Kendall Hall, a board certified emergency medicine physician, will join us as a faculty member. Dr. Hall has an extraordinary background in architecture and patient safety. 

A paper reporting the experience of using distributed OR video was accepted in Anesthesia and Analgesia. Two video systems (VideoBoard) have been in operational use for the past 4 years, alongside with automatically detected patient in and out events. Detailed usage patterns support the incremental value of video beyond discrete OR events (e.g., patient in) in managing OR workflow. 

Danny was the lead author of a paper reporting our observation communications during rounds results carried out in a pediatric ICU. Implications for design of computerized system are described to enhance communications during rounds. The 5-page paper will be presented in American Medical Informatics Association conference this fall (and will be published in full-text on PubMed).

Ayse, alumni of our division, will marry Prof. Ozok of UMBC in Turkey next week. The proud bride took time from her preparation to work on a guideline compliance paper!

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is providing funding for organizations who want to use the central line web training tools for reducing hospital associated infections. The web training tool was published in a May Critical Care Medicine article.

Summer is here so we welcome new members of our division. Peter Scupelli is a PhD student from Carnegie Mellon who works on large display boards for coordination. Sun-Ah Lee is a Masters student at SoN who works on discharge coordination. Jason Cervenka is a 1st year medical student who works on pre-rounding data collection activities.

Annals of Emergency Medicine just published a special article about the use of shared large displays in supporting communications in hectic, chaotic care seetings such as emergency department. 

Peter will be the vice president of the organizing committee of the Shanghai International Conference on Trauma and Emergency Medicine, to be held in May, 2007. Peter will also present at the conference on telemedicine and real-time clinical informatics. 

A paper presented in 2004 was recently published in International Journal of Medical Informatics on how workplaces are tailored to support work coordination. The paper was based on observation of how operating rooms are coordinated though the use of seemingly mundane objects (e.g. computer printouts).