Monday, November 17, 2008
Other blogs on AMIA 2008
Kathy's notes about AMIA 2008 is available at http://amiaindc2008.blogspot.com/
Thursday, November 13, 2008
AMIA 2008 November 12, 2008
First speaker
Sugar operating system
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second speaker
The usefulness of information and communication
Current ICT usage
perception of ease of use and..
dichonomy in IT and CT usage
dichonomy in ED and EMT
support information push model
communication 1 way or 2 way
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
AMIA 2008 November 11, 2008
Before the sessions I met Nazife Baykal the director of Informatics in METU.
Today started with a invited talk by Pamela Cipriano. Lots of workflow issues mentioned in her talk. More than the talk can be downloaded thru Internet. The title of the report is AAN Technology drill study.
The next session was entitled Information delivery for community care. Kathy had a great presentation but fonts on the slides were problematic probably due to mac-pc incompatibility.
Then we went to a good Mexican restaurant called Alero on connecticket ave.
After the lunch I went to an education session entitled: How to review a scientific paper for biomedical informatics journals and conferences.
I was pretty useful. To get the slides goto www.elsevier.com/locate/yjbin
Some quotes from the ppts are:
The conference concluded the day (for me) with the poster session.
I saw a number of nice posters.
I also had opportunity to pass my business card to CDC.
Today I also confirmed with devashish and dr. sittig that I can submit an article about dr. sittig's wiki to Student WG newsletter.
Today started with a invited talk by Pamela Cipriano. Lots of workflow issues mentioned in her talk. More than the talk can be downloaded thru Internet. The title of the report is AAN Technology drill study.
The next session was entitled Information delivery for community care. Kathy had a great presentation but fonts on the slides were problematic probably due to mac-pc incompatibility.
Then we went to a good Mexican restaurant called Alero on connecticket ave.
After the lunch I went to an education session entitled: How to review a scientific paper for biomedical informatics journals and conferences.
I was pretty useful. To get the slides goto www.elsevier.com/locate/yjbin
Some quotes from the ppts are:
"the best reviewers tend to view themselves as teachers rather than critics"
"philosohical transactions of the Royal Society"
Declaration of Helsinki
Apkon
Renard proc. AMIA 2000
The conference concluded the day (for me) with the poster session.
I saw a number of nice posters.
I also had opportunity to pass my business card to CDC.
Today I also confirmed with devashish and dr. sittig that I can submit an article about dr. sittig's wiki to Student WG newsletter.
Monday, November 10, 2008
AMIA 2008 November 10, 2008
Today started with a breakfast with the Nursing Informatics people and had opportunity to meet a grad student from University of Minn (from a campus not from Minneapolis).
Just for reference for the next AMIA meetings in DC, Tim et al. stayed in Jurys Normandy Inn which is a close hotel.
I attended some exciting sessions. The first sessions were semi-preliminary sessions . Neither of them is interesting to me. So I spent sometime in the session related to translational bioinformatics. After the session I posted my poster and noticed another ppt problem on the poster. Unfortunately some of the figures have a kind of annoying white background.
After posting the poster I attended the session entitled "Computerized Status Boards in Acute Care Settings: Promise and Pitfalls".
The session started with Ann Bizantz and she had almost the same presentation she had in UW-Madison. She mentioned once workflow for a patient. One interesting point she made was how the white board is used for cooperative work. She said usually if there is anyone looking at the board there are usually other people also there. Board is not used alone.
Then it was Dr. Xiao's order. I like his conclusion which was "white boards are not an end point it is a start point from users perspective" Th e user does not get the enough are done. Their journey starts when the information is retrieved from white boards.
Dominic Aronsky had a presentation with nice start slides. I need to ask him his slides I guess.
C. Nemeth distributed some fliers that can be downloaded from their lab website. I like this following quote:
"Traction in the real word relies on understanding the actual work".
He also mentioned that research is different than problem solving approach but he did not explain how.
After the session (and light lunch) I went to birds of a feather session about qualitative evaluation. Bonnie Kaplan moderated the session and it was ok. One discussion was about difficulty in publishing. The editor of the International Journal of Medical Informatics was there. He made some good points. He said that what can readers learn from the paper should be explicitly expressed.
My next session was entitled: Use of computer tools to improve workflow. Not much to note.
The Bush's quote was awesome:
I mean, people have access to health care in America," he said. "After all, you just go to an emergency room." Ohio, 2007
Spencer S. Jones was a presenter from RAND and working on simulation of staffing in health care. It is Agent based simulation. and the tool he used is:
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo
He is interested in quality times such as door to doc time.
I mean true access to health care after all go to emergency departments.
L. Novak E. Gofmann (front stage/back stage)
The ecology of visible and invisible work
"articulation work" work that enables other work
"invisible" management and budgedary perspective.
articulation work contingent
articulation work is glue
articulation work exists
The last session I attended was Web 2.0 and clinical decision support theme
Dean Sittig talked about his wiki: http://www.clinfowiki.org
that was interesting. I have already started contributing that and I am planning to send an article to student newsletter about that.
After the session I rushed to my poster. Eventually I got a good turn over and distributed many business cards and fliers.
All the feedback I got was positive and I have had opportunity to talk to Rubin, Nelson and Nelson's a friend and confirmed my assumption of emergency departments are cooperative workflow settings.
Just for reference for the next AMIA meetings in DC, Tim et al. stayed in Jurys Normandy Inn which is a close hotel.
I attended some exciting sessions. The first sessions were semi-preliminary sessions . Neither of them is interesting to me. So I spent sometime in the session related to translational bioinformatics. After the session I posted my poster and noticed another ppt problem on the poster. Unfortunately some of the figures have a kind of annoying white background.
After posting the poster I attended the session entitled "Computerized Status Boards in Acute Care Settings: Promise and Pitfalls".
The session started with Ann Bizantz and she had almost the same presentation she had in UW-Madison. She mentioned once workflow for a patient. One interesting point she made was how the white board is used for cooperative work. She said usually if there is anyone looking at the board there are usually other people also there. Board is not used alone.
Then it was Dr. Xiao's order. I like his conclusion which was "white boards are not an end point it is a start point from users perspective" Th e user does not get the enough are done. Their journey starts when the information is retrieved from white boards.
Dominic Aronsky had a presentation with nice start slides. I need to ask him his slides I guess.
C. Nemeth distributed some fliers that can be downloaded from their lab website. I like this following quote:
"Traction in the real word relies on understanding the actual work".
He also mentioned that research is different than problem solving approach but he did not explain how.
After the session (and light lunch) I went to birds of a feather session about qualitative evaluation. Bonnie Kaplan moderated the session and it was ok. One discussion was about difficulty in publishing. The editor of the International Journal of Medical Informatics was there. He made some good points. He said that what can readers learn from the paper should be explicitly expressed.
My next session was entitled: Use of computer tools to improve workflow. Not much to note.
The Bush's quote was awesome:
I mean, people have access to health care in America," he said. "After all, you just go to an emergency room." Ohio, 2007
Spencer S. Jones was a presenter from RAND and working on simulation of staffing in health care. It is Agent based simulation. and the tool he used is:
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo
He is interested in quality times such as door to doc time.
I mean true access to health care after all go to emergency departments.
L. Novak E. Gofmann (front stage/back stage)
The ecology of visible and invisible work
"articulation work" work that enables other work
"invisible" management and budgedary perspective.
articulation work contingent
articulation work is glue
articulation work exists
The last session I attended was Web 2.0 and clinical decision support theme
Dean Sittig talked about his wiki: http://www.clinfowiki.org
that was interesting. I have already started contributing that and I am planning to send an article to student newsletter about that.
After the session I rushed to my poster. Eventually I got a good turn over and distributed many business cards and fliers.
All the feedback I got was positive and I have had opportunity to talk to Rubin, Nelson and Nelson's a friend and confirmed my assumption of emergency departments are cooperative workflow settings.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
AMIA 2008 November 09, 2008
After a long while I decided to add some stuff my research blog and AMIA 2008 is a good excuse for that.
AMIA 2008 started with an interesting keynote speech by David M. Eddy. I was expecting more like a high level speech about general benefits informatics and stuff but he talked about more specific issue which is importance of modeling. Actually that make sense given that the main theme was "from foundation to applications to policy". One lesson I got from the lesson was to construct individual guidelines based on modeling for patients.
I think it was useful to see a talk about importance of modeling and I am more motivated now modelign workflow. Dr. Eddy also made a good point by giving the modeling process priority instead of using modeling having another priority.
After the key note I attended the panel about distributed cognition in health care.
I am not sure who was the panel chair but I like his opening slides. He came up with 10 questions that the panelists roughly answer in their presentations.
First speaker who was Brian Hazlehurst mostly provided definitions and textbook info about cognition. I like his presentation of activity system as the unit analysis of distributed cognition.
However, I think cognitive cognition makes a lot of assumption that makes it hard to use at every setting. For example I am not sure all these assumptions are shown to be valid for emergency departments.
He also mentioned about Actor Network Theory as another approach I should definitely consider it in my study.
Oh, I should definitely ask his slides.
The second speaker was Dr. Zhang and I like his idea of collection data of physicians'/nurses' movement in emergency departments by using RFID. This method does not make direct observations useless but is a good complementary.
M. Beuscart-Zephir from EVALAB talked about their work it is good to know another group in France on workflow issue.
Lastly
Dr. Xiao discussed that task analysis can not be done without not knowing tools well.
Also he well answered the question of the difference between usability test and task analysis. Basically, they are overlapping and their focus is different.
After the panel I attended the opening session of innovation center and attended to student working group business meeting. It was nice see old friends (e.g. Muzni, Kevin)and make new friends (e.g. Riva)
After the student meeting 6 of us went to Sette Osteria for pizza cooked in wood fire.
AMIA 2008 started with an interesting keynote speech by David M. Eddy. I was expecting more like a high level speech about general benefits informatics and stuff but he talked about more specific issue which is importance of modeling. Actually that make sense given that the main theme was "from foundation to applications to policy". One lesson I got from the lesson was to construct individual guidelines based on modeling for patients.
I think it was useful to see a talk about importance of modeling and I am more motivated now modelign workflow. Dr. Eddy also made a good point by giving the modeling process priority instead of using modeling having another priority.
After the key note I attended the panel about distributed cognition in health care.
I am not sure who was the panel chair but I like his opening slides. He came up with 10 questions that the panelists roughly answer in their presentations.
First speaker who was Brian Hazlehurst mostly provided definitions and textbook info about cognition. I like his presentation of activity system as the unit analysis of distributed cognition.
However, I think cognitive cognition makes a lot of assumption that makes it hard to use at every setting. For example I am not sure all these assumptions are shown to be valid for emergency departments.
He also mentioned about Actor Network Theory as another approach I should definitely consider it in my study.
Oh, I should definitely ask his slides.
The second speaker was Dr. Zhang and I like his idea of collection data of physicians'/nurses' movement in emergency departments by using RFID. This method does not make direct observations useless but is a good complementary.
M. Beuscart-Zephir from EVALAB talked about their work it is good to know another group in France on workflow issue.
Lastly
Dr. Xiao discussed that task analysis can not be done without not knowing tools well.
Also he well answered the question of the difference between usability test and task analysis. Basically, they are overlapping and their focus is different.
After the panel I attended the opening session of innovation center and attended to student working group business meeting. It was nice see old friends (e.g. Muzni, Kevin)and make new friends (e.g. Riva)
After the student meeting 6 of us went to Sette Osteria for pizza cooked in wood fire.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
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