3 results match your criteria: "UTHealth Houston School of Biomedical Informatics[Affiliation]"
Designing audit and feedback dashboards for dentists to monitor their opioid prescribing.
Int J Med Inform
August 2023
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) School of Dentistry, 7500 Cambridge St, Houston, TX 77054, United States. Electronic address:
Background And Objective: Prescription drug abuse is a major factor leading to drug overdose deaths in the US and dentists are one of the leading prescribers of opioid pain medication. Knowing that Audit & Feedback (A&F) dashboards are an effective tool and are used as quality improvement interventions, we aimed to develop such dashboards personalized for dental providers which could allow them to monitor their own opioid prescribing performance.
Methods: In this paper we report on the process for designing the A&F dashboards for dentists which were developed by using an iterative human-centered design process.
Why is biomedical informatics hard? A fundamental framework.
J Biomed Inform
April 2023
UTHealth Houston School of Biomedical Informatics, Houston, TX 77030, United States of America; UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School, Division of General Internal Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, United States of America. Electronic address:
Building on previous work to define the scientific discipline of biomedical informatics, we present a framework that categorizes fundamental challenges into groups based on data, information, and knowledge, along with the transitions between these levels. We define each level and argue that the framework provides a basis for separating informatics problems from non-informatics problems, identifying fundamental challenges in biomedical informatics, and provides guidance regarding the search for general, reusable solutions to informatics problems. We distinguish between processing data (symbols) and processing meaning.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Impact of COVID-19 on Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths in Texas.
Int J Environ Res Public Health
October 2022
Center for Health Systems Analytics, UTHealth Houston School of Biomedical Informatics, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Article Synopsis
- Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. was already dealing with a rising number of opioid overdose deaths, complicating assessments of the pandemic's effects on the issue.
- From January 2015 to December 2021, a study in Greater Houston revealed a significant rise in opioid-related overdose deaths, particularly from heroin and fentanyl, with a total of 2,660 deaths analyzed.
- Although deaths increased notably during the pandemic years (2019-2021), efforts to address the problem require a deeper understanding of community-specific factors beyond just social vulnerability indexes.