CHIP Journal Club
September-December '96

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• September 3, Isaac Kohane M.D., Ph.D.
• "HCFA's Health Care Quality Improvement Program: The Medical Informatics Challenge"  
  J. Grant, JAMIA 3(1) (Jan-Feb 96) abstract
  
  
• September 10, Ken Mandl M.D., M.P.H.
  
• "Performance Of Four Computer-Based Diagnostic Systems"
  E.S. Berner et al., NEJM 330 (25):1792-1796 (June '94)
• "Effects Of Computer-Based Clinical Decision Support Systems On Clinician Performance and Patient Outcome"
  M.E. Johnston et al., Annals Of Internal Medicine 120(2):135-141 (Jan '94)
  
  
• September 17, Jim Fackler M.D.
• "Information transfer in high dependency environments: An ergonomic analysis"
  Friesdorf W, Konichezky S, Gross AF, et al., Int J Clin Monit Comput 1994; 11:105-115 (Main focus)
• "Modernizing the managment of the Air Force Medical Service"
  Luykx HMC, JAMA 1963:622-625 (Very briefly)
• "Patient data managment systems in intensive care - the situation in Europe"
  Metnitz PGH, Lenz K, Intensive Care Med 1995; 21:703-715 (If time permits)
• "A data model for intensive care"
  Leaning MS, Yates CE, Patterson DL, Ambroso C, Collinson PO, Kalli ST, Int J Clin Monit Comput 1991; 8:213-224 (Time will probably not permit)



• September 24, FJ van Wingerde drs.
  
• The easily created, easily accessed information which static HTML has given us, brings with it the pitfalls of human-computer interaction (HCI) that are largely ignored in dynamic Web applications. The two books below, both classics in the literature of HCI, offer ways of thinking about human-computer communication that we, as Web content-creators, can use to distribute information more effectively. We will discuss these issues in the context of building an effective UI for the W3-EMRS.
  
• "Computers as Theatre"
  Brenda Laurel, Addison-Wesley 1991
• "Things that Make Us Smart"
  Don Norman, Addison-Wesley 1993


• October 1, Gil Kuperman M.D.
• "Practice Randomization and Clinical Research: The Indiana Experience"
  Tierney W.M. et al., Medical Care 1991; 29(7 supp): JS57-64
• "Reminders to Physicians from an Introspecitve Computer Medical Record"
  McDonald C.J. et al., Ann Int Med 1984; 100:130-138


• October 8, Karen Bradshaw B.S.
• "Graphical Summary of Patient Status"
  Powsner S., Tufte E., Lancet 1994; 344:386-389


• October 15, Yao Sun M.D.
• "The PEN-Ivory Project: Exploring User-interface Design for the Selection of Items from Large Controlled Vocabularies of Medicine"
  Poon AD, Fagan LM, Shortliffe EH, JAMIA 1996; 3(2): 168-183


• October 22, Kang Wang Ph.D.
• ICU Data Visualization - IMI Update


• October 29, **cancelled (SCAMC)**


• November 5, CHIP Staff
• "(Formerly) SCAMC '96: The Best and Worst"


• November 12, Robert Greenes M.D., Ph.D.
• A discussion of career paths in medical informatics, and on the definition of a core curriculum. Topics to be discussed include:
  • Is there a field of MI? What is a good operational definition today?
  • What are today's career paths/opportunities? Are they the same as in the Greenes & Shortliffe paper of 1990? (see below)
  • Is there a core curriculum or multiple cores?
  • Should there be "credentialing" or certification?
  • "Medical informatics: An emerging academic discipline and institutional priority" Greenes RA, Shortliffe EH, JAMA 1990; 263(8):1114-20
  • Dr. Greenes also suggested that folks take a look at some of the various training programs available, many of which are collected here.


• November 19, Keith Batchelder M.D., D.M.D., M.S.
• Data abstraction from text: a "mini" review and personal experience.


• November 26, Isaac Kohane M.D., Ph.D.
• "Generic Data Modeling for Clinical Repositories"
  Johnson SB, JAMIA 1996; 3(5): 328-339


• December 3, Joe Gonzalez-Heydrich M.D.
• "Adaptive control of drug dosage regimens: basic foundations, relevant issues, and clinical examples"
  Jelliffe RW, Maire P, Sattler F, Gomis P, Tahani B, Int J Biomed Computing 1994; 36: 1-23


• December 10, Cancelled
• December 17, Hamish Fraser M.B., Ch.B.
• "The Heart Disease Program: Current Evaluation Project and Update"

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