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Biomedical and Health Informatics Weekly:  May 12-16, 2008

 

Tuesday, May 13

Biomedical and Health Informatics Lecture Series - MEBI 590

12:00 - 12:50 p.m., Location: RR-134

Presenter:     Martin C. Were, M.D., NLM Medical Informatics Fellow, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Indiana University School of Medicine

Title:   "Using an Informatics Tool to Improve Implementation of Recommendations by Consultants:  An Example of the Role of Informatics in Care Co-ordination"

 

Wednesday, May 14

Dissertation Defense - Brent Louie

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

1:00 - 4:00 p.m., Location: T-473

Title:  "Modeling Uncertainty in Data Integration for Improving Protein Function Assignment"

 

Biosimulation and Semantics Colloquium - MEBI 591A

3:30 - 4:20 p.m., Location: I-132

 

Thursday, May 15

Translational Informatics Research Seminar - MEBI 591B

10:30 - 11:20 a.m., Location: T-733

Presenter:     Jim Kublin, Ph.D. Director

Title:   "The ccresearch.info initiative at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center -

           developing scientific alliance management"

 

Friday, May 16

Clinical Informatics Seminar - MEBI 598

10:00 - 11:20 a.m., Location: BB-1404

Presenter:     Jacquie Zehner, Patient Data Services Director, Harborview Medical Center

AND Sally Beahan, Patient Data Services Director, UW Medical Center

Topic: MEDICAL RECORDS, COMPLIANCE, AND CLINICAL COMPUTING SYSTEMS

  • JCAHO, compliance and legal requirements
  • Working effectively with Medical Record Committees
  • Documentation requirements
  • The complexities of documentation in an academic medical center

 

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

NIH R21 Grant Awarded to George Demiris

George Demiris was awarded a NIH R21 grant entitled "A Technology Enhanced Nursing Intervention for Hospice Caregivers."  The $453,000 award is for a two-year clinical trial exploring the use of technology to deliver a coping skills intervention for hospice caregivers.

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