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About This Event This evening panel and discussion is part of World Usability Day, a global event to raise awareness of the value of usability, in order to ensure that the services and products important to life are easier to access and simpler to use. Download the flyer (PDF) This event gathers usability and healthcare practitioners and the public in a discussion about the issues and opportunities to make electronic health records usable for health care providers and patients. Gain insights from a very experienced panel, including:
Also get involved directly in a lively, engaging, and informative discussion!
November 8, 2007 (Thursday) NRECA Conference Center Parking is available in the NRECA building (use the Taylor Street entrance). Rates start at $3.00 per hour, with a maximum of $7.00 per day. Two shuttle elevators operate from each garage level to the Plaza Lobby. There is a sign above the garage saying that the garage closes early — please disregard the sign for this event. NRECA has confirmed that we can park in the garage. In addition, there are several other parking garages in the Ballston area. Program DetailsHealthcare today presents new challenges for usability and human factors professionals. Electronic health records are increasingly being adopted to make health information more portable and sharable between practitioners, increase the quality of care, reduce the risk of adverse drug events, and provide health care providers with more comprehensive information at the point of care. Because of this, many different people — with different skills, experience, and needs — share responsibilities for both the integrity of the data records that lead to quality care and the communication among patients and caregivers. Some of the issues that you can discuss:
For more background on electronic medical records and usability, and particularly the challenges and questions that need to be considered by the usability/human factors community, read: Bringing Usability to the Frontlines of Medicine. The evening’s agenda includes:
Along with the evening program, there will be:
Don E. Detmer, MD, MA is President and Chief Executive Officer, American Medical Informatics Association. He is also Professor of Medical Education in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia, and Visiting Professor at CHIME, University College of London. Don is a member of the US Institute of Medicine as well as a lifetime Associate of the National Academies, a fellow of AAAS as well as the American Colleges of Medical Informatics, Sports Medicine, and Surgeons. He chairs the board of MedBiquitous, an educational standard setting organization, and also co-chairs the Blue Ridge Academic Health Group, a policy group of academic health center leaders. He sits on the AHIC Security and Confidentiality Subcommittee and Clinical Decision ad hoc work group in US Department of Health and Human Services and the Governor’s Health Information Technology Council of Virginia. Dr. Detmer is past chairman of the Board on Health Care Services of the IOM, the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, and the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine. He was a Commissioner on the President’s recent Commission on Systemic Interoperability. He chaired the 1991 IOM study, “The Computer-based Patient Record” and co-edited the 1997 version of the same report. He was a member of the committee that developed the IOM Reports, ‘To Error is Human’ and “Crossing the Quality Chasm.” From 1999-2003 he was the Dennis Gillings Professor of Health Management at Cambridge University and is a lifetime member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge. He has been a consultant to the government of England and the Hospital Authority of Hong Kong. Prior to the years in England, he was Vice President for Health Sciences at the Universities of Virginia and Utah. While at Virginia he supported implementation of a physician order entry system and was principal investigator of its IAIMS grant. While at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he developed the nation’s first Administrative Medicine Program, a Master’s degree program for clinician-executives. As a surgeon, he was instrumental in the adoption and development of ambulatory surgery in the early 1970s, was team physician for the Wisconsin Badgers for ten years while also serving as President of the Medical Staff and did fundamental work on chronic compartment syndromes. He won a UW-Madison Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Jeanie Scott, MT (ASCP) is Patient Safety Program Office Director, Veterans Health Administration Office of Information. Ms. Scott began her health care career in 1986 as a Medical Technologist with the Albany Veterans Administration Medical Center (VAMC) and private sector hospital laboratory. She gained experience in specific lab sections such as Blood Bank, Hematology, Chemistry and Radio-Immunoassay (RIA), combined with generalist knowledge with 2nd and 3rd shift rotations. This enabled an understanding of work flow principles not only within a section but across shift differentials. From 1992-1995, Ms. Scott managed the laboratory information systems for the Albany VAMC. During this time, she encouraged the application and integration of Information Technology (IT) tools and processes to support laboratory workflow. Her major achievement was the implementation of electronic ordering of laboratory requests within the medical center, which included assessing workflow for inpatient and outpatient areas and developing training for clerks, nursing staff, clinicians and new residents. In 1995, Ms. Scott joined the Veteran’s Health Administration (VHA) Office of Information (OI). Her primary responsibilities included national implementation, training, and support for clinical information applications that were part of the Veterans Health Information Systems Technology Architecture (VistA), used daily by almost 200,000 doctors, nurses and allied health care professionals to support the delivery of health care to veterans. In 2003, Ms Scott became a key participant in workgroup efforts to define and implement the VHA OI patient safety program. She helped develop key reporting, notification, and analysis processes, worked closely with the National Center for Patient Safety (NCPS) to bring best practices into the OI program, and initiated training and outreach efforts to both the technical and clinical user communities. In 2005, Ms. Scott was selected as the first, full-time OI Patient Safety Program Office Director, to establish a culture of patient safety within the health IT communities. Jan Horsky, Ph.D. oversees usability evaluation of the Longitudinal Medical Record system at Partners HealthCare in Boston, where he is a member of the Clinical Informatics Research and Development Group. In this role, Dr. Horsky is designing a reproducible and routine process that will ensure appropriate usability testing, whether in laboratory or field environment, to assure that all new features and functions within the LMR are designed with optimal end user efficiency and usability in mind. Dr. Horsky received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University, where he conducted research concerned primarily with cognitive aspects of human-computer interaction in healthcare environments, and with issues related to the development, implementation and evaluation of health information technology (HIT). Long-term projects included a cognitive usability study of clinicians interacting with a computer-based prescriber order entry system (CPOE), and the effects of complex information technology systems on medical reasoning, clinical workflow, and the rate of medical errors. In another study, the research team investigated the transfer of information between technology and clinicians and its role in collaborative work in critical care environments. Call for Posters (closed)If you are interested in submitting a poster on a topic related to healthcare and usability, send an email to the UPA-DC
For the generous support that you, members of the DC Metro usability and human factors community, showed at last month’s User Focus conference and throughout the past year. UPA-DC, HFES, and STC WDC returned the favor by making this event free.
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