The University of Utah had a great showing at the

2016 AMIA Symposium

for biomedical informatics this year!

Awards (5):

  • Jacob Crump, MS student, was the first runner-up in the student category of the “Why Informatics?” video contest with his video “Informatics Passion”:
  • The University of Utah was awarded one of the top three Distinguished Papers at AMIA:

“Identification and Use of Frailty Indicators from Text to Examine Associations with Clinical Outcomes Among Patients with Heart Failure”
Yijun Shao, April F. Mohanty, Ali Ahmed, Charlene Weir, Bruce E. Bray, Rashmee Shah, Douglas Redd, Qing Zeng-Treitler

Best Poster Awards (3 of the 8)

  • Pediatric Research Using Integrated Sensor Monitoring Systems (PRISMS): Applying Sensor Technology and Informatics to Better Understand Asthma
    Katherine Sward, University of Utah, Alex Bui, University of California Los Angeles, Jose-Luis Ambite, University of Southern California, Michael Dellarco, NIH/National Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
  • Patient Identity Matching for Health Information Exchange between Poison Control Centers and Emergency Departments
    PallaviRanade-Kharkar, University of Utah, Darren Mann, Intermountain HealthcareHeather Bennett, University of UtahBarbara Crouch, University of Utah, Guilherme Del Fiol, University of Utah, Sidney Thornton, Intermountain Healthcare, Mollie Cummins, University of Utah
  • The Super Annotator: A Method of Semi-Automated Rare Event Identification for Large Clinical Data Sets
    Olga Patterson, VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Patrick Alba, VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Benjamin Viernes, VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Daniel Denhalter, VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Nicole Bailey, Anolinx LLC, Andrew Wilson, Anolinx LLC, Aaron Kamauu, Anolinx LLC, Scott DuVall, VA Salt Lake City Health Care System

Scientific presentations (13)

  • Information Needs of Physicians, Care Coordinators, and Families to Support Care Coordination of Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN)
    PallaviRanadeKharkar (student), Charlene Weir, University of Utah, Chuck Norlin, University of Utah, Sarah Collins, Partners HealthCare, Lou Ann Scarton, University of Utah, Gina Baker, Intermountain Healthcare, Damian Borbolla, University of Utah, VaninaTaliercio, University of Utah, Guilherme Del Fiol, University of Utah
  • Public Health Data for Individual Patient Care: Mapping Poison Control Center Data to the C-CDA Consultation Note
    Aly Khalifa (student) Guilherme Del Fiol, University of Utah, Mollie Cummins, University of Utah
  • Melinda – A custom search engine that provides access to locally-developed content using the HL7 Infobutton standard
    Yik-Ki Wan, University of Utah, CatherineStaes, University of Utah
  • Feasibility of Extracting Key Elements from ClinicalTrials.gov to Support Clinicians’ Patient Care Decision
    Heejun Kim **who is this?** Heejun Kim, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, JiantaoBian, University of Utah, Javed Mostafa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Siddhartha Jonnalagadda, Northwestern University, Guilherme Del Fiol, University of Utah
  • Delivering High Quality Birth Certificate Data from an EHR
    Catherine Staes, University of Utah,Jeffrey Duncan, Utah Department of Health
  • Long-Term Impact of an Electronic Health Record-Enabled, Team-Based, and Scalable Population Health Strategy Based on the Chronic Care Model
    Kensaku Kawamoto, University of Utah,Kevin Anstrom, Duke University, John Anderson, Duke University, Hayden Bosworth, Duke University, David Lobach, Duke University, Carrie McAdam-Marx, University of Utah, Jeffrey Ferranti, Duke University, Howard Shang, Duke University, Kimberly HawblitzelYarnall, Duke University
  • Differentiating Sense through Semantic Interaction Data
    Speakers: Terri Workman **who is this we know her as T. Elizabeth (Liz)? Charlene Weir, University of Utah, Thomas Rindflesch, National Institutes of Health
  • Mental Status Documentation: Information Quality and Data Processes
    Charlene Weir, University of Utah,Bryan Gibson, University of Utah, Teresa Taft, University of Utah, Stacey Slager, University of Utah, Lacey Lewis, SLC VA, Nancy Staggers, University of Utah
  • Understanding patient satisfaction with received healthcare services: A natural language processing approach
    Kristina Doing-Harris, University of Utah,Danielle Mowery, University of Utah, Chrissy Daniels, University of Utah, Wendy Chapman, University of Utah, Mike Conway, University of Utah
  • Translating Hereditary and Familial Cancer Guidelines into Clinical Decision Support
    Dr. Ayesha Aziz,Lance Pflieger, University of Utah, Bryce Carter, University of Utah, Joshua Schiffman, University of Utah, Brandon Welch, Medical University of South Carolina
  • Identification and Use of Frailty Indicators from Text to Examine Associations with Clinical Outcomes Among Patients with Heart Failure
    Yijun Shao (student), University of Utah,AprilMohanty, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Ali Ahmed, Washington DC VA Medical Center, Charlene Weir, University of Utah, Bruce Bray, University of Utah, Rashmee Shah, University of Utah, Douglas Redd, University of Utah, Qing Zeng-Treitler, University of Utah
  • Foraging for Information in the EHR: The Search for Adherence Related Information by Mental Health Clinicians
    Bryan Gibson, University of Utah,Jorie Butler, IDEAS 2.0, MaryanZirkle, Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Kenric Hammond, Seattle VA Medical Center, Charlene Weir, University of Utah
  • Why aren’t they happy? An analysis of end user-satisfaction with Clinical Information Systems
    Prasad Unni, University of Utah, Charlene Weir, University of Utah, Catherine Staes, University of Utah, Howard Weeks, University of Utah, Heidi Kramer, University of Utah, Damian Borbolla, University of Utah, Stacey Slager, University of Utah, Teresa Taft, University of Utah, Valliammai Chidambaram, University of Utah

Expert panels (6):

  • Electronic case reporting: 360 0 perspective by public health, informatics, and healthcare stakeholders
    Laura Conn,Ryan Arnold,Shan He,Shu McGarvey,Catherine Staes
  • Extending Commercial Electronic Health Record Systems through Interoperable Applications and Services: Experiences and Lessons Learned from Four Leading-Edge Institutional Programs
    Dr. Blackford Middleton,Alistair Erskine, Ricky Bloomfield, Scott Narus,Kensaku Kawamoto
  • Women in Informatics Leadership Forum
    Wendy Chapman,Suzanne Bakken,Jessica Tenenbaum,Valerie Florance,Rebecca Jacobson
  • Informatics to Transform Med Wreck to Medication Reconciliation
    Edgar Chou,Terrence Adam,Charlene Weir,Mark Weiner
  • Adapting Nielsen’s Design Heuristics to Dual Processing for Clinical Decision Support
    Charlene Weir,Teresa Taft, Catherine Staes, Stacey Slager
  • Standardizing Research Common Data Elements: Initiatives, Exchange Formats and Current Use by Patient-Level Trial Results Databases
    Rachel Hess,DiklaShmueli-Blumberg,Murat Sincan,VojtechHuser

Finalists in the Student Design Challenge (2 of 9):

  • The SEA: A Self-Experimentation Approach and Learning Health System for Precision Medicine
    Rosalie Waller, HBS, Aly Khalifa, BS, Jingran Wen, ME, Thomas Reese, PharmD
  • PrecMed: A collaborative environment for precision medicine research and practice
    Jianlin Shi, Lance Pflieger

System Demonstrations:

  • Assessment Center API: A Software Component Model for the Integration of Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) into Clinical Care.
    Speakers: Michael Bass,Paul Harris, Vanderbilt University, Rob Taylor, Vanderbilt University, Justin Starren, Northwestern University, Joshua Spuhl, University of Utah Health Care, Jimmy Johnson, Washington University School of Medicine, Jason Guattery, Washington University School of Medicine
  • VA’s New Electronic Health Management Platform (eHMP): Novel Features for Activity Management and Notifications
    Jonathan R. Nebeker, Shane McNamee, David Douglas, James L. Hellewell, Kristian Johnson, Jessica Murphy, Ron Moody, Charlene Weir

POSTERS (23)

Operationalizing Best Practice for First Follow-up Visit after Discharge from a Well-Baby Nursery - Michael Totzke - 3M Health Information Systems

Structured Information Displays for the Comparison of Clinical Trials - Prasad Unni - University of Utah

An Adaptive Conjoint Survey to Select Potential Features of a Technology Based Self-Management Intervention - Bryan Gibson - University of Utah

A Characterization of Emotional Valence to Support Review of Free-Text Press-Ganey Patient Satisfaction Survey Responses - Danielle Mowery – University of Utah

Development and Validation of an Electronic Health Record (EHR)-Based Risk Stratification Rule for Inpatient Delirium - Joanne LaFleur - University of Utah

Automated Extraction of Disease Activity Component Measures From Electronic Medical Records Using Natural Language Processing - Brett South - University of Utah

Evaluating Acceptability and Efficacy of Antidepressant Medications using Patients Comments in Social Media - Mike Conway - University of Utah

Automated Dynamic Problem and Allergy Lists for Efficient Electronic Health Record Management - Stephane Meystre - University of Utah

Analysis and Redesign of Alerts and Reminders in a Commercial Electronic Health Record System to Reduce Alert Fatigue - Damian Borbolla - University of Utah

RuSH: a Rule-based Segmentation Tool Using Hashing for Extremely Accurate Sentence Segmentation of Clinical Text - Jianlin Shi - University of Utah

Tracking Risk of Acute Mental Status Change in VA Hospitals - Stacey Slager - University of Utah

Assessment of the Heterogeneity of Outcome Measurements for IT Interventions in Health Care - Tiago Colicchio - University of Utah

Evaluating Google Translate for Facilitating Survey Translation from English to Mandarin - Jia-Wen Guo - University of Utah

ItRunsInMyFamily Social Network for Family Health History: Project Update - Brandon Welch - Medical University of South Carolina

Patient Identity Matching for Health Information Exchange between Poison Control Centers and Emergency Departments - PallaviRanadeKharkar - Intermountain Healthcare

Relieving Operational Burdens of Participants in Inter-organizational Care Coordination - Sidney Thornton - Intermountain Healthcare

Pediatric Research Using Integrated Sensor Monitoring Systems (PRISMS): Applying Sensor Technology and Informatics to Better Understand Asthma - Katherine Sward - University of Utah

Medication Recommendation for Chronic Diseases with Comorbidities Using Electronic Medical Records - Liqin Wang - University of Utah