CHIP Journal Club
January-June '97

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• January 21, Taranga Ghosh, M.D.
• "Clinical communication: A new informatics paradigm"
  Coiera E, Proceedings of 1996 AMIA Fall Symposium, 17-21.
• "Optimizing Physician Access to Surgical Intensive Care Unit Laboratory Information through Mobile Computing"
  Strain JI, Felciano RM, Seiver A, Acuff R, Fagan L, Proceedings of 1996 AMIA Fall Symposium, 812-816.
• January 28, postponed
• February 4, FJ van Wingerde, drs.
• "HL7 - A Standard For Exchanging Medical Content"
• "HL7 is a standard to encode medical information in a semi-structured way. In this talk I will examine the history, compromises and current state of this standard, ways in which it can be used, and future directions."
• February 11, Michael Segal, M.D., Ph.D.
  • "Perspectives on Electronic Medical Records"
• February 18, H.I.M.M.S. - no conference
• February 25, Daniel Nigrin, M.D.
  • "The Arden Syntax for Medical Logic Modules"
    Hripcsak G, Clayton PD, Pryor TA, Haug P, Wigertz OB, Van derlei J., In: Proc 14th SCAMC, IEEE Comp Soc Press, 1990; 200-4.
  • "Database and Knowledge Base Integration in Decision Support Systems"
    Johansson B, Shahsavar N, Ahlfeldt H, Wigertz O., Proceedings of 1996 AMIA Fall Symposium, 249-53.
• March 4, Yao Sun, M.D.
  • "An intention-based language for representing clinical guidelines"
    Shahar, et al., Proceedings of 1996 AMIA Fall Symposium
  • "Computerizing guidelines: factors for success"
    Tierney, et al., Proceedings of 1996 AMIA Fall Symposium
• March 11, Isaac Kohane, M.D., Ph.D.
  • "Putting together a team for a web-based EMRS"
• March 18, cancelled
• March 25, Kang Wang, Ph.D.
  • "Internet Security: What technologies are available NOW?"
• April 1, cancelled (SNOW!)
• April 8, Shawn Murphy, M.D., Ph.D.
  • "Using software agents to maintain clinical research databases"
• April 15, Daniel Nigrin, M.D.
  • "A Survery of Patient Access to Electronic Mail: Attitudes, Barriers, and Opportunities"
    Fridsma DB, Ford P, Altman R., In: Proceedings of 1994 Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, 15-19.
  • "The Utility of Electronic Mail as a Medium for Patient-Physician Communication"
    Neill RA, Mainous AG, Clark JR, Hagen MD., Arch Fam Med. 1994; 3: 268-271
• April 22, Taranga Ghosh, M.D.
  • "Lessons from the Productivity Paradox"
  
  
  • reference reading
• April 29, Hongmei Dong, M.S.
  • LOINC: What is it? How is it composed?
    Ways of making the vocabulary transformation easier.
• May 6, Atul Butte, M.D.
  • A desktop computer digital angiography viewer / the DICOM standard.
  • A prototype E.D. application using the Newton hand held computer.
• May 13, SPRING BREAK
• May 20, Karen Bradshaw, B.S.
  • "Patient-Computer Dialogue"
    Slack WV, and Slack CW, NEJM 1972; 286:24, 1304-1309.
  • "A Computer-Based Medical-History System"
    Slack WV, Hicks GP, Reed CE, Van Cura LJ, NEJM 1966; 274:4, 194-198.
• May 27, Judith Shaw, R.N.
  • Findings on clinical information systems in the vendor world.
• June 3, CANCELLED
• June 10, Dilek Bishku, M.D.
  • "Mapping Clinical Scenarios To Functional Requirements: A Tool for Evaluating Clinical Information Systems"
    Einbinder LH, Remz JB, Cochran D, Proceedings of 1996 AMIA Fall Symposium, 747-751.
• June 17, Joseph Gonzalez-Heydrich, M.D.
  • Researchers from the Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab (MERL) will present a program they have been developing in collaboration with Joe Gonzalez-Heydrich and David DeMaso of the Psychiatry department at Children's Hospital. The program is called "The Experience Journal". This is part of a larger project called "Mending Hearts and Minds: Developing Computer Based Tools to Help Children and Families Facing Serious Medical Illness". The MERL researchers will do a small demo of the prototype that they have so far.
• June 24, CANCELLED

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