CSCI: 5312/4312: Health Informatics

Week

Date

Topic

Readings

Assignment

Out

Due

Introduction to the Course & Research Primer

M-10 Jan

Introduction to the Course

Syllabus

HW1: Introduce Yourself

G1: Sign-up to present a topic

W-12 Jan

How to Find Papers

(No) Efficient Reading of Papers in Science and Technology
(S1) J. Talmon, E. Ammenwerth, J. Brender, N. de Keizer, P. Nykänen, and M. Rigby, "STARE-HI-Statement on reporting of evaluation studies in Health Informatics." International journal of medical informatics, vol. 78, no. 1, pp. 1-9, January 2009. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2008.09.002

HW1

F-14 Jan

Finding Articles Practicum-What makes a good article

Slides

(S2) K. J. Devers, "How will we know "good" qualitative research when we see it? Beginning the dialogue in health services research." Health services research, vol. 34, no. 5 Pt 2, pp. 1153-1188, December 1999. [Online]. Available: http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10591278
(GS1) Graduate: E. H. Bradley, L. A. Curry, and K. J. Devers, "Qualitative Data Analysis for Health Services Research: Developing Taxonomy, Themes, and Theory," Health Services Research, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 1758-1772, August 2007. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6773.2006.00684.x

HW2: Based on the readings for (1/19) and research you do about the guest speakers, please submit 3 questions by 5pm Tuesday

G2: Find a good example of a STARE-HI research article or appropriate qualitative paper

Practitioner Experiences & Midterm Discussion

M-17 Jan

No Class - MLK

W-19 Jan

Training and Using Electronic Medical Records (EMRs)

Guest Speaker: Barbara Brant, NP, Wardenburgh Health Center, University of Colorado at Boulder and Edna Kinzley, Systems Training Coordinator at Wardenburg Health Center

(S3) R. J. Baron, "What's keeping us so busy in primary care? A snapshot from one practice." The New England journal of medicine, vol. 362, no. 17, pp. 1632-1636, April 2010. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMon0910793
(GS2) Graduate: Ch. 2, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 7 (note-the entire thesis is equivalent to approximately 11 pages in ACM, 2 column format) C. L. Schaefbauer, "Documenting for Care: Evaluating an Electronic Medical Record for Primary Care Providers," Bachelor of Science thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder. [Link]

HW2 (by 5pm Tuesday)

F-21 Jan

Midterm &

Study Design

Slides

Midterm

Resources (Browse these Resources):

Ch. 11 from E. H. Shortliffe and J. J. Cimino, Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine. 3rd Ed., Springer, May 2006. ISBN: 978-0-387-28986-1 Available: http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-28986-1/fulltext/?target=print#section=689416&page=1&locus=0
Measures and Surveys to Download

Midterm Assignment (M)

G2 (Share with your Midterm Group)

Health & Wellness Informatics

M-24 Jan

Midterm Presentations

M: Present Apps

W-26 Jan

Health Informatics

(S4) Ch. 1 from E. H. Shortliffe and J. J. Cimino, Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine. 3rd Ed., Springer, May 2006. ISBN: 978-0-387-28986-1 Available: http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-28986-1/fulltext/?target=print#section=689406&page=1&locus=2
(S5) R. E. Grinter, K. A. Siek, and A. Grimes, "FEATURE: Is wellness informatics a field of human-centered health informatics?" interactions, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 76-79, January 2010. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1649475.1649494

Eval. & Analysis

F-28 Jan

Nutrition

(S6) A. Grimes and R. Harper, "Celebratory technology: new directions for food research in HCI," in Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, ser. CHI '08. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2008, pp. 467-476. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1357054.1357130
(GS3) Grad: J. Pollak, G. Gay, S. Byrne, E. Wagner, D. Retelny, and L. Humphreys, "It's Time to Eat! Using Mobile Games to Promote Healthy Eating," IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 9, pp. 21-27, July 2010. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MPRV.2010.41

HW3: Based on the readings for (2/4) and research you do about the guest speaker, please submit 3 questions for Wednesday’s Class

Wellness Informatics and Public Health Informatics

M-31 Jan

Physical Activity

Grad Presentation: Margaret McNulty

(S7) S. Consolvo, K. Everitt, I. Smith, and J. A. Landay, "Design requirements for technologies that encourage physical activity," in Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems, ser. CHI '06. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2006, pp. 457-466. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1124772.1124840
(GS4) Grad: Sunny Consolvo, Predrag Klasnja, David W. McDonald, Daniel Avrahami, Jon Froehlich, Louis LeGrand, Ryan Libby, Keith Mosher, and James A. Landay, "Flowers or a Robot Army?: Encouraging Awareness & Activity with Personal, Mobile Displays." in Proceedings of the 10th International conference on Ubiquitious Computing, UbiComp '08, pages 54-63, New York, NY, USA 2008. ACM. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1409635.1409644

W-2 Feb

Mental Health

Grad Presentation: Ariel Aguilar

(S8) G. Doherty, D. Coyle, and M. Matthews, "Design and evaluation guidelines for mental health technologies," Interacting with Computers, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 243-252, July 2010. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intcom.2010.02.006
(GS5) Grad: P. Chira, L. Nugent, K. Miller, T. Park, S. Donahue, A. Soni, D. Nugent, and C. Sandborg, "Living Profiles: Design of a Health Media Platform for Teens with Special Healthcare Needs," Journal of Biomedical Informatics, vol. 43, no. 5, pp. S9-S12, October 2010. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2010.05.008

HW3

F-4 Feb

Technology Based Health Promotion

Guest Speaker: Sheana Bull, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Community and Behavioral Health, Colorado School of Public Health and in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences, University of Colorado Denver

(S9) Bull, Sheana. 2010. Technology Based Health Promotion. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks CA. Chapter 1 and Appendix

HW4: Based on the readings for (2/11) and research you do about the guest speaker, please submit 3 questions for Wednesday’s Class

Data Analysis & Wellness Informatics

M-7 Feb

Data Analysis

M: Ann. Bib.

W-9 Feb

No Class-Students will meet in Groups (See Assignment)

M: Data

HW4

F-11 Feb

Games for Health - Physical Activity Promotion

Guest Speaker: Anna Floyd, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow at Klein Buendel

Students should read all three papers, however undergraduates only have to turn in a summary for 1 paper (S10) and graduate students have to submit summaries for 2 papers (S10 & GS6). Please bring these articles to class with the Consolvo S7 article

Allender, S., Cowburn, G., & Foster, C. (2006). Understanding participation in sport and physical activity among children and adults: a review of qualitative studies. Health Education Research, 21(6):826-35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/her/cyl063
IJsselsteijn, W., de Kort, Y., Westerink, J., de Jager, M., & Bonants, R. (2004). Fun and Sports: Enhancing the Home Fitness Experience. International Conference/Workshop on Entertainment Computing, 46-56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-28643-1_8
Weiss, M. (2000). Motivating kids in physical activity. President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, 3:1-7. http://www.fitness.gov/publications/digests/digest900.pdf

Anna answers your Questions

HW5: Based on the readings for (2/18) and research you do about the guest speaker, please submit 3 questions for Wednesday’s Class

Prototyping & Consumer Health Informatics (CHI)

M-14 Feb

Prototyping

(S11) J. Rudd, K. Stern, and S. Isensee, "Low vs. high-fidelity prototyping debate," interactions, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 76-85, January 1996. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/223500.223514

W-16 Feb

CHI-Health Information Management

Grad Presentation: Spencer Mahaffey

(S12) A. Moen, "Health@Home: The Work of Health Information Management in the Household (HIMH): Implications for Consumer Health Informatics (CHI) Innovations," Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 648-656, July 2005. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1197/jamia.M1758
(GS7) Grad: Alpay L, Verhoef J, Xie B, Te'eni D, Zwetsloot-Schonk JH. Current Challenge in Consumer Health Informatics: Bridging the Gap between Access to Information and Information Understanding. Biomed Inform Insights. 2009 Jan 1;2(1):1-10. http://www.la-press.com/current-challenge-in-consumer-health-informatics-bridging-the-gap-betw-article-a1390

HW5

F-18 Feb

Personal Health Records (PHRs)

Guest Speaker: Stephen E. Ross, MD, Associate Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Colorado Denver; Informatics Educational Support Director for the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute

(S13) D. Detmer, M. Bloomrosen, B. Raymond, and P. Tang, "Integrated Personal Health Records: Transformative Tools for Consumer-Centric Care," BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 45+, October 2008. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-8-45

HW6: Based on the readings for (2/25) and research you do about the guest speaker, please submit 3 questions for Wednesday’s Class

Midterm Presentations

M-21 Feb

Midterm Presentations

M: Present

W-23 Feb

Midterm Presentations

M: Present

HW6

F-25 Feb

Guest Speaker: Aleksandra Sarcevic, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Associate

(S14) A. Sarcevic, I. Marsic, and R.S. Burd, "Does size and location of the vital signs monitor matter? A study of two trauma centers," in Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association 2010 Annual Symposium (AMIA 2010), pp. 707-711, Washington, DC, November 13-17, 2010. [Online]. Available: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~aleksarc/pub/amia2010-sarcevic.pdf

HW7: Based on the readings for (3/4) and research you do about the guest speaker, please submit 3 questions for Wednesday’s Class

M: Final Report (by 11:59pm Saturday)

CHI & Design Project

M-28 Feb

Chronic Illness & Design Project

(S15) Kay Connelly, Beenish Chaudry, Katie A. Siek, Janet L. Welch, Kim S. Astroth, and Yvonne Rogers. Getting over the wow factor: A ﬁeld study of a mobile health application. In Conference, page 10 pages, In Preparation.

Design Project (DP)

W-2 Mar

Older Adults &

Speed Grouping Based on DP Ideas

(S16) K. E. Caine, C. Y. Zimmerman, Z. S. Zimmerman, W. R. Hazlewood, A. C. Sulgrove, L. J. Camp, K. H. Connelly, L. L. Huber, and K. Shankar, "DigiSwitch: design and evaluation of a device for older adults to preserve privacy while monitoring health at home," in Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium, ser. IHI '10. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2010, pp. 153-162. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1882992.1883016

HW7

F-4 Mar

Transitioning to a new EMR System

Guest Speaker: CT Lin, MD, FACP, Chief Medical Information Officer at University of Colorado Hospital,

Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Colorado at Denver

(S17) C.-T. T. Lin, L. Wittevrongel, L. Moore, B. L. Beaty, and S. E. Ross, "An Internet-based patient-provider communication system: randomized controlled trial." Journal of medical Internet research, vol. 7, no. 4, 2005. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.7.4.e47

DP: Top 3 Ideas

User Studies & Clinical Informatics

M-7 Mar

User Studies

Perv. HC in Hospitals
Grad Presentation: Chris Schaefbauer

(S18) Ch. 5 from C. Lewis and J. Rieman, Task-Centered User Interface Design:A Practical Introduction, 1994. http://hcibib.org/tcuid/chap-5.html
(GS8) Grad: M.A. Munoz, M. Rodriguez, J. Favela, A.I. Martinez-Garcia, and V.M. Gonzalez, "Context-aware mobile communication in hospitals," Computer vol. 36, no. 9, pp. 38-46, September 2003. [Online] Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MC.2003.1231193

W-9 Mar

UbiComp in Hospitals

Grad Presentation: Sears Merritt

(S19) N. Briconsouf and C. Newman, "Context awareness in health care: A review," International Journal of Medical Informatics, vol. 76, no. 1, pp. 2-12, January 2007. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2006.01.003
(GS9) Grad: J. E. Bardram, "Applications of context-aware computing in hospital work: examples and design principles," in Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Applied computing, ser. SAC '04. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2004, pp. 1574-1579. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/967900.968215

F-11 Mar

Clinical Decision Support Systems

Grad Presentation: Quintin Lee

(S20) Ch. 20 from E. H. Shortliffe and J. J. Cimino, Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine. 3rd Ed., Springer, May 2006. ISBN: 978-0-387-28986-1 Available: http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-28986-1/fulltext/?target=print#section=689426&page=1&locus=0
(GS10) Grad: J. Wolfstadt, J. Gurwitz, T. Field, M. Lee, S. Kalkar, W. Wu, and P. Rochon, "The effect of computerized physician order entry with clinical decision support on the rates of adverse drug events: A systematic review," Journal of General Internal Medicine, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 451-458, Apr. 2008. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-008-0504-5

DP: IRB Test & Website

Ethics & Collaboration

M-14 Mar

Ethics

Grad Presentation: Brittany Kos

(S21) Ch. 10 from E. H. Shortliffe and J. J. Cimino, Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine. 3rd Ed., Springer, May 2006. ISBN: 978-0-387-28986-1 Available: http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-28986-1/fulltext/?target=print#section=689415&page=1&locus=0
(GS11) Grad: Harold Thimbleby. 2008. FEATURE: Ignorance of interaction programming is killing people.interactions 15, 5 (September 2008), 52-57. DOI=10.1145/1390085.1390098 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1390085.1390098

W-16 Mar

Collaboration

(S22) Katie A. Siek and Kay Connelly. Achieving success in research collaborations in health informatics. In William Aspray and Barbara Hayes, editors, Health Informatics: A Patient-Centered Approach to Diabetes, pages 603 - 641. MIT Press, 29 October 2010. ISBN: 0262014327. (pdf)

F-18 Mar

User Study Draft Protocols

HW8: Based on the speakers and readings for (3/28 or 4/1), please submit 3 questions for *ONE* of the speakers at least 24 hours before the speaker comes to class.

DP: Draft Protocol

M-21 Mar

Spring Break

W-23 Mar

Spring Break

F-25 Mar

Spring Break

User Study Demos & Experiences with Health Informatics Start-Ups

M-28 Mar

Boulder County Public Health

Namino Glantz, Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology, Health Planning, Administrative Services, Boulder County Public Health, Boulder, CO

Dr. Glantz's presentation

DP: Demo

W-30 Mar

User Study Demos

DP: Demo

HW8

F-1 Apr

Meaningful Entrepreneurship

Guest Speaker: Marc Silverman, graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, The San Francisco Art Institute, and the Stanford University’s School of Business Executive Program; Managing Partner at the Colorado Capital (CoCap) Group

(S23) M.B. Crawford. The Case for Working with Your Hands. The New York Times, May 21, 2009. (link)

DP: Update

DP: Final Protocol

Standards & User Studies

M-4 Apr

Standards

Grad Presentation: Ashley Triffo

(S24) Ch. 7 from E. H. Shortliffe and J. J. Cimino, Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine. 3rd Ed., Springer, May 2006. ISBN: 978-0-387-28986-1 Available: http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-28986-1/fulltext/?target=print#section=689412&page=1&locus=0
(GS12) Grad: J. Walker, E. Pan. D. Johnston, J. Alder-Milstein, D.W. Bates, and B. Middleton. The Value of Health Care Information Exchange and Interoperability. Health Affairs, w5-10 - w5-18, 2005. (doi)

W-6 Apr

No Class-User Studies

F-8 Apr

No Class-User Studies

HW9: Based on the readings for (4/15) and research you do about the guest speaker, please submit 3 questions for Wednesday’s Class

Wearable Computing, Usability, & Analyze Data

M-11 Apr

Wearable Computing &

Vote on Subset of Papers

(S25) S. Ananthanarayan and K. A. Siek, "Health sense: a gedanken experiment on persuasive wearable technology for health awareness," in Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium, ser. IHI '10. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2010, pp. 400-404. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1882992.1883051

HW10: Undergraduates will send their summaries to graduate students for assigned papers

G3: Graduate students will create meta-reviews for the assigned papers

HW10: Tuesday by 5pm

W-13 Apr

Analyze User Study Data

DP: User Study Data

HW9

F-15 Apr

Hadjar Homaei, Ph.D. Student, University of Colorado at Boulder

(S26) H. Homaei. Model-Based Verification of User Interfaces. Part of her thesis proposal directed by Dr. Sriram Sankaranarayanan (pdf) Please do not distribute outside of class.

Professionalism and Course Service

M-18 Apr

Program Committee

Review all Meta-Reviews from G3

W-20 Apr

How to Review/Critique One’s Writing

Slides

HW11: Single-Blind Peer Review of Assigned DP Final Report Draft

DP: Draft of Final Report

F-22 Apr

Presentations

M-25 Apr

Final Project Presentations

DP: Present

W-27 Apr

Final Project Presentations

DP: Present

HW11: Peer Review Due

F-29 Apr

What’s Next?

DP: Final Report (Finals Week)

CSCI: 5312/4312: Health Informatics

Course Information

Reading Syllabus

Homework Assignments

Midterm Projects

Design Projects