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Congratulations, Dr. Speedie!
IHI Co-director, Dr. Stuart Speedie, was named to the JAMIA (Journal of the American Informatics Association) editorial board. Please join us in congratulating him.
Interview with IHI Acting Director, Dean Connie Delaney
Dean Delaney gives an interview with the Institute for Health Technology Transformation(iHT2) about HIT and Nursing Informatics. Click
here to see the entire interview.
Congratulations, Rui!
Rui Zhang passed his Prelimnary Oral Exam on Monday, February 20 and is now a Health Informatics PhD candidate! Please join us in congratulating him.
Welcome, Venkatesh Rudrapatna
The Institute for Health Informatics (IHI) faculty, staff, and students welcome Venkatesh Rudrapatna MD, MPH (Venky).
A graduate of Dr. D. Y. Patil Medical College, University of Bombay, India, he completed his MPH at The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX. He was a Clinical/Research Fellow in Hematology/Ontology at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah Hospital & Clinic, and most recently he was employed as a medical informatician and clinical analyst at Intermountain Health Care, Salt Lake City, UT. He has specific expertise in knowledge authoring systems, medical vocabulary and decision support systems, as well as project management and team leadership.
Dr. Rudrapatna holds an appointment in the University of Minnesota Department of Medicine, Medical School; maintains clinical practice through UMP; and is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the IHI. He is working with leadership in the Masonic Cancer Center (MCC) to address CTSI goals and in the IHI in graduate teaching and clinical scholarship.
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Rudrapatna.
Welcome, Saif Khairat
On behalf of Connie Delaney, IHI Acting Director and Stuart Speedie, IHI-Co-Director and Chair of the IHI Faculty Search Committee, we are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Saif Khairat as Clinical Assistant Professor to the IHI. Click here for more information.
Dr. Khairat obtained his BS and MS in Computer Science, and PhD in Health Informatics from the University of Missouri. He served as a Research Fellow at the University of Missouri Informatics Institute and in the Division of Clinical Informatics at Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Medical Center. He completed an internship at Brigham & Women’s under the direction of the national/international informatics expert Dr. Charles Safran. He has completed significant work with the Cerner Electronic Health Record (EHR).
He brings a record of peer-reviewed publications and research engagement in human-computer and human-human interactions, patient safety, and clinical communication patterns. Comments particularly highlight Saif as a team player, interprofessionally committed, and an exemplar in bridging the world of computer science and health informatics. He is an active member of the Healthcare information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Khairat.
Congratulations, Ryan Sandefer!
Health Informatics PhD student, Ryan Sandefer, received the Rita Finnegan Scholarship from the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Foundation.
The Rita Finnegan Scholarship is an endowed scholarship established by MC Strategies, Inc., AHIMA, and friends and family of Rita Finnegan, RHIA, CCS.
In addition to being a PhD student in our program, Ryan is Chair and Assistant Professor at the College of St. Scholastica’s Department of Health Informatics and Information Management.
Congratulations, Wei-Qi Wei
Health Informatics PhD candidate Wei-Qi Wei's paper was accepted for publication in the Journal of American Medical Informatics.
"Impact of Data Fragmentation across Healthcare Centers on the Accuracy of High-Throughput Clinical Phenotyping Algorithm for Specifying Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Subjects." Wei-Qi Wei, MM, Cynthia L. Leibson, PhD, Jeanine E. Ransom, Abel N. Kho, MD, MS, Pedro J. Caraballo, MD, High Seng Chai, PhD, Barbara P. Yawn, MD, Jennifer A. Pacheco, Christopher G. Chute, MD, DrPH.
Abstract
Objective: To evaluate data fragmentation across healthcare centers on accuracy of a high-throughput clinical phenotyping (HTCP) algorithm developed to differentiate 1) patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and 2) patients with no diabetes.
Materials and Methods: This population-based study identified all Olmsted County, Minnesota residents in 2007. We used provider-linked electronic medical record (EMR) data from the two healthcare centers who provide >95% of all care to County residents (i.e., Olmsted Medical Center (OMC) and Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN). Subjects were limited to residents with ≥1 encounter 01/01/2006 through 12/31/2007 at both healthcare centers. DM-relevant data on diagnoses, labs, and medications from both centers were obtained during this period. We executed the algorithm, first using data from both centers (i.e., the gold standard) and then from Mayo Clinic alone. We calculated positive predictive values (PPVs) and false-negative rates (FNRs) and used McNemar test to compare categorization using data from Mayo Clinic alone with the gold standard. Age and sex were compared between true-positive and false-negative T2DM subjects. Statistical significance was accepted as P <0.05.
Results: Using data from both medical centers, 765 T2DM subjects (4,256 non-DM subjects) were identified. Using single-center data, 252 T2DM subjects (1,573 non-DM subjects) were missed; additional false-positive 27 T2DM subjects (215 non-DM subjects) were identified. The PPV and FNR were 95.0% (513/540) and 32.9% (252/765) respectively for T2DM subjects and 92.6% (2,683/2,898) and 37.0% (1,573/4,256) respectively for non-DM subjects. Age- and sex-distributions differed between true-positive (mean age=62.1; 45% female) and false-negative T2DM subjects (mean age=65.0; 56.0% female).
Conclusion: Findings demonstrate that application of an HTCP algorithm using data from a single medical center contribute to misclassification. These findings should be considered carefully by researchers when developing/executing HTCP algorithms.
AMIA 2011
The University of Minnesota's informatics community, including numerous students and faculty of the IHI, had a strong presence at this year’s AMIA conference. Visit our AMIA page and read the AHC news release to find out more about AMIA and IHI’s involvement.
Congratulations, Dr. Monsen
Congratulations to IHI Affiliate Faculty member Dr. Karen Monsen for her article "Evidence-based Standardized Care Plans for Use Internationally to Improve Home Care Practice and Population Health," which is featured in the current AMIA e-news letter.
Congratulations, Drs. LaVenture and Westra
Congratulations to IHI Core Faculty members Dr. Marty LaVenture and Dr. Bonnie Westra for being elected to membership in the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI). This achievement represents recognition of their significant contributions to the field of biomedical informatics.
Congratulations, Dr. Pieczkiewicz
Congratulations to Dr. David Pieczkiewicz for his recent book publication. There will be a copy of Data Visualization Strategies for the Electronic Health Record (Computer Science Technology and Applications) in the Collaboratory for students to use. It is also available for purchase through Amazon.
Congratulations, Dean Delaney
Cogratuations to BMHI Director and IHI Acting Director, Dean Connie Delaney for receiving the Women in Business-Industry Leader Award from the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.
Click here to read the AHC news release.