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Friday, October 28, 2011
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10:10- 11:10 AM |
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Paper Session #1 –
Chair: Mr. Tremblay |
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Towards the National Health Information Network in the A. Targowski, The Health Infrastructure in
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Examining Structural Constraints and Electronic Health
Record Use In Acute Care Hospitals D. Dobrzykowski, Eastern Electronic Health Record
(EHR) use is expected to increase rapidly across the |
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Electronic Health Records: Implementation and
post-implementation challenges M. Razi, C. Emmert,
D. The American healthcare
industry lags behind other industries in its use of technology for the
improvement of processes and quality of services for its patients. Globally,
the |
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10:10- 11:10 AM |
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Paper Session #2 -
Chair: Dr. Choi |
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It’s My iPad! Protecting Critical Data on Personal M. R. Lehrfeld, R. M. Barrios, C. Phillippe, The pervasiveness of mobile devices has forced many
organizations to support connectivity of corporate and private devices. Corporate devices are highly configurable
regarding authentication, encryption, and remote wiping. BlackBerry devices can be fully deployed
and managed using a centralized Blackberry Enterprise Server, however when a
user owned device connects to enterprise servers, data security becomes a
concern |
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Active Bundle Scheme for Protecting Electronic Medical
Records R. M. Salih
and L. Lilien, Adoption of the electronic
medical records (EMRs) or electronic health records
(EHRs) by healthcare providers and institutes will
improve the quality of US healthcare and reduce its annual bill. However, it
will also increase privacy threats due to easier of dissemination of EMRs/EHRs than “paper” health records. Current privacy
protection solutions for patient EMRs/EHRs have two
main limitations: (1) they require an extensive exchange of messages between
computer systems of healthcare providers; and (2) they depend only on using
data decryption keys that must be provided to specific caregivers. In this position paper, we propose a
solution that provides protection for the patients' EMRs/EHRs
disseminated among different authorized healthcare provider systems. This is
achieved through the use of the construct named active bundles (ABs). ABs keep EMRs/EHRs
as sensitive data, include metadata containing privacy policies, and
encompass a virtual machine that enforces privacy policies. |
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Security and Privacy Issues in Health Care Information
Systems K. L. Chen, H. Lee, Eastern C. C. Shing, M. L. Shing, The purpose of this paper is
to discuss the security and privacy issues for health care information
systems. New issues include medical
server security issues, mobile device security, and security in medical ERP
systems, and web applications security. |
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10:10- 11:10 AM |
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Paper Session #3 – Chair: Dr. Manning-Walsh |
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APPLYING CLINICIAN-CLINICIAN RELATIONSHIPS TO PRACTICE
AUDIT FOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN HEALTHCARE: POSITION AND RESEARCH AGENDA M. Dohan,
Ted Xenodemetropolous, MD, FRCPC J. Tan, The central argument of this
paper is that relationships between clinicians are a necessary resource for the
support of practice audit functions for quality improvement. Practice audit
entails the measurement and analysis of clinical work, and subsequent
comparison against a defined standard or benchmark, for the overall purpose
of continuous quality control and improvement. Clinician-clinician
relationships are a necessary resource in overcoming the challenges
associated with adopting and adhering to tasks and processes associated with
practice audit, and technology subsequently plays an important role in supporting
and developing these relationships. Keywords: practice audit,
clinician-clinician relationship, continuous quality improvement. |
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Effect of Practitioner Self Care and Anxiety on
Relationships within the Context of Organizational Change J. Manning-Walsh, The purpose of this research
paper is to review the literature and suggest the relationships between
organizational change through implementation of new health information
technology (HIT) and/or reconfiguration of existing HIT, practitioner
anxiety, and effective caring practitioner/patient and
practitioner/practitioner relationships using a conceptual framework of
Relationship Centered Care (RCC). Engaging in frequent and regular self-care
interventions has been shown to be related to practitioner/patient caring
ability and caring efficacy. According to a published model of RCC, it may be
anticipated that selfcare may decrease practitioner
anxiety in the context of organizational change and increase ability of the
practitioner to engage in effective caring relationships with patients and
other practitioners. Through the lens of RCC and within the context of
organizational changes such as implementing HIT, a conceptual model for
research is proposed, research questions and hypotheses are stated, and
methodology for a future stream of research is briefly discussed. |
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The Social
Networking Adoption Matrix (SAM):Helping Healthcare Organizations Effectively
Choose Social Networking Technologies A. Rea, R. Landeros, and T. Stempien,
Healthcare organizations looking to increase
communication avenues to their community, providers, and healthcare
consumers, as well create potential interest in their particular mission or
promote education need to look to social networking technologies to harness
to power of the Internet. However, simply creating a Facebook
page or a blog account is not always the most effective means to accomplish
the task. Without a thorough needs analysis, a healthcare organization may
waste valuable limited resources with very little return on investment by
haphazardly implementing social networking technologies. In this paper, the
authors discuss preliminary research targeted to help organizations adopt
relevant technologies using a Social Networking Adoption Matrix (SAM). SAM
helps organizations decide which social networking technology categories are
necessary to meet their strategic goals via the Social Network Adoption
Matrix Expert System (SAMES). As a result, organizations can increase
communication opportunities that match their needs while being aware of the
necessary resource investment to be successful in the endeavor. |
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1:20- 2:20 PM |
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Paper Session #4 –
Chair: Dr. Ravotas |
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Factors Impacting
Use of Information Technology by Physicians in Private Practice J. DeMello & S. Deshpande, This research examines the impact of various factors on
the use of IT in clinical practice, prescriptions, and patient information.
This was done using a national sample of 3425 physicians who worked in a solo
or group practice in the |
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Guiding Health Care
Policy Through Applied Public Health Modeling and Simulation J, P. Leidig, C. L. Barrett,
and M. Marathe, Virginia Tech The risk of a widespread epidemic is a primary public health concern
with implications for healthcare providers and organizations. Modeling and
simulation techniques have been successfully applied at the national level to
set governmental polices and mitigation strategies through simulation-based
predictions. Existing research in this field has been non-uniform in its
coverage of local systems and region-specific findings. New collaborations
between on the ground providers and modeling groups are required for
successful simulation-based experimentation of region-specific health
systems. These proposed collaborations are expected to contribute
high-quality sub-population datasets to be used in experiments at the
national level and allow for the reuse of existing disease models and
simulation infrastructure in support of regional predictive experimentation. |
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Electronic Payments
in Health Care C.R. Krishnaswamy,
Western Michigan University In this paper the author has developed a theoretical framework for
addressing the healthcare costs and based on it he has analyzed the payment
system that is an integral part of healthcare payments. The author concurs
with the recommendations made in earlier studies that switching from a
paper-based system to an electronic system would not only reduce costs but
also improve the efficiency of the system. By using an electronic payment
system for payment of healthcare claims, huge savings can be achieved on an
annual basis, as the numbers of claims processed each year are in the
billions. |
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Examining the Use of
Institutionally Designed Documentation Templates as a Vehicle for Changing Values
and Practices in Health Care D. Ravotas, Changing values and requirements are common occurrences
in today’s health care settings.
Institutionally designed documentation templates are often developed
to demonstrate that these changes have been incorporated into clinical
work. Little research has been
completed to examine whether the use of these institutional templates leads
to the intended change or whether the changes clash with other influences on
clinical work. This paper illustrates
how two qualitative methods: think aloud interviews and frame analysis can be
combined to examine the use of the templates, the changing values themselves,
and the influences on changes in clinical practice. An analysis of local change from expert
planning to person centered planning is used to illustrate the value of the
approach. The analysis reveals influences that affect the adoption of this
particular change, the usability of the template, and points of change that
need to be negotiated with the users of those documents. |
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1:20- 2:20 PM |
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Paper Session #5 –
Chair: Dr. Rea |
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Curriculum
Development on Healthcare Information Systems, Healthcare Supply Chain
Management and Healthcare Operations Management D. Dobrzykowski, N. L'abbe Wu, and H. Lee, Eastern Michigan University This paper presents the foundation for curriculum amendment in the |
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Say Good-Bye to the Silos
and Hello to Collaboration: A New Curriculum Approach S. Falan and B. Han, In sharp contrast with the customary traditions of educational silos in
the delivery of knowledge and understanding, this paper presents a true interdisciplinary
curriculum that is designed to supply the community with graduates who are
prepared to take on diverse roles in health care and information management.
The complexity of our modern communities and their anticipated futuristic
needs suggest that graduates in health care must be able to apply more than a
traditional singular knowledge domain to articulate problems and provide
solutions to those problems in meaningful ways. The curriculum approach
presented will facilitate interdisciplinary knowledge learning from existing
classes, foster faculty collaboration, and enhance the resource sharing and
integration. In essence, this new curriculum collapses the boundaries of
education silos. |
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Changing Health Care Business Models and Costs T. Rienzo, Changing the health care
system has universal support in principal, but has proven contentious in
practice. This paper draws upon the
theories and publications of three leading business thinkers, and the
frameworks they developed for applying business practices to the health care
industry: Drs. Clayton Christensen, Robert Kaplan, and Michael Porter of |
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Health and Information Technology D. Tremblay The healthcare industry
continues to grow to meet demands of a changing environment and a growing
number of people. Moreover, the Information Technology space continues to
expand to meet customer’s needs and the continuing desire of people and
companies to be the most technologically advanced. In order to allow the
healthcare industry [or any industry] to continue to grow, it has to allow
itself to expand with technology to help serve its customers more effectively.
Through this partnership, it is possible for healthcare to become something
more to its customers through more efficient and effective healthcare
management. |
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