Say Good-Bye to the Silos and Hello to Collaboration: A New Curriculum Approach

In sharp contrast with the customary traditions of educational silos in the delivery of knowledge and understanding, this paper presents a true interdisciplinary curriculum that is designed to supply the community with graduates who are prepared to take on diverse roles in health care and information management. The complexity of our modern communities and their anticipated futuristic needs suggest that graduates in health care must be able to apply more than a traditional singular knowledge domain to articulate problems and provide solutions to those problems in meaningful ways. The curriculum approach presented will facilitate interdisciplinary knowledge learning from existing classes, foster faculty collaboration, and enhance the resource sharing and integration. In essence, this new curriculum collapses the boundaries of education silos

Relationships, Caring, and Near Misses: Michael’s Story

Health care errors are costly to both patients, insurance companies, and put additional strain on existing resources. This research paper is a case study about a patient’s experience in health care with the electronic health care record and the information used to deliver care. This case study will demonstrate that although the electronic health care record does provided information, the information contained within it can be confusing, contribute to health care errors, near misses, and may have an impact on health provider relationships with patients. Information and systems issues are identified with recommendations to help avert health care errors and near misses in the context of the electronic health care record and health service delivery

The Second International Conference on Health Information Technology Advancement

TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Message from the Conference Co-Chairs B. Han and S. Falan …………………………....….……………. 5 II. Message from the Transactions Editor H. Lee …...………..………….......………….……….………….... 7 III. Referred Papers A. Emerging Health Information Technology and Applications The Role of Mobile Technology in Enhancing the Use of Personal Health Records Mohamed Abouzahra and Joseph Tan………………….……………. 9 Mobile Health Information Technology and Patient Care: Methods, Themes, and Research Gaps Bahae Samhan, Majid Dadgar, and K. D. Joshi…………..…. 18 A Balanced Perspective to Perioperative Process Management Jim Ryan, Barbara Doster, Sandra Daily, and Carmen Lewis…..….…………… 30 The Impact of Big Data on the Healthcare Information Systems Kuo Lane Chen and Huei Lee………….…………… 43 B. Health Care Communication, Literacy, and Patient Care Quality Digital Illness Narratives: A New Form of Health Communication Jofen Han and Jo Wiley…..….……..…. 47 Relationships, Caring, and Near Misses: Michael’s Story Sharie Falan and Bernard Han……………….…..…. 53 What is Your Informatics Skills Level? -- The Reliability of an Informatics Competency Measurement Tool Xiaomeng Sun and Sharie Falan.….….….….….….…. 61 C. Health Information Standardization and Interoperability Standardization Needs for Effective Interoperability Marilyn Skrocki…………………….…….………….… 76 Data Interoperability and Information Security in Healthcare Reid Berryman, Nathan Yost, Nicholas Dunn, and Christopher Edwards.…. 84 Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN) Shared Services vs. the HIE Shared Services in Other States Devon O’Toole, Sean O’Toole, and Logan Steely…..……….…… 94 D. Health information Security and Regulation A Threat Table Based Approach to Telemedicine Security John C. Pendergrass, Karen Heart, C. Ranganathan, and V.N. Venkatakrishnan …. 104 Managing Government Regulatory Requirements for Security and Privacy Using Existing Standard Models Gregory Schymik and Dan Shoemaker…….…….….….… 112 Challenges of Mobile Healthcare Application Security Alan Rea………………………….……………. 118 E. Healthcare Management and Administration Analytical Methods for Planning and Scheduling Daily Work in Inpatient Care Settings: Opportunities for Research and Practice Laila Cure….….……………..….….….….… 121 Predictive Modeling in Post-reform Marketplace Wu-Chyuan Gau, Andrew France, Maria E. Moutinho, Carl D. Smith, and Morgan C. Wang…………...…. 131 A Study on Generic Prescription Substitution Policy as a Cost Containment Approach for Michigan’s Medicaid System Khandaker Nayeemul Islam…….…...……...………………….… 140 F. Health Information Technology Quality Assessment and Medical Service Delivery Theoretical, Methodological and Practical Challenges in Designing Formative Evaluations of Personal eHealth Tools Michael S. Dohan and Joseph Tan……………….……. 150 The Principles of Good Health Care in the U.S. in the 2010s Andrew Targowski…………………….……. 161 Health Information Technology in American Medicine: A Historical Perspective Kenneth A. Fisher………………….……. 171 G. Health Information Technology and Medical Practice Monitoring and Assisting Maternity-Infant Care in Rural Areas (MAMICare) Juan C. Lavariega, Gustavo Córdova, Lorena G Gómez, Alfonso Avila….… 175 An Empirical Study of Home Healthcare Robots Adoption Using the UTUAT Model Ahmad Alaiad, Lina Zhou, and Gunes Koru.…………………….….………. 185 HDQM2: Healthcare Data Quality Maturity Model Javier Mauricio Pinto-Valverde, Miguel Ángel Pérez-Guardado, Lorena Gomez-Martinez, Martha Corrales-Estrada, and Juan Carlos Lavariega-Jarquín.… 199 IV. A List of Reviewers …………………………..…….………………………208 V. WMU – IT Forum 2014 Call for Papers …..…….…………………20

What is Your Informatics Skills Level? --The Reliability of an Informatics Competency Measurement Tool

To determine the reliability of the nursing informatics self- assessment tool which was developed and extended from Kaminski’s assessment tool among health care students. It was hypothesized that there would be no significant difference in participant responses for a test/retest survey completed by nursing students

A Smart Consumer-empowered Diabetes Education System (SCEDES): Integrating Human Wellbeing and Health Care in the Community Environment

Uncontrolled diabetes creates an increasing burden on individuals, their families, and the society in the UnitedStates. The expected total annual costs of diabetes, including both direct costs and the lost productivity, are expectedto be 20% of the Gross Domestic Products by 2016. In this paper, a community-based infrastructure is proposed toprovide consumers, both diabetics and pre-diabetics, with a Smart Consumer-empowered Diabetes EducationSystem (SCEDES) that will not only build consumer self-efficacy but also promote their self-management, selflearning,and support from peers and health care professionals. The system architecture and key implementationfeatures are addressed. Challenging issues and research directions are also discussed for further investigation

Similarity discernment in general and nursing representations.

Ability to discern similarities is critical for nurses who develop, implement, and evaluate patient care. It was assumed that knowledge and experience affect this ability. This study tested the hypotheses that subjects with an Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN), a Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing, (BSN) and those with varying years of medical-surgical experience (MSE) would differ in their similarity descriptions of general and nursing images. A comparative descriptive design was used. Similarity was measured as the presence, quantity, and patterns of analogy, thematic, literal, and surface-level responses. The level of similarities was measured through written descriptions produced when subjects compared two general and two nursing images. A convenience sample of eighty nurses was recruited from four hospitals. Of the sample, 65% had less than ten years' experience. Fifty-nine percent had an ADN. All levels of similarity were used, but analogy, the highest and most complex form, was used least. For general images, BSN subjects used significantly more literal level (p = .033); for nursing images, use of surface (p = .031) and literal levels (p = .008) was higher than the ADN cohort. For general images, subjects with less than ten years' experience used significantly more surface level (p = .046); thematic descriptions were higher (p = .004) for nursing descriptions. For all four groups, there was a strong correlation (p &le; .003) between use of literal and surface levels in describing nursing images. There was also a strong correlation between the presence of analogy and thematic levels in BSN subjects and the &ge; 10 MSE group (p = .037, p = .047). Subjects with an ADN or < 10 yrs' MSE showed a strong correlation in use of analogy and literal levels (p = .000, p = .014). Unexpected differences appeared in subject groups' ability to discern similarities. This study informs our knowledge base regarding how nurses think about what they observe and adds to our understanding of how differences in patient care might occur.Ph.D.Health and Environmental SciencesNursingUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/126416/2/3253265.pd