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Sunday, September 5, 2010
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Last updated: 08/21/2009
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| Organizational and Social Issues |
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| Chair |
Term of Office: 2008-2011 |
| Reddy, Dr. Madhu C., PhD |
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| Penn State University |
| University Park PA USA 16802-6823 |
| +1 814 863 6316 |
| + 1 814 865 6426 |
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Goals & Objectives
Objectives:
- To investigate and evaluate socio-technical, organizational, social, ethical, and individual behavioural issues surrounding the introduction and use of informatics applications.
- To determine strategies for systems and workflow analysis, product design and implementation, and technological and organizational change to support health care delivery through information and communication technologies.
- To incorporate organizational change management and human concerns into information technology projects.
Recent Activities:
MEDICAL INFORMATICS CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
- Co-sponsored and participated with the AMIA People and Organizational Issues WG a Doctoral Consortium to precede the AMIA Symposia.
- Co-sponsored and presented a workshop on "Avoiding The F-Word: IT Project Morbidity, Mortality, and Immortality," at the AMIA 2006 Symposium, together with nine AMIA WGs
- Participated in keynote panel on "evaluation" at AMIA Spring 2006 Congress.
- Co-sponsored two panels for Medinfo 2007:
- Hsiung, R.C., Kufkafka, R., Kaplan, B., and Courtney, K.L.,"Unintended Consequences of Consumer Health Informatics Innovations - together with AMIA WG on Ethical, Legal, & Social Issues
- Talmon, T., Elkin, P., Reddy, M., and Kaplan, B., "Human Factors Engineering, Organisational and Social Issues, and Evaluation: The Three IMIA WGs Addressing the Success of Implementations of Health Information Applications - together with the IMIA WGs on Human Factors and on Human Factors Engineering, and on Technology Assessment and Quality Improvement
- Co-organized and co-sponsored a panel for the AMIA 2007 Symposium
- Bonnie Kaplan, Richard Schreiber, H. Dominic Covvey, Christopher D. Johnson, Theodore W. Marcy, "Workflow - The Grand, and Grander, Challenge" - together with AMIA WG on People and Organizational Issues
OUTREACH and COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES
To raise awareness of organizational and social issues in health care, the chair and co-chair
- contributed to E-Health Systems Diffusion and Use: The Innovation, the User and the USE IT Model, eds. R. W. Schuring and T. A. M. Spil, Idea Group Publishing, 2006.
- served on the Program Committee and participated in the 2006 conference on "Pacific Rim e-Health Innovations," Kay Center for e-Health Research, Claremont Graduate University.
- served on the Program Committee for the Information Technology in Health Care 2007 conference
- organized a panel to include the chairs of IMIA WGs on Human Factors and on Human Factors Engineering, and on Technology Assessment and Quality Improvement: Kaplan, B., Elkin, P.L, Gorman, P, Koppel, R, Sites, F, Talmon, J., "Virtual Patients: Virtuality and Virtualization in Health Care, Proceedings of the IFIP 8.2 Conference on Virtuality and Virtualization, eds. K. Crowston, S. Sieber, and E. Wynn. New York: Springer, 2007, pp. (In press).
- served on the Program Committee for the ACM conference on Supporting Group Work
- presented an invited talk on Health Information Technologies: Opportunities and Challenges for the Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program
ON-GOING ACTIVITIES
- Nominate papers for the Diana Forsythe Award of the AMIA People and Organizational Issues WG, and serve on the Awards Committee.
- Organize panels and tutorials at AMIA Symposia and Medinfo.
- Develop curricula recommendations
- Co-sponsor Information Technology in Health Care tri-annual conferences
- Co-sponsor AMIA People & Organizational Issues WG Doctoral Symposium
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