the fourth session of The Cycle of Lectures in Medical Informatics at FMUP happened last Friday. <> > > > > "Opportunities and Challenges of Learning Health Systems" was the motto of the lecture of the professor and researcher Dutch Niels Peek, currently working at the University of Manchester.
"The event exists for more than 5 years and has sought to provide students with a mixture of speakers both national and international," said Pedro Pereira Rodrigues, organiser of cycle of lectures. The sessions arise, mainly, "in the context of the second year of the Master in Medical Informatics".
The speaker began the lecture with a good mood. It was a very special experience. "If you give a talk at these on a Friday at 17 hours in London, the room would be empty," said Niels Peek. The fact that there was in the Room 3 of the Medical Research Centre (CIM), which was almost full. The speech was divided into three parts.
"Heath Informatics"
In the first place, the teacher explained that the health systems are "a bridge between two areas: technology and health care," and that "it is necessary for team work to build". In addition, he warned that "to equip professionals with computer knowledge makes them have a potential higher compared to those who do not hold this power." However, he warns that "technology by itself is never more than human professionals scientifically certificates".
"The health systems have more to do with people than with technology" and "to work, you have to offer something that the person still does not know". "By these systems, they consist of an interaction between people and machines, we cannot deduce the results in advance," explained the researcher in Dutch.
"Learning Health Systems"
In the second time of the oral presentation, Peek has made an analogy between the health systems and the credit cards. The cards are also systems that "learn", to collect electronic data and have a "safety-net" updated continuously, that alert owners in case of suspicion of fraud.
Through the "Virtuous circle", the presenter revealed a way to solve problems of interest. The method passed by an interaction and reciprocity between the making of the right decision, action, data collection, data analysis, and interpretation of the results. "Learning health care system is a process that never ends", linked to the teacher.
A health system adopts, then, a few fundamental principles: it is not restricted only to a part of the system, is decentralized, reciprocal, and greater than a huge volume of data, also bringing knowledge to the practice.
Challenges
In the third and last part, the researcher mentioned that, today, health systems face three main challenges. The first challenge is the belief that "the data should be used only for the purpose for which they were collected". The second is by the use of "a large volume of data and machine learning will never replace traditional methods of research". And the third, "to speed up the search, all the data of medical care and health should be available for data scientists".
For this part of the communication Niels Peek brought technology and originality, leading to a dynamic through the app Sli.the. The public voted whether agreed or not with the challenge in question. After all the presents in the room that they had given their feedback and revealed the final results of the voting, Peek sought to know from your audience why a particular response has been the more voted.
In statements to the Newspaper the University of Porto (JUP), the researcher is Dutch, said that "when we are sick we go to the doctor but, very often, since we will later and then try to solve the problem will be very difficult and we can make ourselves in a patient with a chronic disease, for example."
health care systems should serve the people in a different way. Niels Peek explains that the traditional approach no longer works and that it is necessary to "prevent the problems from happening".
Lectures that help the students"
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Vera Pinto, a student of the Master in Medical Informatics of the FMUP confessed that "this type of lectures help students to gain access to subjects that are being studied and discussed today", and that you can probably "help you to develop a job in the future [master's thesis]".
as for Diana Silva, a student of the same branch, adds that in the labour market is saturated in your area (radiation therapy) it is important to realize how to differentiate themselves from other students, and "to diversify the range of opportunities".
Pedro Pereira Rodrigues is also studying the same cycle of studies. The spirit lived in the room was that the noted differences. "The most important thing is that we can have a more casual environment where there is a prospect of validation of scientific work human as there is normally in the Congress," said. The student further added that "there is a possibility for the students to interact closely with speakers of renown".
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