Tuesdays, 11-11:50 T-474

Instructor: Ching-Ping Lin (ping_at_u.washington.edu)

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Introduction to course (Ching-Ping Lin)

Come bringing some ideas of what you want to see in a clinical informatics colloquium.

Visit to ISIS lab

We will be visiting the The Institute for Surgical and Interventional Simulation lab to look at the work they are doing and discuss and brainstorm related clinical informatics issues and topics. This is meant to be part tour, part discussion. Alan Au will be our guide.

Please meet us at the entrance/reception area to the ISIS lab: http://www.isis.washington.edu/facility.html

What's going on out there: JAMIA

We'll review the latest JAMIA issue and discuss JAMIA as a medical informatics journal and forum. We will look at the different types of papers JAMIA publishes and what that means for informatics research.

Please read the definitions of the different types of JAMIA papers which can be found here:
http://www.jamia.org/misc/ifora.shtml#guidelines

Please read ALL the titles and abstracts of the latest JAMIA issue here:
http://www.jamia.org/current.shtml

Quick link to pdf with all abstracts

EMR show and tell

We will compare and contrast several EMR products currently in use around the Puget Sound.

** NOTE ROOM CHANGE **
Location: T-663

Walker Ames Scholar Lecture in Nursing Informatics

Informal Student Discussion with Dr. Carole A. Gassert:
The future of health/clinical informatics, required competencies and innovative informatics teaching models

Carole A. Gassert has directed the Nursing Informatics program at the University of Utah since October 2002. She has recently been moved from a position as Associate Dean, Academic Affairs to Associate Dean, Information and Technology to allow her to focus on numerous informatics projects that have been implemented in the College of Nursing. Dr. Gassert is a long-standing advocate for nursing informatics (NI), working to establish NI as specialty within nursing and developing the first NI graduate program in the world at the University of Maryland. She spent six years in the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the Federal Government where she served as an Informatics Nurse Consultant to the Bureau of Health Professions and the Division of Nursing and Senior Distance Learning Advisor for HRSA just before coming to the University of Utah. Dr. Gassert is an informatics expert in NI curriculum, NI competencies, telehealth and informatics policy.

Dr. Gassert's webpage: http://www.nurs.utah.edu/faculty/carole_gassert.htm

Patient Portals

Jim Tufano will show us several patient portals currently in use around the Puget Sound and lead discussion.

Clinical Systems Training Tools

We will review ORCA training modules and discuss how training in the larger context of clinical information systems and health care.
Please go to the ORCA training page:
http://www.orcaed.washington.edu/resources/index.html

Review the following modules (I recommend reviewing them without the audio): Patient Care Documentation (CISR): Pre-requisite Training

Take a general look at the available resources. What is their overall approach? How do or don't they meet the needs of users? What do they focus on? What does this training imply about the relationship between clinicians and information systems?

Shadowing inet pilot -- prearranged
NO CLASS TUESDAY

Reflect on last weeks shadowing

Wrap up, Evaluations and Next Quarter