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

Student Researchers: Jed Brubaker, Leslie Liu, Sunyoung Park, Chris Combs, So young Li, Sidney Harrison

PIs: Gillian Hayes, Karen Cheng (CDU), Sheba George (CDU), Gene Spiritus (UCI MC), Sherrie Kaplan (UCI Public Health). Yunan Chen

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.

Welcome to WISH 2010

In recent years, the biomedical informatics community has begun to recognize human-computer interaction (HCI) and better understanding of social and human elements as important to a sound Health IT strategy. Meanwhile, research in human-computer interaction has found healthcare a rich and interesting domain of inquiry. Despite this progress, however, there exists a largely untapped potential to create deeper and more profound connections among the medical, informatics, human-computer interaction, medical sociology and anthropology communities.

The Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH) will take place April 10th and 11th, 2010 in conjunction with the ACM CHI 2010 Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems, at the CHI conference site, the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This event is designed to foster conversation and bridge communities and will include specialists in biomedical informatics, nursing informatics, medical sociology, human-computer interaction, and related fields.

The goals of this workshop are consistent with those of the ACM SIGCHI and the Agency For Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). They are to:

1. Bring together groups of scientists from a variety of disciplines all focused on issues of human-computer interaction and healthcare;
2. Guide the work of new researchers by having world-renowned experts provide them advice;
3. Provide encouragement and support for engagement in research in interactive systems for healthcare;
4. Make it possible for promising new entrants to the field, many of whom are highly respected professionals in other fields but relatively new to HCI, to attend the CHI conference;
5. Illustrate the interrelationship and diversity of HCI research, in particular as it relates to healthcare technologies;
6. Make the interdisciplinary researchers’ experiences at both WISH and the CHI conference an enjoyable and rewarding experience, encouraging them to return and submit papers, panels, demonstrations, posters, etc. to the conference.

WISH will have an exciting program, including plenary speakers, invited panels, and the presentation of peer-reviewed research in the form of paper presentations and posters. This event is open to the public, even if you do not submit content for presentation.

We hope to see you at WISH!

Researchers: Sunyoung Park in collaboration with a great team at CMU

Parents always desire to take good care of their children and to manage their numerous responsibilities, including the family’s healthcare. Dual income parents often feel the pressure of tight schedules and busy routines. (In terms of tight schedule and busy routine, even though dual income parents feel in a hurry, their jobs doesn’t wait for them and make breakdown.) Without a proper system in the home, it can be difficult to track their children’s health information, leading parents to feel hopelessly out of control.

Interviews with several dual income parents and pediatricians revealed three main problems. First, there is communication disconnect between parents and healthcare providers. Second, mothers and fathers often have different opinions about children’s health management. Third, there is no proper and effective way to organize their children’s medical information. To address these issues, we are designing a healthcare system and service to reflect parents’ needs and improve automatic recording of children’s medical/health information.

Publications:
Park, S.Y., Jeong, H.Y., and Zimmerman, J. (2008). ENSURE: Support for parents in managing their children’s health. Design & Emotion Conference, Hong Kong, Oct 6-9 (Accepted for publication).

Jeong, H.Y., Park, S.Y., and Zimmerman, J. (2008). Opportunities to support parents in managing their children’s health. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing System (CHI), Work-in-Progress, Florence, Italy, April, 3225-3230.