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August 2010
A paper by University of Colorado researchers has received a
"Best Regular Paper Award" at the
1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium:
Older adults with multiple chronic conditions are prone to care transitions,
such as seeing a new doctor or being discharged after a prolonged hospital stay.
These transitions are often uncoordinated and can imperil patients by omitted,
duplicative, or contradictory treatment plans. We developed an open source,
web-based Personal Health Application (PHA) using an iterative participatory
design process that provides older adults and their caregivers the ability to
manage their personal health information during care transitions. We report our
findings from six user studies that establish the imperative need for
interdisciplinary research and collaboration among all stakeholders --
patients, caregivers, health professionals, designers, and health
informaticians -- to create effective PHAs. We conclude the paper with design
guidelines for PHA systems informed by users' current practices and the
iterative design of our PHA.
Khan is a PhD student working with Professor Siek, while Meyers is a PhD
student working with Professor Michael Eisenberg, both
in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Haverhals and Cali are research assistants working with Dr. Ross, MD --
an Associate Professor in the Division of General Medicine at the University of
Colorado Denver and the Informatics Educational Support Director at the
Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute Research Informatics Integrated Core.
The research on designing the
Colorado Care Tablet
presented in this paper was funded by a
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Project HealthDesign
grant, with Ross and Siek as principal investigators.
The Department of Computer Science will also be represented at the conference
by two additional papers:
- Health Sense: A Gedanken Experiment on Persuasive Wearable Technology for Health Awareness
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by
Swaminathan Ananthanarayan and
Katie A. Siek
- An Architecture for Complex Clinical Question Answering
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by
Rodney Nielsen,
James Masanz,
Philip Ogren,
Wayne Ward,
James Martin,
Martha Palmer, and
Guergana Savova
The conference is the premier international forum concerned with the application
of computer and information science principles and information and communication
technology to problems in healthcare, public health, the delivery of healthcare
services and consumer health as well as the related social and ethical issues.
It will be held November 11-12, 2010 in Arlington, Virginia.
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