ccwic katie siek
DESCRIPTION
In this short talk, I will provide a brief overview of how an event in my life inspired me to change research areas and, in turn, help others. Specifically, I will talk about two projects – one that that aided nurses in placing feeding tubes in preterm infants and another that assisted low literacy, chronically ill patients in monitoring their diets. I will conclude with a vision where we use technology for preventative care measures by helping people understand how health is part of their everyday lives.TRANSCRIPT
Live, Love, Research:Developing Health Informatics Technologies
to Leave the World Better than I found It
Katie A. SiekUniversity of Colorado
WII Lab
Searching for passion…Experimenting with Research
Eckerd College – SNMP Notre Dame –Memory IU - CCA
Turning Point – My Mom
August 2002 (“Healthy”)
May 2003 (Terminally Ill)
9 months8+ hospitalizations
My Passion: Helping the Less Fortunate
IU – Feeding Tube & DIMA CU – CoCareTablet, Health Bridge, Augmented Sensing, …
Engineering Design Cycle…No Stupid Users
Evaluate
Design
Implement
Understanding the problem
L: http://www.babycenter.com/mybabycenter/124.html
R: http://webpages.charter.net/kipsmith/Kids/Ella_AtHospital.htm
Megan was born on September 15, 2010.
She was born 10 weeks early.
She is 15” tall.
How many months has she been alive?Convert her height to centimeters and multiply by 0.19. Got it? Are you sure?
OG tube insertion distance = 13.3 cm + 0.19(HTcm)
if < 28 months of age
OG tube insertion distance = 16.8 cm + 0.19(HTcm)
if 29 to 100months
NG tube insertion distance = 14.8 cm + 0.19(HTcm)
if < 28 months of age
NG tube insertion distance = 18.3 cm + 0.19(HTcm)
if 29 to 100
“It’s just a couple of formulas”
OG tube insertion distance = 13.3 cm + 0.19(HTcm)
if < 28 months of age
OG tube insertion distance = 16.8 cm + 0.19(HTcm)
if 29 to 100months
NG tube insertion distance = 14.8 cm + 0.19(HTcm)
if < 28 months of age
NG tube insertion distance = 18.3 cm + 0.19(HTcm)
if 29 to 100
“It’s just a couple of formulas”
OG tube insertion distance = 13.3 cm + 0.19(HTcm)
if < 28 months of age
OG tube insertion distance = 16.8 cm + 0.19(HTcm)
if 29 to 100months
NG tube insertion distance = 14.8 cm + 0.19(HTcm)
if < 28 months of age
NG tube insertion distance = 18.3 cm + 0.19(HTcm)
if 29 to 100
“It’s just a couple of formulas”
OG tube insertion distance = 13.3 cm + 0.19(HTcm)
if < 28 months of age
OG tube insertion distance = 16.8 cm + 0.19(HTcm)
if 29 to 100months
NG tube insertion distance = 14.8 cm + 0.19(HTcm)
if < 28 months of age
NG tube insertion distance = 18.3 cm + 0.19(HTcm)
if 29 to 100
“It’s just a couple of formulas”
OG tube insertion distance = 13.3 cm + 0.19(HTcm)
if < 28 months of age
OG tube insertion distance = 16.8 cm + 0.19(HTcm)
if 29 to 100months
NG tube insertion distance = 14.8 cm + 0.19(HTcm)
if < 28 months of age
NG tube insertion distance = 18.3 cm + 0.19(HTcm)
if 29 to 100
“It’s just a couple of formulas”
Understanding a new problem
http://www.mountsinai.on.ca/care/nicu/what-to-expect
L: http://www.dfps.state.tx.us/images/Site_Map/elderly2.jpg
80% of patients do not restrict their dietary intake (Betts 1998, Welch 2001)
1/3 of dialysis patients cannot perform simple calculations (Evans 2004)
Paper diaries have 11% compliance rate (Stone 2002)
Electronic diaries have 94% compliance rates (Stone 2003)
Helping patients help themselves
UPC read
Nutritional information
updated
Dietary Intake Monitoring Application
Mobile Applications that Empower People to Monitor their Personal Health. Kay H. Connelly, Anne M. Faber, Yvonne Rogers, Katie A. Siek, and Tammy Toscos. In Springer e&I, 123(4): 124.
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Our solution is an assistive, mobile health application for dialysis patients
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Nutritional information
updated
Dietary Intake Monitoring Application
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Mobile Applications that Empower People to Monitor their Personal Health. Kay H. Connelly, Anne M. Faber, Yvonne Rogers, Katie A. Siek, and Tammy Toscos. In Springer e&I, 123(4): 124.
Our solution is an assistive, mobile health application for dialysis patients
Recent Study• 18 reported
• 13 female; 5 male• All African American• Avg. 53 years old (s.d. = 15.1)• 11-14 years of education • 3-9 years on hemodialysis• All had documented
difficulties of following their prescribed dietary limits
• 6 week study• Met with patients during dialysis
sessions 3 times a week• $75 compensation
• not linked to usagehttp://myhealth.ucsd.edu/HealthTopics/kidney/kidney_relatedNews.htm
DIMA helped reduce participants fluid intake
DIMA recorded - 31.4% of limit
Interdialytic Weight Gain - 56% of limit
Computer Scientists save the day?…Not Quite
The Information Feedback Loop
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Good
Doctor
Hospital
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What was covered today
$189,375 - Duration: September 2006 – November 2009
Feed
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Tube
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Hospital
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Next Steps
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Hospital
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Health Bridge
Next Steps
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Doctor
Hospital
$608,962; Duration: July 2009-July 2014
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Health Bridge
Augmented Sensing & Games for Health
Next Steps
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Doctor
Hospital
S. Ananthanarayan* and K.A. Siek. Health sense: A gedanken experiment on persuasive wearable technology for health awareness. In First ACM International Health Informatics Symposium, page 5 pages, New York, NY, USA, To Appear.
Things to take away…
• You can apply your computing skills to almost any field
• Work on things you are passionate about
• Really understand the problems
Questions?http://wii.cs.colorado.edu