DMICE Honors and Events

DMICE Honors

Announcement by AMIA about Clinical Informatics Fellows.

American Medical Informatics Association Announces 10 year Anniversary of Clinical Informatics Fellowship and OHSU DMICE is listed as a founding participant. September 25, 2024. Text in picture:

AMIA is proud to recognize the 10-year anniversary of Clinical Informatics Fellowships and Board-Certified Clinical Informaticists. Congratulations to the first set of programs on this significant accomplishment. We are proud of our role making this happen and of the many benchmarks over the past 10 years, including:

Clinical Informatics was officially recognized as a medical subspecialty under ABPM and ABP in 2011.
First board example was offered in 2013 with first class of board certified Clinical Informaticists officially recognized in 2014.
The first four Clinical Informatics Fellowships were approved and launched in 2014 at Oregon Health & Science University, University of Illinois at Chicago, Regenstrief Institute, and Stanford University.

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Congratulations Clinfowiki

We are pleased to report that Clinfowiki has reached a major milestone: 50 million total views! (as of February 29, 2024)

The OHSU Clinical Informatics Wiki (aka Clinfowiki) is the implementation of a wiki website devoted to topics in clinical informatics. Clinfowiki is the largest and most-utilized free crowdsourced clinical informatics knowledge base on the internet. It currently has 1581 content pages, and 1474 registered users have contributed to the wiki. There have been 34,592 page edits since the wiki was published, which is a surrogate measure indicating that Clinfowiki is a living depository of knowledge that is being actively updated over time.

Clinfowiki was created in 2005 by Dean Sittig PhD, who was faculty at DMICE at the time. His goal was "to provide clinical informaticians around the world a place to document and discuss many of the most important lessons they have learned in their day to day activities." When Dean moved to the University of Texas, Health Sciences Center at Houston, Vishnu Mohan MD MBI, Professor at DMICE, took over as Editor. Since then, the utilization of Clinfowiki has grown to what it presently is today.

Bill Hersh and HIMSS board member Laura Kreofsky, MHA, MBA, PMP

June 1, 2023 Congratulations Dr. Bill Hersh: Winner of HIMSS Oregon Lifetime Achievement Award

Our own Bill Hersh won the inaugural HIMSS Oregon Chapter Lifetime Achievement Award for vision and leadership in healthcare technology and informatics. He was described as true pioneer in the field of informatics.

Check out OHSU Now post for more information.

Vishnu Mohan receives Faculty Excellence Award

May 9, 2023 Vishnu Mohan wins Faculty Excellence Award 2023 at OHSU

DMICE Events

Voice AI Summer School Series - "AI in Medicine and Medical Education: Critical Issues and Potential Solutions"

This lecture on April 23, 2024 by William Hersh, MD, FACP, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI, is the fourth in a series from voice AI-experts geared towards the future AI/ML workforce to prepare them work with voice AI. These webinars are hosted by the Skills and Workforce Development (SWFD) team of the Bridge2AI Voice Consortium. The Voice consortium aims to integrate the use of voice as biomarker of health in clinical care to assist in screening, diagnosis, and treatment of a broad range of diseases. The SWFD team is comprised of members from both Oregon Health & Science University (PIs Bill Hersh and David Dorr) and Washington University (PI Philip Payne).

Grand Rounds: Artificial Intelligence and the Implications for Health Professions Education -- 10/18/2023

DMICE Bill Hersh gave a talk at Grand Rounds on artificial intelligence and health professions education. The lecture video and slides are listed below.

September 2024 Grant Awards and Honors

David Dorr, ONC Cooperative Agreement for 2 years: Project title. Behavioral Health eCarePlan Collaborative

This application proposes to adapt an open-source SMART on FHIR application based on the HL7 MCC eCarePlan effort for 3 behavioral health use cases and pilot the application in stand-alone behavioral health clinics with challenges in exchanging health information. This is in response to the Accelerate Adoption of Health Information Technology in Behavioral Health ONC LEAP grant.

Vishnu Mohan, NLM R01 for 4 years: Evaluation of Impact of EHR Documentation Assistant Modalities on Provider and System Level Outcomes

The adoption of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) has led to rapid and widespread growth in the use of documentation assistants such as speech recognition and medical scribes to untether providers from the EHR by facilitating documentation, data gathering and data retrieval for providers. The COVID-19 pandemic has further accelerated the integration of telemedicine, highlighting the need for enhanced documentation support. Virtual and digital scribes have emerged as new solutions yet little data exist on their impact and efficacy and no evidence directly compares the four forms of documentation assistance. The goal of this research study is to use a comprehensive, mixed-methods approach, including high-fidelity simulation, to establish a success matrix and means of monitoring to aid organizations in the selection and impact evaluation of these 4 modalities.
William Hersh, MD, Professor, DMICE has been selected as a Distinguished Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI).

ACMI Fellows are elected annually in recognition of "significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics", while the distinction of Distinguished Fellow is reserved for those who have additionally made significant contributions to ACMI through policy, practice, research, and service. Only 19 other Fellows have received this distinction since the program's commencement in 2020. One other DMICE faculty member is a Distinguished Fellow of ACMI, Professor Emerita Joan Ash, PhD.

Students for Rare Publicized on OHSU Now

As Jennifer Sullivan dove into her studies and research as an OHSU School of Medicine Ph.D. student in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biomedicine graduate program, one thing became clear: investigating the molecular basis of rare disorders, while fascinating, was, itself, a rare endeavor in a department devoted to working with large datasets.

While the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE) supported her research into rare disorders, she would need to expand her community at OHSU to meet others who share her passion for understanding these diseases.

So she reached out to Susan Hayflick, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chair of molecular and medical genetics and a trailblazer and champion of rare disease research, to discuss her idea for a rare disease student interest group. Dr. Hayflick signed on as the faculty advisor for the group, together with Amanda McCullough, Ph.D., professor of molecular and medical genetics.

Dr. Hayflick also recommended a co-leader for the group: Michael Martinez, a student in the Ph.D. Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology. Martinez is studying PKU, an inherited disorder that can cause intellectual and developmental disabilities. Sullivan and Martinez had met informally in virtual classes during the Covid pandemic. Together, they founded the OHSU group Students for Rare in September, 2023.

DMICE Zoo Party April 8, 2023

Meredith Kathryn and elephant — Meredith and Kathryn provided a great zoo experience!

Check out this video!

Baby Orangutan Ambling

Students at the lunch table — Christina, Gareth, Jennifer and families

Anne and family and Karen and Chimpanzees — Anne and family up top and Karen and the Momma and baby Orangutan!

Mason's mom Lynne and Mason and polar bear — Mason's mom Lynne, Polar bear and Mason

DMICE students including Mustafa and Jennifer DMICE party April 2023 — DMICE students including Mustafa (lower left), Jennifer (upper right), and then a bunch of DMICE faculty and staff (lower right)