Medical Informatics: Opportunities for Improving Patient Care Ben Founding Director ( ), Human-Computer Interaction Lab Professor, Department of Computer Science Member, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
IOM Report: Health IT and Patient Safety Problem - Poorly designed health IT can create new hazards in the already complex delivery of care. - Dosing errors, failure to detect life-threatening illnesses & delaying treatment due to poor HCI or loss of data have led to serious injury & death. Recommendations: - User-centered design & human factors applied to health IT Health-IT-and-Patient-Safety-Building-Safer-Systems-for-Better-Care.aspx
Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP): Office of National Coordinator - Security of Health Information Technology - Patient-Centered Cognitive Support - Healthcare Application and Network Platform Architectures - Secondary Use of EHR Data Sharpc.org
HCIL’s Research Initiatives Medical Lab Tests - Tracking Completion in Complex Workflows - Guidelines for Design of Tables & Actions - Retrospective Analysis Medication Reconciliation Patient Histories – Analysis & Search - Temporal Event Sequences - Point & Interval Events Wrong Patient Errors (BONUS)
Medical Lab Tests Tracking Sharpc.org
Medical Lab Tests Tracking & Retrospective Analysis
Medication Reconciliation: Current Form Univ of Maryland HCIL tasks - Missing Laboratory Reports - Medication Reconciliation - Alarms and Alerts Management
Prototype by Tiffany Chao VIDEO AVAILABLE AT Prototype by Tiffany Chao VIDEO:
Successful adoption efforts 10 Example # 1: Twinlist running on Microsoft Amalga Platform Contact: Hank Rappaport Example #2: Twinlist adapted for problem list reconciliation in cancer risk assessment (Hughes riskApps™ - an EHR module) Contact: Kevin S. Hughes, Massachusetts General Hospital
Patient Histories: LifeLines
Patient Histories: LifeLines2
Patient Histories: LifeFlow
Patient Histories: EventFlow
Patient Histories: PairFinder
Temporal Event Sequences /eventflow /pairfinder ToolEvent TypesRecordsDisplay LifeLinesPoints & intervalsOneOne record LifeLines2PointsManyMany records SimilanPointsManyMany records LifeFlowPointsManyMany records & aggregate EventFlowPoints & intervalsManyMany records & aggregate PairFinderPointsManyTemporal record distributions
Reducing Wrong Patient Errors: Animated Transitions & Photos BONUS
Reducing Wrong Patient Errors: Animated Transitions & Photos
( Taieb-Maimon, Plaisant & Shneiderman, 2012) The combination of animation & photo resulted in a significant increase in error recognition rate relative to the control & animation groups Dramatic implications for commercial systems Control Photo Combined 36% Animation 7% 43% 63%63% Reducing Wrong Patient Errors: Animated Transitions & Photos
Take Away Messages Healthcare is fertile area for HCI & InfoVis Patient Safety is a national priority We have tools for analysts Tomorrow: Workshop on EHR Informatics Thanks to: Oracle Corporation NIH/National Cancer Institute grant RC1-CA147489, SHARP grant – Office of National Coordinator /eventflow /pairfinder