2016 Cengage Learning Computing Conference
Integrating "e-Health" Concepts and
Applications into your First IS/IT
Course: Connecting your Course to
Real Life Practice
Hossein Bidgoli, Ph. D.
Professor of MIS, California State University
Hossein Bidgoli, Ph.D.
• Professor of MIS at California State University
• Cengage Learning Author
• Helped set up the first PC lab in the U.S. and served as its first
director
• Author of 46 textbooks, 27 lab manuals, and dozens of technical
articles
• Editor-in-Chief of five major encyclopedia and handbook series
• Numerous national awards and accolades for many of these
Encyclopedias and Handbooks
• 2001-2002 Professor of the Year
• 2015-2016 Researcher of the Year
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In My Experience Two IT Topics Get
Students' Attention
• Topics related to Jobs
• Topics related to Health Issues
• IS/IT students should be given a basic knowledge and
familiarity with these fields and applications that are also
creating high paying jobs
• This basic training should encourage some of these
students to pursue a career in these new and fast growing
fields
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Healthcare in the United States
• According to a study conducted in 2014, United State Healthcare ranked
last compared to 10 other industrialized nations
• United Kingdom
• Switzerland
• Sweden
• Australia
• Germany & Netherlands (tied)
• New Zealand & Norway (tied)
• France
• Canada
• United States
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Factors Chosen in the Study
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Quality
Efficiency
Equity
Healthy lives
Another study, conducted the same year
indicated that the US spends the most on
healthcare compared to these nations
• We believe IT can Play a Major Role in all of these
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Key Topics
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The Internet
Electronic Medical Record Systems
The Big Data and Analytics
Wearable Computing
Mobile Computing and Mobile Apps
Collaboration Systems
Virtual Reality
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence- IBM Watson
Artificial Intelligence- NLP
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The Internet: Its Applications in
Telemedicine and Self-diagnosing
• Yahoo! Health (http://health.yahoo.net)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
(www.nih.gov)
• WebMD (www.webmd.com)
• MedicineNet
(www.medicinenet.com/script/main/hp.asp)
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Electronic Medical Record Systems
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Improved Patient Care
Increased Patient Participation
Improved Care Coordination
Improved Diagnostics & Patient Outcomes
Practice Efficiencies and Cost Savings
What Medication are you Taking Dilemma!
Going Green and Sustainability Issues
Kaiser Permanente Case
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The Big Data and Analytics
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EMRs are the Foundation
Proactive vs. Reactive Healthcare
Prevention
Better Diagnostic
Express Scripts processes nearly 1.5 billion prescriptions per
year
• Uses Big Data to make sure that patients are filling their
prescriptions through mail order
• This is a lot less expensive than through pharmacies
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The Big Data and Analytics
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• It is used to predict epidemics, cure disease, improve
quality of life and avoid preventable deaths
• Picking up warning signs of serious illness at an early
enough stage that treatment is far more simple (and
less expensive) than if it had not been spotted until
later
• Prevention is cheaper than cure
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The Big Data and Analytics
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• The Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance – which aims to take data from
various sources (such as medical and insurance records, wearable
sensors, genetic data and even social media use) to draw a
comprehensive picture of the patient as an individual, in order to offer
a tailored healthcare package
• Apple and IBM are collaborating on a big data health platform that will
allow iPhone and Apple Watch users to share data to IBM’s Watson
Health cloud healthcare analytics service. The aim is to discover new
medical insights from crunching real-time activity and biometric data
from millions of potential users
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The Big Data and Analytics
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• Big Data is also helping in the fight against the spread of epidemics. In
Africa, mobile phone location data is proving highly valuable in efforts to
track population movements, which helps to predict the spread of the
Ebola virus. This gives insight into the best areas to provide treatment
centers and allows movement restrictions to be put in place when
necessary.
• And of course, a Big Data solution has even been proposed for a cure for
cancer. Flatiron Health has developed a service called the OncologyCloud,
based on the idea that 96% of potentially available data on patients with
cancer is not yet analyzed. It aims to take this data gathered during
diagnosis and treatment, and make it available to clinicians to further their
study.
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The Big Data and Analytics
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• Better and Faster Identification of at Risk Patents
• Personalized - tailoring medicines to a person’s unique
genetic makeup – and is developed by integrating a
person’s genetic blueprint and data on their lifestyle
and environment, then comparing it alongside
thousands of others to predict illness and determine
the best treatment
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Wearable Computing
• Wearable computing (real time monitoring, preventive
healthcare, ...)
• Fitbit, Jawbone, Samsung Gear Fit, and Apple Watch that
allow you to track your progress and upload your data to be
compiled alongside everyone else’s
• In 2015, Target Corporation announced that it will give its
335,000 employees in the US Fitbit Trackers as the
company focuses more on wellness
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Mobile Computing and Mobile Apps
• Medical Mistakes are the 3rd Leading Cause of Death in the US (IT
can help!)
• Mobile Bedside Assistance and Monitoring
• Improved access to care (virtual visit)
• Improved patient engagement (medication reminder app, text
message,…)
• Improved Patient Safety, Apps can remind you to take pills, monitor
side effects and transfer the knowledge to your doctor
• Reduced Medicare Fraud ($60 billion annually from Medicare, apps
can track)
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Collaboration Systems
• Better communication between patients and
healthcare providers
• Remote monitoring
• Clinical groupware- IT systems that integrate and
coordinate the data provided by every member of the
healthcare team, from the doctor to the patient
• Doctors on Demand- doctors and psychologists through
apps for less than $40
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Virtual Reality
• Treatment for PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder)
• Pain management
• Exposure therapy (patients with phobias)
• Surgical training
• Opportunities for the disabled
• Google Cardboard saved a baby's life!
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Robotics
• Medical robots are transforming the face of healthcare
• They have been used to train medical personnel
(doctors, dentists, and nurses)
• They have assisted elderly patients during
rehabilitation
• They have allowed surgeons to make smaller incisions
for certain types of surgery
• They have been used during the training process as
dummies to mimic a live patient’s feelings of pain
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Robotics (continued)
• Microbots that scrape plaque from arteries
• To personal assistant robots that help care for patients
• Socially assistive robots for individuals suffering from
dementia
• Da Vinci Surgical System, the surgical assistant the FDA
approved back in 2000
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Artificial Intelligence- IBM Watson
• IBM and Pathway Genomics are developing an
app that uses personal history and genetics to
evaluate risks and recommend exercises and diet
• Watson has vision- recognizing images and
patients' records
• Battling cancer with advanced genomics
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Artificial Intelligence- IBM Watson
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• Guiding oncologists on the most appropriate cancer
treatment options based on the patient's medical history
and other data
• Drug development- Biotech companies are combining
artificial intelligence and big data to identify new drug
compounds
• Johnson & Johnson and Sanofi are using Watson to find
new targets for FDA approved drugs
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Artificial Intelligence - NLP
• The healthcare industry could significantly benefit from various NLP
applications
• NLP systems could reduce administrative healthcare costs and
improve the accuracy of data.
• An NLP-based clinical decision support: As an example, the system
can be used to set up colonoscopy follow-up for patients. The
system can extract relevant text from various files and then set a
follow-up for the patient
• Automated dictation system: A doctor can read his/her diagnostic
of a patient or an X-ray, and the NLP system generates a Word
document to be sent to the patient or other doctors.
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Artificial Intelligence - NLP
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• Text summarization: An NLP-based system can extract clinical information
from multiple reports and generate a single document for a doctor’s
review.
• Clinical data and virtual administrative assistant: An NLP-based system
could accommodate such requests as scheduling an office visit or paying
any outstanding medical bills.
• Real-time translation services: An NLP-based system can provide real-time
translation with a high degree of accuracy for patients and clinicians,
similar to those services offered by companies such as Google and
Microsoft.
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Please contact me with any questions
or comments:
Hossein Bidgoli
[email protected]
https://www.csub.edu/~hbidgoli/
661-654-2331
Thank you!
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