Computer Based Medical History System." NEJM 274 (1996): 194-198m.

Slack, W. V. "CyberMedicine: How Computing Empowers Patients for Better Health Care." The Clinician On-Line. 1997, chap. 8.

------. "CyberMedicine: How Computing Empowers Patients for Better Health Care." MEDINFO 98 (1998).

------. The Issue of Privacy. Editorial.

------. "Patient Computer Dialogue A Review." Yearbook of Medical Informatics. 2000, pp. 71-78.

Slack W. V., C. Safran, and H. Bleich. "Computerization in Hospital Based Delivery Systems." Trabin, Computerization of Behavioral HealthCare. Chap. 8.

Spilker, B. Guide to Clinical Trials. Raven Press, 1996, chap. 3 (pp. 10-14), chap. 6-7 (pp. 27-58).

Spilker, B., and J. Schoenfelder. Data Collection Forms in Clinical Trials. Raven Press, 1991, pp. 1-11.

Szolovits, P. and S. G. Pauker. Categorical and Probabilistic Reasoning in Medical Diagnosis AI 11, (1978): 115-144.

US Dept. of HHS. Using Clinical Practice Guidelines To Evaluate Quality of Care, Vol. 1 (March 1995): 1-23.

Welch, S. R. Normative Clinical Trials. Appendix 7C (2/25/96): 7-71 to 7-83.

Western Governor's Association Telemedicine Report. Pp. 1-6. http://www.westgov.org/wga/publicat/actrept.htm

Western Governor's Association Telemedicine Action Update. Pp. 1-16. http://www.westgov.org/wga/publicat/combar4.htm

The Wilkerson Group. Integrated Health Care: Pharmaceutical Company Roles In a Seamless System of Care. March 1995, pp. 88-101.

Course Readings by Lecture Session

SES #  TOPICS READINGS
1 Introduction

The Black e-Bag

Required Readings:

Rainie, L., T. Spooner, B. Kalsnes, and S. Nof. "The Dot-Com Meltdown and the Web." Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Fox, S., and L. Rainie. Vital Decisions: How Internet Users Decide what Information to Trust when they or their loved ones are sick. Pew Internet & American Life Project. 2002.
2 The Future of Healthcare IT Ventures Required Readings:

Case Study: WebMD by: Peter J. Coughlan; Michael G. Rukstad; Carl Johnston. Harvard Business School Publication; Product Number:9-701-007.

Recommended Readings:

Lewis, M. The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.

Werth, B. The Billion-Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Moore, G. A., and R. McKenna. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Main Stream Customers. New York: Harper Business, 1999.
3 The Future of EPR and the E-Empowered Patient Required Readings:

Sands, D. Z., J. D. Halamka, and D. Pellaton. Patient Site: A Web-Based Clinical Communication and Health Education Tool.

Savas, S. D. Health-e Opportunities in e-Health? Goldman Sachs. November 11, 1999.

Safran, C., D. Rind, and R. B. Davis, et al. Implementing Practice Guidelines within a Knowledge Based Medical Record. 1993.

"Electronic Patient Centered Communication Resource Center." http://www.e-pcc.org

Kassirer, J. P. "The Next Transformation in the Delivery of Health Care." NEJM 332, 1: 52-53.

MacDonald, K., J. Case, and J. Metzger. E-Encounters. 2001.

Cain, M., R. Mittman. Diffusion of Innovation in Health Care.
4 Innovation and the Power of Disruptive Technology in Healthcare Required Readings:

A Brief Commentary on Disruptive Innovation in Healthcare: U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Testing the Limits of Innovation. SpencerStuart Directors' Breakfast Series.

Rigby, D., C. Zook. "Open-Market Innovation." Harvard Business Review (October 2002).
5 The Future of Biodefense and IT Required Readings:

Mandl, K. D. Infrastructure and Methods to Support Real Time Biosurveillance.

Lober, W. B., B. T. Karras, and M. M. Wagner, et al. "Roundtable on Bioterrorism Detection: Information System-based Surveillance." Journal of the American Informatics Association 9, 2 (2002): 105-115.

Goldenberg, A., G. Shmueli, R. A. Caruana, and S. E. Fienberg. "Early Statistical Detection of Anthrax Outbreaks by Tracking Over-the-Counter Medication Sales." PNAS 99, 8 (2002): 5237-5240.

Reis, B. Y., and K. D. Mandl."Time Series Modeling for Syndromic Surveillance." BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 2003.

Reis, B. Y., M. Pagano, and K. D. Mandl. "Using Temporal Context to Improve Biosurveillance." PNAS 100, 4: 1961-1965.

6 The Future of Healthcare Enterprise Computing Required Readings:

Glaser, J., and C. Bero. "Commentary: Connecting Health and Healthcare." Strengthening Organizational Performance of Academic Health Centers. Edited by D. Detmer and E. Steen. Cambridge University Press, In Press.

Glaser, J. "Lessons Learned: Implementing a Clinical Information Systems can Offer a Rich Education." Healthcare Informatics (Sept. 2002): 39-40.

------. "Experiences with Knowledge Application in Medical Care." Journal of Healthcare Information Management 16, 3 (2002): 23-29.

------. "Integration of Information Systems at Partners HealthCare System." MD Computing 17, 5 (Sept/Oct. 2000): 23-28.

7 Simulation Laboratory/Field Trip
8 The Future of Genomics and Informatics Required Readings:

"Distinct Types of Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma Identified by Gene Expression Profiling." Nature (2000).

"Discovering Functional Relationships Between RNA Expression and Chemotherapeutic Susceptibility Using Relevance Networks." PNAS (2000).

"Interpreting Patterns of Gene Expression with Self-organizing Maps: Methods and Application to Hematopoietic Differentiation." PNAS (1999).

9 Challenges in Implementing Bioinformatics Solutions

Summary:

Bioinformatics is advancing the new field of Clinical Genomics by providing the tools and the technologies used to bridge the gap between molecular biology and clinical medicine. These leading edge tools and processes will continue to facilitate the discovery of a new generation of safer and more effective therapeutics.

Required Readings:

Palfreyman, M., C. Vinod, and J. Blander. "The Importance of Using Human Based Models in Gene and Drug Discovery." Drug Discovery World (Fall 2002).

10 The Future of Academic Computing

Required Readings:

"PatientSite: A Web-based Clinical Communication and Health Education Tool."

11 The Future of Disease Management Required Readings:

Bodenheimer, T. "Disease Management - Promises and Pitfalls." NEJM 340, 15 (April 15, 1999): 1202-5.

Meigs, J. B., E. Cagliero, A. Dubey, P. Murphy-Sheehy, C. Gildesgame, H. Chueh, M. J. Barry, D. E. Singer, and D. M. Nathan. "A Controlled Trial of Web-based Diabetes Disease Management: The MGH Diabetes Primary Care Improvement Project." Diabetes Care 26, 3 (Mar. 2003): 750-7.

Adomeit, A., A. Baur, and R. Salfeld. "A New Model for Disease Management." McKinsey Quarterly.

Leider, H. L. "Gaining Physician Buy-In for Disease Management Initiatives." Disease Management Health Outcomes 6, 6 (Dec. 1999): 327-333.

------. "Selecting a Vendor for Disease Management Programs." Disease Management Health Outcomes 6, 13 (1999): 131-9.

Recommended Readings:

Wagner, E., and C. Davis, et al. "A Survey of Leading Chronic Disease Management Programs: Are They Consistent with the Literature?" Managed Care Quarterly 7, 3 (1999): 60-70.

Herzlinger, R. E. Market Driven Health Care. Reading (MA): Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1997.

Kozma et al. "A Model for Comprehensive Disease State Management." The Journal of Outcomes Management. (Feb. 1997): 4-8.

12 Review and Wrap-up
13 Final Presentations
14 Final Presentations