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Oncology Informatics
Using Health Information Technology to Improve Processes and Outcomes in Cancer
- 1st Edition - March 17, 2016
- Authors: Bradford W. Hesse, David Ahern, Ellen Beckjord
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 2 1 1 5 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 2 2 0 0 - 9
Oncology Informatics: Using Health Information Technology to Improve Processes and Outcomes in Cancer Care encapsulates National Cancer Institute-collected evidence into a format… Read more
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Request a sales quoteOncology Informatics: Using Health Information Technology to Improve Processes and Outcomes in Cancer Care encapsulates National Cancer Institute-collected evidence into a format that is optimally useful for hospital planners, physicians, researcher, and informaticians alike as they collectively strive to accelerate progress against cancer using informatics tools.
This book is a formational guide for turning clinical systems into engines of discovery as well as a translational guide for moving evidence into practice. It meets recommendations from the National Academies of Science to "reorient the research portfolio" toward providing greater "cognitive support for physicians, patients, and their caregivers" to "improve patient outcomes." Data from systems studies have suggested that oncology and primary care systems are prone to errors of omission, which can lead to fatal consequences downstream. By infusing the best science across disciplines, this book creates new environments of "Smart and Connected Health."
Oncology Informatics
is also a policy guide in an era of extensive reform in healthcare settings, including new incentives for healthcare providers to demonstrate "meaningful use" of these technologies to improve system safety, engage patients, ensure continuity of care, enable population health, and protect privacy. Oncology Informatics acknowledges this extraordinary turn of events and offers practical guidance for meeting meaningful use requirements in the service of improved cancer care.Anyone who wishes to take full advantage of the health information revolution in oncology to accelerate successes against cancer will find the information in this book valuable.
- Presents a pragmatic perspective for practitioners and allied health care professionals on how to implement Health I.T. solutions in a way that will minimize disruption while optimizing practice goals
- Proposes evidence-based guidelines for designers on how to create system interfaces that are easy to use, efficacious, and timesaving
- Offers insight for researchers into the ways in which informatics tools in oncology can be utilized to shorten the distance between discovery and practice
Researchers (cancer researchers, informatics researchers, health services researchers, organizational scientists, intervention scientists), physicians (oncology, internal medicine, obstetrics-gynecology, gastroenterology, dermatology), allied health care professions (nurses, navigators, laboratory services, radiologists, hospital administrators, behavioral medicine), designers (system support entrepreneurs, Health I.T. developers, and hospital practice designers)
Introduction
- I.1 Why This Book Now?
- I.2 The Purpose of This Book
- I.3 Organization of the Book
- I.4 Conclusion
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- References
Part I: An Extraordinary Opportunity
- Chapter 1. Creating a Learning Health Care System in Oncology
- Abstract
- 1.1 The Challenges of Delivering Quality Cancer Care
- 1.2 Overview of Traditional Learning in Cancer Medicine
- 1.3 The Interface of Quality, Value, and Learning
- 1.4 ASCO’s Vision for a Rapid Learning System in Oncology: CancerLinQ
- 1.5 CancerLinQ Data Architecture
- 1.6 History and Current Status of CancerLinQ Implementation
- 1.7 CancerLinQ Solution Operating Characteristics
- 1.8 Regulatory Underpinnings of CancerLinQ
- 1.9 Summary and Conclusions
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 2. Reducing Cancer Disparities Through Community Engagement: The Promise of Informatics
- Abstract
- Section 1: Public Health Informatics: Implications on Cancer Health Disparities
- Section 2: CBPR to Inform the Practice of PHIS to Address Health Disparities
- Section 3: Examples of Public Health and Health Informatics
- Section 4: Discussion
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- References
- Chapter 3. Cancer Clinical Research: Enhancing Data Liquidity and Data Altruism
- Abstract
- 3.1 Drivers
- 3.2 Data Liquidity
- 3.3 Data Science
- 3.4 Data Access
- 3.5 Translational Research
- 3.6 Capturing the Patient Experience Across the Continuum of Care
- 3.7 Empowering the Patient as a Full Participant in Research
- 3.8 Building a National Learning Health Care System for Cancer
- 3.9 Incentives for Data Sharing
- 3.10 Adaptive Instruments
- 3.11 Ontologies and Workflow Systems
- 3.12 Connected Health and Mobile Technologies
- 3.13 A Focus on Lowering Barriers to Data Access for Cancer Research
- 3.14 Precision Medicine Drivers
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- References
- Chapter 4. Engaging Patients in Primary and Specialty Care
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Overview of Hit Tools to Engage Patients
- 4.3 Key Patient Engagement Activities
- 4.4 HIT Implementation to Promote Patient Engagement
- 4.5 Conclusions
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- References
- Chapter 5. Coordination at the Point of Need
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Frameworks for Care Coordination
- 5.3 HIT Functions for Care Coordination
- 5.4 Current Efforts in Informatics and Coordination at the Point of Need
- 5.5 Opportunities for Oncology Informatics at the Point of Need
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- References
Part II: Support Across the Continuum
- Chapter 6. Prevention, Information Technology, and Cancer
- Abstract
- 6.1 Overview
- 6.2 Key Behaviors of Interest for the Prevention of Cancer
- 6.3 Current Use of Information Technology for Cancer Prevention
- 6.4 Electronic Health Records
- 6.5 Mobile, Web, and Wearable Applications
- 6.6 Summary and Future Directions
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 7. Early Detection in the Age of Information Technology
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Epidemiology
- 7.3 Early Detection
- 7.4 The Process of Care
- 7.5 The Challenge of Early Detection
- 7.6 Communication Challenges
- 7.7 Evidence-Based Solutions
- 7.8 Challenges with Using IT
- 7.9 Overcoming Disparities
- 7.10 Looking to the Future
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 8. Informatics Support Across the Cancer Continuum: Treatment
- Abstract
- 8.1 Overview
- 8.2 Data Aggregation
- 8.3 Data Optimization
- 8.4 Patient Insights to Optimize Care
- 8.5 Genomics in the Care Continuum
- 8.6 The Tooling Required
- 8.7 Novel Organizational Approaches
- 8.8 Summary
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- References
- Chapter 9. Survivorship
- Abstract
- 9.1 Cancer Survivorship
- 9.2 Challenges in Survivorship
- 9.3 Opportunities for Informatics-Based Solutions
- 9.4 Envisioning a Future State
- 9.5 Conclusions
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- References
- Chapter 10. Advanced Cancer: Palliative, End of Life, and Bereavement Care
- Abstract
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Opportunities for eHealth to Address Needs in Advanced Cancer Care
- 10.3 A Case Example: CHESS—The Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System
- 10.4 Future Directions for Research
- 10.5 Future Directions for Development and Implementation
- 10.6 Conclusion
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- References
Part III: Science of Oncology Informatics
- Chapter 11. Data Visualization Tools for Investigating Health Services Utilization Among Cancer Patients
- Abstract
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Methods and Data Visualization Tools
- 11.3 Applications of Data Visualization in the Cancer Setting
- 11.4 Case Studies
- 11.5 Conclusion
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- References
- Chapter 12. Oncology Informatics: Behavioral and Psychological Sciences
- Abstract
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Role of Behavioral/Psychological Science in Advancing Informatics
- 12.3 Definition and Role of Behavioral Informatics
- 12.4 Applications of Behavioral Informatics Resources and Tools in Cancer Care
- 12.5 Conclusions
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- References
- Chapter 13. Communication Science: Connecting Systems for Health
- Abstract
- 13.1 The Communication Revolution
- 13.2 Using Communication Science to Improve Quality of Cancer Care
- 13.3 A Functional Approach to Patient-Centered Communication
- 13.4 Conclusion
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- References
- Chapter 14. Cancer Surveillance Informatics
- Abstract
- 14.1 Background on Cancer Surveillance
- 14.2 Current Status and Opportunities for Informatics in Cancer Surveillance: NLP, Automation, and Linkages
- 14.3 New Areas for Cancer Surveillance Supported Through Informatics
- 14.4 Conclusion
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 15. Extended Vision for Oncology: A Perceptual Science Perspective on Data Visualization and Medical Imaging
- Abstract
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 How Vision Works (and How It Can Fail)
- 15.3 Visualization and Data Exploration
- 15.4 Example 1: Human Number Perception and Quantitative Data
- 15.5 Example 2: Visual Attention and Medical Images
- 15.6 Frontiers of Perceptual Science and Oncology Informatics
- 15.7 Conclusions
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- References
Part IV: Accelerating Progress
- Chapter 16. Crowdsourcing Advancements in Health Care Research: Applications for Cancer Treatment Discoveries
- Abstract
- 16.1 Introduction
- 16.2 The Crowdsourcing Concept
- 16.3 Crowdsourcing in Health Care
- 16.4 Methodological and Ethical Issues in Crowdsourcing
- 16.5 The Future of Crowdsourcing
- 16.6 Conclusion
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 17. Patient-Centered Approaches to Improving Clinical Trials for Cancer
- Abstract
- 17.1 While Trials Are Important, Trial Participation Rates Are Dismal
- 17.2 Barriers to Trial Participation
- 17.3 Patients Searching for Trials Online
- 17.4 Current Use of the Internet and Online Cancer Communities
- 17.5 How the Internet Shaped Online Cancer Communities, and Vice Versa
- 17.6 What Do Patients Talk About in Online Cancer Communities?
- 17.7 Impact of Online Patient Communities
- 17.8 Participatory Research
- 17.9 Borrowing From Silicon Valley and User-Centered Design
- 17.10 Participatory Clinical Trial Design
- 17.11 What If Trial Participants Discuss the Trial in Online Communities?
- 17.12 Challenges and Next Steps
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- References
- Chapter 18. A New Era of Clinical Research Methods in a Data-Rich Environment
- Abstract
- 18.1 Transition From a Data-Poor to Data-Rich Science
- 18.2 Traditional Trial Designs: What’s Wrong With Continuing to Do What We Do?
- 18.3 Data-Rich Biomedical and Behavioral Research Environment
- 18.4 The Vision of a Data-Rich Biomedical and Behavioral Research Enterprise
- 18.5 Recent Advances That Poise Clinical Research to Become a Data-Rich Research Enterprise
- 18.6 New Approaches to Treatment Testing in Preparation for a Comprehensive Health Data Research Infrastructure
- 18.7 Conclusion
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- References
- Chapter 19. Creating a Health Information Technology Infrastructure to Support Comparative Effectiveness Research in Cancer
- Abstract
- 19.1 Introduction
- 19.2 Cancer CER: Gaps and Opportunities
- 19.3 Health Information Technology Infrastructure for Improving CER
- 19.4 Enhancing the Collection of Evidence to Inform Patient Care and CER Through Distance Medicine Technology
- 19.5 Distance Medicine Technology in Cancer Care and Research
- 19.6 CYCORE: CYberinfrastructure for Cancer COmparative Effectiveness REsearch
- 19.7 Application of CYCORE Across the Cancer Prevention and Control Continuum to Accelerate CER
- 19.8 Strengthening the Capacity of the CER Infrastructure Through EHRs
- 19.9 Conclusion
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 20. Editors’ Conclusion: Building for Change
- Abstract
- 20.1 Introduction
- 20.2 The Bright Spots in Oncology Informatics
- 20.3 Living in a Post HITECH World
- 20.4 Building the Future Together
- 20.5 Conclusion
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- References
- No. of pages: 448
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 17, 2016
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128021156
- eBook ISBN: 9780128022009
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Bradford W. Hesse
Bradford (Brad) Hesse was appointed Chief of the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch (HCIRB) in November, 2006. He served as the Acting Chief of HCIRB from 2004-2006.
Dr. Hesse's professional focus is bringing the power of health information technologies to bear on the problem of eliminating death and suffering from cancer, a cause to which he remains steadfastly dedicated. While at the NCI, he has championed several initiatives that evaluate and progress the science of cancer communication and informatics, including the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) and the Centers of Excellence in Cancer Communication (CECCR).
As director of NCI's biennial Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS), Dr. Hesse is responsible for leading a team of scientists in the development and execution of this nationally representative, general population survey of American adults. HINTS, now entering its fourth iteration, systematically evaluates the public's knowledge, attitudes and behaviors relevant to cancer control in an environment of rapidly changing communication technologies.
Dr. Hesse also serves as the program director for NCI's Centers of Excellence in Cancer Communication Research (CECCR). This initiative supports the research of four centers aimed at increasing the knowledge of, tools for, access to, and use of cancer communications by the public, patients, survivors, and health professionals. The centers have been instrumental in defining the next generation of interdisciplinary collaboration in cancer communication science.
Prior to his work at NCI, Dr. Hesse conducted research in the interdisciplinary fields of human computer interaction, health communication, medical informatics, and computer-supported decision making. In 1988, he served as a postdoctoral member of the Committee for Social Science Research on Computing at Carnegie Mellon University, and subsequently co-founded the Center for Research on Technology at the American Institutes for Research in Palo Alto, California in 1991. Working in a contract environment before coming to NCI, Dr. Hesse directed projects for the Departments of Education and Labor, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institutes of Health. He has also provided usability services to Apple Computer, Hewlett Packard, Xerox, Microsoft, Sun, and Netscape.
Dr. Hesse currently serves on the board of advisors for the American Psychological Association's online resource, PsycINFO, and is a member of the American Psychological Society, the Association for Computing Machineries, Special Interest Group on Human Computer Interaction (SIG-CHI), the American Medical Informatics Association, the International Communication Association, and the Usability Professionals Association.
Affiliations and expertise
Chief, NCI’s Health Communication and Informatics Research BranchDA
David Ahern
Dr. David K. Ahern is on special assignment to the National Cancer Institute under an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) whereby he will serve as a special advisor to the Health Communications and Informatics Research Branch within the Behavior Research Program. In this role he will assist the Chief and staff in developing a research agenda in health and behavioral informatics to enable enhanced care across the cancer care continuum.
Dr. Ahern focused his career on behavioral medicine, studying the intersection of behavioral and psychosocial factors with medical illness, and early on recognized the importance of emerging interactive technologies in health and health care. He left the clinical practice of psychology in 2000 to focus exclusively on research and program administration. Dr. Ahern has published across a broad spectrum of illnesses—chronic pain, cardiovascular diseases, and somatization disorders. Over the course of a 30 year research career, he has assumed investigator roles on numerous NIH grants/contracts in the areas of chronic pain psychophysiology, behavioral and psychosocial aspects of cardiovascular disease, somatoform disorders, and eHealth. While on staff at MGH, Dr. Ahern developed a nationally recognized Behavioral Medicine clinical and research training program and pioneered the use of innovative technology systems for outcomes assessment in health care. In 2001 he transferred his primary hospital appointment from MGH to the Brigham and Women's Hospital to continue ongoing collaboration with Dr. Arthur Barsky on research on hypochondriasis and unexplained medical symptoms. In addition to academic activities at Harvard, since 1997 he has been a senior scientist for a technology-based, health care firm in Rhode Island, creating a successful Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program resulting in over 15 grants and contracts.
In November 2001, Dr. Ahern was appointed Program Director for a 7 year, $10.3 million national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the Health e-Technologies Initiative (HeTI), which awarded grants and supported research to advance the science of eHealth. The program supported scientific research that involved (1) providers or provider-based networks; (2) health care organizations; and (3) voluntary and community organizations. In addition, special emphasis was given to studies that assessed efforts to reach specific diverse populations, including ethnic and racial minorities, older adults, low-income families, and disabled persons. Twenty-Four grants were awarded under HeTI and over 50 scientific original manuscripts were published during the 7 years of funding (www.hetinitiative.org). HeTI provided a practicum opportunity for students in public health to learn about the role of technology in improving health and health care. The Initiative concluded its work in April 2009.
In May 2009, Dr. Ahern was awarded a $750,000 18 month development grant from RWJF to provide expert technical assistance and guidance to one of the signature national programs of RWJF, Aligning Forces for Quality. He was appointed as Director of the Health Information Technology Resource Center (HITRC) based at the Brigham & Women's Hospital, providing the 16 current active communities across the U.S. with near term value of HIT for improving health care quality. In September 2010 the HITRC received continuation funding of $372,094 to support ongoing technical assistance activities for AF4Q communities. Over the next 2 1/2 years the HITRC enabled many of the Af4Q communities to benefit from investments in HIT through ONC and Meaningful use. The work concluded in April 2013.
In May 2010, Dr. Ahern was appointed to direct the Program in Behavioral Informatics and eHealth to expand research initiatives at the intersection of health information technology and mental health within the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham & Women's Hospital. Current projects include an initiative to deploy and implement technologies for assessment and treatment of psychiatric disorders within the outpatient department of psychiatry and pursuit of grant opportunities in health information technology and mental health.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School, Director of the Program in Behavioral Informatics and eHealth, Bringham and Womens Hospital, Boston, MA;EB
Ellen Beckjord
Ellen Beckjord is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the Biobehavioral Medicine in Oncology Program at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. Her doctoral work in clinical psychology at the University of Vermont focused on delivering psychosocial interventions to breast cancer survivors and she completed her clinical internship at the Vanderbilt-VA Internship Consortium. Dr. Beckjord was a post-doctoral fellow at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Her first year of fellowship was spent obtaining an MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and she went on to join the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch in NCI’s Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences. Dr. Beckjord’s research has focused on health communication and behavioral informatics, including projects addressing the role of affect in information processing, use of health information technology to facilitate patient-provider communication, health information management among chronically ill individuals, and use of mobile smartphone applications to support self-regulation, with an emphasis on regulation of health behaviors related to cancer prevention and control. Currently, she is a Clinical Research Scholar (KL2) at Pitt; her project is focused on developing a context-aware, mobile application for smoking cessation called QuitSmart.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Medicine in Oncology Program, University of Pittsburgh Cancer InstituteRead Oncology Informatics on ScienceDirect