The course considers especially whether or not technologies like the Internet present particular challenges for existing law. The course focuses on how proprietary interests in technology are protected, particularly by patent law but also by the law of trade secrets. Issues include the nature of the subject matter protected, the degree of protection afforded, and how the interests of the innovator, investor, competitor and public are harmonized. G6080 Topics in Medical Informatics Exploration of key themes and issues in medical informatics. Lectures by faculty and presentations by students on articles chosen from the medical informatics literature.
Content varies from year to year.
May be repeated for credit . The roles of theory and experiment. Public Health P8325 Risk Assessment, Management, Communication Outline of the process of risk assessment involving risk identification, concentration assessment, exposure assessment, quantitative toxicology, and risk characterization. Emphasis on derivation of assumptions and on the nature and extent of uncertainties in risk assessment. Consideration of the use of risk assessment in the separate processes of risk management and of risk perception and communication.