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VIReC Clinical Informatics Cyber Seminar Series - 2008 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.
2008 Archive
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12/16/2008 |
Title: |
Evaluating
Clinical Decision Support Systems: From Initial Design
to Post-deployment |
Presenter: |
Mary
Goldstein, MD, MS in HSR |
Objectives: |
- Lifecycle of development of clinical decision systems
- Evaluation methods appropriate to different stages
of development
- A method for offline testing of accuracy of recommendations
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11/17/2008 |
Title: |
VHA
OI Emerging Health Technologies Sampler |
Presenter: |
Jim
Demetriades, Director, Emerging Health Technologies
Nancy Wilck, Manager, Emerging Health Technologies |
Objectives: |
- Emerging Health Technologies Overview
- Clinical Wiki
- Point of Care Device Assessments
- Collaboration tools/Innovation Sandbox
- Electronic Health Record System Visioning (EHR-S)
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10/21/2008 |
Title: |
CPRS
and BCMA Through the Rearview Mirror – Retrospectively
Evaluating Health IT Implementations |
Presenter: |
Joanne
Spetz, PhD |
Objectives: |
- Understand how culture affects implementation and
improvement
- Recognize how staff view CPRS and BCMA today
- Identify needs and strategies for improvements in
IT systems
- Learn how to evaluate the success of implementation
and ongoing use of these systems
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09/16/2008 |
Title: |
Identifying
patients at high risk of suicide/self harm: A demonstration
of Clinical Reminder Patient Lists and their potential
use in research/Quality Improvement |
Presenter: |
Carol
Achtmeyer, MN, ARNP |
Objectives: |
- VistA files and CPRS
- Approach to use of Clinical Reminder (CR) patient
lists
- Review example of risk of suicide/self harm
- Strengths and limitations
- Implications for research
- Other query tools in VistA
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Date: |
07/15/2008 |
Title: |
Research
in Human-Computer Interaction for VA Clinical Decision
Support |
Presenter: |
By
Jason Saleem, PhD |
Objectives: |
- Provide brief overview of human factors and human-computer
interaction (HCI)
- Describe the application of HCI research to the VA
computerized clinical reminder system
- Demonstrate the new HCI / IT Laboratory at the VA
Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence-Based Practice
(CIEBP)
- Describe current CIEBP human factors and implementation
work funded by AHRQ
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Date: |
06/17/2008 |
Title: |
NetDSS:
Facilitating Implementation of a Depression Care Management
Intervention Using Web-based Decision Support |
Presenter: |
John
Fortney, PhD |
Objectives: |
- 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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05/20/2008 |
Title: |
Information
Overload and the Design and Implementation of Computerized
Decision Support |
Presenter: |
Charlene
Weir, PhD |
Objectives: |
- Identify concepts and causes of Information Overload
in computerized clinical environments
- Discuss the role of different memory systems in the
perception of information overload in clinical work settings
- Describe how to match clinical task characteristics
and implementation strategies of computerized decision
support technologies in order to minimize information
overload
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Date: |
04/15/2008 |
Title: |
My
HealtheVet Personal Health Record |
Presenter: |
Kim
Nazi, FACHE |
Objectives: |
- Provide an overview of VA's My HealtheVet Personal
Health Record as a robust set of tools to improve health
and health care delivery
- Identify how the RE-AIM Performance Evaluation Framework
is being used to evaluate the My HealtheVet Program
- Share implementation strategies and lessons learned
for this health information technology best practice
- Identify recent collaborations with VA Researchers
and current strategies underway to further research collaboration
efforts
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Date: |
03/18/2008 |
Title: |
IT
and Patient Safety |
Presenter: |
Annette
Valenta, DrPH |
Objectives: |
- Summarize the sentinel articles on clinical informatics
and patient safety
- Explain the conflicting findings in the context of
sociotechnical fit
- Formulate guidelines that reframe implementation
of clinical informatics in support of patient safety
with the goal of mitigating unintended consequences
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Date: |
01/15/2008 |
Title: |
Patient
Viewpoint: A Website for Patient-Reported Outcomes Assessment |
Presenter: |
Claire
Snyder, PhD & Albert Wu, MD, MPH |
Objectives: |
- Determine what aspects of patient reported health
would be most useful for evaluating the effectiveness
and quality of outpatient oncology practice
- Explore desirable features for a web-based system
to administer standardized questionnaires to patients
- Explore potential technical, cultural, ethical, and
legal barriers to the use of such a system
- Develop a prototype website for use by outpatient
oncology providers to collect patient-reported data in
the clinical setting
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Reviewed/Updated Date:
December 30, 2008
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