IMIA Telehealth Working Group Monthly Discussion Pad February 2025 Discussion 25th February, 2025, 7PM-8PM UTC Monday Online meeting, join here: https://meet.jit.si/moderated/3a39c94448b99193a754c124f80f587146c8b9b66cdd7dd14c278979be8bd475 Note: when you join, it will ask you to input your name, please put in your real name or your preferred name. Agenda

Notes on our activities: Telehealth Working Group of IMIA Last revision: 14-02-2025 author: Arindam Basu (co-chair, IMIA THWG) Introduction We have three activities in the group where everyone is encouraged to participate actively: yearbook article submission, annual report, and community calls. I have listed the dates/times, and what is involved for each one of them, and what to expect. Yearbook of Medical Informatics and Position Paper Annually, around end of September-October (September-October cycle), expect a message from the Working Group Co-chairs (Sriram or from me. or whoever else will be co-chairs) as a notice from "Lina Soualmia" or the "Yearbook Admin" inviting the Working Group to submit to the Yearbook with details of the special topic, and deadline. Usually this comes out after September each year, and the deadline is usually by the middle of January). For the past two years, we have submitted our final version of the manuscript around the second week of February.

List of members of IMIA Telehealth Working Group who want to be part of the AI and Telehealth Subgroup This is to collect a list of members of the IMIA THWG who are interested to be part of the Artificial Intelligence and Telehealth subgroup. There can be a number of activiies and documentations that we may have to work on including NLP, large language models such as chatGPT and LamDa, Bard, etc , generative AI, other forms of machine learning and predictive. modelling, but also ethics, applications, apps, and so on. Any area of interest is fine, but please indicate here. Our communication channel As a subgroup, we will use Discord to communicate with each other, this will create a private channel that will not disturb others if they do not like to read our emails, etc. We can also have voice chats when and if we want. To activate it, visit the following link: https://discord.gg/69sZzKEhFx This will create a temporary membership for you and if you have a discord account, list it below

Search results https://dsearch.com/search?q=computational+neuroscience+data+sets+eeg&rid=559659 EEGbase (requires registration) http://eegdatabase.kiv.zcu.cz/welcome?10 Lots of links, not all necessarily human EEG datasets https://compneuroweb.com/database.html Patient repository of EEG computational tools article

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You will need the following software and hardware to be installed Hardware: Please bring a laptop to the workshop, Please do NOT bring a chromebook (may not work), or tablet (such as iPad, or Android tablet) Please do not try to work using a cell phone it will not work Software: Please install or make sure you have Google Chrome or Firefox

Measures of Association Case study: COVID19 and CFS COVID19 is known to lead to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ("CFS") CFS is marked by extreme fatigue for six months or more Fatigue not relieved by rest Sleep does not help Problem with memory, focus, concentration Dizziness

Introduction to Epidemiology: a tour Epidemiology is the study of distribution and determinants of diseases in populations and use of this knowledge for the improvement in public health Epidemiology in triads Epidemiology triad Distribution of diseases Determinants of diseases

What is PRISMA Preferred Reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analysis 27 item checklist One flow chart Flow chart is the most widely used Why Needed Standardise meta-analyses and SRs

Toxicology What is Study of adverse effects of Physical Chemical Biological On living organisms On ecosystem

Causal inference From internal validity to causal inference Causal inference based on criteria Causal pie or apportionment Explore causation using DAGs Counterfactual theories of causation Simpson's paradox: why we need to study causality

Internal validity: chance, bias, confounding What is internal validity Chance Bias Confounding Chance

Study designs Ecological Studies Measurements are in aggregates Over space and over time Example: Fat in diet and breast cancer death rates Measles vaccination and drop in Measles

Measures of Association We will learn Attributable risk Attributable risk percent Relative Risk Odds and Odds Ratio Population Attributable risk%

Part I: Prevalence and Incidence Goals What is prevalence What is incidence What is age-specific prevalence and incidence How do we calculate age-standardised rates? What is the importance of these values?

Evidence based health As defined by Sackett (1996) Evidence based medicine is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. What is it? Conscientious: With Awareness, Expert Explicit: Defined steps and processes

Incidence and standardised rates Incidence is the rate of growth of new cases In susceptible people Measured in terms of new cases per unit of susceptible population Reported as incidence density or cumulative incidence Concept of person time Number of persons * Time period

Introduction to the course and overview In this lecture presentation ... A brief overview of the course Assessments and modules Due dates Basics of Environmental and Occupational Health Your questions and answers

HLTH214: Environmental and Occuptional Health Description HLTH214, "Environmental and Occupational Health" is a course of Environmental and Occupational Health for undergraduate students in the School of Health Sciences. The course is 0.125 EFT or 15 points, where 1 EFT = 40 hours/week. This means you are expected to spend 5 hours per week studying for this course. Two of these hours will be in the classroom. Learning outcomes After successful completion of this course, you will be able to: LO1. Define Environmental and occupational health related concepts

Course outline and handbook for HLTH403: Environmental Health Description of the course Environmental health is an integral aspect of the health of a community. Risks to environmental health include pollution, unsafe foods, and infectious diseases, and many of these risks are increasing as a result of growing populations globally, and the effects of climate change. This course provides the foundation for students to understand environmental health.HLTH403 is a post-graduate course in environmental health offered in the second semester and aimed at students of public health. This is a 30-point (0.25 EFT or Equivalent Full Time) course. This means if you are enrolled in this course, you are expected to spend 20 hours per week, or on an average 4 hours per day reading and researching about Environmental Health. We have three assignments for you to show your competence and mastery of the topics. This course is also a required course of study if you are enrolled in MHealSc at the School of Health Sciences and have opted for an endorsement in Environmental Health.