American Medical Informatics Association
1995 Spring Congress
on
Capturing the Clinical Encounter
June 25-28, 1995
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Cambridge, MA
About the theme:
Years of work with computers in health care have demonstrated
their potential to improve quality and reduce cost. Nevertheless,
computers still have little presence in clinical practice, and
one of the primary hurdles blocking their use has been the
difficulty acquiring clinical data. This conference will address
multiple approaches to capturing the clinical encounter.
- technical approaches to capturing data, including pen,
speech, natural language, and image input
- applying the technical approaches to capturing
encounter data from patients and providers
- the vocabulary and conceptual models necessary to
organize the interface and store the captured data
- integrating data capture into daily practice and
exploiting the data for practice guidelines
The program offers a variety of formats--tutorials, scientific
sessions, panels, invited talks, and tours--designed to accommodate
novices and experts alike.
Tutorials (Sunday, June 25)
1. Encounter-based systems
James R. Campbell, M.D., University of Nebraska
2. Pen- and speech-based systems for clinical use
Lawrence M. Fagan, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford
Alex Poon, Stanford
David Wormuth, M.D., M.P.H., Brigham and Women's Hospital
Steven Labkoff, M.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital
3. Clinical data modeling
Stephen B. Johnson, Ph.D., Columbia University
4. Implementing practice guidelines and conputer-stored records
Clement J. McDonald, M.D., Regenstrief Institute
J. Marc Overhage, M.D., Ph.D., Regenstrief Institute
William Tierney, M.D., Regenstrief Institute
Keynote (Monday, June 26)
Dr. Samuel O. Thier, President of Massachusetts General
Hospital and President of Partners HealthCare Systems, is well
known for his wit and frankness. His talk, "Health Care
Information Systems: Attraction-Avoidance," will be an inciteful
and entertaining discussion on the success and failure of
information systems in health care.
Sessions (Monday-Wednesday, June 26-28)
On techniques for capturing data:
- Pen-based systems
- Speech and natural language processing
- Evaluating natural language processing
- Natural language processing in the clinical domain (invited talk)
- Mobile pen-based computing: a current status report (panel)
- OTA assessment of emerging computer interface technologies (panel)
- Capturing and storing images
- Capturing disparate data
On applying data capture techniques to encounter data:
- Experience with provider data entry
- Techniques for provider data entry
- Evaluating provider data entry
- Evaluating patient data entry
- Techniques and caveats for patient data entry
- Building user interfaces
- Accurate data quality with real-time access (panel)
On vocabulary and conceptual models for capturing data:
- Toward a US standard health vocabulary (panel)
- Evaluating controlled clinical vocabularies
- Evaluating the online patient record
- Tools for vocabularies and conceptual models
- Modeling the encounter
On integrating data capture into practice:
- Creating patient data for research and public health (panel)
- Issues in confidentiality and security (panel)
- Engineering clinical systems for encounter access (panel)
- Practice guidelines and decision support
- Exploiting the World Wide Web for the clinical encounter
- Using the data and keeping it secure
Medical informatics tours (Wednesday, June 28)
Visit one of the many Boston area medical informatics groups:
Children's Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital, MIT, Deaconess
Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Brigham and
Women's Hospital (DSG and BICS groups).
CME: earn up to 22 credit hours of category 1 CME credits
Jointly sponsored with:
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
For information and to register, contact AMIA at:
mail at amia2.amia.org
(301) 657-1291 voice
(301) 657-1296 fax
