2013 Workshop Presentations
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Dr. Bonnie Spring, Professor of Preventive Medicine, Psychology, and Psychiatry; Director, Center for Behavior and Health, Northwestern University, Chicago
• Using Technology to Develop Powerful Behavior Change Interventions
Dr. Keith Dawson, Professor of Medicine (Emeritus), University of British Columbia
Hesham Nabih, President, HN Consultants Ltd.
• The Virtual Diabetes Centre – delivering telemedicine education and telehealth consultative care in First Nation communities (Seabird Island)
Dr. Daniel Schwartz, Medical Director, Fraser Health Authority Renal Program
• Knowledge Translation and Care Pathway Optimization Using Mobile and Web-based Tools.
Michele Lane, Executive Director of Navigation Services, HealthLink BC, Ministry of Health
• HealthLinkBC and the BC Health Service Locator App
Jeff Barnett, Director of Clinical Informatics, BC Cancer Agency
• Navigating the Privacy and Security Challenges with Mobile Devices
Dr. Jonn Wu, Radiation Oncologist & Chief Medical Informatics Officer, BC Cancer Agency & Provincial Chair, Head and Neck Tumour Group
• Assessing the Role of Mobile Solutions in Clinical Workflow and Access to Clinical Information in Oncology: A Catalyst for Innovation and Collaboration at BCCA
Bonnie Spring, PhD, ABPP
Professor of Preventive Medicine, Psychology, and Psychiatry; Director, Center for Behavior and Health,
Northwestern University, Chicago
Dr. Bonnie Spring is Professor of Preventive Medicine, Psychology, and Psychiatry at Northwestern University, where she also directs the Center for Behavior and Health, a hub for technology-supported interventions to improve chronic disease risk behaviors. Interventions developed and implemented by the Center have six signatures. They: (1) incorporate novel technologies to overcome access barriers and reduce costs; (2) engage social networks and systems; (3) apply optimization techniques drawn from engineering to develop and refine treatments; (4) integrate human interventionists; (5) support behavioral self-regulation and (6) extend the reach of behavior change interventions into the broader population.
She serves on the American Psychological Association’s Advisory Steering Committee to Develop Treatment Guidelines and founded the multidisciplinary Council for Training in Evidence-Based Behavioral Practice. Her NIH-funded on-line learning modules on evidence-based practice and the science of team science are freely accessible at www.ebbp.org and www.teamscience.net, respectively. Current Chair of the American Heart Association’s Behavior Change Committee and a past President of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM), Dr. Spring is a recipient of SBM’s Distinguished Research Mentor and Research to Practice Translation Awards. She is also founding editor and editor-in-chief of Translational Behavioral Medicine: Practice, Policy, Research.
Dr. Spring’s research on smoking, poor quality diet, physical inactivity, and obesity has been funded continuously since 1976 by grants from NIH, the American Heart and American Cancer Societies, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Using Technology to Develop Powerful Behavior Change Interventions
New e-health technologies are proliferating at an astonishing rate, but do they have practical application in healthcare? To discuss that question, the speaker will describe the rationale and development of a series of mhealth intervention systems to foster healthy change in diet and physical activity. Issues to be considered are: (a) whether e-health treatments redress health disparities by increasing treatment reach, or whether they augment a pre-existing digital divide; (b) whether e-technologies, in and of themselves, produce and maintain clinically meaningful change; (c) how to manage the “big data exhaust” generated by e-health technologies; (d) lessons learned in integrating e-health interventions into existing systems of care. The fact that growth of e-health tools is vastly outstripping development of the evidence base for their effectiveness creates important challenges and opportunities for implementation of behavior change interventions.
Keith G. Dawson MD, PhD, FRCPC
Professor of Medicine (Emeritus), University of British Columbia
Dr. Keith G. Dawson is an emeritus Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology) at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver General Hospital. A graduate of Princeton University (AB), Columbia University (MD) and McGill University (PhD), He was a member of the McGill Faculty of Medicine and since 1978 the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine, teaching and treating people with diabetes. He is author of some 50 research papers in the field.
Hesham Nabih, BSc
President, HN Consultants Ltd.
Hesham Nabih has 30 years of experience developing environmental and health management solutions for government agencies and major industries. Among his projects are Live Well with Diabetes, a web based diabetes education program, Virtual Diabetes Centre, and Diabetes and My Nation (a First Nation community based diabetes prevention and management program).
The Virtual Diabetes Centre – delivering telemedicine education and telehealth consultative care in First Nation communities (Seabird Island)
Since 2003, we have been involved with the Health Canada-funded Mobile Diabetes Telemedicine Clinic and the simultaneously developed Live well with Diabetes education platform. These have now been combined in the Virtual Diabetes Centre. These two projects are also associated with the project “Diabetes and my Nation”. These programs serve to educate people with diabetes in multiple languages (10), communities of First Nations people on the Internet regarding all aspects of treating type 2 Diabetes, and to provide a secure EMR that is used to treat people in communities throughout BC. The Seabird Island has just celebrated their 1000th patient served on this system.
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Daniel Schwartz, MD, FRCP(C)
Medical Director, Fraser Health Authority Renal Program
Dr. Daniel Schwartz is the medical director of the Fraser Health renal program and program lead for the Fraser Health peritoneal dialysis program. He received his training at the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto. His clinical interests are focused on peritoneal dialysis, interventional nephrology and advanced CKD management. He also has a keen interest in knowledge translation at the point of care and the intersection of information technology with clinical medicine.
Knowledge Translation and Care Pathway Optimization Using Mobile and Web-based Tools
The rise of smartphones, tablets and web apps have provided opportunities to enhance evidence-based practice. RenalConnect ensures adherence to care pathways for patients with end stage renal disease, while providing robust, real-time analytics that can be used to evaluate CQI activities. Mobile apps such as Calculate by QxMD and Read: Personalized Medical Journal encourage engagement with & application of current research and best practices. These applications will be discussed as a means to facilitate knowledge translation at the point of care.
Michele Lane, RN, MBA
Executive Director Navigation Services, HealthLink BC, Ministry of Health
Michele Lane has been the Executive Director of Navigation Services at HealthLink BC since 2007. Prior to this she held a leadership role in bcbedline (VCHA & HLBC) and worked in primary care for 20 years. Michele’s current portfolio includes the 8-1-1 contact center, the HealthLinkBC.ca website, the Health Services Information Referral Network (online directory for internal staff and the public), the Community Health and Referral Directory (online directory for primary care Physicians) and the BC Health Service Locator App. At the BCATPR workshop, Michele will be providing a demonstration on the Health Service Locator App and sharing information regarding HealthLink BC service offerings.
HealthLinkBC and the BC Health Service Locator App
HealthLinkBC (HLBC) is a non-emergency health information service that provides B.C. residents with 24-hour access to medically-approved information and advice at anytime from anywhere in the province via print, phone, web and mobile. HLBC continuously refines service delivery mechanisms, recognizing that service delivery through handheld devices (mobile) is a growing trend and an expectation from the public. Industry projections suggest that the number of mobile internet users will exceed desktop internet users within the next two years. As such, HealthLink BC developed the BC Health Service Locator (BCHSL) app for Apple mobile devices. This is the first app to be developed within government and available through the Government of British Columbia’s presence in the App Store.
The BC Health Services Locator app is a mobile- resource that helps citizens locate health services they may need when they are ‘on the go’, or when their regular point of access to health services (e.g. family physician) is not available. The information contained in the app is a subset of www.HealthLinkBC.ca and includes hospitals, emergency rooms, after-hours pharmacies, labs and walk-in and immunization clinics.
The app’s primary functionality:
- • Map-based search for services near you, or other locations;
- • Key-word search for services; and
- • Direct links to relevant portions of www.HealthLinkBC.ca, including health alerts.
Jeff Barnett, MSc, FCSHP
Director of Clinical Informatics, BC Cancer Agency
Jeff Barnett is the Director of Clinical Informatics for the BC Cancer Agency. He is also an adjunct professor of health information science at the University of Victoria at Victoria (BC, Canada) and Lecturer at the School of Population Health at the University of British Columbia.
He holds a master’s degree in health information science from the University of Victoria. He has extensive experience as a project analyst; project team member and project lead in health care systems deployment in a variety of areas.
Prior to his entry into the field of informatics he was a pharmacist with over 25 years’ experience. His research specialization is in the area of privacy and confidentiality, IT Procurement, data warehousing, computerized provider order entry and knowledge management.
He has presented nationally and internationally on a wide range of topics relating to these research interests, and he has co-authored several papers in several health care journals
Navigating the Privacy and Security Challenges with Mobile Devices
As we witness the current explosion of mobile technology and the coming of age of e-health, or m-health as it now referred to, we must not forget about some of the key issues when dealing with security and privacy of personal health information (PHI). A lot of attention has been focused on securing and protecting PHI as many organizations across Canada and the world move from paper health records to the holy grail of electronic ones. Mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and ultrabooks add a newer layer of challenge for those of us working in the clinical and research realm. These devices allow us to work anywhere at any time regardless of geography or time zone. They have the potential to allow access to all sorts of systems from the Internet and, coupled with Cloud technology, can make a huge amount of data accessible. These devices represent a large part of the driving forces associated with Web 2.0.
Using these devices has in fact become a large part of the BYOD (bring your own device) trend in IT that is clearly driving really unique and innovative ideas that have the potential to modernize and improve health care. However the main challenge for these devices is navigating issues that are bounded by provincial legislation and other jurisdictional regulations such as those from the professional colleges. This presentation will provide an overview of some of the legislative and regulatory challenges faced when deploying mobile applications. It will also offer potential solutions and advice on how to ensure that PHI is not compromised and show how these devices may in fact enhance security and protection.
John Wu, MD, FRCPC
Radiation Oncologist and Chief Medical Informatics Officer, BC Cancer Agency; Provincial Chair, Head and Neck Tumour Group
Dr. Jonn Wu is a radiation oncologist at the Vancouver Cancer Centre. His research interests include developing a provincial platform to support population based oncology outcomes research (OaSIS), as well as developing novel computerized radiotherapy planning and delivery systems. He is the current Provincial H&N Tumour Group Chair and recently appointed as the Chief Medical Information Officer for the BC Cancer Agency.
Assessing the Role of Mobile Solutions in Clinical Workflow and Access to Clinical Information in Oncology: A catalyst for innovation and collaboration at BCCA
Expanding on the topic of mobile health devices, Dr. Wu will present an example of a mobile project used at the BC Cancer Agency and its role in improving clinical workflow.
