Welcome to MEBI 591: Designing Online Technology for Patient Self Management

Tuesdays, 11:00 - 11:50 a.m., September 24 - December 7
Health Sciences, Room E-212
Facilitator:  Jina Huh, PhD - NLM Postdoctoral Fellow
Faculty Sponsor: Wanda Pratt, PhD

Email for questions: jinahuh@uw.edu

Overview

Welcome to MEBI 591. In this course, we will explore designing online technologies for supporting patient self-management. Our goals are to understand: (1) health information needs that emerge during patient self-management, (2) the ways in which current online technologies help (or not help) such information needs to be fulfilled, and (3) what future online technologies may be able to help provide safe and high quality information support for patients.

Course Description

Most chronic illness management happens at home by the patients themselves and their caregivers. A national survey in July 2012 by the Pew Research Center finds that patients and caregivers increasingly use the Internet to find and share information about symptoms, treatments, and support. In this seminar, we explore designing online technologies for patient self-management. We will explore patients’ information needs during self-management, how such needs are supported by the existing health care system, how current online information technologies (e.g., online patient communities, games, mobile apps, social media) attempt to support such information needs, and how future online technologies should be designed to support patient self-management.


Course structure

The course will run on a journal club format. We expect each participant to select and present a paper during one of the course sessions. Some articles will be theory oriented, while others will explore design and evaluations of existing information technologies. By using this format, we encourage collective learning to occur, where the course participants contribute their expertise on the topics they are most interested in while learning from others on the topics that they have less experiences in.

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Week 1: September 25, 2012
1.    Understand the overall aim of the course
2.    Introduce each participant's interests for the seminar
3.    Briefly discuss a JMIR article:

Internet-based Patient Self-care: The Next Generation of Health Care Delivery
by June Forkner-Dunn
J Med Internet Res. 2003 Apr-Jun; 5(2): e8. Published online 2003 May 15. doi: 10.2196/jmir.5.2.e8

4.    Brainstorm whether other themes should be added or replaced
5.    Participants sign up for the weeks they would like to take charge of


Week 2: October 2, 2012
Patient self-management: What is patient self-management, and what are critical elements to supporting patient self-management?

Facilitator: Shomir Chauduri

Readings:

Clark NM, Becker MH, Janz NK, Lorig K, Rakowski W, Anderson L. Self-Management of Chronic Disease by Older Adults: A Review and Questions for Research. Journal of Aging and Health. 1991 Feb 1;3(1):3–27. Available from: http://jah.sagepub.com/cgi/content/long/3/1/3 pdf

McManus RJ, Mant J, Bray EP, Holder R, Jones MI, Greenfield S, et al. Telemonitoring and self-management in the control of hypertension (TASMINH2): a randomised controlled trial. The Lancet [Internet]. 2010 Jul 17;376(9736):163–72. Available from: http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0140673610609646 pdf

Week 3: October 9, 2012
Technologies that support improving self-efficacy: What is self-efficacy, and what are existing technologies that improve self-efficacy?

Facilitators: Katherine Blondon, Eun Kyung Choe
Readings: Bandura A. Health promotion from the perspective of social cognitive theory. Psychology & Health [Internet]. Routledge; 1998 Jul 1;13(4):623–49. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08870449808407422 pdf

Week 4: October 16, 2012
Online health communities and support groups

Facilitators: Alan Kalet, Hyunggu Jung
Readings:

Johnson GJ, Ambrose PJ. Neo-Tribes: The Power and Potential of Online Communities in Health Care. Communications of the ACM. 2006;49(1):107–13. pdf

Frost J, Massagli M. PatientsLikeMe the case for a data-centered patient community and how ALS patients use the community to inform treatment decisions and manage pulmonary health. Chronic respiratory disease [Internet]. 2009 Jan [cited 2012 Oct 4];6(4):225–9. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19858352 pdf

Week 5: October 23, 2012
Online technologies in specialized population: Elderly and ethnic groups

Facilitators: Robert Racadio, and Hannah Mandel
Readings:

Kreps, G. Disseminating relevant health information to underserved audiences: implications of the Digital Divide Pilot Projects. Journal of the Medical Library Association, (2005) pdf

Shaw, B. How Underserved Breast Cancer Patients Use and Benefit From eHealth Programs: Implications for Closing the Digital Divide. American Behavioral Scientist 49, 6 (2006), 823–834 pdf

Week 6: October 30, 2012
Effect of online technology on health care outcomes

Facilitators: Albert Park, Amanda Lazar

Readings:
Eysenbach G, Powell J, Englesakis M, et al. Health related virtual communities and electronic support groups: systematic review of the effects of online peer to peer interactions. BMJ (Clinical research ed) 2004;328:1166. pdf


Week 7: November 6, 2012: Break due to AMIA

Week 8: November 13, 2012
Effect of online technology on the patient-clinician relationship

Facilitators: Ken Jelinek, Leslie Liu, Dean Poppe
Readings:

Primary--
Dedding C, van Doorn R, Winkler L, et al. How will e-health affect patient participation in the clinic? A review of e-health studies and the current evidence for changes in the relationship between medical professionals and patients. Social science & medicine (1982) 2011;72:49–53. pdf

Supplementary--
Erdem SA, Harrison-Walker LJ. The role of the Internet in physician–patient relationships: The issue of trust. Business Horizons 2006;49:387–93. pdf

Mo PKH, Malik SH, Coulson NS. Gender differences in computer-mediated communication: a systematic literature review of online health-related support groups. Patient education and counseling 2009;75:16–24. pdf

Week 9: November 20, 2012
Patient self-management using e-monitoring

Faciliator: Ted
McCarthy, Katie Kuksenok
Readings:

Primary--
Klasnja P, Pratt W. Healthcare in the pocket: mapping the space of mobile-phone health interventions. Journal of biomedical informatics 2012;45:184–98. pdf

Supplementary--
Le S, Shafer PO, Bartfeld E, et al. An online diary for tracking epilepsy. Epilepsy & behavior : E&B 2011;22:705–9. pdf

Vervloet M, van Dijk L, Santen-Reestman J, et al. SMS reminders improve adherence to oral medication in type 2 diabetes patients who are real time electronically monitored. International journal of medical informatics 2012;81:594–604. pdf

Purpura S, Schwanda V, Williams K, et al. Fit4life. In: Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI  ’11. New York, New York, USA: : ACM Press 2011. 423. pdf

Week 10: November 27, 2012
Online technology for patient self-management: What are existing online technologies that have supported patient self-management? What needs to be improved?

Facilitator: Logan Kendall

Readings:

Week 11: December 4, 2012
Wrap up, summary, and brainstorm design ideas for future online technologies for patient self-management.