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VIReC Clinical Informatics Cyber Seminar Series - 2006 Archive

Browse Previous Cyber Seminars

Previous VIReC seminars are a rich resource for researchers because they often contain references to information related to topics of interest. Clinical Informatics and VA Databases and Methods Cyber Seminars are listed by year and month. Archives of these presentations are also available in the HSR&D Cyber Seminar catalog.

                                         

2006 Archive

Date: 12/19/2006
Title:

CPRS and BCMA Through the Rearview Mirror – Retrospectively Evaluating Health IT Implementations
Presenter: Rich Frankel, PhD
Objectives:
  • Provide a background and history of computers at the point of care
  • Discuss Dr. Frankel’s research on how a computer in the examination room affects the provider – patient interaction
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Date: 11/21/2006
Title:

Consumer Health Informatics: Using Technology to Enhance Partnerships with Our Patients
Presenter: Anna McDaniel, RN, DNS
Objectives:
  • Describe current trends and future directions in consumer health informatics
  • Examine issues surrounding consumers’ use of health information technology
  • Discuss examples of consumer health informatics research
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Audio

Date: 10/17/2006
Title:

Improving Chronic Illness Care:  Development of Routine Patient Self-Assessment
Presenter: Alex Young, MD, MSHS
Objectives:
  • Informatics to improve chronic illness care
  • Challenges to improving mental health care
  • Developing patient self-assessment
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Video

Date: 09/19/2006
Title:

Guideline-Based Decision Support for Hypertension with ATHENA DSS: Organizational Issues in Implementation, Deployment, and Maintenanceresearch/Quality Improvement
Presenter: Mary Goldstein, MD
Objectives:
  • Share experience implementing information technology (IT) for clinical quality improvement (QI)
  • Discuss sociotechnological approach to implementing IT in VA health care settings
  • Identify several key stakeholders
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Audio

Date: 08/15/2006
Title:

Telemedicine: Re-Envisioning the Telephone Consultation
Presenter: Julie McGowan, PhD
Objectives:
  • Definition of telemedicine
  • History of telemedicine
  • Rationale behind telemedicine
  • Telemedicine evaluation
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Audio

Date: 07/18/2006
Title:

Health Information Exchange: Nuts and Bolts
Presenter: Atif Zafar, MD
Objectives:
  • Introduce HIE Technologies
  • Discuss strategies for Building a HIE
  • Discuss the National Agenda for HIE
  • Address best Practices and Lessons Learned
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Audio

Date: 06/20/2006
Title:

Evaluation and Clinical Informatics
Presenter: Annette Valenta, DrPH
Objectives: This session answers the following questions:What is clinical informatics?
  • What is informatics evaluation?
  • Why do informatics evaluations?
  • Evaluation characteristics and typologies
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Video

Date: 05/16/2006
Title:

IT Service Requests and New Commercial Technology Requests: A How-To Guide for VHA researchers
Presenter: KDavid Douglas, MD
Objectives: This session answers the following questions:
  • Who is the Office of Information’s (OI) Informatics and Data Management Committee (IDMC)?
  • What are new IT Service Requests (NSR’s) and New Commercial Technology (NCT’s) requests?
  • What a researcher does a research need to do to place a request?
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Date: 04/18/2006
Title:

Strategies and Priorities to Using Health Information Technology to Implement Evidence-Based Practice

Presenter: Bradley Doebbeling, MD, MSc
Objectives: This cyber seminar discusses:
  • the need for healthcare change
  • how information technology (IT) can be used to implement evidence-based healthcare change
  • strategies for IT implementation
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Video

Date: 03/21/2006
Title:

Attributes of an Ideal Information System to Support Implementation Research
Presenter: Denise Hynes, PhD, RN
Objectives: This session provides an overview of the cyber seminar series and presents information on:
  • key aspects to consider in a clinical information system
  • desired attributes of a clinical information system
  • barriers and facilitators to information technology in healthcare and research
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Audio