scholarly journals Graduate Program in Medical Informatics at the University of Utah

1994 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. 116-120
Author(s):  
H.R. Warner
Keyword(s):  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Health Care Quality ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Medical Physics ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Master Of Science ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
One Year ◽  
The University

AbstractThe graduate student program in medical informatics at the University of Utah described in this paper comprises a Master of Science degree (since 1976) and a Ph.D. degree (since 1962). The average program length is 2 years for M.Sc. and 3-5 years for Ph.D. The aims of the program are to prepare graduates for careers in medical informatics in academic; hospital or industrial settings. There are several different courses of study, or tracks, within the department ranging from Expert Systems, Genetic Epidemiology, Health Care Quality, Hospital Information Systems, Medical Imaging, Medical Physics, to an intensive one year M.Sc. degree course for physicians. After the first three quarters the students are require 4 to take a qualifying examination in which they qualify for a -Masters or Ph.D. degree. The program covers the total spectrum of medical informatics. About 10 students are admitted each year. There are 14 full-time faculty and 9 adjunct faculty. The total number of graduates is 151.

Graduate Program in Medical Informatics at the University of Utah

1994 ◽  
Vol 33 (03) ◽  
pp. 258-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. R. Warner
Keyword(s):  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Health Care Quality ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Medical Physics ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Master Of Science ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
One Year ◽  
The University

Abstract:The graduate student program in medical informatics at the University of Utah described in this paper comprises a Master of Science degree (since 1976) and a Ph.D. degree (since 1962). The average program length is 2 years for M.Sc. and 3-5 years for Ph.D. The aims of the program are to prepare graduates for careers in medical informatics in academic, hospital or industrial settings. There are several different courses of study, or tracks, within the department ranging from Expert Systems, Genetic Epidemiology, Health Care Quality, Hospital Information Systems, Medical Imaging, Medical Physics, to an intensive one-year M.Sc. degree course for physicians. After the first three quarters the students are required to take a qualifying examination in which they qualify for a Masters or Ph.D. degree. The program covers the total spectrum of medical informatics. About 10 students are admitted each year. There are 14 full-time faculty and 9 adjunct faculty. The total number of graduates is 151.

scholarly journals Graduate Programs in Medical Informatics at the Paris Universities

1995 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. 110-114
Author(s):  
Alain Venot ◽  
Bertran Auvert ◽  
François Grémy ◽  
Patrice Degoulet
Keyword(s):  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Medical Studies ◽  
Master Of Science ◽  
Master Level ◽  
Medical Faculties ◽  
One Year ◽  
Specialized Program

Abstract:Most medical schools in France have chairs in Biostatistics and Medical Informatics to coordinate the teaching of these two disciplines both within the regular curriculum of the medical studies and as a specialized teaching. This paper describes the current medical informatics specialized program offered at the Paris Universities. Since 1968 the program has comprised a Master of Science and a Ph.D. degree. At the Master Level, despite several reforms and in-depth program revisions the curriculum is still organized as a set of modules of 100 hours teachins with a large freedom for the medical faculties to define the contents of the courses and for the students to organize their studies and combine medical informatics, biomathematics and biostatistics training. Since 1990, an intensive one-year full-time course is offered, called Advanced Study Diploma in Medical Informatics, which is strongly research oriented. This program seems a good strategy to form medical informatics special1 ists who have initially received a broader education in informatics and statistics.

Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement in Outpatient Laboratories: Effects on Wait Times, Employee Engagement, and Efficiency

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-397
Author(s):  
Joseph Featherall ◽  
Alexander Chaitoff ◽  
Anthony Simonetti ◽  
James Bena ◽  
Daniel Kubiak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Confidence Interval ◽  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Health Care Quality ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Wait Times ◽  
Full Time

Transforming health care remains a challenge as many continuous improvement (CI) initiatives fail or are not sustained. Although the literature suggests the importance of culture, few studies provide evidence of cultural change creating sustained CI. This improvement initiative focused on creating cultural change through goal alignment, visual management, and empowering frontline employees. Data included 113 133 encounters. Cochran-Armitage tests and X-bar charting compared wait times during the CI initiative. Odds of waiting <15 minutes increased in both phase 2 (odds ratio = 3.57, 95% confidence interval = [3.43-3.71]) and phase 3 (odds ratio = 5.39, 95% confidence interval = [5.07, 5.74]). At 3 years follow-up, 95% of wait times were <15 minutes. Productivity increased from 519 to 644 patients/full-time equivalent/month; 33/42 Press Ganey employee engagement components significantly improved. This study demonstrates the efficacy of a culture of CI approach to sustain wait time improvement in outpatient laboratory services, and should be considered for application in other areas of health care quality.

Major Achievement by Associate Professor Johanna Westbrook: Election to the American College of Medical Informatics as an International Fellow

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-67
Keyword(s):  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
New South ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
South Wales ◽  
One Year ◽  
The University

Congratulations to Associate Professor Johanna Westbrook PhD, MHA, GradDipAppEpi, BAppSc (Medical Record Administration), who has been elected to the American College of Medical Informatics as an International Fellow. The Fellowship is the highest recognition possible in the health informatics discipline. Based upon peer election from current College Fellows, no more than two Fellowships are offered in any one year, and there are currently only two other Australian Fellows. This is a wonderful honour as it marks the highest peer recognition possible from the international community, reflecting Johanna's outstanding research work. Johanna is currently Deputy Director of the Centre for Health Informatics at the University of New South Wales and is an honorary Associate Professor at the School of Health Information Management at the University of Sydney. Johanna has published over 80 refereed journal articles and has received numerous research grants, the most recent of which is a National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grant of $583 000 for a study investigating the safety and effectiveness of hospital e-prescribing systems.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the intensive outpatient clinic: study protocol for a prospective study of high-cost, high-need patients in the University of Utah Health system

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. e024724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brittany L Bannon ◽  
Michelle Lucier ◽  
Angela Fagerlin ◽  
Jaewhan Kim ◽  
Bernadette Kiraly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Outpatient Clinic ◽  
Primary Care Clinic ◽  
Healthcare Utilisation ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Care Clinic ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
Patient Reported ◽  
Secondary Outcomes ◽  
Intensive Outpatient ◽  
The University

IntroductionThe University of Utah (UofU) Health intensive outpatient clinic (IOC) is a primary care clinic for medically complex (high-cost, high-need) patients with Medicaid. The clinic consists of a multidisciplinary care team aimed at providing coordinated, comprehensive and patient-centred care. The protocol outlines the quantitative design of an evaluation study to determine the IOC’s effects on reducing healthcare utilisation and costs, as well as improving patient-reported health outcomes and quality of care.Methods and analysisHigh-risk patients, with high utilisation and multiple chronic illnesses, were identified in the Medicaid ACO population managed by the UofU Health plans for IOC eligibility. A prospective, case-control study design is being used to match 100 IOC patients to 200 control patients (receiving usual care within the UofU) based on demographics, health utilisation and medical complexity for evaluating the primary outcome of change in healthcare utilisation and costs. For the secondary outcomes of patient health and care quality, a prepost design will be used to examine within-person change across the 18 months of follow-up (ie, before and after IOC intervention). Logistic regression and hierarchical, longitudinal growth modelling are the two primary modelling approaches.Ethics and disseminationThis work has received ethics approval by the UofU Institutional Review Board. Results from the evaluation of primary and secondary outcomes will be disseminated in scientific research journals and presented at national conferences.

scholarly journals Medical Informatics Education at the University of Manchester

1997 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
pp. 101-107
Author(s):  
V.F. Hillier ◽  
A.L. Rector ◽  
C.J. Taylor ◽  
S. Kay
Keyword(s):  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Degree Programme ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

AbstractManchester University offered the first full time, undergraduate Medical Informatics degree programme in the UK. The B.Sc. in Medical Informatics was conceived in 1992 and its first cohort of students, taking the three year version, graduated in 1996; those students taking the four year version of the undergraduate degree will graduate in July 1997. The paper describes our somewhat turbulent experience of the first four years, highlighting both the difficulties and successes of launching an inter-disciplinary degree. First, the story of the programme’s development is given by way of an introduction and to establish a suitable context for describing the programme in more detail. Then, after presenting the aim and objectives of the programme, we describe the overall structure of the course, and reflect upon certain key issues for establishing Medical Informatics as a distinct, academic discipline.

scholarly journals Achievements after Six Years of The International Partnership for Health Informatics Education

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (01) ◽  
pp. 173-182
Author(s):  
R. M. Gardner ◽  
L. C. Gatewood ◽  
R. Haux ◽  
D. Schmidt ◽  
T. Wetter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Honors Students ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
International Partnerships ◽  
International Partnership ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Talented Students ◽  
The University

AbstractTo inform the medical and health informatics community on the rational, goals, and the achievements of the International Partnership for Health Informatics Education – IPHIE, (IΦE), that was established at six universities in 1999: The University of Amsterdam, the Universities of Heidelberg and Heilbronn, the University of Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology at Innsbruck, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Utah.We elaborate on the overall goals of IΦE and describe the current state of affairs: the activities undertaken and faculty and student experience related to these activities. In addition we outline the lessons we have learned over these past six years and our plans for the future.IΦE seeks to maintain, improve and promote medical and health informatics education through international collaboration of graduate and baccalaureate programs in medical and health informatics. IΦE members first started to collaborate by supporting and encouraging the exchange of talented students and faculty and by establishing joint master classes for honors students. Following the success of these activities, new initiatives were undertaken such as the organization of student workshops at Medical Informatics conferences and a joint course on strategic information management in hospitals in Europe.International partnerships such as IΦE take time to establish, and, if they are to be successful, maintaining leadership continuity is critically important. We are convinced that IΦE promotes professionalism of future medical informatics specialists. There will be a continuing growth of globalization in higher education. It will therefore become increasingly important to offer educational programs with international components.

Case study: a decade of changes in a small environmental engineering graduate program

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (8) ◽  
pp. 133-138
Author(s):  
S.W. Leung
Keyword(s):  
International Student ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Program Planning ◽  
Environmental Engineering ◽  
Student Enrollment ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Steady Level ◽  
Part Time Students ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The University

For a small graduate program in environmental engineering in a rural state in the US, it is important for the program curriculum to stay in the mainstream. While resident student enrollment is approaching a steady level, international student enrollment increases steadily, this is due in part to the out-of-state tuition waiver provided to the students. Part-time students are a significant part of the program, these students have special needs that are different from traditional full-time students that must be taken into consideration in program planning. A small program provides an attentive atmosphere for students’ learning, but it also has problems that a larger program would not encounter, such as competitiveness, personal conflicts, program identity, etc. Despite success in the past, the program is likely to merge with other related programs in the university during times of budget restrictions.

scholarly journals GROWING AN ONLINE GERONTOLOGY MINOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S614-S614
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Eaton
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Student Orientation ◽  
Master Of Science ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
Introductory Course ◽  
Science Degree ◽  
New Student Orientation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Barriers To Enrollment ◽  
The University

Abstract The Gerontology Interdisciplinary Program at the University of Utah has a long history of offering certificates (48 years) and a Master of Science degree (25 years). Relatively new to our program is the minor in gerontology, first available in 2013. This paper will describe efforts to grow this program, barriers to enrollment, and plans for expansion. In 2018, the program developed a targeted strategy to increase student awareness of and enrollment in the minor. First, we focused on newly enrolled pre-nursing students through new student orientation presentations and registration support. The introductory course within the minor jumped in enrollment from 6 students in Fall of 2017 to 40 in Fall 2018. Students taking courses in the minor received follow-up support and instructions mid-semester to ease matriculation. Enrollment in the minor increased by 140%. Next, we plan to apply these strategies to a broader number of colleges and departments throughout campus.

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