However, I never was a mathematician. The only thing - a mathematical knowledge that I got at schoo

Laboratory NSU-Intel, ICT SB RAS, RAMS and NSU since December last year began conducting interdisciplinary seminars "Information technologies in medicine." It would seem that such a trend should interest students of IT specialists, medical physicists (NSU there is a chair of biomedical physics) and others. However, as practice shows, such meetings are more interested in the older generation of scientists. But, however, while it's not about that.
As the organizer, the people at the seminar speak different languages. In Russian, but to understand each other and medical pros is difficult. Nevertheless, the head of the Laboratory of NSU-Intel Ekaterina Yablokov no doubt that this synergy is yet to come.
- These seminars failed me my life's from the seventies. Then, with my older brother went to study at the same time, he for the first year of NSU, and I - in first class. And behold, the third course as an experiment brother started to teach me what he studied at the university. By his ten years with him, I went to the Computing Center. What there were computers - few people remember. By the opportunities they conceded even modern cell phones. Five kilobytes of memory! Oh-oh-oh, that's a lot - laughing scientist. - But even they are allowed to calculate something.
All this time I have asked some questions related to mathematics. cal And in this thread and I'm so cool. However, after graduating from school, I went to medical school. Rate for the fourth realized that medicine is still not formalized science, which requires large calculations (so to speak on stage to-Newtonian physics - a lot of data, but how to apply mathematics is not yet clear).
However, I never was a mathematician. The only thing - a mathematical knowledge that I got at school and lack of fear of mathematics. Brother taught me that this science as a foreign language if something mastered, you can already say hello and ask for a glass of water.
In the early 90-ies in the clinic SCCEM SB RAMS was established clinical database. Mitrofanov was part of a group of scientists, developers, domain knowledge concerning different areas of science: medicine, programming, mathematics. cal They have created the database has been submitted electronically. You understand that in the midst of restructuring such innovations were not in demand. Scientists are ahead of their time, and their work was out of work. Develop a database that they are ten years later, the efficiency would be ten times higher.
- So we were absolutely worthless with all these nonsense. Praise us, but nobody did not give money. Naturally, programmers cal and mathematicians found other applications, - says Igor.
The seminar, which first came Igor Mitrofanov, was the first only for him. The foundation was laid in December. Then, the first seminar on "Current trends in the development of systems for monitoring human health." From that moment began a search for new opportunities to combine efforts of SB RAS, SB RAMS, Novosibirsk State University, high-tech companies, young scientists and students. According to the organizers, it could encourage the creation cal of "useful cal and modern" products for health care and to attract young to this work.
- It's complicated. That's just at the Spring Seminar, as I sat listening to speeches, I was reminded of a short story by O. Henry, in which the hero was selling another vehicle in different towns is called "according to his needs." Smartphone on which you can make calls, read books and to evaluate their health causes a feeling of carelessness. On a mountain streamer in Rocky Mountain has a placard: "If you're driving your arms around cal the girl, then all you're doing is bad."
If you create gadgets, they should serve as a measuring device, the highlight of which to simplify the life. However, it is terrible that people will use them and lose your time, considering that they control themselves.
Take, for example, blood glucose meters. A beautiful thing, do not argue. But improper evaluation of the values, and not always correct conduct procedures can bring patients to the point where they can not help a doctor. Striving for autonomy, which is necessary for life in our country, leads to self. And so it is impossible. Gadgets are designed to ensure that the patient at diagnosis control their condition, and the doctor is watching and adjust therapy. We have the same all the way around. People think that if they take the device, then they will be able to heal themselves and themselves. So that all these devices the two sides of the coin: and they are rotated depending on their use.
- I think that is not necessary. It repels them, and I know where it came from, at that time the university had five lectures and five seminars on higher cal mathematics, reading and people who do not realize in medicine. We were taught to differentiate and integrate, and why it is needed within medical math I still do not understand. All the complexity is that there is no interpreter, because mathematics is not given the story