Jim Tufano recently received notification that one of his papers has been accepted for publication in the Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM).  Authors: Tufano JT, Ralston JD, Martin DP.Title: “Providers' experience with an organizational redesign initiative to promote patient-centered access: a qualitative study.”

Davis Masuda had a poster accepted for presentation at the spring annual meeting of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (http://www.aupha.org/).  The poster is one of 20 accepted and is entitled: "Moodling About:  Active Inquiry-Based Learning in Online Environments," and is a description of our use of an open-source Learning Management Systems (Moodle) to enable development of course design based on the AMIGO3 active-inquiry adult learning model.  For meeting details: http://www.aupha.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3807.

Barry Aaronson recently received word that his abstract, “Evaluation of an Electronic Early Warning System for the Detection of Critically Ill Hospital Patients,” has been accepted for poster presentation in the Research category at the Society of Hospital Medicine's Annual Meeting, April 3 - 5, 2008 in San Diego, California.

Jim Tufano recently received word from the 2008 HMO Research Network (HMORN) Conference planning committee that his abstract, “Providers' experience with an ICT-enabled organizational redesign initiative to promote patient-centered access,” was accepted for a poster presentation at the 14th Annual HMORN Conference – “Partnerships in Translation: Advancing Research and Clinical Care,” to be held April 13-16, 2008 at the Hilton, Minneapolis.

Congratulations to Kent Unruh who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation (for the Information School) on Oct 18th titled "Information and the Cancer Experience: A Study of Patient Work During Cancer Care". His commitee was chaired by Wanda Pratt, and included Sherrylyne Fuller, David Levy, Raya Fidel and Julie Gralow.

Blake and Pratt's beautifully crafted two-part article is an exemplary study about the collaborative information synthesis process...   The robust evidence-based results serve as a highly constructive model for designers of medical and health information systems. Thus the jury believes that Blake and Pratt's work is highly relevant and contributes significantly to the field of information science theoretically and empirically and therefore is most worthy of the 2006 JASIST John Wiley & Sons Best Paper Award.

Blake, C., & Pratt, W. (2006). Collaborative information synthesis I: A model of information behaviors that surround synthesis activities. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) v57n11:1740-1749.

Blake, C., & Pratt, W. (2006). Collaborative information synthesis II: System recommendations. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) v57n12:1888-95.