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| Saturday, November 3: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm |
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| T4 - Data Mining in Clinical Domains: Methods, Applications, and Promise |
- John H. Holmes, PhD
- Reviews the current state of knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) and data mining approaches and tools.
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| T10 - Creating an Academic Health Care Informatics Program: Theory and Practice |
- Joseph W. Hales, PhD, and Christopher Cimino, MD
- Presents information on the formation and organization of programs for health informatics education.
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| Saturday, November 3: 8:30 am - 12:00 pm |
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| T1 - Managing Information Security and Privacy in Health Care: The HIPAA Perspective |
- Ted D. Cooper, MD, Jeff Collman, PhD, and Paul Tang, MD
- Presents a framework that enables development, enhancement, and management of confidentiality and security programs.
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| T2 - Managing Informatics Changes |
- Nancy M. Lorenzi, PhD and Robert T. Riley, PhD
- Reviews the issues underlying implementation failures and provides participants with strategies to understand and manage organizational issues.
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| T3 - From Zeros and Ones to DICOM and HL7 An Introduction to Healthcare Networking |
- Richard Rauscher, MS
- Examines principles of data communications in healthcare and focuses on issues relevant to healthcare networking, specifically, reliability, security, and standards.
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| T5 - Building Bayesian Decision Support Systems |
- Peter J. Haug, MD and Dominik Aronsky, MD, PhD
- Presents a theotetical and practical introduction to Bayesian systems and why they are attractive for creating decision support systems.
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| T6 - Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries |
- William Hersh, MD, and Susan Price, MD, MS
- Introduces the basic concepts of text information retrieval in the context of medical reference and digital library systems.
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| T7 - Business Models and Strategy for e-Care and Disease Management: the Next Generation |
- Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA
- Exanimes how business, informatics, and clinical strategy for e-care and disease management interrelate.
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| T8 - Practical Issues of Online Teaching: Moving Beyond the Basics |
- Sheila P. Englebardt, PhD, RN, and Donna W. Bailey, PhD, RN
- Explores the current use of electronic tools in online instruction and how these tools encourage learning communities.
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| T9 - Medical Concept Representation: From Classification to Understanding |
- Christopher G. Chute, MD, DrPH
- Outlines present resources and challenges in terminologies and classifications, and how these evolved.
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| T11 - Understanding the Nature and Practice of Consulting |
- H. Dominic Covvey, MSc and Janice E. MacNeill
- Helps participants understand the nature of consulting, and whether or not this is the right career choice for them.
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| Saturday, November 3: 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm |
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| T12 - Human Factors Engineering an Essential Component of User-centered Design of Healthcare Information Systems |
- Peter L. Elkin, MD, Gregory M. Galbus, Brian Kaihoi, Jeffry J Huhn, MD, Douglas Pappin, Mark Siska, Patricia Van Scoy, and Jessica Groset
- Describes the basic usability methodology and concepts related to laboratory design, usability study design, participant selection, study implementation and study analysis.
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| T13 - Evaluation and Implementation of Electronic Medical Records Systems |
- Jerome H. Carter, MD
- Provides practical advice and information on all aspects of EMR implementation.
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| T14 - Health Services Research: A Primer on Methodology, Issues, and Informatics Implications |
- James Guy Mansfield, PhD, David S. Memel, MD, Sarah Donelson, MA, and Susan Easton
- A primer on the fundamental methodologies of health services research, with an emphasis on implications for applied informatics.
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| T15 - Customizing the UMLS Metathesaurus for Your Applications |
- William T. Hole, MD, Suresh Srinivasan, MS, Laura Roth, MLS, Olivier Bodenreider, MD, and Betsy L. Humphreys, MLS
- Focuses on developing and implementing an appropriate approach to customizing the UMLS Metathesaurus for practical application.
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| T16 - Promoting Patient Safety: Overview of Clinical Decision Support |
- Robert A. Jenders, MD, MS and John Dulcey, MD
- Focuses on practical issues involved in improving patient safety by deploying and maintaining decision support systems.
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| T17 - A Primer on Enhancing Clinical Staff Involvement in Clinical Information System Implementation |
- Donna W. Bailey, PhD, RN
- Examines continuous quality improvement processes and tools to enhance the implementation of clinical information systems within a context of change.
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| T18 - Technologies and Systems for a Tele-Education Service in Medicine - Cancelled |
- Mario Fregonara and Francesco Pinciroli
- Presents a general overview of Tele-Education Service (TES), identifying the needs of generic users and ways to utilize a TES.
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| T19 - Guidelines for Academic Medical Centers on Security and Privacy: Practical Strategies for Addressing the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) |
- David Kirby, MS, Mary Kratz, MT, Lawrence Muhlbaier, PhD, Ted Cooper, MD, and Robert Miller, MD
- Provides advice on topics that should be considered when addressing privacy and security requirements identified by law and the public.
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| T20 - Introduction to Bioinformatics |
- Atul Butte, MD and Marco Ramoni, PhD
- This tutorial is designed to provide a broad introduction to the various bioinformatics methodologies in use today, including microarrays, SMP analysis, sequence comparison, and genome sequencing.
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| T21 - Designing Web-delivered Database Applications Using Microsoft Technologies |
- Richard Pense and Dulce Garcia
- Looks at developing database applications with a web front-end and to accomplish this using Microsoft technology.
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| Sunday, November 4: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm |
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| T26 - Introduction to Clinical Information Systems (Full day) |
- Ted Cooper, MD, John D. Halamka, MD, MS, William R. Hersh, MD, Thomas E. Bozeman, MS, and Reed M. Gardner, PhD
- Provides an overview of the basics of informatics and medical information systems
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| Sunday, November 4: 8:30 am - 12:00 pm |
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| T22 - Practical Considerations for Choosing Terminologies in Health Care Applications |
- James J. Cimino, MD
- Explores current issues in controlled medical terminology including theoretical foundations and practical application.
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| T23 - Clinical Information and Knowledge in HL7 Version 3 the Reference Information Model and Beyond |
- Gunther Schadow, MD, Daniel C. Russler, MD, and Charles N. Mead, MD
- Describes how the HL7 RIM is structured and how the RIM may help in individual EMR projects.
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| T24 - Evidence, Error, and Uncertainty: Ethical and Social Challenges for Health Informatics |
- Kenneth Goodman, PhD
- Examines problems associated with computerized outcome calculations and predictions and provides bases for comparing providers in managed competition.
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| T25 - Lexical Tools for UMLS Developers |
- Allen C. Browne, Guy Divita, Chris J. Lu, PhD, and Alexa T. McCray, PhD
- Provides participants with a full understanding of how to use the UMLS lexical tools as they build their own applications.
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| T27 - Rapid Development of Mobile Applications: Theory and Practice |
- Lawrence B. Afrin, MD
- Presents the basic process of building PDA applications and describes how that process can be applied to problems in the attendees' own domains.
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| T28 - InfoSecurity: Lessons Learned, Future Threats, and Timely Solutions - Cancelled |
- Brad Smith, RN
- Focuses on how to evaluate security needs and the information necessary to keep security up-to-date.
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| T29 - Clustering Genes By RNA Expression: How to Get Started and Where to Go Next |
- Isaac S. Kohane, MD, PhD, and Atul Butte, MD
- Reviews the basics of various bioinformatics methodologies available to analyze RNA expression data sets.
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| T30 - Presenting Your Work: Designing Presentations, Using Technology, and Giving the Show |
- Daniel Z. Sands, MD, MPH, and James B. McGee, MD
- Learn effective presentation skills, basic concepts of visual design, how to find, create, and manipulate images for better presentations.
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| T31 - Managing Projects for the Informaticist: A Practical Approach to Success |
- Tom H. Karson, MD, David W. Graves, and Justin DuPont
- Provides the essential skills for successfully managing any type of project, highlighting the unique aspects specific to informatics.
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| T32 - Introduction to XML |
- Gretchen P. Purcell, MD, PhD
- Provides an introduction to the concept of markup languages, the syntax of XML, and the applications of the standard in medicine. The course will describe how to represent information using XML Document Type Definitions (DTDs) and Schemas. A discussion of how information can be processed, displayed, and exchanged using the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and the eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) will follow.
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| Sunday, November 4: 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm |
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| T33 - Maping and Maintaining Standardized Vocabularies for CPR Systems: Practical Issues |
- Lee Min Lau, MD, PhD, and James R. Campbell, MD
- Describes practical approaches to implementing standard clinical coding, based upon the experiences of two institutional efforts with very different backgrounds and approaches.
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| T34 - Next Generation Internet (NGI): Health Care in the Fast Lane |
- Michael J. Ackerman, PhD
- Examines how the NGI is evolving and its impact on health care delivery.
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| T35 - Evaluating the Impact of Health Care Information Systems |
- James G. Anderson, PhD, and Bonnie Kaplan, PhD
- Presents a framework for addressing information system impacts and describes models of change and appropriate evaluation methods.
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| T36 - Understanding e-Patients, Dealing with Net-savvy Consumers, and Developing Online Patient Services |
- Tom Ferguson, MD
- Provides a guided tour of self-help with a special emphasis on the key take-home lessons for clinicians, healthcare administrators, and system developers.
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| T37 - Learning Basic Semantic Modeling for Querying Visual Databases by Applying UMLS to VHD |
- Pietro Cerveri, PhD, and Francesco Pinciroli
- Focuses on biomedical terminological systems and UMLS, knowledge representation, requirements to symbolic and semantic access to images, and VHD images and their content.
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| T38 - A Primer on Metabolic Pathway Analysis - Cancelled |
- Eberhard O. Voit, PhD
- Exposes the attendee to a biomathematical framework, called Canonical Modeling, that has proven very effective in the analysis of metabolic pathways and regulatory gene circuits.
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| T39 - Modeling Clinical Guidelines in a Sharable and Computer-interpretable Way: Development, Implementation, and Use Requirements |
- Mor Peleg, PhD, and Aziz Boxwala, MBBS, PhD
- Explores modeling and representing clinical guidelines and discusses requirements for sharable computer-interpretable representation.
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| T40 - Techniques for Low-cost Telemedicine in Developing Countries - Cancelled |
- Hamish Fraser, MBChB, MSc, and St. John D. McGrath, MD
- Describes the use of e-mail, the World-Wide Web, and digital still cameras to achieve effective, low cost telemedicine.
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| T41 - Implementing Data Sharing via Open Standards XML and SOAP Across Languages |
- Tim Grose and Richard Pense
- Introduces the attendee to XML, with the application of the SOAP protocol and how to transfer data between unlike systems.
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| T42 - Emerging Wireless LAN Technologies for Health Care |
- Helmuth F. Orthner, PhD
- Presents the basic principles of wireless LANs and related security issues and management considerations.
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