The research practicum work of Andrea Steadman, from the 2010/11 4th year Health Sciences Research Practicum, was a joint recipient for the Student Best Paper Award at the Advances in Health Informatics Conference (AHIC). AHIC is the flagship conference of the National Institutes for Health Informatics, Canada. The paper is entitled “Using PaJMa to Enable Comparative Assessment of Health Care Processes within Canadian Neonatal Intensive Care Units”. The paper was co-authored with her Research Practicum supervisors: Dr. Carolyn McGregor, Jennifer Percival, and Dr. Andrew James. The work was completed as part of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute funded research awarded to Dr. Carolyn McGregor, Jennifer Percival and Dr Andrew James. We would like to congratulate Andrea and all those involved for this achievement! |
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Fewer sick babies Back in Toronto, the hospital is processing its data in real time using IBM's InfoSphere Streams, software that can correlate and analyze thousands of real-time data sources. The University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) is using the software to collect streaming data from electronic devices that monitor the premature babies. The technology is giving UOIT the ability to make sense of the data and analyze it in ways that include, they hope, discovering the onset of sepsis and various other conditions before these problems occur, says Dr. Carolyn McGregor, the Canada Research Chair in Health Informatics at UOIT. This test has been running in parallel with current clinical practice so doctors and scientists can compare the two approaches, which they are currently in the process of doing. One day's worth of data is copied and sent back to UOIT for the offline analytics component. The platform, known as Artemis, or "data baby," has been input with a set of clinical rules that serve as a layer of analytics to help it make predictions for the first time, says McGregor, who is also a professor and associate dean at UOIT. Today, medical devices at the bedside give broad information, she explains. Devices provide readings at a very high frequency, but "a human has to be able to analyze" the results, which are "constantly changing," McGregor says. Final results have not yet been released -- they're expected sometime in late April for peer review and should be public by year-end. But initial results have proven Artemis's "robustness as an approach," McGregor says. The study, of over 400 patients in three sites, has collected "the equivalent of two decades of patient years" worth of data, she explains. |
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The HIR team at UOIT would like to congratulate Agam Dhanoa, one of our alumni who completed his Masters HSc (Health Informatics) and is now a decision support analyst at the University Health Network. |
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The Artemis research made it as a top story on the CFI website on February 2, 2012. You can view the article here: http://www.innovation.ca/en/ResearchInAction/OutcomeStory/Vitalsigns |
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Dr. Carolyn McGregor was among the distinguished panelists taking part in the IBM Information on Demand Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 25. During her session in front of an audience of about 10,000 delegates, Dr. McGregor was interviewed by Katty Kay, journalist and anchor for BBC News, Washington, D.C. about her future research directions in health care.
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We are so proud of our 2011 graduates from Health Informatics Research at UOIT: Graduate Students Kathleen Smith - Master of Health Science (Health Informatics) Agam Dhanoa - Master of Health Science (Health Informatics) Rishikesan Kamaleswaran - Master of Science (Computer Science) 4th Year Research Practicum Students Andrea Steadman - Bachelor of Health Science Rachael Taylor - Bachelor of Health Science For further details please click here. |
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Professor McGregor presented on her Artemis based Research at the IBM Big Data Symposium on Wednesday 11th May, 2011 at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown, NY. The event was attended by IT Analysts learning about new tools and techniques for working with Big Data. Professor McGregor was part of a keynote panel session of industry practitioners and researchers who are currently immersed and working with Big Data. |
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In April 2011, Dr. Carolyn McGregor attended the SickKids 50 years of Neonatology Anniversary Dinner along with the HIR team’s collaborators from the Children’s Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai China. Dr. Xiaoling Ge (left), the CIO for the Children’s Hospital of Fudan University and Dr Yun Cao (middle), the Clinical Director from their NICU were on their first visit to Toronto funded by a CIHR and NSFC China Canada Grant, awarded to Dr McGregor's team and Dr Cao's team. They are joined by Dr. McGregor (right) in the photo below.
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