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FitBaby’s new funding from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced

ghayes — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:21:37 +0000

Project HealthDesign is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneer Portfolio. They have generously funded our work on FitBaby for the next two years with a grant to PI Gillian Hayes and Co-PI Karen Cheng (one of our amazing collaborators from Charles Drew University). Project Health Design is focused on the use of ODLs to support chronic care. Here is a little excerpt on ODLs from the Project Health Design website:

Observations of Daily Living (ODLs)

Observations of daily living are sensations, feelings-thoughts-attitudes, and behaviors that occur in the course of everyday life – such as sleep patterns, diet, exercise levels, pain episodes, and mood – that are not typically part of one’s clinical record, but are critical to managing an individual’s health and guiding their treatment.

Paper accepted to Pervasive Health

ghayes — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:00:13 +0000

Congratulations to Monica and co-authors for their recent acceptance to Pervasive Health:

Gonzalez-Fraga, J., Tentori, M. and Martinez, F. (2010) “Artifacts’ Roaming Beats Recognition for the Estimation of Care Activities in a Nursing Home”, To be presented at PervasiveHealth (2010), Munchen, Germany, March 22-25

Paper accepted for IEEE Intelligent Systems

ghayes — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:58:03 +0000

Congratulations to Monica Tentori and co-authors on the acceptance of their paper to IEEE Intelligent Systems.

Tentori, M., Rodrigez, M.D and Favela, J. “An agent-based middleware for the design of activity-aware applications” Accepted to publication in IEEE Intelligent Systems

Posters to be presented at WISH 2010

ghayes — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:07:53 +0000

The STAR group will be busy at WISH this year with five posters! We are really looking forward to an amazing event.

Attitudes and Readiness for Adoption of an Electronic Medical Records System: A Preliminary Case Study
- Jed Brubaker, Yunan Chen, Karen Cheng, Chris Combs, Sheba George, Sidney Harrison, Gillian Hayes, Sherrie Kaplan

Heuristic Evaluation of Personal Health Records Systems
– Leslie Liu and Gillian Hayes

Sentient displays to connect people with cognitive disabilities to the digital era of social interaction
- Monica Tentori, Raymundo Cornejo, Jesus Favel

FitBaby: Using Observations of Daily Living to Improve the Health of Preterm Infants and Their Caregivers
- Gillian Hayes, Karen Cheng, Sen Hirano, Sunyoung Park, Dana Gravem, Julia Rich, Dan Cooper

Use of a Wearable Recording Device in Therapeutic Interventions for Children with Autism
- Gabriela Marcu and Gillian Hayes

EMR: Electronic Medical Records

Michael — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:43:34 +0000

PIs: Gillian Hayes, Yunan Chen, Karen Cheng

Co-Investigators: Sheba George (CDU), Gene Spiritus (UCI MC), Sherrie Kaplan (UCI Public Health)

Student Researchers: Soyoung Lee, Sunyoung Park, Boaz Gurdin, Jianlin Shi

Project: There is no doubt that improving health care in the United States is a major focus for politicians on both sides of the aisle, corporations, and patient advocates. In many cases, information technology is hoped to be the solution to a variety of problems in health care, such as improving efficiency, patient safety, accountability, billing, and more.

However, development and implementation of large-scale information systems, like electronic medical records (EMR), often require expertise that hospitals and clinics may not have and substantial financial investments that would only be recouped after many years. To successfully implement large-scale health information systems, such as EMRs, we must understand the human processes underlying their implementation, rather than the technological aspects only. Because the evaluation of large-scale health information systems can be incredibly complicated, most evaluations, to date, have been limited in time and scope. Our research team has a unique opportunity to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the implementation of a large-scale health information technology system in a major research and teaching medical center

This is focused on:

1) understanding the human-centered and organizational issues of the records transition process;

2) identifying and evaluating user-level facilitators and barriers to EMR adoption and acceptance; and

3) identifying and evaluating the organizational factors in adoption and acceptance of EMR.