Communicable Disease Case Entry Using PDAs and Public Wireless Networks
Lober, WB, Bliss, D, Dockrey, MR, Davidson, AJ, Karras, BT
Concerns about detecting and responding to attacks with biowarfare agents have resulted in the development of deployable case reporting systems, e.g. RSVP1. We implement a proof of concept web-based...
Communicable Disease Case Entry Using PDAs and Public Wireless Networks
Lober, WB, Bliss, D, Dockrey, MR, Davidson, AJ, Karras, BT
Concerns about detecting and responding to attacks with biowarfare agents have resulted in the development of deployable case reporting systems, e.g. RSVP1. We implement a proof of concept web-based...
Barriers to the use of a Personal Health Record by an Elderly Population
Lober, WB, Zierler, B, Herbaugh, A, Shinstrom, SE, Stolyar, A, Kim, EH, ...
Personal health records (PHRs) are proposed as a strategy to make health care delivery increasingly patient-centered. Yet little work has been done in understanding the workflows of patients in their...
Developing a Relational XML Schema for Sharing HIV Clinical Data
Drozd, DR, Lober, WB, Kitahata, MM, Smith, KI, Van Rompaey, SE
Access to multi-site clinical data regarding treatment and outcomes of HIV-infected patients in routine care is required to support clinical research to improve the treatment of HIV. As part of the...
Distributed Health Assessment and Intervention Research Software Framework
Dockrey, MR, Lober, WB, Wolpin, SE, Rae, LJ, Berry, DL
The DHAIR software system is a database-driven, web-based survey platform. It implements the delivery of survey instruments in packaged assessments, creation and editing of those assessments,...
Patient-centered Design for a Personal Health Record System
Tran, DT, Zhang, X, Stolyar, A, Lober, WB
Our objective for this project was to design a user interface (UI) for a patient-centered personal health record system that models how patients view their health information. We assessed user needs,...
Feasibility of Data Exchange with a Patient-centered Health Record
Stolyar, A, Lober, WB, Drozd, DR, Sibley, J
A patient-centered health record is a personal health record that is patient-owned, patient-managed, and that represents the health information important to patients in the ways they prefer to...
Acceptability of an Internet Treatment Decision Support Program For Men with Prostate Cancer
Rae, LJ, Lober, WB, Wolpin, SE, Dockrey, MR, Ellis, WJ, Berry, DL
We have implemented a customized Internet decision support system designed to engage men in the decision-making process for the management of localized prostate cancer. The system is delivered to...
User-Driven Design of a Computerized Rounding and Sign-out Application
Van Eaton, EG, Lober, WB, Pellegrini, CA, Horvath, KD
Clinical information systems depend on close integration to workflow for success. We describe a method for user-driven design that guided our development of a computerized rounding and sign-out...
Lober, WB, Lau, C, Chang, H, Kim, Y
We have developed a lab exercise, which we have made available under open source license, designed to accompany a ten-hour “introduction to medical informatics” lecture module. The goal of this...
Web Tools for Distributed Clinical Case Conferencing
Lober, WB, Li, H, Trigg, LJ, Stewart, BK, Chou, D
We have developed an information system to support distributed clinical case conferences held via video conferencing. The system has been designed by studying physicians of several specialties...
An Infrastructure for Storage and Retrieval of GEM Guidelines
Bliss, D, Lober, WB, Trigg, LJ, Karras, BT
We have developed an object oriented data store for GEM encoded guidelines, which allows for content based retrieval of clinical guidelines. Our design permits transformation of the query result to...
CISweb: Dynamically Generated Reference for a Clinical Information System
Banken, J, Lober, WB, Love, E, Gossett, A, Lowry, D
We devised a method of producing dynamically generated reference material based on flexible templates. Our open source system allows modification of an entire website through a user-friendly...
Syndromic Surveillance for Bioterrorism Using Computerized Discharge Diagnosis Databases
Duchin, JS, Karras, BT, Trigg, LJ, Bliss, D, Vo, D, Ciliberti, J, ...
We have built a surveillance system to facilitate early detection of possible bioterrorist attacks. Data are collected from emergency departments and a primary care clinic using computerized...
Studying the impact of information technology in health care settings is difficult, due both to complexity of the systems, and to the complexity of the work. Yet, it is important to assess the...
SuML: A Survey Markup Language for Generalized Survey Encoding
Barclay, MW, Lober, WB, Karras, BT
There is a need in clinical and research settings for a sophisticated, generalized, web based survey tool that supports complex logic, separation of content and presentation, and computable...
An Information System for 911 Dispatch Monitoring and Analysis
Dockrey, MR, Trigg, LJ, Lober, WB
We have developed an information system that automatically retrieves publicly available Seattle Fire Department 911 dispatch records in near real-time, stores them in a research database, and sends...
Cam, KM, Trigg, LJ, Lober, WB, Giansiracusa, D, Dockrey, MR, Karras, BT
The Cancer Electronic Quality of Life (CancerEQOL) Project utilizes wireless web-based technologies to deliver the Quality of Life (QoL) survey directly to the point of patient care. Storing the data...
Proposed Design of a Clinical Information System for the Management of Bronchial Asthma
Huq, S, Karras, BT, Wright, J, Lober, WB, Lozano, P, Zimmerman, FJ
This poster categorizes the various applications to aid the management of Pediatric Bronchial Asthma. An attempt is made at classifying the various informatics approaches in this domain. Later, the...
Lober, WB, Trigg, LJ, Karras, BT, Bliss, D, Ciliberti, J, Stewart, L, ...
The Syndromic Surveillance Information Collection (SSIC) system aims to facilitate early detection of bioterrorism (BT) attacks through automated data collection of visit level discharge diagnoses...
Iterative Development of a Web Application to Support Teleconferencing of a Distributed Tumor Board
Li, H, Lober, WB, Trigg, LJ, Dockrey, MR, Chou, D, Stewart, B
We have developed a web-based information system to support a distributed tumor conference held in multiple locations via videoconferencing over high-speed Internet connections. The information...
Trigg, LJ, Berry, DL, Karras, BT, Lober, WB
We have implemented a survey tool to collect patient-entered Quality of Life (QoL) and symptomology data for clinician use in an outpatient cancer treatment center. The system is currently...