VIReC Clinical Informatics Cyber Seminar Series - 2007 Archive

Using the Mental Health Assistant software for Outcomes Monitoring and Program Evaluation

Kathleen Lysell, PsyD

Rick Owen, MD

• Be familiar with the VHA Mental Health Assistant software, including its use and applications in clinical care;
• Understand how the software could be used in a research setting;
• Know about how the implementation of the software was evaluated; and
• Understand the process for creation of national database of MHA assessment data

Hypertension Self Management: The Use of Telemedicine as an Intervention Tool

Hayden B. Bosworth, PhD

• Introduce the use of telemedicine in the use of hypertension self-management
• Highlight the challenges and advantages of the use of telemedicine for chronic disease management
• Explore future directions of the use telemedicine for future veteran interventions

Using Human Factors Principles in the (Re)Design of Bar Code Medication Administration

Emily Patterson, PhD, MS

• To learn about application of human factors principles to Bar Code Medication Administration
• To understand usability testing and ethnographic observations as human factors approaches to evaluating clinical informatics and IT interventions

Using Registries in Practice, Quality Improvement, Research, & Education

Elizabeth O. Kern, MD, MS
Susan R. Kirsch, MD
David C. Aron, MD, MS

Objectives:

• To understand how a disease Registry can be used to improve patient care and outcomes
• To understand the link between Registry data structure and its functionality
• To understand how a Registry can be created from the VistA database

Using Informatics in Management of Depression

• Provide an update on the progress of the Creating HealtheVet Informatics Applications for Collaborative Care project (CHIACC)
• Provide an overview of the care management approach to managing and effectively treating depression
• Describe informatics tools that are currently available and under development to address informatics needs for mental health

Sociotechnical Aspects of Health Care Computing

• Describe the importance and relevance of organizational constructs for IT implementation
• Describe strategies to manage organizational change inevitable with computerization
• Provide practical suggestions to increase the potential for effectively managing resistance
• Describe some of the challenges facing IT evaluators
• Understand the process of converting an intervention protocol into a web-based decision support system to facilitate implementation
• Learn how a decision support system can be used to promote fidelity to an evidence-based practice

Understanding Real Work Complexity for Design & Implementation of IT

• Sharp End-Blunt End Framework (a theoretical model) for understanding actual work in complex work environments
• Research findings regarding nursing work, both inpatient and outpatient, in healthcare environments
• Implications for design of information technology to support nursing work - it's not just about making sure that certain errors are impossible to make
• Implications for implementing information technology into nursing work
• Implications for evaluating outcomes of information technology to support nursing work

The VA Cardiovascular Assessment Reporting and Tracking system for Cath Labs (CART-CL)

John Rumsfeld, MD, PhD

• To understand the reasons for the development and current status of CART-CL
• To understand how CART-CL will improve clinical care, coordination of care, patient safety, and promote quality improvement for VA cath labs

VistA Clinical Reminders and Patient Lists

• Understand the vocabulary of technical terms associated with VA’s VistA Clinical Reminders package
• Recognize the potential capabilities of a clinical reminder and a reminder patient list for two aspects common to research: patient cohort selection and rapid data extraction, and
• Understand the relative processing time that certain applications of clinical reminders would be expected to take

CHIACC: Creating HealtheVet Informatics Applications for Collaborative Care

This presentation introduces the audience to the CHIACC study, which aims to develop, evaluate and implement software to support improving chronic illness care that is:

• rated high in usability
• improves efficiency
• can interface with MyHealtheVet and CPRS-R