Following are guidelines for HCA700 Poster Project. These guidelines are now also posted on D2L.
You will need to write aposteron a topic related to health informatics. As mentioned in the course syllabus, theposterwill bedone in two phases. For each phase, you will submit a deliverable as follows:
1- Abstract & Outline (15 points, due date sees Syllabus)
Receive feedback in a week.
2- FinalPoster(50 points, due date sees Syllabus)
Deliverable for each phase will be submitted to its respective D2L dropbox folder. You will be given
a feedback after each phase and you will be expected to incorporate that feedback in your submission.
Regarding the content of the poster, below you will find some general guidelines and topics
that you can choose from. You can also base your poster on your ongoing research or thesis.
You are also free to come up with a topic on your own based on your interests.
Once you have identified one or more topics, feel free to discuss it with the instructors.
You may choose to discuss it with the instructor who is teaching the course module to which
your topic belongs.
Following are some poster topics which is followed by the grading criteria that the instructors will use for grading.
Poster Topics
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You should research and write a poster on one of the current health informatics issues or on an applied computerapplication in health care. Below are some example topics.
The orientation of the poster should address the subject in relation to the provider (e.g. hospital, healthcare organization, physician, department) and patient (e.g. quality and safety of care, efficiency of delivery, privacy). For example:
** What is the impact of MPI on patients from a privacy or error reduction perspective? How does implementationimpact a healthcare organization? Why should a healthcare organization implement such an application?
** What are the operational issues for a department to implement an application? How does a departmentutilize corporate resources in selecting a vendor? How does this integrate with the corporate informatics plan?What other systems and departments may be affected by this application?
Some example topics:
* Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS)
* Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) or Computerized Clinician Order Entry (CCOE)
* Master Patient Index (MPI)
* Local Health Information Infrastructure (LDHII)/ Community Health Information Exchange
* Single Sign On (SSO)
* Natural language processing tasks targeting some specific healthcare application
* Clinical Decision Support
* Document Management Systems
* Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
* HIPPA Validation Software; HIPPA Remediation Services
* Pharmacy Functionality via Handheld Technologies
* Biometric Security Technologies
* Financial Systems (Billing/Patient Accounting)
* Clinical Department Applications (Pathology, Cardiology, Radiology, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Pediatrics,
Obstetrics, Surgery, Emergency Room)
* Smart Card
* ICD10
* mHealth
* Patient health records
* Social media and health
etc. (Feel free to come up with your own topic)
Grading Criteria
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ABSTRACT (1 Page, 15 POINTS)
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1.Abstracttitle(1 pts)
2.Authors(Your name, other collaborators, and the instructor name) and Affiliation (1 pts)
3.Abstract should have a clear structure, including (10 pts):
3.1.ResearchBackground(Why your study is important,)
3.2.StudyObjectives(what questions/problems that you will aim at)
3.3.Method(What approach you will use to address the problem/question)
3.4.Results(Expected results)
3.5.
Conclusion
3.6.References(showing the research you have reviewed so far and plan to incorporate into your final poster)
4.Overall abstract is meaningful and to the point (3 points)
Final Poster and Abstract Submission (50 pts)
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Submission item 1: Revised Abstract(1-page, 10 pts). You need to track the revision to show what has been changed.
Submission item 2: Final Poster (1 page, total 40 pts)
Use one of the following UWM Poster Template to put in the poster information
UWM Poster Templates:https://uwm.edu/universityrelations/poster-templates/(Links to an external site.)
5.Postertitle(2 pts)
6.Poster Authors(Your name, other collaborators, and the instructor name) andAffiliations(3 pts)
7.Poster should have a clear structure, including (25 pts):
7.1.ResearchBackground(Why your study is important,)
7.2.StudyObjectives(what questions/problems that you will aim at)
7.3.Method(What approach you will use to address the problem/question)
7.4.Results(Expected results)
7.5.
Conclusion
7.6.References(showing the research you have reviewed so far and plan to incorporate into your final poster)
8.Poster contains meaningful diagrams, tables, or image illustrations (5 pts)
9.Overall poster is meaningful and to the point (5 pts)