The
infraNET Project and
Waterloo Institute for Health Informatics Research
University of Waterloo
present ...
"Why Not a Cognitive Science
Approach to
Understanding Clinician-Computer Interaction?"
by
Dr. Vilma Patel, PhD., DSc., FRSC
Professor, Departments of Biomedical Informatics
and Psychiatry
Columbia University, New York, USA
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Davis Centre, Room 1302
University of Waterloo
Seminar Sponsors:
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
McKesson Information Solutions - Smart Systems for Health Agency
Healthcare Information Management and Communications Canada
Abstract
Recent developments in biomedical informatics research have
afforded possibilities for great advances in health care delivery.
However, the implementation and integration of technologies in the
workplace is a formidable challenge. As in most domains, there is a
gulf between technologic artifacts and end users. Since medical
practice is a human endeavor, there is a need for bridging disciplines
to enable clinicians to benefit from technology. I will argue for a place
of prominence for cognitive science as a key part of the solution. Cognitive
science provides a framework for the analysis and modeling of complex human performance
and has considerable applicability to a range of issues in informatics.
Applications of these scientific methods and theories will be illustrated
through examples that examine human computer interaction and usability
in clinical collaborative processes.
About the Speaker
Vimla L. Patel is Professor of Biomedical Informatics and of
Psychiatry at Columbia University, and Director of Columbia s
Laboratory of Decision Making and Cognition. An elected fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada and the American College of Medical
Informatics, she was recipient of the annual Swedish Woman of Science
award in 1999. She received an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from
the University of Victoria, BC, Canada in 1998 and became a fellow of
the New York Academy of Medicine in 2004. She has adapted methods and
theories from cognitive science and has innovated new approaches that provide scientific
foundation for medical and health education. Her more recent work is targeted
on the role of cognition in designing a safer clinical workplace with better
user-interface design and the effective implementation of health care
technology. Dr. Patel has authored more than 200 journal articles and
book chapters.
For more information
Shirley Fenton
Managing Director, WIHIR
University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4074
Seminar Hosts
This seminar is hosted by the Waterloo Institute for Health
Informatics Research (WIHIR) and The infraNET Project, University of Waterloo.
The infraNET Project, initiated by the University of Waterloo in
1996, is a partnership to advance Web and Internet technologies. Its founding
partners were: LivePage (now part of Siebel), MKS, Open Text, RIM,
Sybase (Waterloo) and Waterloo Maple.
We also gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the Institute for
Computer Research, University of Waterloo.
