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March 14, 2008

Wrap Up - Casepedia

WRAP UP

AMIA Poster Submission
We will be submitting a poster for the American Medical Informatics Association Conference in November 8, 2008 in Washington DC. Rupa and Maureen have been working industriously on the abstract this week. It will show the results of our competitive analysis and primary interview results.

First Talk Presentation
Rupa and Maureen presented for the UM School of Information's Featured Information Research Student Talk (FIRST). They presented on our initial results, the evolution of Casepedia, and future directions.

Prototype Presentation (and usability testing?)
We are aiming to complete a prototype by the end of the wrap-up. The prototype will be functional for users to add cases into it. Once the prototype is built we will eventually move towards usability testing to evaluate the software.

Process and Experimentation
Casepedia has experienced some pretty radical changes since its inception. Our results from our semi-structured interviews with key informants have changed the way we conceptualized the content and user populations of Casepedia. We are now targetting Chief Medical Residents' Morning Reports as our primary contributors and practicing physicians in isolated or rural ares, who are far from tertiary or academic medical centers like UMHS, as our primary user population. Medical Residents and participating UM departments will use the site as a repository for their Morning Rounds materials. The content of morning rounds includes a description of a case that is used to demonstrate topic points and case management. Chief Residents already are creating Chief Sheets which are documents that outline the case they are discussing that day. Therefore, they already are putting in time into the case, so it will not be too much extra time to complete the case online.

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