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3/8/2004

Mentored Mini-Course

On March 26, 2004 , from 12:00-3:30pm , CHCQ will be sponsoring “Training the Trainer in Practice-Based Learning and Improvement: A Mentored Mini-course for Beginners.” The course will be co-facilitated by: Mary Coleman, MD, PhD, Associate Professor and Senior Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Louisville; Linda Headrick, MD, MS, Senior Associate Dean for Education and Faculty Development and Professor of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia; Paul Miles, MD, Vice President, Director of Quality Improvement and Assessment Programs in Pediatric Practice, American Board of Pediatrics; Ethel Smith, MD, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Case Western Reserve University and Director, Quality Resource Center, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH; John X. Thomas, PhD, Associate Dean for Educational Programs, Jacob R. Suker Professor of Medical Education at Northwestern University Medical School; and Thomas Viggiano, MD, Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at Mayo Medical School. The course is open to faculty and staff of the University of Missouri , and aimed at program directors, faculty educators, and interested clinicians. Interested faculty or staff should contact Rachel Haverstick before March 19. For more information and the full announcement, see Rachel Haverstick.

European Union Center Conference:

“e-health: Current Status and Future Trends in the EU and the US ”

The European Union Center sponsored a conference entitled “ e-health: Current Status and Future Trends in the EU and the US ” held February 12 and 13, 2004 in Columbia , Missouri . This conference examined issues of e-health applications in the United States and Europe and the priorities set within eEurope 2005, the EU initiatives in ensuring privacy and confidentiality of health related data, and how those compare to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 in the United States . Other topics focused on the use of mobile technologies in health care (mHealth), “smart home” technologies, telemedicine applications that cross national borders, transatlantic collaborations in bioinformatics and the use of the Internet in health care. Furthermore, legislative efforts and ethical concerns associated with the diffusion of e-health were discussed and policies in the EU and the US were reviewed and compared.

Conference website: http://www.hmi.missouri.edu/ehealth

Grants and Projects

Karen Edison , MD, Principal Investigator. Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT), Human Resources Services Administration. Comparison of live interactive and store-and-forward teledermatology to in-person exam. ( 6/1/03 – 12/30/03) $30,000

Karen Edison , Co-Principal Investigator. Kristofer Hagglund , Ph.D., Co-Principal Investigator: Missouri Health Resources and Services Administration State Planning Grant: Advisory Council Coordination. Funded by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to the Center for Health Policy, 2003-2004, $30,250.

Naresh Khatri , Principal Investigator. Managing People and Information for Competitive Advantage in Health Care. Funded by University of Missouri . $7,270.

Tamara Stone , Principal Investigator. Ken Bopp , Co-Principal Investigator. Health Services Quality Performance Report - Phase V , Department of Corrections, State of Missouri , $24,000, 01/01/04 - 04/30/04.

Keith Boles , Principal Investigator. Tamara Stone , Co-Principal Investigator. Cross-National Health Care Policy and Leadership, U.S. Department of Education - Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE), $203,587, 09/01/03 - 08/31/06.

MU Minimum Data Set and Quality Research Team

Marilyn Rantz . Implement and evaluate the Quality Improvement Program for Missouri 's Long-Term Care Facilities (QIP-MO). Assist nursing facilities and residential care facilites with quality improvement efforts to improve resident outcomes.

Marilyn Rantz , Principal Investigator. Lanis Hicks , Co-Investigator. Evaluation of the Use of Bedside Technology to Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Facilities. Sponsored by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, 01/31/03 – 01/30/05.

Boonslick Rural Health Network - Cooper and Howard Counties , Missouri

Lanis Hicks , Principal Investigator. Shari Riley , Wilbert Meyer , Sue Boren , Co-Investigators. Boonslick Rural Network Consortium (subcontract Cooper County Memorial Hospital ). 05/01/01 – 04/30/04, $237,755.

Mercer Putnam Sullivan Rural Health Network - Mercer, Putnam, and Sullivan Counties , Missouri

Shari Riley , Wilbert Meyer , Co-Principal Investigators. Lanis Hicks , Co-Investigator. Mercer, Putnam, Sullivan Rural Health Network (subcontract Sullivan County Memorial Hospital , HRSA sponsored grant). 05/01/03 – 04/30/06 .

The Education Coordinator, Louanne Currence, RHIT, CTR, and other Missouri Cancer Registry staff have developed a Basic Cancer Registry Workshop that is presented 3-4 times each year at Health Information Management colleges and other sites in Missouri. This workshop has gained national attention and has been presented in other states.

Publications and Presentations

Boren SA , Balas EA, Mustafa Z. Evidence-based Patient Education for Chronic Care. AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Nashville , TN , June 27-29, 2003 .

Boren SA. Information Infrastructure and Health Care Productivity. Panel Presentation. AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting. Nashville , TN. June 27-29, 2003 .

Demiris G , Speedie S, Finkelstein S, Harris I. Communication patterns and technical quality of virtual visits in home care. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare 2003; 9(4):210-215

Demiris G . Integration of Telemedicine in Graduate Medical Informatics Education. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2003; 10(4): 310-314

Demiris G , Oliver D, Fleming DA , Edison K . Use of Telemedicine Technologies for Hospice Patients. International Conference on Information Communication technologies in Health 2003 Proceedings p. 23-26

Demiris G. The Introduction of e-Health in Medical Education. Fourth International Conference on Information Communication Technologies in Education 2003 Proceedings p. 151-157

Hicks, LL. Do Women Have Adequate Access to Dermatological Services. Presentation at 61 st Annual Meeting of American Academy of Dermatology, San Francisco CA : March 22, 2003 .

Hicks LL. Formulating Expected Results, Indicators, and Targets. Presentation at Global Meeting of Informatics Management Coordination Committee, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO), Cairo Egypt , November 16, 2003 .

Hicks LL. Results-Based Management: Using the Results Chain Approach in WHO. Presentation at Programme Budget 2004-2005: Headquarters log frame training seminar, John Knox Centre, Geneva, October 30, 2003.

Hicks LL , Boles KE , Hudson S, Kling B, Tracy J, Mitchell J, Webb W (February 2003). Patient Satisfaction with Teledermatology Services. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare 9(1): 42-45.

Hicks LL, Baxley EG, Bogdewic S (2003). 26: The Health Care System. Sahler and Carr (editors). In The Behavioral Sciences and Health Care . Cambridge MA: Hogrefe & Huber. IN MERLIN

Hicks LL (2003). Satisfaction of Paramedical Personnel. Burg G (editor). In Telemedicine and Teledermatology: Current Problems in Dermatology . Basel: Karger, 58-61. IN MERLIN

Khatri, N ., Tsang, E.W.K., & Begley, T. 2003. Cronyism: The Downside of Social Networking. Presented at the Academy of Management, Annual Meeting , August 1-6, Seattle , Washington . (Nominated for the Douglas Nigh Best Paper Award).

Khatri, N ., Templer, K. J., & Budhwar, P.S. 2003. Consequences of power distance orientation in organizations. Presented at the Academy of Management, Annual Meeting , August 1-6, Seattle , Washington .

Khatri, N ., Patrick, T ., Krishna , S., & Boren, S . 2003. Medical errors and the quality of patient care: Control versus commitment. The Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy, Annual Research Meeting, June 27-29, Nashville , TN.

Khatri, N . 2003. The Human Dimension of Organizations. Spiro Press: London. IN MERLIN

Khatri, N . & Tsang, E.W.K. 2003. Antecedents and Consequences of Cronyism in Organizations . Journal of Business Ethics , 43:289-303.

Patrick, T ., Khatri, N ., & Demiris, G . 2003. Managing information and people for competitive advantage in health care. The Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy, Annual Research Meeting, June 27-29, Nashville , TN.

Patrick TB , Demiris G , Folk LC, Moxley DE , Mitchell JA,Tao D. Evidence-Based Retrieval in Evidence-Based Medicine. Journal of the Medical Library Association (in Press)

Rantz, M.J ., Grando, V., Conn , V.S., Zwygart-Stauffacher, M., Hicks, L ., Flesner, M., Scott, J., Manion, P., Minner, D., Porter, R., and Mass, M. (2003). Getting the basics right: Care delivery in nursing homes. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 29 (11): 15-25

Rantz MJ , Hicks L, Petroski GF, Madsen RW, Conn V, Zwygart-Staffacher M, Maas M (2003). Good Quality Care in Nursing Homes May Actually Cost Less than Poor Quality Care. The Missouri Nurse 3: 12 -13.

Rantz, M ., Hicks, L ., Petroski, G.F., Madsen, R.W., Conn, V., Zwygart-Stauffacher, M., & Maas , M. (2003). High-quality nursing home care is more cost effective than low-quality care. Long-Term Care Interface, 4 (9): 18-20.

Missouri Cancer Registry staff submitted and presented 4 abstracts at the NAACCR Annual Meeting. Abstract topics included: Your Flag or Mine (Sue Vest, CTR); Evaluating and Improving Registry Operations and Data Usage; Data Confidentiality Versus Data Access: Developing an Interactive Database (Jeannette Jackson-Thompson, MSPH, PhD); "If you are Going to Talk the Talk, You've Got to Walk the Walk"(Brenda Lee, CTR); Use of Nursing Home Data in the Missouri Cancer Registry (Nancy Cole, CTR). Sue Vest, CTR, Project Manager was also selected to participate in a group presentation regarding education of cancer registrars. MCR staff also presented at the annual meeting of the Missouri State Tumor Registrars Association (MoSTRA) and at a regional registrar's meeting in St. Louis .

Awards

The Missouri Telehospice Project is also proud to announce that it received the International Catherine Pouget Award for Quality of Life at the End of Life Research in 2003 from the MAPI Research Institute. George Demiris is the Principal Investigator. $10,000.

The Missouri Cancer Registry (MCR) was awarded Gold Certification by the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR). This certification means that MCR met all criteria for timely, complete and accurate cancer data. The criteria can be found at http://www.naaccr.org/ .

The Missouri Cancer Registry received an 'A' from the Trust for American Health. We were one of only 12 states to receive an 'A'. More info at www.healthyamericans.org .

Students who won scholarships for proposals submitted by Naresh Khatri :

Andrew Felkar (Conley Scholar). “A Study in Leadership in Healthcare.”

Justin Kauk (2 nd year Medical Student). “The Control-based versus Commitment-based Management: Implications for Medical Errors.”

Hamid Huray (1 st year Medical Student). “Managing Information and People for Competitive Advantage in Health Care.

Funding Opportunities

Community of Science

Title: Technology Development for Biomedical Applications: Phased Innovation Award (R21/R33) - NCRR

Sponsor: Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)

Deadline: June 18, 2004, October 15, 2004

URL to view this opportunity:

http://fundingopps.cos.com/alerts/59438

Title: Individual Biomedical Informatics Fellowships - NLM

Sponsor: Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Deadline: April 05, 2004, August 05, 2004, December 05, 2004

URL to view this opportunity:

http://fundingopps.cos.com/alerts/77090

AHRQ Funding Opportunities

For comments, questions, or suggestions, please call or write Rachel Haverstick, 882-8905, haverstickr@missouri.edu . This report was based on submissions received. If you would like your information to appear in the next CHCQ Update, don't hesitate to send it via e-mail to Rachel Haverstick!