Past Seminars
November 6, 2009 12:15 - "Are the Data in Your Electronic Records Correct? Lessons from the Maryland Cancer Registry"
Diane M. Dwyer, M.D., Medical Director, Center for Cancer Surveillance and Control, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Ojectives: 1. Describe the reporting systems, data systems, and coding used for cancer cases in the United States and Canada 2. Descirbe how data are evaluated and edits are set to assure quality data 3. Name two problems found in the Maryland Cancer Registry data for 2002 diagnosis year and how they were identified, investigated, and remediated 4. Describe how these lessons are applicable to other electronic health record data
October 30, 2009 12:15 - "Life by the Book: Pragmatically Using Text in Large Scale -Omics" ***THIS SESSION WILL NOT BE WEBCASTED***
Hagit Shatkay, PhD Associate Professor Head of the Computational Biology and Machine Learning Lab School of Computing , Queen's University
Objectives: 1. List the potential relevance of text mining for "omic" disciplines in biology 2. Compare current approaches for achieving that potential 3. Relate best approaches to specific problems
http://research.cs.queensu.ca/~shatkay/
October 16, 2009 12:15 - "Employee Involvement in the Deployment of Health IT"
Adam Seth Litwin, PhD Assistant Professor of Management Carey School of Business Johns Hopkins University
OBJECTIVES: 1. Describe the context in which IT increasingly plays mission-critical roles in ambulatory medicine 2. Identify barriers and enablers to deployment of IT in the ambulatory setting
October 9, 2009 12:15 - "Relevance of Informatics and Terminologies For Swedish Health Care"
Ulla Gerdin, RN Project manager and Leader National Terminology Work National Board of Health and Welfare Sweden
OBJECTIVES: 1. Describe the structure of Swedish healthcare 2. List the uses to which Swedish health care is putting terminologies, especially Snomed CT 3. Report on the process by which those uses are accomplished 4. Describe the tradeoffs in quality measurement in getting data in a controlled vocabulary
October 2, 2009 12:15 - "A Common IT Infrastructure Serving Both Research and Healthcare" ***Video archive - Limit to Hopkins (and VPN), if requested***
Amnon Shabo (Shvo), PhD Program Head, Healthcare and Life Sciences Standards IBM Research Lab, Haifa, Israel
OBJECTIVES: 1. Articulate the social and scientific "cost" for not having shared semantics between bioscience research and healthcare 2. Describe the application of genome-wide association studies and disease models to the clinical problem of essential hypertension 3. Describe the success and challenges to date of applying a shared semantics to this domain 4. Describe the relationship between this framework and the Independent Health Record Banks
September 25, 2009 12:15 - "The Information Assessment Method: What is it? How does it help research in health sciences informatics?"
Roland M. Grad, MD Associate Professor Department of Family Medicine McGill University
OBJECTIVES: 1. Describe the Information Assessment Method (IAM) 2. Articulate why our changing knowledge infrastructure needs a validated tool like IAM 3. Assess how IAM was used to explore connections between the push and pull of clinical information
September 18, 2009 12:15 - "The Crucial Role of Health Information Systems in Developing Core Health Indicators: 15 Years' Experience in the Americas"
Carlos Castillo-Salgado, MD, JD, MPH, Dr.PH, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Special Advisor, Forum for Public Health in the Americas
OBJECTIVES: 1. Describe the key steps in developing core health indicators for population-health monitoring 2. Articulate the role health information systems play in those steps 3. Articulate enablers and barriers to the use of health information systems in population health monitoring via core health indicators
September 11, 2009 12:15 - CRISP: The Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients
Stephanie Reel, M.B.A. Chief Information Office and Vice Provost for Information Technologies, JHU; Assistant Professor, Health Sciences Informatics, SOM & David Horrocks, President, CRISP
OBJECTIVES: 1. Articulate potential gains and possible barriers to RHIOs in general. 2. Describe the plans for Maryland's RHIO. 3. Describe the components of CRISP
June 5, 2009 12:15 - "Separate Is Not Equal: Non-Psychiatric Physician Access To Electronic Psychiatric Records Correlates With Better Patient Care Outcome"
Adam Kaplin, MD, PhD Assistant Professor Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
OBJECTIVES: 1. To explore the current status of psychiatric medical record keeping (including their storage and accessibility) in leading US Hospitals. 2. To discuss the implications of storing psychiatric records electronically and sharing these records with non-psychiatric physicians. 3. To recommend future policies for the design of methods of sharing and storing electronic psychiatric records.
May 15, 2009 12:15 - "Translational Research in Public Health Informatics"
Joseph F. Lombardo, M.S. Director, Center for Excellence in Public Health Informatics Program Manager, Disease Surveillance Program Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Objectives 1. Define translational research in public health informatics through an example 2. Describe the design and operation a translational-research system 3. Identify how such research leads to changed requirements 4. Describe the opportunity and result of inserting new information technology solutions into the surveillance research continuum.
April 24, 2009 12:15 - "A replicated survey of IT Software Project Failures" (No video archive Available for this session)
A. Gunes Koru Assistant Professor, Information Systems Department University of Maryland Baltimore County
Objectives: 1. Report on how software fails 2. Describe reasons for software failure and their relative scale 3. List actions you can take to prevent software failure
April 17, 2009 12:15 - "User-Designed Information Tools to Support Communication and Care Coordination in a Trauma Hospital Setting"
Ayse Gurses, PhD Assistant professor Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Johns Hopkins University
Objective: 1. Articulate the need for understanding clinician-designed information tools 2. Describe the research method used to elicit more than the obvious answers 3. Describe the results found that describe the design needs of the clnicians 4. List potential, valid generalizations from these results
April 3, 2009 12:15 - "Web-based antimicrobial approval program "
Allison George, MD Assistant Professor Infectious Disease & Pediatrics School of Medicine
March 27, 2009 12:15 - eHealth and disparities: Research and Practice Needs, Opportunities and Potential
Michael C. Gibbons, MD MPH Assistant Professor Health, Behavior and Society (JHBSPH) & Medicine (SOM) Associate Director, Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute
Objectives: 1. To outline the limitations of current disparities research 2. To discuss emerging scientific opportunities at the intersection of technology and disparities pathogenesis research 3. To outline current and future opportunities for Information and Communications Technologies in disparities interventional research 4. To highlight the potential role of technology in clinical and public health practice to reduce and eliminate disparities
March 20, 2009 12:15 - "From Tasks To Processes: The Case For Changing Health Information Technology To Improve Health Care"
James Walker, MD Chief Medical Informatics Officer Geisinger
Objectives: 1. Identify the nature and ultimate cost (burden) of Health IT's focus on tasks over processes 2. Identify the attributes of processes and how Health IT can support them 3. Identify actions policymakers can take to improve the situation
March 13, 2009 12:15 - "Computer Science Approaches to Data Quality: From Data to Dataset"
Dr. Yair G. Rajwan, Information Management Specialist, IBM Software Group
OBJECTIVES: 1. Articulate the challenges in turning the data quality problem into something specified enough for computers to manage it 2. List recent approaches to managing data quality 3. Report the evidence for successes or failures of these approaches
February 27, 2009 12:15 - "Mobile technologies at the new Johns Hopkins"
Michael McCarty Director, Network and Telecommunication Services
OBJECTIVES: 1. Articulate the opportunities for mobile technologies in the modern academic health center 2. Articulate the challenges 3. List outcomes expected to improve due to mobile technologies
February 20, 2009 12:15 - "Mobile technologies and health in developing countries"
Joel Selanikio, MD Founder of Datadyne Corp. www.datadyne.org
February 13, 2009 12:15 - An Overview of the Clinical Care Classification (CCC) System" (Version 2.0)
Virginia Saba, EdD RN CEO Sabacare Inc.
February 6, 2009 12:15 - "Introduction to Logic Programming"
Terry Swift, PhD (http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~tswift/)
January 30, 2009 12:15 - Journal Club "Computer-interpretable Guideline Formalisms" Paul De Clercq, Katharina Kaiser, Arie Hasman, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Volume 139, 2008, Computer-based Medical Guidelines and Protocols: A Primer and Current Trends
Hope Lampkin, Fellow Health Sciences Informatics
OBJECTIVES: 1. Provide an overview of approaches in developing Computer-Interpretable Guidelines (CIG) 2. Discuss analytical techniques for Guideline/Knowledge Representation 3. To describe approaches to implementing CIG decision support
January 23, 2009 12:15 - "Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) & Public Health"
Alean Kirnak, MS Founder & President, Software Partners LLC (www.swpartners.com)
OBJECTIVES: 1. List the goals of the IHE initiative. 2. Describe 3 successes and 3 failures in information sharing under IHE 3. Describe the minimum requirements for participation
http://www.ihe.net/Events/webinars2008.cfm
January 16, 2009 12:15 - "Transformation of Health Systems"
Ariel Pablos-Mendez, Managing Director Rockefeller Foundation, Formerly Director of Knowledge Management & Sharing at the World Health Organization
RF_APM_at_Hopkins_Jan_09_Release.ppt
December 12, 2008 12:15 - "The Role of Alcohol and Firearms in Intimate Partner Homicide: Regional Variations"
Darryl W. Roberts, MS RN Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Nursing, Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health
OBJECTIVES: (1)Discuss recent trends in the incidence of intimate partner (IP) homicide (2) Recognize the effects alcohol consumption, firearms ownership, and firearms restrictions have on the incidence of IP homicide in each of the 9 Census divisions of the United States (3) Discuss policy alternatives related to the relationships among IP homicide, alcohol, and firearms
December 5, 2008 12:15 - Journal Club - Understanding the information needs of public health practitioners: A literature review to inform design of an interactive digital knowledge management system ****THIS SESSION WILL NOT BE WEBCASTED****
Olayinka Ajayi, Fellow, Informatics Research Fellowship Training Program
Revere, D., Turner, A. M., Madhavan, A., Rambo, N., Bugni, P. F., Kimball, A., et al. (2007). Understanding the information needs of public health practitioners: A literature review to inform design of an interactive digital knowledge management system. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 40(4), 410-421. OBJECTIVES: 1. Identify key components of health information technology in a variety of health care and public health settings 2. Assess fit between information architecture in complex health settings and health needs 3. Evaluate decision support in a vari
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WHD-4MSXT7T-1&_user=75682&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_
November 21, 2008 12:15 - "Errors, and violations and workarounds, oh my. A human factors engineering perspective on the HIT"
Ben-Tzion Karsh PhD. Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.engr.wisc.edu/ie/faculty/karsh_ben-tzion.html
November 7, 2008 12:15 - Journal Club - Alex A. T. Bui, Denise R. Aberle, and Hooshang Kangarloo. TimeLine: Visualizing Integrated Patient Records, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN BIOMEDICINE, VOL. 11, NO. 4, JULY 2007, doi:10.1109/TITB.2006.884365
Jacob Aaronson, Fellow, Informatics Research Fellowship Training Program ***NOT WEBCASTED***
1. Understand the complexity of comprehensive visualization of a patient's longitudinal health record. 2. Identify the challenges to realizing an integrated GUI within an EHR. 3. Describe the concept of stream-based modeling and how it can facilitate the transformation of data in an EHR.
October 31, 2008 12:15 - "Health Information Systems in Low-resource Settings: the Glue of Integrated Health Systems"
Theo Lippeveld MD MPH, John Snow International, Vice President for International Programs
Objectives: 1. To describe the role of health information systems in building integrated health systems 2. To assess, improve and evaluate routine health information systems in low-income settings
http://www.jsi.com/JSIInternet/PressRoom/displaypressrelease.cfm?AnnounceID=49548
October 24, 2008 12:15 - "Informatics in Uganda"
Julia Royall . Chief of International Programs at NLM
Objectives: 1. Describe the Community Based Education and Service (COBES) Program at the Makerere University Faculty of Medicine 2. Describe NLM database training at other medical campuses 3. Identify challenges in bringing Ugandan villages into such community-based programs 4. Describe the impact of such programs on health information technologists, journalists, and medical faculty
http://nihrecord.od.nih.gov/newsletters/2008/02_08
October 10, 2008 12:15 - "Epidemic Forecasting: Concepts, applications, possibilities"
Jean-Paul Chretien, MD PhD, Fellow, Health Sciences Informatics, Johns Hopkins University
Objectives: 1) List 4 types of factors that can trigger infectious disease epidemics 2) Identify 2 operational public health systems that produce epidemic forecasts using climate data and predictions 3) List 3 possible public health responses to Rift Valley fever forecasts for East Africa 4) Explain a central challenge in moving epidemic forecasting from research to operations
October 3, 2008 12:15 - Where do publications really come from? An attempt to identify markers of productivity and satisfaction in the research laboratory
G. Steven Bova MD. Assistant Professor Pathlogy, Urology, Health Sciences Informatics, Johns Hopkins
Objectives: 1) Name 3 current issues in scientific publication 2) Place those current issues into a historical context 3) Name 3 suggested markers of productivity or satisfaction in the research laboratory 4) Relate potential methods to validate their success.
http://pathology.jhu.edu/researchbrochure/division
September 26, 2008 12:15 - "Using decision analysis to adjudicate clinical disagreement: The case of pediatric idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura"
Harold Lehmann, MD, PhD Director of Research & Training Division of Health Sciences Informatics JHU School of Medicine
Objectives: 1. Articulate the decision-analytic components of a clinical disagreement 2. Interpret results from a clinical decision analysis 3. Understand the relationship between sample-size calculations and clinical policy
September 19, 2008 12:15 - "Communication in an information arena: Supporting clinical communication through informatics."
Yan Xiao PhD.Associate Professor of Anesthesiology & Information Systems, Director, Human Factors & Technology Research, U Md.
Objectives: 1. Understand the fundamentals of Herbert Clarks experiments on the common ground theory of communication 2. Learn the roles of artifacts in communication during rounds 3. Critique different practices of communication during rounds 4. Evaluate design requirements of exploiting computers to support multi-disciplinary communication
http://hfrp.umm.edu/People/xiao.htm
September 12, 2008 12:15 - "The NIH Biomedical Translational Research Information System (BTRIS)"
James Cimino MD, Chief, Laboratory for Informatics Development, NIH
The learning objectives include: 1) An introduction to the compilation and integration of clinical and research data from multiple disparate sources 2) Understanding the authorization issues related to reuse of patient clinical data 3) Understanding the terminology issues related to the reuse of coded clinical and research data 4) Familiarity with the approach being taken at the National Institutes of Health to collect, integrate, and code clinical and research data into a single repository, for authorized resuse in biomedical research.
http://www.cc.nih.gov/about/SeniorStaff/james_cimi
September 5, 2008 12:15 - "A Personal History of International Informatics: Where Are We Now?"
Marion Ball EdD. Fellow Center for Healthcare Management, IBM Research. Adjunct professor SON, DHSI
Objectives for students: 1. Report on important milestones in the history of international informatics 2. Articulate similarities and differences in informatics development in different countries (and what led to those differences) 3. Articulate lessons learned in those efforts 3. Report on where the field is today
May 30, 2008 12:15 - Using Information Science to Improve Health Care for Older Adults: A Program of Research
Kathryn H Bowles, PhD, RN, FAAN Associate Professor of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Objectives: 1. Understand the importance of pilot work to build a strong preliminary studies section. 2. Recognize the value of dissemination efforts via publication and presentation. 3. Discuss next steps in their research trajectories.
http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/faculty/profile.asp?p
May 23, 2008 12:15 - Informatics Journal Club (This session will not be webcasted) R. Kukafka etal "Redesigning electronic health record systems to support public health" Journal of Biomedical Informatics 40(2007) 398-409
Paula Soper, MPH, DHSI Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
OBJECTIVES: 1. Describe the three core functions of public health 2. Describe current functions of electronic health records (EHR) 3. Identify changes necessary in EHRs to support public health core functions 4. Identify barriers and opportunities for changes in EHRs to support public health core functions
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleUR
May 16, 2008 12:15 - "Open-source business intelligence applied to Congolese National Health"
Nkossi Dambita, MD MPH MS Research Associate, DHSI
Objectives: 1) To explore the general use of business intelligence (BI) tools in the Health Care domain 2) To describe the Congo national health care system 3) To "contextualize" a BI application for Congo 4) To discuss the Congo paradigm for a wider use in other developing nations
May 9, 2008 12:15 - "Standards in Nursing Terminology"
Judy Ozbolt, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FAIMBE Professor and Program Director, Nursing Informatics The University of Maryland School of Nursing
Objectives: 1. List the potential benefits of standardized nursing terminology embedded in health information technologies. 2. Assess existing standardized nursing terminologies in relation to the desired characteristics of such terminologies. 3. Describe work to create standardized nursing terminology consistent with the desiderata. 4. Explain current challenges to realizing the benefits.
May 2, 2008 12:15 - National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics: Advising on Health Statistics, HIPAA, and Electronic Health Records
Donald Steinwachs, PhD Professor, Health Policy Management Director, Health Services Research and Development Center
Objectives: 1. Describe the roles and relationships NCVHS with HHS and Congress 2. Describe federal initiatives related to informatics 3. List and discuss recent NCVHS informatics recommendations 4. Discuss factors influencing the adoption of NCVHS recommendations
April 25, 2008 12:15 - Informatics Journal Club (WILL NOT BE WEBCASTED) Shiffman et al. The GuideLine Implementability Appraisal (GLIA): development of an instrument to identify obstacles to guideline implementation. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2005 Jul 27;5:23. PMID: 160486
Octavis Lampkin, MA, DHSI Fellow
Objectives 1. Describe challenges in any online guideline-based decision support system 2. Describe the elements of the GLIA instrument 3. Critique the article describing the GLIA instrument
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16048653?ordina
April 18, 2008 12:15 - The Ten-Step Program for Building a Clinical Data Repository for Research
Mark Weiner, MD Assistant Professor Director of Information Systems Integration for Research University of Pennsylvania
Objectives: 1. List sources of data for a clinical data warehouse 2. Critique interfaces for access to a clinical data warehouse 3. Identify good, bad, and ugly issues in a clinical data warehouse 4. Identify myths in a clinical data warehouse
April 4, 2008 12:15 - "STARRTRACKS. (St Agnes Resident Research and Tracking System): Development of Clinical Tools from the Ground Up"
Norman Dy, MD Director, St Agnes Medical Residency Training Program, Vice Chair of Medicine
Objectives: 1. Articulate functional needs for patient hand-off in the era of limited residency work hours 2. Identify pros and cons for developing software by a clinical department
March 28, 2008 12:15 - Informatics Journal Club (This session will not be webcasted) "HIT implementation: an implementation story from the wild west"
Robert Borotkanics, MPH, DHSI Fellow
Objectives: 1. Identify key components of health information technology in a variety of health care and public health settings 2. Critique the success of health information technology 3. Characterize success of information technologies in technology-poor settings
March 7, 2008 12:15 - Biomedical Grids: Are they Worth the Trouble?
J Robert Beck, MD Senior Vice President Office of Academic Affairs Fox Chase Cancer Center
Objectives: 1. Describe the intended goals of Biomedical Grids 2. Describe the architecture of a Biomedical Grid 3. Articulate the evidence for and against their use in practical research
February 15, 2008 12:15 - Service Oriented Architectures in Healthcare
Ken Rubin, Chief Healthcare Architect, EDS Civilian Government & DoD Healthcare Portfolio
Objectives 1. Define the potential of SOA as a change agent in the business of health care 2. Articulate the differences bertween Web Services and Services Oriented Architecture 3. Provide specifications for achieving semantic interoperability in an SOA environment 4. List reasons for SOA standards
February 8, 2008 12:15 - The Use and Abuse of Ontology in Health Informatics Research
Bill Andersen, PhD Chief Scientist Ontology Works Inc. (www.ontologyworks.com)
Objectives: 1. Articulate the proper place of ontologies in health and research information systems 2. List ways in which the Gene Ontology (GO) is successful and unsuccessful as an ontology 3. Specify ways in which scientific knowledge (results) implicit in an ontology can be made explicit
February 8, 2008 12:15 - The Use and Abuse of Ontology in Health Informatics Research
Bill Andersen, PhD Chief Scientist Ontology Works Inc. (www.ontologyworks.com)
Objectives: 1. Articulate the proper place of ontologies in health and research information systems. 2. List ways in which the Gene Ontology (GO) is successful and unsuccessful as an ontology. 3. Specify ways in which scientific knowledge (results) implicit in an ontology can be made explicit.
February 1, 2008 12:15 - Engaging Patients and Communities using Health Information Technology (http://www.ixcenter.org/)
Ted Eytan, MD http://www.tedeytan.com/ Medical Director, Health Informatics & Web Services Group Health Cooperative, Seattle WA
Objectives: 1. Understand the creation of a patient-centered approach in the implementation of health information technology across large health systems 2. Identify the key transformational impact(s) of a highly penetrated (40%) personal health record on patient and physician workflow across an ideal health system 3. Compare the ideal health system experience to the experience of other health systems to understand the promise of, and considerations needed in, moving to a patient-centered approach in health information technology.
January 25, 2008 12:15 - **This Session will not be webcasted**Informatics Journal Club "Towards Semantic Interoperability for Electronic Health Records" S. Garde1 , P. Knaup2 , E. J. S. Hovenga1 , S. Heard1, 3 Methods of Information in Medicine 2007 46 3: 332-343
Jacob Aaronson, Informatics Fellow
Objectives: 1. Describe the background, goals and current status of the openEHR project 2. Understand the concept of open EHR and archetypes and the impact on health professionals 3. Understand the impact of openEHR and archetypes on semantic interoperability 4. Understand the concept and necessity of Domain Knowledge Governance
http://www.schattauer.de.proxy.library.jhu.edu/ind
December 21, 2007 12:15 - **This session will not be Webcasted**Informatics Journal Club "Poor usability can cause disasters, yet it seems there is little investment in Health IT to improve it"
Patricia Abbot, RN PhD Informatics Fellow
AW, Triola MM, et al. Technology induced error and usability: the relationship between usability problems and prescription errors when using a handheld application. Int J Med Inform. 2005 Aug;74(7-8):519-26. Epub 2005 Apr 8. PMID: 16043081
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed
December 14, 2007 12:15 - Knowledge Management in an international NGO: From textbook to trenches
Richard Iams, MS Knowledge Management Advisor JHPIEGO - A Johns Hopkins University Affiliate
Objectives 1. Describe challenges of implementing and supporting KM with IT in low-resource settings 2. Discuss successes in supporting knowledge and information sharing with IT 3. Discuss opportunities for supporting human capacity development and workforce sustainability
December 7, 2007 12:15 - A health economist's perspective on medical informatics: Things we do similarly and things that we do very differently
John F P Bridges PhD Assistant Professor Department of Health Policy & Management
Leaning objectives: 1) To develop an awareness of the approaches and methods used in health economics 2) To discuss similarities between health economics and medical informatics, especially related to medical decision making. 3) To identify some of the reasons why health economics has had greater success in terms of influencing decision makers, using international examples
November 30, 2007 12:15 - Informatics Journal Club, "Patient Web Services Integrated with Shared Medical Record: Patient use and Satisfaction" Ralston et al. Gregary Butchy, DHSI Fellow will lead the discussion *******This session will not be Webcasted*******
Gregary Butchy, DO, DHSI Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
OBJECTIVES: 1) Identify features of internet-based health information systems that patients may find valuable. 2) Compare how frequently certain features of one implementation of a commercially available patient web site are used. 3) Evaluate user satisfaction with certain features of one implementation of a commercially available patient web site. 4) Discuss the extent to which these results can guide the development of patient-oriented health information systems.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed
November 16, 2007 12:15 - The HIMSS Global EHR Task Force Findings
Walter Wiener, MA
Objectives 1. Identify key trends among 15 countries who are leaders in electronic health record deployment 2. Compare the EHR programs on Governance Standards, Technology and Policy 3. Articulate barriers to success in Canada, and Australia
November 9, 2007 12:15 - "The Interactive Autism Network: A National Resource for Researchers and Families"
Paul Law, MD, MPH, MS,
Learning objectives: 1. To be able to list the more important opportunities and challenges associated with the use of Internet Mediated Research methods. 2. To be able to describe some of the challenges that leaders in the clinical research process have placed on the research community. 3. To be able to describe ways that an online research environment for a specific disease domain can meet some of those challenges and accelerate the pace of clinical research.
October 26, 2007 12:15 - Informatics Journal Club**** "Studies of Physician Order Entry Causing Mortality: What Can We Learn?" ****(This session will not be Webcasted)
Paulina Sockolow, MBA, DHSI Fellow
Objectives "Identify key evaluation components of the CPOE mortality studies "Compare the studies on socio-technical factors and research design "Discuss the need for promoting systematic, evidence-based health informatics studies
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed
October 19, 2007 12:15 - Medical Records...To Go!: A Case Study of Applying Information Technology to Improve Quality of Health Care in Zambia
Edward Bunker, MPH, MS, Health Informatics Advisor, JHPIEGO
Educational Objectives: 1) Describe challenges and opportunities for implementing information technology (IT) in low resource settings; and 2) Discuss how implementing IT can improve the quality of health care.
October 12, 2007 12:15 - Use of Enriched Claims Data to Improve Quality and Reduce Cost of Care ****WE APOLOGIZE THERE WILL BE****NO LIVE WEBCAST - SEMINAR WILL NOT BE ARCHIVED****
Earl Steinberg, MD, MPP President & CEO, Resolution Health
Objectives: 1. To describe the types of data that are now being combined with claims data, the sources that are providing those data supplements, and the types of conclusions that can be drawn using such enriched data sets 2. To describe how analyses of enriched claims data are being used to inform decision making by physicians, other care managers, and patients 3. To describe how analyses of enriched claims data are being used to profile the cost and quality of care provided by individual MDs 4. To describe areas in which more sophisticated use of enriched claims data could improve quality and reduce cost of care.
http://www.resolutionhealth.com/company/management
September 21, 2007 12:15 - Physicians' Use of Electronic Medical Records for Quality Reporting
Joy M. Grossman, Ph.D, Center for Studying Health System Change
Objectives 1. Describe the potential for ambulatory EMRs to automate quality reporting and facilitate related quality improvement activities 2. Describe how leading-edge physician practices and community health centers are using EMRs for these purposes 3. Articulate the successes and challenges practices currently have in automating quality reporting and improvement activities
June 22, 2007 10:45 - Informatics Journal Club
Prudence Dalrymple, PhD, Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Division of Health Sciences Informatics
Details to come!
http://www.jamia.org/cgi/content/full/14/3/278
June 15, 2007 10:45 - HIT and population based measures of quality
Jonathan Weiner, DrPH, Kitty Chan, PhD, Health Policy Management
Please click on the link to view a PDF file about the presentation:
http://dhsi.med.jhmi.edu/content/weiner6-15-07.pdf
June 8, 2007 10:45 - The Functional Genomics Data Pipeline: High-Throughput Analysis of Integrated Genomics Data
Michael Ochs, PhD, Associate Professor, The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
June 1, 2007 10:45 - The Impact of Real Time Decision Support on Clinical Outcomes
Eric A. Pifer, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Chief Medical Information Officer, University of Pennsylvania Health System
May 25, 2007 10:45 - Informatics Journal Club
Patricia Swartz, MPH, Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Division of Health Sciences Informatics
Click on the link for materials related to the topic.
http://dhsi.med.jhmi.edu/content/JC5-07.pdf
May 18, 2007 10:45 - Collaboration, Open Solutions, and Innovation (COSI) in Healthcare
Marc Wine, MHA, Health Program Analyst, GSA Headquarters Intergovernmental Solutions Division
May 11, 2007 10:45 - Toward The Intelligent Electronic Health Record - The VA Experience
Hank Rappaport, MD, Enterprise Systems Manager for Provider Systems, Office of Information, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs
Please click on the PowerPoint slideshow for more information:
http://dhsi.med.jhmi.edu/content/ehr.ppt
May 4, 2007 10:45 - Modeling Health Information Technology (HIT) Adoption
Gewei Ye, PhD, Towson University - Department of Marketing & e-Business
April 27, 2007 10:45 - Informatics Journal Club
Katherine Ball, MD, Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Division of Health Sciences Informatics
THIS MEETING WILL NOT BE A LIVE WEBCAST: Physicians' Experiences Using Commercial E-Prescribing Systems
http://dhsi.med.jhmi.edu/content/hlthaff.pdf
April 6, 2007 10:45 - Human-Computer Interaction for Medical Informatics
Ben Shneiderman Dept of Computer Science & Human-Computer Interaction Lab, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Please click on the link for a PowerPoint presentation.
http://dhsi.med.jhmi.edu/content/informatics2.ppt
March 30, 2007 10:45 - Assessing Interoperability in Emergency Preparedness
Margo Edmunds, PhD, Vice President, The Lewin Group & member of teaching faculty, Johns Hopkins Communications in Contemporary Society program, Washington, DC
March 23, 2007 10:45 - Update on Activities Related to the Nationwide Health Information Network
Anna Orlova, PhD Execuitve Director, Public Health Data Standards Consortium (PHDSC) "Update on NHIN Activities"
CLICK THE LINK FOR A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION ABOUT THE SEMINAR:
http://dhsi.med.jhmi.edu/content/3-23-07.ppt
March 16, 2007 10:45 - The role of informatics in the global response to HIV/AIDS
Robert Mayes, Technical Advisor, Strategic Information Office of Global AIDS Coordinator Department of State
March 6, 2007 2:30 - Informatics Journal Club
Paulina Sockolow
Patient-Perceived Usefulness of Online Electronic Medical Records: Employing Grounded Theory in the Development of Information and Communication Technologies for Use by Patients Living with Chronic Illness. Warren J. Winkelman, MD, MBA, FRCPC, Devin J. Leonard, MBA, PhD, Peter G. Rossos, MD, FRCPC. CLICK THE LINK BELOW FOR A PDF ABOUT THE MEETING:
http://dhsi.med.jhmi.edu/content/Winkelman.pdf
March 2, 2007 10:45 - Human Relationship Aspects of Performing the Healthcare CIO Role
Michael Minear, Associate, Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
February 23, 2007 10:45 - Managing Diabetes by Cellphone
Suzanne Sysko, M.D., James Minor, Ph.D and Ryan Sysko (WellDoc) ***NO WEBCAST/VIDEO***
http://www.welldoc-communications.com/aboutUs.html
February 16, 2007 10:45 - Medbiquitous's Emerging Virtual Patient Architecture
Valarie Smothers, MedBiquitous
At the end of this session, learners will be able to: 1. Articulate the need for virtual patients 2. Compare existing approaches for virtual patients 3. Describe components of the MedBiquitous Virtual Patient architecture
February 9, 2007 10:45 - New Initiatives at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Office of HIT
Cheryl Austein Casnoff, MPH Associate Administrator Health Resources and Services Administration Office of Health Information Technology
February 2, 2007 10:45 - AZYXXI
Video not available. Do not click on link.
Michael Gillam, MD Washington National Medical Center
January 19, 2007 10:45 - CDISC and BRIDG: Semantic Interoperability for Clinical Research Data Interchange
Julie Evans, Director, Technical Services, Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium / Consultant
Describe the mission of CDISC and its clinical research data interchange standards Describe the BRIDG and its purpose
January 18, 2007 2:15 - "The Ten-Step Program for Building a Clinical Data Repository for Research"
Mark Weiner, MD Assistant Professor Director of Information Systems Integration for Research University of Pennsylvania
December 15, 2006 10:45 - Advances in Sensor Networks Technology and implications for their Use in Healthcare
Andreas Terzis Computer Science Department Johns Hopkins University
December 8, 2006 10:45 - Computer and Telecommunication Technologies to Facilitate Management of Chronic Health Conditions
Joseph Finkelstein
Objectives: 1. Articulate information needs in chronic disease management 2. Articulate current solutions 3. List evidence of success for telemanagement of chronic disease
November 17, 2006 10:45 - AMIA FOLLOW UP
FACULTY *no WEB CAST*
November 10, 2006 10:45 - Agile web development for public health and biomedical research using Ruby on Rails
Steven Beals, Chief Software Architect Medical Decision Logic
November 3, 2006 10:45 - Informatics and Quality Health Care: The Federal Health Informatics Training Initiative
LCDR Ron Gimbel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine & Biometrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland
Upon completion of this seminar, participants will be able to: 1. Describe the motivation behind federal inter-agency collaboration in the area of health informatics training and education; 2. List the required processes and challenges to successfully building a federal inter-agency collaboration for the purpose of broad distributive education; and 3. Outline the federal approach to deploying distributive education in health informatics to federal employees and others seeking understanding of health informatics.
October 27, 2006 10:45 - Rapid Assessment for EHR Specifications in Ethiopia
Harold Lehmann, MD, PhD ***NO WEBCAST***
Objectives: 1. Articulate goals, strengths, and weaknesses of informatics rapid assessments 2. Describe the design of a rapid assessment 3. Argue the pros and cons of different EHR strategies in developing countries
October 20, 2006 10:45 - Automating Clinical Practice Guidelines Realizing the Fourth Generation EHR
Jacob Aaronson, DO, MAJ, MC AMEDD AHLTA Functional Requirements and Integration OTSG, Office of the CIO
Objectives: 1. Understand why clinical reminders not linked to actions do not fully realize the potential of the evidence behind clinical practice guidelines. 2. Understand why it is essential to integrate clinical practice guidelines at the point of care in order to affect demonstrably positive health outcomes. 3. Discuss clinical practice guideline automation concepts and how clinical workflow is affected by this process. 4. Recognize the importance of a user-managed toolset that enables the automation of evolving clinical practice guidelines within the EHR. 5. Discuss the potential for evolving current evidence by linking the actions of clinical reminders to their respective clinical outcomes.
October 13, 2006 10:45 - Open source: a disruptive technology for health care IT
Tom Jones, MD Founding Chief Medical Officer Tolven, Inc.
Understand how an open source approach can foster semantic interoperability in healthcare IT Understand how patients can participate in the same interoperable IT environment as clinicians
September 29, 2006 10:45 - What Knowledge Did Next& Clinical and Healthcare perspectives from the UK and Australia *******NO ARCHIVED WEBCAST********
Rajeev Bali, PhD Reader in Healthcare Knowledge Management Department of Knowledge and Information Management Faculty of Engineering and Computing Coventry University Dr Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Illinois Institute of Technology
September 22, 2006 10:45 - Small Practice Physician EMR Adoption
Helga Rippen, MD PhD Senior Advisor, Health Informatics, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation Visiting Scientist, part-time Johns Hopkins Health Sciences Informatics
By the end of the presentation, the student shall be able to: 1. Describe five factors found to be associated with EMR implementation. 2. Identify the two approaches for modeling EMR adoption in small physician practices. 3. Articulate the five steps in implementing an EMR in small physician practices?
September 15, 2006 10:45 - Using Analysis of Narrative Documents to Study Clinical Inertia in the Management of Hypertension in Diabetic Patients.
Alexander Turchin, M.D. Associate Physician, Brigham and Womens Hospital
September 8, 2006 11:00 - Visual Informatics: Perception, Pattern Matching and Diagnosis at the Point of Care ***NO WEBCAST AVAILABLE***
Art Papier, MD Associate Professor of Dermatology and Medical Informatics University of Rochester College of Medicine Chief Scientific Officer, Logical Images Inc.
At the end of the seminar, the student shall be able to: 1. Understand the unique functional and graphical design challenges of assisting visual diagnosis 2. Articulate the differences between image databases, multimedia, Internet image resources, vision science systems and visual decision support 3. Articulate evaluation results on these different approaches.
August 18, 2006 10:45 - Global, Local, and Structural Content Similarity for Image Retrieval in Medical Applcations *NO LIVE WEBCAST - seminar will be ARCHIVED*
Thomas M. Lehmann, PhD Associate Professor for Medical Informatics Medical School RWTH Aachen University of Technology Aachen, Germany
June 23, 2006 10:15 - USAID and world-wide health information technology
Brian King Telematics Advisor USAID Leland Initiative
June 16, 2006 10:45 - Lessons Learned Implementing EHRs Abroad: Australias HealthConnect
Walter Wieners, MA Susan J Hyatt, MBA
June 9, 2006 10:45 - Critical Issues in the Development and Implementation of a Health Record Banking System (Unabridged)
Jonathan Gold, MD Informatics fellow
Essential attributes of the National Health Information Network include a decentralized architecture using the internet and defined standards for recording data, a joint public-private effort, a patient-centric focus protecting personal health information privacy, deployment incentives, and employment of existing technologies/federal leadership/regional prototype efforts. Additional challenges include accurate patient identification and record-matching, and discordant inter-/intra-state laws. Modeled on commercial banking, which already addresses many fundamental elements and difficulties facing NHIN, a proposed Health Record Banking System would serve the needs for immediately accessible/secure data for diverse stakeholders. Consumer-centric personal health records, containing all health data from multiple sources and controlled by consumers, would be stored in personal health record accounts using a standard format for receiving and distributing data over the web. Providers, healthcare organizations and commercial enterprises, too, would maintain accounts in health information repositories. The HRB would in turn lease owner-authorized de-identified data for research and data mining. Lease of de-identified data from the record would, in part, make this system economically sustainable, return a dividend to the datas owner, and facilitate standardization of information. A survey of 42 domain expert/thought leaders reviewing the model addressed 9 critical issues associated with HRB development and implementation. The results will be summarized.
May 19, 2006 10:45 - Towards Question Answering Systems for Evidence-Based Medicine
Dr.Jimmy Lin,Assistant Prof. University of Maryland-College of Information Studies
May 12, 2006 10:45 - Novel algorithms for biosurveillance
G Shmueli, PhD Assistant Professor of Statistics Decision & Information Technologies Dept Robert H. Smith School of Business Univeristy of Maryland
April 28, 2006 10:45 - Understanding Experts' Difference of Opinion Using Expected Value of Information: Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura
Harold Lehmann, Nkossi Dambita
April 7, 2006 10:45 - Assessing Student Science Learning and Evaluating Education Programs: Some Examples and Future Directions
Craig W. Bowen, Ph.D., M.B.A. Director, Office of Medical Education Services Johns Hopkins University Clinical Education Center
April 5, 2006 12:30 - Public Health Information Technology: Improving Capacities
http://dhsi.med.jhmi.edu/content/phs.html
March 31, 2006 10:45 - A New Patient-centric and Sustainable Approach to Health Information Infrastructure
William A. Yasnoff, MD, PhD, FACMI
March 24, 2006 10:45 - The Texas Clinical Information Technology Evaluation (TEXCITE!) Project: A Quality Improvement Initiative to Enhance Information Systems in Texas Hospitals
Ruben Amarasingham, M.D
March 17, 2006 10:45 - Enabling Research of Patient Data and Information within the Context of New and Changing Compliance Requirements
Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD Assistant Professor - Syracuse University Nancy McCall- Research Associate, JHMI
March 10, 2006 10:45 - Diagnostic Logic and Interactive Display: Ideas and Plans
Allen Tien, MD Medical Decision Logics
February 24, 2006 10:45 - Providing Research Informatics Support -- Some lessons learned supporting the MIDAS family of NIH grants
Steve Naron, MS, MBA Executive Consultant and Architect, IBM Bethesda, MD
http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Initiatives/MIDAS/
February 17, 2006 10:45 - Research Possibilities of Implementing an EMR in a Large Physician Group
Gary Noronha, MD Johns Hopkins Community Physicians
February 16, 2006 10:45 - Medbiquitous's Emerging Virtual Patient Architecture
Valarie Smothers, MedBiquitious
Learning Objectives: 1. Articulate the need for virtual patients 2. Compare existing approaches for virtual patients 3. Describe components of a virtual-patient standard or architecture
February 10, 2006 10:45 - Health InformationSystem Development in a Developing Country
Ermias Seife, MD Director, Zewditu Hospital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
January 27, 2006 10:45 - "Health Information standardization in developing countries -experiences from South Africa, Cuba, and Botswana"
Johan Sæbø, MS SAIS
January 20, 2006 10:45 - Probablistic Record Linkage in the Era of the National Health Infrastructure
Jerry Weber PhD, InitiateSystems
January 13, 2006 10:45 - "National Cancer Institute's cancer-Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) project"
R. Mark Adams, PhD Booz Allen Hamilton
January 6, 2006 10:45 - "Azyxxi"
Michael Gillam, MD Emergency Department Washington Hospital Center
November 18, 2005 10:30 - Health IT Business Landscape
Charles Tuchinda, MD Harvard Business School, MBA Program
November 11, 2005 10:30 - "Informatics in a Disaster Zone: Back to Basics"
Edward B. Bunker, MPH
Just back from 3 weeks in the New Orleans area with the Red Cross, Mr. Bunker will share his observations and thoughts about providing information access to relief workers in a disaster zone. Mr. Bunker's presentation will be highly interactive and will challenge attendees to think practically about the realities of working in environments with compromised infrastructure.
November 4, 2005 10:45 - "Information Technology to Support Early Outbreak Recognition"
Joseph S. Lombardo, PhD Applied Physics Laboratory
October 28, 2005 10:45 - Challenging our Islands of Excellence: Cybersecurity Protection of the Public Health and Healthcare sector Critical Infrastructure
Luis Kun, PhD FAIMBE
October 21, 2005 10:45 - "Computer-Integrated Surgery: Coupling Information to Action in the 21'st Century"
Russ Taylor, PhD Department of Computer Science
The impact of Computer-Integrated Surgery (CIS) on medicine in the next 20 years will be as great as that of Computer-Integrated Manufacturing on industrial production over the past 20 years. A novel partnership between human surgeons and machines, made possible by advances in computing and engineering technology, will overcome many of the limitations of traditional surgery. By extending human surgeons ability to plan and carry out surgical interventions more accurately and less invasively, CIS systems will address a vital national need to greatly reduce costs, improve clinical outcomes, and improve the efficiency of health care delivery. As CIS systems evolve, we expect to see the emergence of two dominant and complementary paradigms: Surgical cad/cam systems will integrate accurate patient-specific models, surgical plan optimization, and a variety of execution environments permitting the plans to be carried out accurately, safely, and with minimal invasiveness. Surgical Assistant systems will work cooperatively with human surgeons in carrying out precise and minimally invasive surgical procedures. The evolution of these systems will be synergistic with the development of patient-specific surgical simulation for planning as well as for training and surgical augmentation systems transcending human sensory-motor limitations in the performance of surgical tasks. This presentation will use current research at Johns Hopkins University and elsewhere to illustrate these themes and will outline current barriers and opportunities for future developments.
October 14, 2005 10:45 - Modeling the human visual system and its implication for imaging informatics
Khan Siddiqui, MD Department of Radiology University of Maryland
Also joining us from University of Maryland: Eliot Siegal, Paul Nagy, Nabile Safdar, Bill Boonn and Peter Vandermeer We will illustrate the value of the visual discrimination model (VDM) by summarizing the results of several completed and ongoing research projects in which we have used the model to predict image quality. Some of the projects to be summarized in the presentation include: comparison of the ability of just noticeable difference (JND) with peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) to predict observer performance, comparison of JPEG discrete cosine transform (DCT) compression with JPEG 2000 compression; evaluation of 2D and 3D JPEG 2000 compression, the impact of various slice thicknesses and reconstruction kernel on compression for MDCT, estimation of best acquisition parameters for MDCT by optimizing image quality with the VDM, and an idealized comparison of the theoretical differences between 8- and 11-bit monochrome LCDs as perceived by the human visual system.
October 7, 2005 10:45 - "Developing, implementing and supporting an information system to manage and monitor HIV care
John Milberg, MPH Health Resources and Services Administration HIV/AIDS Bureau
http://hab.hrsa.gov/careware/
September 30, 2005 10:45 - "A Systematic Approach to Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support"
Jerry Osheroff, Chief Clinical Informatics Officer, Thomson Micromedex Chair, HIMSS Clinical Decision Support Task Force, Faculty/medical staff, University of PA
Click above to download a PowerPoint Presentation and also see www.himss.org/cdsguide
http://dhsi.med.jhmi.edu/content/osheroff.ppt
September 23, 2005 10:45 - "The 'Language' of Dizziness: A Basic Science for Clinical Decision Support"
David Newman-Toker, MD Department of Neurology
September 16, 2005 10:45 - TBD
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September 2, 2005 10:45 - "It is a Good Time to be in Health IT"
Kathleen McCormick, MSN PhD Senior Sciehttp://www.duke.edu/~goodw010/AMIA/Bios/McCormick.html Past
http://duke.edu/~goodw010/AMIA/Bios/McCormick.html
August 31, 2005 11:00 - Seminars will resume in the Fall. Have a Great summer!
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June 24, 2005 10:45 - "The Center for Educational Resources at Homewood"
Candice Dalrymple, PhD Associate Dean Director, Center for Educational Resources
June 24, 2005 WILL BE THE LAST SEMINAR BEFORE THE SUMMER
June 17, 2005 10:45 - TBD
Daniel E. Ford, MD MPH Professor, Medicine
June 10, 2005 10:45 - TBD
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June 3, 2005 10:45 - "Transforming American Healthcare and How Information Technologies Can Help"
Michael L. Cowan, MD, VADM USN (Ret) Senior Vice President, Healthcare Solutions Oracle Corp.
Dr. Michael Cowan guides Oracle Corporation's strategic business development in public and private sector healthcare. In addition he has led the development of Oracle's sales and consulting strategy in the emerging National Health Information Network. In collaboration with Oracle partners he also developed a sales and marketing strategy for Regional Health Information Organizations. Dr. Cowan joined Oracle in August 2004 after retiring from the U.S. Navy as the 34th Surgeon General. In this role he directed the U.S. Navy Medical Service, and was the health advisor to the Secretary of the Navy and Chief of Naval Operations. He managed more than 42,000 personnel assigned to over 120 medical, dental, research and teaching facilities worldwide.
http://dhsi.med.jhmi.edu/content/HIUG.ppt
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May 20, 2005 10:45 - "Regional exchange of diagnostic imaging: clinical and financial drivers on the road to a national health information network"
Elliot D Menschik, MD PhD Chief Executive Officer Hx Technologies Inc http://www.hxti.com/
Dr. Menschik is the founder and chief executive of Hx Technologies (http://www.hxti.com), a health information service provider that has pioneered the building and support of regional health information exchanges over the last five years with support from the National Institutes of Health. Working with healthcare providers, payors, and regional health information organizations (RHIOs), Hx Technologies is dedicated to improving the quality of healthcare and constraining its costs through on-demand access to digital patient data located beyond enterprise borders. The company's flagship Philadelphia Health Information Exchange is unique among the handful of regional networks in the US not only for its urban setting and coverage of one of the nation's largest and most competitive healthcare markets, but also for its focus on diagnostic imaging. The network is in production clinical use and currently provides access to some 140 million images spanning 8 years of patient history. A physician, neuroscientist and engineer by training, Dr. Menschik is also the chief architect of company's technology platform and remains involved in its research and development as the principal investigator on several grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Prior to launching the company, Dr. Menschik was on the faculty of the Bioengineering department at the University of Pennsylvania where he was responsible for directing graduate and undergraduate students in the Neuroengineering Research Laboratory and developing a novel curriculum in computational neuroscience. An NIH Fellow in the Medical Scientist Training Program, he received an MD and PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine following work on massively parallel, biologically-detailed computer models of memory function and dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease. Earlier in his career, he received joint BSEE and MSE degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, graduating with university and departmental honors and a minor in English. His research at Hopkins focused on the design of biologically-inspired microchips simulating the electrical functions of the brain and heart. Dr. Menschik currently sits on the Radiology and Information Technology Infrastructure planning and technical committees of the Integrating the Healthcare Environment (IHE) Initiative and is an ad hoc member of the SSS-U study section at the NIH Center for Scientific Review. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed papers ranging from medical informatics to computational neuroscience, as well as two patents pending. Related material can be found in an invited article that was just published in Decisions in Imaging Economics. Click on the link below:
http://dhsi.med.jhmi.edu/content/hxti.pdf
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May 13, 2005 10:45 - "The New Patient Simulation Center"
Elizabeth Hunt, MD Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine
May 6, 2005 10:45 - 21st Century Neuro-Otology: Towards Automated Triage of the Emergency Department Dizzy Patient
David Newman-Toker, MD Assistant Professor, Neurology
Despite major advances in our understanding of vestibular science over the past 30 years, dizziness remains one of the most vexing chief complaints faced by physicians. While most patients with dizziness have benign cardiovascular or vestibular pathology, up to 25% of patients over age 50 in the Emergency Department with new, isolated vertigo (with NO other neurologic symptoms or signs) may have cerebellar stroke as a cause. Thus, an unselected E.D. dizzy patient presents the classic needle-in-a-haystack problem, a problem made even more obscure by the vague and inconsistent terminology used by patients and physicians alike to describe various sensations of dizziness. Many front-line providers have quietly come to realize that the standard approach of segregating patients into those with vertigo, presyncope, disequilibrium, and other vague lightheadedness fails to adequately identify those patients at greatest (or least) risk of harboring dangerous underlying disease. In todays lecture, we will discuss triage and diagnosis of the E.D. dizzy patient, including the prevailing wisdom, its shortcomings, the science of a new approach, our preliminary results, and our vision for the future of automated E.D. triage.
April 22, 2005 10:45 - "Algorithms and Databases to Study the Genetic Basis of Mental Retardation"
Jonathan Pevsner, PhD Associate Professor Kennedy Krieger Institute
April 15, 2005 10:45 - "Information Technology Making a Change in Healthcare Research in Africa"
Julia Royall Special Expert, International Program National Library of Medicine National Institut
April 8, 2005 10:45 - Tentative Title: "Healthcare Informatics: The Global Perspective"
Walter Wieners, MA Director, Healthcare Consulting, Europe, Middle East and Africa Oracle Nederlan
April 1, 2005 10:45 - Tentative title: "The Johns Hopkins Institute for Information Security"
Gerald Masson, PhD Professor, Computer Science Director, The Johns Hopkins Institute for Informati
March 25, 2005 10:45 - TBD
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March 11, 2005 10:45 - "A New Look at IT Standards: Connecting Consumers to the Right Information at the Right Time"
Joshua Seidman, PhD, Executive Director of the Center for Information Therapy www.healthwise.org
Over the next several years, consumers are expected to play a greater role in their medical care, in part by accessing and engaging with the information stored in software applications such as a PHR. Information stored in medically-related software, however, is often not understandable or usable to consumers because the structure, content, and terminology of the information have been designed to meet the need of clinicians, not consumers. Over time, this lack of structured consumer-based health information will limit consumers' ability to access the information they need, when they need it, and in a way that they can understand and use it.
March 4, 2005 10:45 - "Foundational Perspectives on Informatics"
Anthony Norcio, PhD Professor of Information Systems University of Maryland Baltimore County
February 25, 2005 10:45 - Shared High performance Computing for Public Health Research"
Fernando Pineda, PhD Associate Professor Department of Molecular Microbiolgy & Immunology Bloombe
In this talk, I shall describe the technological issues, costs, and general trauma associated with fielding a scalable cluster-based computing and storage facility in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. The joint computing facility is in the department of Biostatistics and consists primarily of a computing engine and a global file system. It supports the heterogeneous needs of students and faculty performing biostatistical, epidemiological and genomic research in the departments of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. The evolution and commoditization of 64-bit server hardware, coupled with rapidly maturing open-source distributed-computing system software such as, linux-clusters, grid computing and global file systems, is changing the economics of high-performance computing and may presage the return of centralized computing, albeit, clothed in the skin of the desktop computer.
February 18, 2005 10:45 - "Review of Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America"
John Eng, MD Department of Radiology
February 11, 2005 10:45 - "Funding for Healthcare Information Technology Research at AHRQ"
P. Jon White, MD Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
February 4, 2005 10:45 - Transforming Health System Safety and Quality Via Innovation & Knowledge Sharing
Richard Singerman, PhD President, Singerman Group
Overview of areas to be addressed during talk: 1 - How can healthcare systems alert their organizational workforce and keep employees educated on the latest technologies being implemented? 2 - How can healthcare systems share lessons learned from successful innovations from hospital to hospital? 3 - How can healthcare systems measure the value of enterprise-wide Knowledge Sharing Programs? 4 - How can healthcare systems transform themselves through an overall strategy of fostering a pervasive culture of innovation?
January 28, 2005 10:45 - "Knowledge Management and Social Network Analysis: Applications to Health Informatics"
Jay Liebowitz Dept. of Information Technology School of Professional Studies in Business and Educa
Please click on the link above for a Power Point presentation.
http://dhsi.med.jhmi.edu/content/hidden_power.ppt
January 21, 2005 10:45 - "Collaborative Health Sentinel"
James Kaufman, PhD IBM Almaden Research Center Computer Science
In this seminar we describe the Collaborative Health Sentinel System (CHS), a possible framework for a national early detection system for infectious disease and bioterrorism. The system would leverage our existing health surveillance programs and focus on early detection. Detection is accomplished by gathering easily observable symptoms through a system of self reporting without the participation of medical professionals. As such, it does not add new burdens to overload healthcare workers. The real time data available through CHS is provided as a health map, analogous to a weather map. Data form the health map serves as input to and initial conditions for a forecasting system that integrate the health map with modeling tools, data mining tools and pattern recognition technologies. These tools may eventually allow users to go beyond observation to health forecast. We will discuss in detail, and demonstrate, an implementation of a spatiotemporal epidemiological modeling tool and framework that allows scientist to easily define and evaluate new algorithms to study infectious disease. The CHS health map would serve as a resource for agencies and medical professionals charged with reacting to and containing potential epidemics to save lives. When a new pattern of infection does occur, CHS provides communication and feedback to existing centers based on current standards and messaging protocols. Such information is useful both in diagnosing disease causation, finding points of origin, and in planning contamination and immunization strategies.
January 14, 2005 10:45 - "A Knowledge Base Derived from Public and Private Knowledge to Guide Feeding Decisions in the Neonatal Intensive Care Setting"
Teresa L. Panniers, PhD, RN, CRNP Associate Professor College of Nursing and Health Science Georg
January 7, 2005 10:45 - "The Practice of Medicine in an Environment of Real Time Data"
Sam Bierstock, MD,BSEE VP and Chief Medical Officer Healthlink Inc.
December 10, 2004 10:45 - "Using Intelligent Systems in Education"
Peter Kokol, MD Professor and Deputy Dean, University of Maribor, FERI, Laboratory for System Des
Health care is one of the fastest growing areas in terms of care, treatment and the exploitation of new technology in Slovenia . There is a great need for new approaches ensuring that the education and work of health care professionals will be built upon the state of the art in nursing. As a consequence the educational, governmental and industrial institutions from Slovenia, UK, France, Austria, Italy and Greece have determined to work on above problem and the European Union (EU) has agreed to support two projects (NICE, ODIN) under the Phare Tempus Framework. The aim of this paper is to present one of the approaches developed, namely educational intelligent systems.
http://www.eaa-knowledge.com/ojni/ni/8_1/kokol.htm
December 3, 2004 10:45 - "Update on ADINA, the Architecture for Distributed INformation Access system"
David Silberberg, PhD Applied Physics Laboratory
Clinicians optimally should get information from all the multiple places where a patient's information is stored. Medical researchers often need information from a variety of separate, but related, databases to better form a complete profile of their research domain. In both cases, it is common for the information to be located in heterogeneous databases that are geographically distributed. It is a complex task to locate the appropriate databases, to learn their terms and structures, to form queries to them, and to integrate their results into a common picture. Without special technologies, these tasks requires too much time and database expertise. ADINA is an agent-based system that accelerates the task of integrating heterogeneous databases and insulates users from their complexities. It uses ontology and knowledge based techniques to assist in database integration. In addition, it uses heuristics to automatically formulate queries to heterogeneous databases from simple requests and to integrate the results. ADINA has been prototyped in both bioinformatics and military domains, and has successfully demonstrated rapid database integration and simplified query access.
November 19, 2004 10:45 - "CHLCare: Opensource Framework for Local Health Records Exchange between clinicians and hospitals to facilitate more efficient, higher quality care for the uninsured"
Guy Fisher Project Consultant Tom Lewis MD Chief Information Office Primary Care Coalition of Mo
https://www.community-healthlink.org/
- Check out the CHLCare demo site, go to https://www.community-healthlink.org/training/index.php, select "Spanish Catholic Center -- Langley Park Adults" clinic, and type in 'demo' for the user name and password.
November 12, 2004 10:45 - "Maryland/DC Collaborative for Healthcare Information Technology"
Vic Plavner, MD Chairman www.collaborativeforhit.org
This effort reflects our local contribution to the National Health Informatics Infrastructure (http://www.hhs.gov/onchit/framework/) effort. It recently received funding from HRSA (http://ccbh.ehealthinitiative.org/communities/states.aspx?Location=Maryland&Record=461L)
November 5, 2004 10:45 - "Trends in Competence Assessment: Is Your Future Examiner a Computer?"
Stephen G. Clyman, MD Robert M. Galbraith, MD, MBA Executive Directors Center for Innovation Nat
October 29, 2004 10:45 - "Literature and Adverse Effects in Online Cancer Patient Discussions"
Roy Rada, PhD Professor, Department of Information Systems University of Maryland Baltimore Coun
October 22, 2004 10:45 - "Utilization of an automated voice-interactive system in the titration of carvedilol in outpatients with heart failure"
Jeffrey Spaeder, MD Assistant Professor of Cardiology
October 15, 2004 10:45 - "The MDLogix VisuaLyzer: A Model-Driven software tool for visualization, exploration, and analysis of diverse graph data"
Emmanuel Koku and Gagik Baghdasaryan Medical Decision Logic http://www.mdlogix.com/ and Paul B
With Introduction by Steven Beales, Chief Software Engineer, MDLogix. "The MDLogix VisuaLyzer: Model-Driven software to combine, view, and analyze network models" Networks appear in public health as ontologies, models of disease transmission, diffusion of innovations, determination of opinion leaders, support networks, and networks of knowledge, communication, and trust. Social and knowledge networks are important to health informatics because they help model, manage, and extract relevant information about complex relationships. This talk will demonstrate the MDLogix VisuaLyzer and how it can help with these tasks. In particular, dependencies and attributes can be interactively defined, combined and displayed; social network measures such as centrality and connectivity can be calculated; and network transforms, as equational constraints, can discover missing information in deterministic networks such as contagious, incurable disease transmissions and diffusion of innovations. Emmanuel Koku, PhD. Candidate is Research and Development Scientist at Medical Decision Logic, Inc. As a Sociologist, Emmanuel Koku has attained doctoral level training in social network analyses and specializes in application of social network techniques to a number of substantive issues, such as STD transmission. Within the last 10 years, he has worked as a Research Associate at the University of Toronto where he was a co-investigator for a number of federally-funded projects on computer-mediated communication and social networks. Between 2001 and 2003 he was a Sexual Health Research Consultant for Toronto Department of Public Health responsible for investigating patterns of STD transmission and development of interventions among high risk populations. Gagik Baghdasaryan joined Medical Decision Logic in January, 2002. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Moscow, and MS in Radio Techniques and Informatics from Yerevan Polytechnic Institute. He has experience over the past 15+ years in software application design and development, data visualization and multimedia, computational linguistics, voice recognition, database development and network operations. Prior to work at MDLogix Gagik was a software developer at AnswerChase? Inc. (Annapolis, MD) developing core NLP technology for company software products. He is also an author of Speech Recognition and Speaker Identification software for Grover Industries, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN). Paul H. Broome, Ph.D. began his medical informatics career in 1975 with the first computer system for the MIEMS (Shock Trauma Unit). Besides an unfaltering interest in medicine, his other passions are network models of knowledge, computer networks, and social networks. These interests began with graph theory at the University of Michigan and continued to algebraic logic at the University of Delaware, University of Kent at Canterbury, Army Research Lab, and Cornell University. Dr. Broome has about 40 publications along with several years of practical experience with network design and security. His consultancy with MDLogix is directed to social network analysis, network visualization, and automated reasoning.
October 8, 2004 10:45 - "Child Health and Development Interactive System"
Ray Sturner, MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics
September 24, 2004 11:00 - "Consumer Health Informatics"
Krysia Hudson, MS, RNC
We will discuss some basic issues surrounding these topics: such as the Personal Health Record, the changing role of the provider and barriers to ehealth. At the end of the discussion, we will discuss the complex issues facing the hispanic community of Maryland and how ehealth may help this underserved population.
September 17, 2004 10:45 - "Knowledge Management in Public Health"
Bernard Choi, PhD Senior Research Scientist Evidence & Information for Chronic Disease Policy Divi
September 3, 2004 10:45 - "Natural Language Processing: A Practical Application"
William Carruth, MBA Administrator for Information Technology Department of Medicine
This presentation will discuss the problem of complex documentation based billing rules that govern physician fees, and how Natural Language Processing may be used to encode, categorize, and tabulate the text of a physician's note to calculate the appropriate billing level. We will review the system architecture, processing flows, and data outputs. The tool is based on work of Peter Elkin out of the Mayo Clinic, who is eager to collaborate with others at Hopkins. Also, there will be a discussion of project management, risk management issues, and quality assurance Bill Carruth is the Assistant Administrator for Informatics and Operations in the Department of Medicine. He has an MBA and has over 15 years experience with application development and applying technology to improve operational results.
July 16, 2004 11:00 - "Performing Systematic Reviews"
Karen Robinson, MSc
July 9, 2004 11:00 - "Advanced Health and Disaster Aid Network: AID-N"
David White, DSc Program Manager of Emergency Response Networks Applied Physics Lab
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory has received a grant from the National Library of Medicine to develop an advanced communications network testbed to facilitate collaboration among local emergency care organizations responsible for responding to mass casualty emergency situations. The network testbed will integrate a county public health office, a syndromic surveillance system, two hospital emergency departments (one being the Johns Hopkins Pediatric Trauma Center), first responders, and care personnel at an auxiliary casualty care center; all are located in Silver Spring and Baltimore. The seminar will address the research goals of the AID-N project, its concept of operations, and the methods and technologies being investigated to track patients and providers, provide diagnostics and treatment at the point of care, and enhance situational awareness.
June 25, 2004 11:00 - "Problem-Driven Order Entry: a novel approach to integrated CPOE and clinical documentation"
Adam Rothschild, MD HSI Fellow
"Problem-Driven Order Entry: a novel approach to integrated CPOE and clinical documentation" Problem-driven Order Entry (PDOE) is a novel approach to CPOE that dynamically generates problem-specific order pick-lists without the need for static order sets or pre-defined knowledge bases. PDOE also strongly aids clinicians in maintaining accurate, up-to-date, coded problem lists. PDOE accomplishes these functions through its simple but unique workflow whereby the clinician end-user enters every order within the context of its single, most-relevant indicating problem. In this presentation I will 1) discuss the clinical information management and workflow problems that inspired PDOE, 2) describe PDOE workflow and how it dynamically generates problem-specific PDOE pick-lists, 3) describe the experiment that we conducted to begin to support the feasibility of the PDOE concept, 4) describe the results of this experiment, 5) discuss the implications of the results of this experiment vis-à-vis future clinical information system development and future research.
June 4, 2004 11:00 - "Electronic Health Record: A Public Health Perspective"
Anna O. Orlova, PhD Executive Director, Public Health Data Standards Consortium
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/otheract/phdsc/phdsc.htm
May 28, 2004 11:00 - "Speech technologies and natural language processing"
Nick van Terheyden MD softmed.com
May 21, 2004 11:00 - The Seminal Paper on Reasoning Foundations of Medical Diagnosis: 45 Years Later (This seminar is rescheduling.)
Robert S. LedleY, DDS
May 14, 2004 11:00 - "Experiences in the Private Sector"
James Fackler, MD
May 7, 2004 11:00 - "Developing a National Repository for Measuring and Benchmarking Diabetes Education and Care"
Todd W. Weaver, MPH, PhD Director, National Diabetes Education Outcomes System American Associatio
April 30, 2004 11:00 - "Medical Errors"
Christoph U Lehmann, MD
April 23, 2004 11:00 - "Supporting Clinical Research from the Point-of-Care to the Data Warehouse: Challenges in Design and Execution at the NIH Clinical Center"
Stephen Rosenfeld, M.D., M.B.A. Chief, Department of Clinical Research Informatics Warren Grant
April 16, 2004 11:00 - "Health Information Outreach in Community-Based Organizations "
Maxine L. Rockoff, Ph.D. Director, Division of Information Management New York Academy of Medicine
Click Here for a Powerpoint Presentation
April 9, 2004 11:00 - "Population Health Technologies - Emerging Innovations for the Health of the Public"
Bio: Tom Eng, VMD, MPH, is President and Founder of the eHealth Institute (www.ehealthinstitute.org
http://www.ehealthinstitute.org/index.cfm?fuseacti
April 2, 2004 11:00 - Dr. Ledley's seminar April 2 is CANCELLED
Robert S. Ledley, DDS
March 26, 2004 11:00 - "Decision support system in the PICU"
Vinay Vaidya, MD Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Critical Care. Director, Pediatric Cri
http://courses.mbl.edu/Medical_Informatics/2000.1/student_pages/vvaidya.htm
March 19, 2004 11:00 - "To Understand Risk, Understand Operations"
Don Peeples, PhD Booz-Allen & Hamilton
March 12, 2004 11:00 - HIMSS Follow up
Marion J. Ball, EdD Vice President, Clinical Informatics Strategies Healthlink Incorporated
TBD
March 5, 2004 11:00 - "Informatics in Malawi: The Fogarty Experience"
Taha Taha, MD PhD Department of Epidemiology Bloomberg School of Public Health
February 20, 2004 11:00 - "The Use of Information Technology in the NHANES Survey"
Yechiam Ostchega, PhD Rn
TBD
February 13, 2004 11:00 - "Redesigning Health Care Delivery through Information Therapy and Patient-Centered Informatics"
Joshua Seidman, PhD Center for Information Therapy
By taking advantage of new information technologies, providers can prescribe the right information to the right person at the right time to improve consumer health decision making. This discussion will include background on system-triggered information prescriptions, strategies for indexing health content to diagnostic and procedural codes and examples of how information therapy is being used.
February 6, 2004 11:00 - "Utility Assessment in Parents of Children with Sickle Cell Disease"
Harold P. Lehmann, MD PhD
As part of a 22-city, multi-center randomized trial of blood transfusion therapy in the prevention or amelioration of silent strokes in sickle cell disease, we will be assessing the preferences, attitudes, and utilities of parents and providers for blood transfusion therapy and its side effects, as well as sickle cell disease and its side effects. This talk will provide the decision-analytic basis for this assessment, as well as demonstrate the computer-based custom-built tool for performing the elicitation.
January 30, 2004 11:00 - What is Thought?
Eric B. Baum, PhD Independent Research
I propose a model that explains how mind is equivalent to execution of a computer program, addressing aspects such as understanding, meaning, creativity, language, reasoning, learning, and consciousness, that is consistent with extensive data from a variety of fields, and that makes empirical predictions. Meaning is the computational exploitation of the compact underlying structure of the world, and mind is execution of an evolved program that is all about meaning. Occam's Razor, as formalized in the recent computer science literature, is explained and extrapolated to argue that meaning results from finding a compact enough program behaving effectively in the world; such a program can only be compact by virtue of code reuse, factoring into interacting modules that capture real concepts and are reused metaphorically. For a variety of reasons, including arguments based on complexity theory, developmental biology, evolutionary programming, ethology, and simple inspection, this compact Occam program is most naturally seen to be in the DNA, rather than the brain. Learning and reasoning are then fast and almost automatic because they are constrained by the DNA programming to deal only with meaningful quantities. Evolution itself is argued to exploit meaning in related ways. Words are labels for meaningful computational modules. Using the abilility to pass along programs through speech, humans have made cumulative progress in constructing, as part of their minds, useful computational modules built on top of the ones supplied by evolution. The difference between human and chimp intelligence is largely in this additional programming, and thus can be regarded as due to better nurturing. Human written computer programs, however, are generally not highly compressed and thus don't display understanding in the same way as human thought, but experiments are described in which modular computer programs were evolved that display approaching understanding. The many aspects of consciousness are also naturally and consistently understood in this context. For example, although the brain is a distributed system and the mind is a complex program composed of many modules, the unitary self emerges naturally as a reification (manifestation) of the interest of the genes. Qualia (the sense of experience of sensations such as pain or redness) have exactly the appropriate nature and meaning that evolution coded in the DNA so that the compact program behaves effectively. This talk is based on the eponymous, just-released book ("What Is Thought", MIT Press) and requires no prior familiarity with computer science.
January 23, 2004 11:00 - "The National Health Information Infrastructure: Clinical, Public Health, and Financial Perspectives."
Robert T. (Bob) Kambic, M.S.H. Senior Informatician National Health Information Infrastructure
January 16, 2004 11:00 - "Consumer Complaint Monitoring System: Identification of Potential Food Hazards in FSIS Regulated Product" Kimberly Elenberg, Jenny Doan
Lt Cmdr Kimberly Elenberg Doctoral Student University of Maryland
The Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) of the United States Department of Agriculture is seeking to enhance their ability to identify possible food hazards in commerce. Food hazards include but are not limited to microbiological, chemical, and foreign materials. These hazards may occur naturally or they may be intentionally introduced into the food supply. The faster food hazards are identified, the faster the suspected product can be mitigated, decreasing morbidity and mortality rates. One means of identifying food hazards in commerce is through consumer complaints. The Consumer Complaint Monitoring System (CCMS) is a database used to collect all complaints received by the agency. Currently, each complaint is triaged and analyzed by a public health nurse. Complaints may contain traditional data, meaning a lab confirmed foodborne illness, and non-traditional data. Investigations are initiated based on the possible presence of a health hazard and carried out by field officers and inspectors in production plants. In its current form, the CCMS investigation findings support quality assurance practices by food animal producers through identifying Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems that may need to be re-assessed. It has also identified food products that must be recalled. This has been accomplished through timely human analysis of each complaint and its possible relationship to all other complaints received by the agency. FSIS is looking to improve the CCMS analytical ability to assist the agency in identifying in a more precise and timely manner food hazards in commerce and to differentiate between these hazards those that have occurred accidentally, naturally, and those acts that are intentional. Additionally, the FSIS technical center is looking to use the data collected by the CCMS to identify production practices which reduce the risk of physical, chemical, and microbial hazards during food animal production.
January 9, 2004 11:00 - "A 'Fundamental Theorem' of Biomedical Informatics "
Charles P. Friedman, PhD University of Pittsburgh
December 12, 2003 11:00 - "Cognitive Science and Medical Informatics: Implications for Doctor-Patient Communication "
Vimla L. Patel, PhD., D.Sc Columbia University
December 5, 2003 11:00 - "USDA Consumer Complaint Monitoring System"
Kimberly Elenberg Doctoral Student University of Maryland
November 21, 2003 11:00 - Dr. Robot
Lou Kavoussi, MD
November 14, 2003 11:00 - "Encryption in a Business Framework for Informatics"
Ed Scheidt Founder and Chief Scientist, tecsec Retired, Chair of Cryptographt Center, CIA
November 7, 2003 11:00 - A Secure HIPAA Driven Wireless Database Solution for Pain Management
Stan Aungst Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) and Faculty Research
October 31, 2003 11:00 - "Consumer Health Literacy: a review of the literature and a call to action"
Alexa McCray National Library of Medicine
Addressing health literacy -the ability to read, understand, and act on health information - is one of the most pressing issues in our health care system today. Perhaps the most significant challenge we face is to make health information accessible to everyone, regardless of background, education, or literacy level. U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona has recently said that health literacy is "the currency of success" for everything he is doing as Surgeon General. He echoes the results of numerous research studies when he says, "Today, low health literacy is a threat to the health and well-being of Americans and to the health and well-being of the American medical system ... More than 90 million Americans cannot adequately understand basic health information." The problem is also recognized by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which has initiated an 18 month study to review health literacy research and to recommend actions that will promote a health literate society. The IOM reminds us that, "Even very literate people may have trouble obtaining, understanding, and using health information: a surgeon may have trouble using an insurance form, a science teacher may not understand information about a test of brain function, and an accountant may not know when to get a mammogram." This talk will review some of the extensive literature in health literacy and will indicate a range of techniques and methods to address health literacy. We consider the entire life cycle of information creation, access, and use. Needed are tools to assess and modify the comprehensibility of health materials, methods for improving access to information, and the development of evaluation metrics for assessing usability.
October 24, 2003 11:00 - "An Agile Model Driven Architecture For Public Health And Biomedical Research: Raising Level Of Abstraction To Produce Working Software That Is Faster, Cheaper And Much Better"
Steven Beales Medical Decision Logic
October 17, 2003 11:00 - "Programming Approaches to Creating Customized, Interactive Data Visualization Displays"
Edward Bunker, MPH HSI Research Fellow
October 10, 2003 11:00 - "Funding opportunities for informatics research from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality"
Eduardo Ortiz, MD MPH Center for Primary Care Research Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Over the past 30 years, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and its predecessors have provided approximately $250 million to fund research, development, and evaluation in medical informatics, including much of the seminal work on the use of health information technology (HIT) to improve patient safety and quality of care. In 1999, when Congress reauthorized and renamed the Agency, it specifically directed AHRQ to evaluate informatics applications, decision support systems, and computerized patient records to reduce medical errors, improve patient safety, and promote quality improvement in diverse patient settings. AHRQ responded to this mandate by launching a series of HIT initiatives to increase our understanding of HIT and advance the field of clinical informatics. In FY 2004, AHRQ was awarded $50 million dollars for the use of HIT to improve patient safety, half of which will be targeted to hospitals in rural and small communities. Dr. Ortiz will talk about the history of HIT funding at AHRQ, current HIT initiatives at the Agency, and future funding opportunities in the area of HIT.
http://dhsi.med.jhmi.edu/content/10-10-03.ppt
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October 3, 2003 11:00 - Medicine at the Point of Care: Comprehensive Medical Information on your PDA
Laura Marcial Project Leader; Point of Care Information Technologies Division of Infectious Diseas
TBD
September 26, 2003 11:00 - "Informatics as the Subject: Searching the Informatics Literature"
Holly Harden, MLIS Welch Medical Library
Holly will present an overview of the Welch Digital Library system and how to access and search the available bibliographic databases and Internet resources in the context of health sciences informatics. She will go through the process of selecting databases, executing the searches, evaluating, and saving the results. Bottom line: PubMed alone is not enough!