Iona Thraen, PhD

Evaluation of an Electronic Module for Reconciling Medications in Home Health Plans of Care​​.

      - Harm from medications are the highest at the transitions of care. Ensuring patient safety requires a deep understanding of the changes in medication administration practices across settings.

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Evaluating The Use of TeleCAM as a Remote Web-Based Application for Child Maltreatment Assessment, Peer Review, and Case Documentation

     - Reaching vulnerable populations for assessment and care requires a deep understanding of communication across agencies in order to implement effective IT solutions.

Kristina Doing, PhD

Ambient Scribe projects

   - AI implementations of document summarization using in-house transformers (Nuance+Microsoft, paper link) and GPT API (Avodah). Customer interviews to production features. Multi-metric evaluation pipeline.

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Understanding patient satisfaction with received healthcare services: a natural language processing approach paper link

   - Automated topic classification with vocabulary-based and Naive Bayes ’ classifiers. Sentiment analysis using Naive Bayes ’ classifier. Topic modeling to search for unexpected topics within negative comments.

Charlene Weir, RN, PhD

Artificial intelligence predictive analytics in heart failure: results of the pilot phase of a pragmatic randomized clinical trial. (J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2024, 31(4), 919)

     -Implementing an alert system for clinicians monitoring heart failure patients at home required careful consideration of communication pathways and role responsibilities.

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The social experience of uncertainty: a qualitative analysis of emergency department care for suspected pneumonia for the design of decision support. (BMC Med Inform Decis Mak, 2024. 24(1), 386.)

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    -  Diagnostic errors for pneumonia are common in the ER and decision support could help decision making. Complex communication dependencies were identified in early design efforts that were included in the design.