VIReC Clinical Informatics Cyber Seminar Series - 2007 Archive
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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.
2007 Archive
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11/20/2007 |
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Using
the Mental Health Assistant software for Outcomes Monitoring
and Program Evaluation |
Presenters: |
Kathleen
Lysell, PsyD
Rick Owen, MD |
Objectives: |
- 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
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10/16/2007 |
Title: |
Hypertension
Self Management: The Use of Telemedicine as an Intervention
Tool |
Presenters: |
Hayden
B. Bosworth, PhD |
Objectives: |
- 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
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09/18/2007 |
Title: |
Using
Human Factors Principles in the (Re)Design of Bar Code
Medication Administration |
Presenters: |
Emily
Patterson, PhD, MS |
Objectives: |
- 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
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08/21/2007 |
Title: |
Using
Registries in Practice, Quality Improvement, Research, & Education |
Presenters: |
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
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Date: |
07/17/2008 |
Title: |
Using
Informatics in Management of Depression |
Presenters: |
Laura
Bonner, PhD
Kathleen Lysell, PsyD |
Objectives: |
- 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
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Date: |
06/19/2007 |
Title: |
Sociotechnical
Aspects of Health Care Computing |
Presenter: |
Annette
Valenta, DrPH |
Objectives: |
- 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
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Date: |
05/17/2007 |
Title: |
Understanding
Real Work Complexity for Design & Implementation of
IT |
Presenter: |
Patricia
Ebright, BSN, MSN, DNS |
Objectives: |
- 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
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Date: |
04/17/2007 |
Title: |
The
VA Cardiovascular Assessment Reporting and Tracking system
for Cath Labs (CART-CL) |
Presenter: |
John
Rumsfeld, MD, PhD
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Objectives: |
- 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
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Date: |
03/20/2007 |
Title: |
VistA
Clinical Reminders and Patient Lists |
Presenter: |
Robert
Silverman, PharmD |
Objectives: |
- 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
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Date: |
01/16/2007 |
Title: |
CHIACC:
Creating HealtheVet Informatics Applications
for Collaborative Care |
Presenter: |
Amy
Cohen, PhD |
Objectives: |
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
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