Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Health Informatics Infrastructure Feasibility Testing: First Results from a New Web-Based Tool to Study Nutrition Care and Outcomes

2014 ◽  
Vol 114 (9) ◽  
pp. A43 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.M. Yadrick ◽  
W.J. Murphy ◽  
A. Steiber
Keyword(s):  
Health Informatics ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Nutrition Care ◽  
Informatics Infrastructure ◽  
First Results ◽  
Feasibility Testing ◽  
Nutrition And Dietetics

Systematic Prioritization of the STARE-HI Reporting Items

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (02) ◽  
pp. 104-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Talmon ◽  
E. Ammenwerth ◽  
J. Brender ◽  
M. Rigby ◽  
P. Nykanen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Study Design ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Evaluation Studies ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Laboratory Simulation ◽  
Conference Paper ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Measure Evaluation ◽  
Conference Papers ◽  
Prioritization Framework

SummaryBackground: We previously devised and published a guideline for reporting health informatics evaluation studies named STARE-HI, which is formally endorsed by IMIA and EFMI.Objective: To develop a prioritization framework of ranked reporting items to assist authors when reporting health informatics evaluation studies in space restricted conference papers and to apply this prioritization framework to measure the quality of recent health informatics conference papers on evaluation studies.Method: We deconstructed the STARE-HI guideline to identify reporting items. We invited a total of 111 authors of health informatics evaluation studies, reviewers and editors of health Informatics conference proceedings to score those reporting items on a scale ranging from “0 – not necessary in a conference paper” through to “10 – essential in a conference paper” by a web-based survey. From the responses we derived a mean priority score. All evaluation papers published in proceedings of MIE2006, Medinfo2007, MIE2008 and AMIA2008 were rated on these items by two reviewers. From these ratings a priority adjusted completeness score was computed for each paper.Results: We identified 104 reporting items from the STARE-HI guideline. The response rate for the survey was 59% (66 out of 111). The most important reporting items (mean score ≥ 9) were “Interpret the data and give an answer to the study question – (in Discussion)”, “Whether it is a laboratory, simulation or field study – (in Methods-study design)” and “Description of the outcome measure/evaluation criteria – (in Methods-study design)”. Per reporting area the statistically more significant important reporting items were distinguished from less important ones. Four reporting items had a mean score ≤ 6. The mean priority adjusted completeness of evaluation papers of recent health informatics conferences was 48% (range 14 –78%).Conclusion: We produced a ranked list of reporting items from STARE-HI according to their prioritized relevance for inclusion in space-limited conference papers. The priority adjusted completeness scores demonstrated room for improvement for the analyzed conference papers. We believe that this prioritization framework is an aid to improving the quality and utility of conference papers on health informatics evaluation studies.

scholarly journals Adapting a Classroom Simulation Experience to an Online Escape Room in Nutrition Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenifer Ross ◽  
Lauri Wright ◽  
Andrea Arikawa
Keyword(s):  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Video Conferencing ◽  
Care Process ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Nutrition Care ◽  
Nutrition Care Process ◽  
Nutrition And Dietetics ◽  
Classroom Simulation ◽  
Undergraduate Class

Due to the COVID-19 emergency transition to remote learning, an undergraduate class in nutrition and dietetics modified a face-to-face experiential “escape room” assignment into a comparable online experience. The online assignment was structured so that students had to use knowledge and clues to move through each step of the Nutrition Care Process; students proceeded through the escape room individually until each successfully “escaped.” An important component of this assignment was the postactivity debriefing process, which took place via video conferencing in small groups. Students indicated that they were pleasantly surprised at the effectiveness of the online assignment. However, analytics showed that students progressed through most of the steps fairly quickly; thus, instructors plan to improve future deployments by using a variety of interactive assessments and adding more layered criteria and clues within each of the escape room steps.

Extending a Conventional Chatbot Knowledge Base to External Knowledge Source and Introducing User-Based Sessions for Diabetes Education

2019 ◽  
pp. 333-343
Author(s):  
Shafquat Hussain ◽  
Athula Ginige
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Diabetes Management ◽  
Diabetes Education ◽  
Conversational Agents ◽  
Knowledge Source ◽  
Web Based ◽  
External Knowledge ◽  
User Query

Chatbots or conversational agents are computer programs that interact with users using natural language through artificial intelligence in a way that the user thinks he is having dialogue with a human. One of the main limits of chatbot technology is associated with the construction of its local knowledge base. A conventional chatbot knowledge base is typically hand constructed, which is a very time-consuming process and may take years to train a chatbot in a particular field of expertise. This chapter extends the knowledge base of a conventional chatbot beyond its local knowledge base to external knowledge source Wikipedia. This has been achieved by using Media Wiki API to retrieve information from Wikipedia when the chatbot's local knowledge base does not contain the answer to a user query. To make the conversation with the chatbot more meaningful with regards to the user's previous chat sessions, a user-specific session ability has been added to the chatbot architecture. An open source AIML web-based chatbot has been modified and programmed for use in the health informatics domain. The chatbot has been named VDMS – Virtual Diabetes Management System. It is intended to be used by the general community and diabetic patients for diabetes education and management.

scholarly journals Systematic, theoretically grounded development and feasibility testing of an innovative, preventive web-based game for children exposed to acute trauma.

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meghan L. Marsac ◽  
Flaura K. Winston ◽  
Aimee K. Hildenbrand ◽  
Kristen L. Kohser ◽  
Sonja March ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Web Based ◽  
Acute Trauma ◽  
Feasibility Testing

Biomedical and Health Informatics in Translational Medicine

2009 ◽  
Vol 48 (01) ◽  
pp. 4-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. W. Kulikowski ◽  
C. A. Kulikowski
Keyword(s):  
Health Informatics ◽  
Translational Medicine ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Biomedical Literature ◽  
Translational Bioinformatics ◽  
Healthcare Informatics ◽  
First Results ◽  
Machine Systems

Summary Objectives: To discuss translational medicine advances challenging biomedical and health informatics. Methods: Reviewing material presented at the Heidelberg 35th Anniversary Workshop, summarizing results from the 1st AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics and discussing the opportunities, difficulties, and ethical dilemmas confronting researchers, practitioners, and healthcare managers in transitional bioinformatics. Results: The first results in translational medicine are appearing in the biomedical literature. All rely on bioinformatics methods for analysis. Conclusions: Translational medicine introduces new problems of interpretation and application to healthcare. Applying results to complex human-machine systems raises ethical issues, which are augmented in healthcare informatics. Bridging biological, medical, and informatics knowledge requires new epistemological approaches.

scholarly journals An innovative web based system for reporting rare diseases in paediatrics

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shamir N Mukhi ◽  
Melanie Laffin Thibodeau ◽  
Barbara Szijarto
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Rare Diseases ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Surveillance Program ◽  
Public Health Informatics ◽  
Monthly Basis ◽  
Childhood Disorders ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Based System

Surveillance of rare diseases in children is an important aspect of public health. Rare diseases affect thousands of children worldwide. The Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program (CPSP) has been in existence since 1996, and provides an innovative means to undertake paediatric surveillance and increase awareness of childhood disorders that are high in disability, morbidity, mortality, and economic costs to society, despite their low frequency. Traditionally, CPSP used manual paper-based reporting on a monthly basis, which although had an impressive response rate, it had inherent longer processing times and costs associated with it. The article below describes an innovative web-based system that enables seamless reporting from participants across the country providing a quick, reliable and simple mechanism for the users to submit data while yielding better data quality, timeliness and increased efficiencies. The development of such a system represents a significant advancement in the public health informatics area, building capacity for seamless and rapid data management for national surveillance.

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