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Pressure Injury And Restraint Prevalence Surveys: Saving Time And Dollars For Patient Care By Automating Manual Chart Abstraction, Jefton Knight, Melinda Gevaart, Stephanie Wagner, Shellie Bush, Jeanann Miller
Pressure Injury And Restraint Prevalence Surveys: Saving Time And Dollars For Patient Care By Automating Manual Chart Abstraction, Jefton Knight, Melinda Gevaart, Stephanie Wagner, Shellie Bush, Jeanann Miller
Transactions of the International Conference on Health Information Technology Advancement
Bronson Healthcare Group performs quarterly pressure injury and restraint audits as part of the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI). The chart abstraction portion of the audit previously required nurses to manually abstract 31 data points. To save time and cost, we used Lean and PDSA process improvement tools to automate the chart abstraction portion of the audit, reducing the number of data points requiring manual abstraction to 2. We validated the automated abstraction by comparing it to abstractions done manually by the audit nurses. We found that an automated process has the potential to reduce the impact of …
“Real World” Research Using Practice Based Research Networks (Pbrn): A Systematic Review, Elmon Oliver Iii, Robert Brown
“Real World” Research Using Practice Based Research Networks (Pbrn): A Systematic Review, Elmon Oliver Iii, Robert Brown
Transactions of the International Conference on Health Information Technology Advancement
Objective: While the randomized control clinical trial (RCT) has long been viewed as the “gold standard” for evidence based medicine, researchers and clinicians have also recognized limitations of RCTs when applied to clinical practice. These limitations arise from the fact that the results of interventions and procedures of RCTs conducted in controlled institutional settings often differ significantly from results obtained when the same interventions are applied in clinical practice. Consequently, there are increasing calls for more research to be carried out in the “real world” setting of clinical practices treating heterogeneous groups of patients. Studies conducted in clinical practices are …
Impact Of Ehr Usability On Provider Efficiency And Patient Safety In Non-Hospital Settings, Guenter Tusch, Raymond J. Higbea, Marie Vanderkooi, Larry Warkoczeski, Wanda Sankey, Jamie Cole
Impact Of Ehr Usability On Provider Efficiency And Patient Safety In Non-Hospital Settings, Guenter Tusch, Raymond J. Higbea, Marie Vanderkooi, Larry Warkoczeski, Wanda Sankey, Jamie Cole
Transactions of the International Conference on Health Information Technology Advancement
Healthcare organizations may reap benefits transitioning to electronic health records (EHRs), such as decreased healthcare costs and better care. However, severe unintended consequences from implementation and design of these systems have emerged. Poorly implemented EHR systems may endanger the integrity of clinical or administrative data. That, in turn, can lead to errors jeopardizing patient safety or quality of care. A literature review of 40 sources identified how EHR implementation and design can impact provider centric, patient centric, and outcomes. These categories provided the basis for a comprehensive EHR impact model that was evaluated in non-hospital settings through focus groups interviews.
The Dynamics Of Real-Time Online Information And Disease Progression: Understanding Spatial Heterogeneity In The Relationship, Blake Tindol, Utkarsh Shrivastava, Kuanchin Chen
The Dynamics Of Real-Time Online Information And Disease Progression: Understanding Spatial Heterogeneity In The Relationship, Blake Tindol, Utkarsh Shrivastava, Kuanchin Chen
Transactions of the International Conference on Health Information Technology Advancement
The re-emergence of infectious diseases such as measles and polio is creating logistics challenges for the state authorities to curb their spread and contain them. (CL, 2015) Real-time surveillance of infectious diseases is important to detect possible epidemics in advance to prevent shortages of medications (FDA, 2018). The outbreak of an infectious disease creates panic in the community and is accompanied by a sudden increase in the online interest in knowing more about the disease and its symptoms. Prior studies have found a strong relationship between web-based information and disease outbreak but the influence of dynamics of web-based information in …
It-Based Patient Interventions For Opioid Abuse: Evaluation Using Analytical Model, Neetu Singh, Upkar Varshney
It-Based Patient Interventions For Opioid Abuse: Evaluation Using Analytical Model, Neetu Singh, Upkar Varshney
Transactions of the International Conference on Health Information Technology Advancement
The number of people in the US with opioid abuse exceeds 2 million and the total cost is approximately $100B per year. In this study, we focus on patient-level interventions and present three IT-based interventions: (a) mobile reminders, (b) electronic monitoring, and (c) composite intervention. We have developed an analytical model for evaluating interventions using Return-on-Investment (ROI). The interventions are cost-effective for higher values of intervention effectiveness, hospital, and emergency room cost. However, with QoL improvement, cost-effectiveness improves significantly. We also explored the use of financial incentives for increasing the adoption of interventions. These results will help patients, healthcare professionals, …
Does It Spending Matter On Hospital Financial Performance And Quality?, C. Christopher Lee, Christopher Chagnon, Robert Marfia
Does It Spending Matter On Hospital Financial Performance And Quality?, C. Christopher Lee, Christopher Chagnon, Robert Marfia
Transactions of the International Conference on Health Information Technology Advancement
This research explored impacts of IT spending on hospital financial performance and hospital quality. We developed two research hypotheses accordingly. The first hypothesis was that IT spending would be positively related to the hospital financial performance, and the second hypothesis was that hospitals with higher IT spending would have better quality metrics. We used the 2017 American Hospital Association Survey data and the HCAHPS dataset from Medicare website. We tested three hospital financials and three quality measures. We employed T-Tests and ANOVA models to test the hypotheses. Results were inconclusive for both hypotheses. Evidence showed statistical significance on two out …
Communication Style In Medical Crowdfunding: Effect Of Emotional Framing And Updates Frequency On Funding And Emotional Support, Onochie Fan-Osuala
Communication Style In Medical Crowdfunding: Effect Of Emotional Framing And Updates Frequency On Funding And Emotional Support, Onochie Fan-Osuala
Transactions of the International Conference on Health Information Technology Advancement
Despite the rise of medical crowdfunding and its benefits to patients including reducing financial hardships and providing emotional social support, limited attention has been paid to how a campaign organizer can drive performance. In this study, we investigate how the communication style used in a medical crowdfunding campaign can affect both the funding performance and emotional support received. We find that emotional framing and frequent updates have a positive effect on funding and emotional support and discuss the implications.
Transactions Of 2019 International Conference On Health Information Technology Advancement Vol. 4 No. 1, Center For Health Information Technology Advancement
Transactions Of 2019 International Conference On Health Information Technology Advancement Vol. 4 No. 1, Center For Health Information Technology Advancement
Transactions of the International Conference on Health Information Technology Advancement
The Fourth International Conference on Health Information Technology Advancement Kalamazoo, Michigan, October 31 - Nov. 1, 2019.
Conference Co-Chairs Bernard T. Han and Muhammad Razi, Department of Business Information Systems, Haworth College of Business, Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI 49008
Transaction Editor Dr. Huei Lee, Professor, Department of Computer Information Systems, Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Volume 4, No. 1
Hosted by The Center for Health Information Technology Advancement, WMU
360 Degree Virtual Reality Increases Student’S Confidence In Clinical Skills In Simulation, Ronda Christman, Barbara James, Kerry Allen
360 Degree Virtual Reality Increases Student’S Confidence In Clinical Skills In Simulation, Ronda Christman, Barbara James, Kerry Allen
Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Characterizing And Predicting Repeat Food Consumption Behavior For Just-In-Time Interventions, Yue Liu, Helena Huey Chong Lee, Palakorn Achananuparp, Ee-Peng Lim, Tzu-Ling Cheng, Shou-De Lin
Characterizing And Predicting Repeat Food Consumption Behavior For Just-In-Time Interventions, Yue Liu, Helena Huey Chong Lee, Palakorn Achananuparp, Ee-Peng Lim, Tzu-Ling Cheng, Shou-De Lin
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Human beings are creatures of habit. In their daily life, people tend to repeatedly consume similar types of food items over several days and occasionally switch to consuming different types of items when the consumptions become overly monotonous. However, the novel and repeat consumption behaviors have not been studied in food recommendation research. More importantly, the ability to predict daily eating habits of individuals is crucial to improve the effectiveness of food recommender systems in facilitating healthy lifestyle change. In this study, we analyze the patterns of repeat food consumptions using large-scale consumption data from a popular online fitness community …
Vitamon: Measuring Heart Rate Variability Using Smartphone Front Camera, Sinh Huynh, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Jeonggil Ko, Youngki Lee
Vitamon: Measuring Heart Rate Variability Using Smartphone Front Camera, Sinh Huynh, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Jeonggil Ko, Youngki Lee
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
We present VitaMon, a mobile sensing system that can measure the inter-heartbeat interval (IBI) from the facial video captured by a commodity smartphone's front camera. The continuous IBI measurement is used to compute heart rate variability (HRV), one of the most important markers of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) regulation. The underlying idea of VitaMon is that video recording of human face contains multiple cardiovascular pulse signals with different phase shift. Our measurement on 10 participants shows the significant time delay (36.79 ms) between the pulse signals measured at the jaw region and forehead region. VitaMon leverages deep neural network …
November 2019, Swosu Bulldog Wellness Committee
November 2019, Swosu Bulldog Wellness Committee
SWOSU BULLDOG WELLNESS
National Diabetes Awareness Month Diabetes is one of the leading causes of disability and death in the United States. One in 10 Americans have diabetes — that’s more than 30 million people. There are also 84 million adults in the United States are at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Depending on your age, weight, and other factors, you may be at higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The good news is that making healthy changes can greatly lower your risk. To help prevent type 2 diabetes:
- Watch your weight
- Eat healthy
- Get more physical activity
Telehealth In Critical Care: Quality And Cost Outcomes, Stephanie Cole, Michael Robie, Bukola Abodunde, Alberto Coustasse
Telehealth In Critical Care: Quality And Cost Outcomes, Stephanie Cole, Michael Robie, Bukola Abodunde, Alberto Coustasse
Management Faculty Research
As the population of the United States has continued to age, there has been an increase in usage and Hospital Length of Stay (LOS) costs of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds. In the early 2000s, it was determined there would be a shortage of all ICU providers within the next decade due to the increased need for critical care for the aging generation. Around this time, the Leapfrog Group was formed to demand that hospitals improve quality and decrease cost. Utilization of telehealth in the ICU was a possible alternative, which had a positive impact on both clinical and financial …
Community-Acquired Pneumonia Pathogenesis In Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Julio A. Ramirez, Rodrigo Cavallazzi
Community-Acquired Pneumonia Pathogenesis In Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Julio A. Ramirez, Rodrigo Cavallazzi
The University of Louisville Journal of Respiratory Infections
No abstract provided.
Impact Of Integrating A Neonatal Early-Onset Sepsis Risk Calculator Into The Electronic Health Record., Nyles T Fowler, Michael Garcia, Cynthia Hankins
Impact Of Integrating A Neonatal Early-Onset Sepsis Risk Calculator Into The Electronic Health Record., Nyles T Fowler, Michael Garcia, Cynthia Hankins
Articles, Abstracts, and Reports
Investigators from Kaiser Permanente developed a risk-assessment calculator as a tool for evaluation of early-onset sepsis (EOS) to narrow antibiotic use for the treatment of EOS. The integration of the EOS risk calculator into an electronic health record will minimize manual calculations and data entry and improve compliance and accuracy through automation.
Methods: We performed a retrospective chart review for neonates ≥34 weeks and 0 days gestational age. We collected data pre-integration and post-integration of the EOS risk calculator. The primary outcome measure is the accuracy of user input into the calculator. Secondary outcomes include compliance with using the EOS …
Smrtfridge: Iot-Based, User Interaction-Driven Food Item & Quantity Sensing, Amit Sharma, Archan Misra, Vengateswaran Subramaniam, Youngki Lee
Smrtfridge: Iot-Based, User Interaction-Driven Food Item & Quantity Sensing, Amit Sharma, Archan Misra, Vengateswaran Subramaniam, Youngki Lee
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
We present SmrtFridge, a consumer-grade smart fridge prototype that demonstrates two key capabilities: (a) identify the individual food items that users place in or remove from a fridge, and (b) estimate the residual quantity of food items inside a refrigerated container (opaque or transparent). Notably, both of these inferences are performed unobtrusively, without requiring any explicit user action or tagging of food objects. To achieve these capabilities, SmrtFridge uses a novel interaction-driven, multi-modal sensing pipeline, where Infrared (IR) and RGB video sensing, triggered whenever a user interacts naturally with the fridge, is used to extract a foreground visual image of …
Estimating Glycemic Impact Of Cooking Recipes Via Online Crowdsourcing And Machine Learning, Helena Lee, Palakorn Achananuparp, Yue Liu, Ee-Peng Lim, Lav R. Varshney
Estimating Glycemic Impact Of Cooking Recipes Via Online Crowdsourcing And Machine Learning, Helena Lee, Palakorn Achananuparp, Yue Liu, Ee-Peng Lim, Lav R. Varshney
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Consumption of diets with low glycemic impact is highly recommended for diabetics and pre-diabetics as it helps maintain their blood glucose levels. However, laboratory analysis of dietary glycemic potency is time-consuming and expensive. In this paper, we explore a data-driven approach utilizing online crowdsourcing and machine learning to estimate the glycemic impact of cooking recipes. We show that a commonly used healthiness metric may not always be effective in determining recipes suitable for diabetics, thus emphasizing the importance of the glycemic-impact estimation task. Our best classification model, trained on nutritional and crowdsourced data obtained from Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), can …
Artificial Intelligence And The Challenge For Rural Medicine, James Denvir
Artificial Intelligence And The Challenge For Rural Medicine, James Denvir
Marshall Journal of Medicine
Recent advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning are beginning to have an impact on everyday experiences, from natural language processing used in automated telephone call centers to semi-autonomous vehicles. These techniques have also been applied to medical care. In this editorial we discuss applications of AI to medicine and argue for a proactive approach to include rural medicine in this paradigm shift.
What’S New In Civic Tech: Watech Launches Gis Data Portal, Zack Quaintance
What’S New In Civic Tech: Watech Launches Gis Data Portal, Zack Quaintance
Innovation and SimLab
Plus, a data competition aims to reduce Indiana’s infant mortality rate; Code for America’s GetCalFresh program works to reach eligible self-employed residents; and Louisiana has a new Medicaid enrollment app.
Population Health Management, Data And Technology, Helena Ladd, Cody Hepp, Anna Mccloud, Hannah Granger, Mary Ellen Hethcox, Samuel Calabrese
Population Health Management, Data And Technology, Helena Ladd, Cody Hepp, Anna Mccloud, Hannah Granger, Mary Ellen Hethcox, Samuel Calabrese
Pharmacy and Wellness Review
No abstract provided.
October 2019, Randy Curry, Cindy Brooks
October 2019, Randy Curry, Cindy Brooks
RURAL ROCKS
Rural Rocks, the Rural Health Network newsletter by the SWOSU College of Pharmacy
What Do Faculties Specializing In Brain And Neural Sciences Think About, And How Do They Approach, Brain-Friendly Teaching-Learning In Iran?, Sahar Ghanbari, Fariba Haghani, Malahat Akbarfahimi
What Do Faculties Specializing In Brain And Neural Sciences Think About, And How Do They Approach, Brain-Friendly Teaching-Learning In Iran?, Sahar Ghanbari, Fariba Haghani, Malahat Akbarfahimi
Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences
Objective: to investigate the perspectives and experiences of the faculties specializing in brain and neural sciences regarding brain-friendly teaching-learning in Iran. Methods: 17 faculties from 5 universities were selected by purposive sampling (2018). In-depth semi-structured interviews with directed content analysis were used. Results: 31 sub-subcategories, 10 subcategories, and 4 categories were formed according to the “General teaching model”. “Mentorship” was a newly added category. Conclusions: A neuro-educational approach that consider the roles of the learner’s brain uniqueness, executive function facilitation, and the valence system are important to learning. Such learning can be facilitated through cognitive load considerations, repetition, deep questioning, …
Association Of Urine Levels Of C-Reactive Protein With Clinical Outcomes In Patients With Pneumonia: A Pilot Study, Subathra Marimuthu, Vidyulata Salunkhe, Stephen P. Furmanek, Leslie A Wolf
Association Of Urine Levels Of C-Reactive Protein With Clinical Outcomes In Patients With Pneumonia: A Pilot Study, Subathra Marimuthu, Vidyulata Salunkhe, Stephen P. Furmanek, Leslie A Wolf
The University of Louisville Journal of Respiratory Infections
Finding relevant biomarkers as a potential predictor of severity for patients hospitalized with community acquired pneumonia (CAP), in addition to the clinical scoring system, could advance progress towards more effective patient management. The inflammatory marker, C-reactive protein (CRP), which is elevated in the pathogenesis of many infectious diseases, may be a key biomarker target for CAP. Previous studies have shown that serum CRP may be a useful diagnostic marker for pneumonia in hospitalized patients with acute respiratory symptoms. The main aims of this study were to determine the correlation between serum and urine CRP levels in hospitalized patients with CAP, …
Passive Sensing Of Mobile Media Use In Children And Families: A Brief Commentary On The Promises And Pitfalls., Brandon T. Mcdaniel Phd
Passive Sensing Of Mobile Media Use In Children And Families: A Brief Commentary On The Promises And Pitfalls., Brandon T. Mcdaniel Phd
Health Services and Informatics Research
No abstract provided.
Daily Technology Interruptions And Emotional And Relational Well-Being., Brandon T. Mcdaniel Phd, Michelle Drouin
Daily Technology Interruptions And Emotional And Relational Well-Being., Brandon T. Mcdaniel Phd, Michelle Drouin
Health Services and Informatics Research
The current abundance of technology in daily life creates opportunities for interruptions in couple interactions, termed technoference or phubbing. The current study examined reports from both partners in 173 romantic relationships who completed daily surveys on technoference and relational well-being measures across 14 days. By using daily diary data, we were able to examine within-person associations and more closely approximate everyday life. Utilizing multilevel modeling, we found that on days when participants rated more technoference than usual, they felt worse about their relationship, perceived more conflict over technology use, rated their face-toface interactions as less positive, and experienced more negative …
Augmenting Healthcare, Wai Mun Lim
Augmenting Healthcare, Wai Mun Lim
Research Collection Institute of Service Excellence (2007-2024)
Lim Wai Mun of Doctor Anywhere weighs in the importance of customer education and persistence when dealing with a conservative market.
"Will Using Telemedicine With Medical Command During Situational Awareness Escalation Add Value To Patient Care?", Kathy Farrell, Bradley Bishop, Lisa Carney, Matthew B. Johnson, Natalie Masters, Lisa Pruitt, Sherry Mccool, Laura Fitzmaurice
"Will Using Telemedicine With Medical Command During Situational Awareness Escalation Add Value To Patient Care?", Kathy Farrell, Bradley Bishop, Lisa Carney, Matthew B. Johnson, Natalie Masters, Lisa Pruitt, Sherry Mccool, Laura Fitzmaurice
Posters
No abstract provided.
Smartbfa: A Passive Crowdsourcing System For Point-To-Point Barrier-Free Access, Mohammed Nazir Kamaldin, Susan Kee, Songwei Kong, Chengkai Lee, Huiguang Liang, Alisha Saini, Hwee-Pink Tan, Hwee Xian Tan
Smartbfa: A Passive Crowdsourcing System For Point-To-Point Barrier-Free Access, Mohammed Nazir Kamaldin, Susan Kee, Songwei Kong, Chengkai Lee, Huiguang Liang, Alisha Saini, Hwee-Pink Tan, Hwee Xian Tan
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
At the Bloomberg Live `Sooner Than You Think' forum [1] held in Singapore in 2018, nearly 75% of delegates picked inclusiveness to be the key measure of success for a smart city. An inclusive smart city is a citizen-centered approach that extends the experiences provided by smart city solutions to all citizens, including seniors and persons with disabilities (PwDs).Despite existing regulations on barrier-free accessibility for buildings and public infrastructure, pedestrian infrastructure is generally still inaccessible to PwDs in many parts of the world. In this paper, we present SmartBFA (Smart Mobility and Accessibility for Barrier Free Access) - a publicly-funded …
Technology And College Student Mental Health, Glinda Rawls
Technology And College Student Mental Health, Glinda Rawls
Academic Leadership Academy
College counseling centers have observed increases in the prevalence and severity of mental health issues that student experience. One strategy is to address the increased demand for services is the use of online therapy. Online therapy can be accessed through the internet. Online therapy provides people with a platform to seek help with their mental health issues. There are many different forms of online therapy or counseling. They include video chat, messaging, video conferencing and chat rooms.
Registered Nurses’ Perceptions Of The Electronic Canadian Triage And Acuity Scale In A Community Hospital, Andrea De Jong
Registered Nurses’ Perceptions Of The Electronic Canadian Triage And Acuity Scale In A Community Hospital, Andrea De Jong
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
In 2017, several hospitals in Ontario implemented the Electronic Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (eCTAS). This new technology affects a critical area of the Emergency Department: triage. There is no research on Registered Nurses’ (RNs) perceptions of eCTAS. A quantitative non-experimental descriptive survey obtained and quantified RN perceptions of eCTAS at a hospital with a 23 bed Emergency Department. The Diffusion of Innovation Theory was used as the theoretical framework to help guide study development. Results indicate both positive and negative perceptions of eCTAS and that younger RNs are more likely to think eCTAS cues them to collect the relevant …