Research Newsletter

6. CUSON Presence at AMIA Symposium

Columbia University School of Nursing faculty and students were highly visible at the annual American Medical Informatics Association Symposium held November 10-15, 2006 in Washington , DC . Suzanne Bakken, DNSc, RN, was the recipient of the 2006 Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award. Sookyung Hyun, RN, DNSc, won the Harriet H. Werley Award in recognition of the paper making the greatest contribution to advance the field of nursing informatics. Dr. Leanne Currie played a significant role in the nursing pre-conference which focused on Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) and Bakken was a tutorial faculty member on the topic of health care terminologies. In addition, students and faculty presented six posters and participated in panels on informatics in primary care and health literacy.

Paper:

Hyun S, Bakken S. Toward the creation of an ontology for nursing document sections: Mapping section names to the LOINC semantic model. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Symposium 2006, 364-368. Winner of the 2006 Harriet H. Werley Award.

Posters:

Choi, J., Bakken, S. Comparison of primary care expert and computer-interpreatble depression guideline screening recommendations. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Symposium 2006, 887.

Collins S, Currie L, Bakken S, Cimino JJ. Interruptions during the use of a CPOE system for MICU rounds. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Symposium 2006, 895.

Currie LM, Bakken S , Bufe G, Mellino LV. Compliance with use of automated fall-injury risk assessment in three clinical information systems. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Symposium 2006, 900.

Lai T-Y, Bakken S . Heuristic evaluation of HIV-TIDES – Tailored Interventions for Management of Depressive Symptoms in HIV-infected individuals. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Symposium 2006, 996.

Lee N-J, John R, Bakken S . Functional requirements specification and data modeling for a PDA-based decision support system for the screening and management of obesity. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Symposium 2006, 1002.

Merrill J, Rockoff M, Bakken S, Carley K. Organizational network analysis: A method to model information in public health work. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Symposium 2006, 1030.