CAREER: Computational Approaches to Model Physicians' and Patients' Interactions with Health Information Technology

这一教师早期职业发展(CAREAGE)项目的研究目标是模拟医生和患者与健康信息技术(IT)的认知和行为互动，因为这些人正在应对两种代价高昂的慢性病-糖尿病和高血压。研究人员将使用应用心理学、可视化和计算机科学的方法对这些交互作用进行建模。使用这些模型，研究人员将评估现有商业健康信息技术系统中医生和患者认知和行为交互的质量，并将设计新的计算机界面，改善医生和患者与健康信息技术的交互方式。通过为健康信息技术的有效设计提供指导，这项研究将直接支持当前旨在刺激采用健康信息技术的政府举措。有压倒性的证据表明，卫生信息技术的失败往往是由于对个人在完成任务和决策时如何使用信息的错误理解造成的。这项研究旨在通过使医生和患者更容易在正确的时间找到和使用正确的信息来增加他们对卫生信息技术的采用。由于慢性病管理对医疗保健系统造成了重大负担，通过拟议研究确定的具体设计指南有可能改善临床结果并降低管理这些患者的成本。通过这项研究，博士生将能够与医疗保健提供者导师密切合作，并与医生、护士和计算机科学家一起参与跨学科研究团队。此外，研究人员将开发现实的案例研究，使本科生和研究生接触到日益增长的卫生系统工程领域。

The research objective of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project is to model physicians' and patients' cognitive and behavioral interactions with health information technology (IT) as these individuals deal with two costly chronic diseases - diabetes and hypertension. The researcher will model these interactions using methods from applied psychology, visualization, and computer science. Using these models, the researcher will assess the quality of physicians' and patients' cognitive and behavioral interactions across existing commercial health IT systems, and will design new computer interfaces that improve how physicians and patients interact with health IT.By providing guidance for the effective design of health IT, this research will directly support current government initiatives aimed at stimulating the adoption of health IT. There is overwhelming evidence that health IT failures often result from a faulty understanding of how individuals use information while completing tasks and making decisions. This research aims to increase physicians' and patients' adoption of health IT by making it easier for them to find and use the right information at the right time. As chronic disease management poses a significant burden on the healthcare system, the specific design guidance identified via the proposed research has the potential to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the costs of managing these patients. Through this research, PhD students will be able to work closely with healthcare provider mentors and participate in interdisciplinary research teams with physicians, nurses, and computer scientists. Additionally, the researcher will develop realistic case studies to expose undergraduate and graduate students to the growing field of health systems engineering.