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Personal Year in Review
December 26, 2012
2012 may go down as a most traveled year for me both in terms of the number of trips and miles traveled but also in terms of new opportunities.
In January, I gave a lecture to the 3rd year medical students at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine on Biomedical Informatics challenging them to think about the future of algorithms in medicine among other topics.
Beginning in February, my chapter on eResearch in the book Health Informatics, was published.
Later in February, it was off to Las Vegas for HIMSS. I was a guest of the Dutch delegation and spoke on Electronic Medical Records: From Clinical Decision Support to Precision Medicine. It was great to see Health IT social media colleagues at the HIMSS social media center. Also during February, I was invited to be on the advisory board for Health Works Collective and contributed to their interest in European trends with a blog post on How Europe is Growing Health Apps.
In March I attended the American Medical Informatics Association Clinical Research Informatics meeting in San Francisco. I presented two posters and one podium presentation all focused on the use of EMR data in research.
Then in April, it was on to the Netherlands for TEDx Maastricht and a visit to Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmeg en to meet at the ReShape & Innovation Center see a preview of the movie The Waiting Room. Also had a tour of the In Vitro programming there with ePatient Dave. Later in April I attend the Epic Research Advisory Council for the first time. Another valuable meeting of other user of the Epic EMR on the secondary use of EMR data in research and how to integrate research into the EMR.
Epic Campus near Madison, Wisconsin
May brought the publication of a blog post in iHealthbeat on A Look at Social Media in Health Care — Two Years Later , a follow up post on my original commentary on Healthcare social media from 2010. Also, I attended the Patient Experience Summit at the Cleveland Clinic which included fellow HealthWorksCollective bloggers Robin Carrey and Barbara Ficarra. Also published was a Technology Brief from the American Association of Medical Colleges on Mobile Apps. These one page summaries are targeted at medical school leadership.
June brought a trip to Barcelona for the Hospital Liquido conference. I presented an updated version of From Clinical Decision Support to Precision Medicine, This was a great opportunity to see one of Europe’s most beautiful cities as well as see the health IT innovation including Doctoralia.
Sagrada de Familia, Barcelona
In July I presented virtually at Salud 2.0 in Bilbao, another offering from Spain in medical innovation. My presentation on Social Media in Health Care: A Reasoned Approach was well received. I had the opportunity to answer questions via phone. Hopefully, I will be able to attend this conference in person in a future year.
In August, I was invited to become Adjunct Faculty at Kent State University in Health Informatics. Preparing a course in Clinical Analytics to be taught in May and June, 2013. This is a completely online masters program will be a new experience for me including online videos, readings, assignments and weekly discussion topics. At the end of August I attend the Ohio Health Data Symposium at Case Western Reserve University. Ohio like many states has a rich repository of public health information on everything from chronic diseases to behavioral health.
In early September, I completed a chapter on Computing and Information for a new textbook on Wireless Health: Remaking of Medicine by Pervasive Technologies. The concept of pervasive technology in healthcare is certainly at a tipping point. The book will be out in February 2013. Also in September I attended an internal Cleveland Clinic event, the annual Healthcare Technology Forum which showcased some of the many IT initiatives at all Cleveland Clinic locations including Abu Dhabi.
October 29-31, I attend the Cleveland Clinic Innovation Summit which focused on Orthopedics but included presentations by IBM, 23andMe and Explorys.
November took me to Chicago for the AMIA Annual Symposium. With record attendance (3500), I had the opportunity to organize and present a pre-symposium workshop on Clinical Research Informatics Infrastructure and a poster on the use of a wiki to educate healthcare professionals about secondary use of EMR data. The same week I attend the Informatics Key Functional Committee of the Clinical and Translational Science Awards of the NIH. It was valuable to see what tools are being developed and particularly to attend the Integrated Data Repository workgroup. Also significant for AMIA this year was being featured on the website under Faces of AMIA and participating in the mentorship program, working with an up an coming informaticist, Anja Timmerman. I would encourage all experienced health IT professionals to participate in mentoring to bring along the next generation of informatics.
Chicago Millennium Park
In December I presented at Cleveland Clinic Medical Informatics Grand Rounds on Use of an EMR-based Registry to Support Clinical Research. Mature EMR systems are quickly become key tools in all aspects of research
Quite a year of opportunities and evolution in my thinking. As you can see, much of my work is shifting from social media in healthcare (although this is still an interest of mine) to research informatics and specifically secondary use of EMR data. More later on what next year might bring.
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Year in Review – 2011 Accomplishments
December 27, 2011
In addition to having a great year traveling and presenting, I had additional accomplishments:
- Appointed as the Co-director for Biomedical Research Informatics for the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative, an NIH funded program through the Case Medical School
- Joined the Editorial Board of Tech Now Briefs of the American Association of Medical Colleges
- Invited to contribute to a theme issue on social media for Frontiers from the American College of Healthcare Executives
- Became a featured blogger for HealthWorks Collective
- Appointed as a reviewer for HIMSS 2012 abstracts – a new role for me
- Authored chapter on eResearch to a book on medical informatics to be ePublished in 2012
- Celebrated 30 years as an employee at Cleveland Clinic
- Leading a project to develop a clinical data warehouse for research
- Approaching 1000 connections on LinkedIn (969)
- 2881 followers on Twitter
- Klout score hovering around 42
- Invited to be on the advisory board of a health related startup
Appropriate Use of Social Media in Healthcare Organizations
April 14, 2011
A question during a presentation on social media in healthcare about the appropriate use of social media in patient care areas. Social media can be an effective tool for engaging patients online. But what about the use of social media in patient care areas. Should nurses, physicians and other healthcare providers be online interacting with colleagues or family during active patient care? With busy clinics and busier hospital units and greater concern about patient safety, is there time for what administrators might view as a distraction? Would you want your nurse to be updating Facebook while you are waiting for post-op pain medication? Yet there may be some advantages to direct caregivers utilizing social media. How about the oncology nurse interacting with the cancer patient discharged last week? Or nurses within a hospital exchanging ideas about improving patient safety? Yet stories of abusive use of social media in health care persist.
Clear answers are hard to come by. Each hospital will need to develop its own policy and implementation of that policy in the use of social media in patient care environments. But when face time with the patient is the highest priority, social media may need to take a back seat.
Slides are here:
Share this:2010 Year in Review
December 24, 2010
It has been a year full of travel and accomplishments. Here is a month-by-month review:
- January – hosted Lucien Engelen and others from Radboud UMCN Hospital in the Netherlands at the Cleveland Clinic for two days on everything from the group practice model to innovation and patient experience in two days.
- February- vacation in Naples, Florida
- March – HIMSS 2010 in Atlanta presenting twice and AMIA Clinical Research Informatics Symposium presenting a poster. Also visited the Googleplex. Stopped in Salt Lake City for a day on the way home.
- April – Toronto for the - TAHSN Education Day for Healthcare Communicators – spoke on social media
- May - J. Boye Conference in Philadelphia – spoke on social media in healthcare and published my first article in iHealthbeat “Social Media in Health Care: Barriers and Future Trends”
- June – Visited Washington, DC. Vacation and some consulting
- July – Attended the Leadership Institute of the Group on Information Leadership of the American Association of Medical Colleges in La Jolla, California for a week and became a fellow.
- August – brief vacation in Salt Lake City including the Bonneville Salt Flats
- September – Named a fellow in the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and named in a NIH grant on Risk Calculators
- October – Presented at Toledo (Ohio) Hospital on social media and attended the CTSA Innovative Informatics for Clinical and Translational Researchers at the NIH. Did live tweeting while attending the Cleveland Clinic Innovation Summit.
- November – coauthor of an article on a disease registry in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology and another prespectives piece in iHealthbeat on the secondary use of EMR data.
- December – Second article on the chronic kidney disease registry published. A positive editorial by a well known informaticists about the registry published
Looking forward to more in the coming year – conferences, presentations, publications.
Share this:Leveraging EMR Data to Develop Disease-Based Registries
March 6, 2010
This is my other presentation at HIMSS 2010. One of the real values of EMRs is the secondary use of the data for research. While respecting patient privacy, this kind of research can be rapidly developed from EMR data. We recommend the following steps:
- define the cohort of patients you want to study/monitor
- define the data elements you want included
- review and verify data elements with subject matter experts
- set up a regular interval to extract the data
- generate some test queries to verify the process
- monitor to use of the data (ongoing governance)
Our initial experience with a Chronic Kidney Disease registry has been a success. We recommend that research issues be considered in any purchase and implementation of an EMR.
Share this:Report from HIMSS 2009
April 5, 2009
Saturday I participated in the Payer Symposium. I presented on the Digital Consumer with Peter Mills who presented on health promotion in Second Life. Slide handout is here, I was impressed, particularly in the panel which wrapped up the day: there was alot of discussion on the best approach to interoperability, meaningful use of EMRs, and medical home. The evidence for the effectiveness of medical home in promoting health, particularly the basic relationship with a single primary care medical provider. More on this later.
Share this:HIMSS eHealth SIG to present on PHRs
February 11, 2009
The Webex will occur on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 3pm EST. They made a good choice of presenters:
- Wes Rishel, VP and Distinguished Analyst, Gartner, Inc.
- Matt Guldin, Product Manager, HealthNet, former Industry Analyst with Frost & Sullivan
I’ve known Matt for some time now – he brings a broad perspective on this and, of course, Gartner always has its hands on the pulse of things.
If you are interested in attending, contact Ben Dillion at ben.dillon@geonetric.com.
The HIMSS eHealth Special Interest Group will also meet in person at the Annual HIMSS conference in Chicago. The meeting will be Monday, April 6, 2009 from 1:00 – 2:30pm at the Hyatt Conference Center in room 12AB. The topic is “Health 2.0.” Watch this blog for more info. I will be there.
Share this:Shameless Self Promotion
July 2, 2008
Once in a while you have to promote yourself. Well, in this case HIMSS has done it for me. I am pleased to receive the Spirit of HIMSS Award. Nice article about me appears today in their HIMSS Weekly Insider.
Not often does one get such acknowledgment for volunteer work but HIMSS finds ways to do this on a regular basis as they are dependent on many devoted volunteers to make the organization a success. I am pleased to be part of that process. I am in good company for this award.
Share this:Podcast of Presentation at HIMSS 2008 on SOA
May 8, 2008
HIMSS just posted podcasts from the conference in Orlando. Scroll down and you will see mine:
Share this:Google CEO on Google Health at HIMSS – video
March 18, 2008
Eric Schmidt’s keynote address at HIMSS in Orlando last month is now available on the HIMSS website. His argument to have your medical records available from “the cloud” (maybe he should have said a secure place within the cloud) is worth the time. The demo by Roni Zeiger is also included.
This announcement continues to get attention from all quarters even with some predicting that Google will dominate this space in spite of Microsoft’s earlier entry.
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