Education and Outreach

Getting information out about TISH team research, providing opportunities for students to participate in the research, and educating the community on advances in the security and privacy of healthcare information technologies is of great importance to the TISH project.  

Student Participation

Thus far, we have involved 9 graduate students and 3 undergraduates directly involved in research threads and provided luncheons and seminars to discuss issues on healthcare IT.  Seminars that have already been run as part of TISH educational efforts include: 

• Two Doctoral Seminar Modules on Electronic Medical Records.
  
  • Rhetoric and Reality about the Impact of Implementing Electronic Medical Records: on Quality (Session 1: October 30th)
  • Rhetoric and Reality about the Impact of Implementing Electronic Medical Records: on Cost (Session 2: November 3rd)
• A three-session seminar entitled "Electronic Medical Records: Balancing the Needs for Access and Concerns for Privacy” (December 15-17, 2009)
• A seminar on the “State of the Art Authentication in Healthcare” (May 25, 2010)
• Two Doctoral Seminar Modules on Electronic Medical Records (May 27, 2010 & June 3, 2010)

Events

The TISH team has also coordinated the visits of several experts in the healthcare IT arena who spoke to Dartmouth community members on a range of topics including:

• Latanya Sweeney of Carnegie Mellon University on "Trustworthy Designs for the Nationwide Health Information Network"
• Umesh Shankar of Google on "Security and Data Integrity in Google Health"
• Kevin Fu of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst on "Implantable Medical Devices: Security and Privacy for Pervasive, Wireless Healthcare"

Some of these talks are available on ISTS' YouTube video playlist. 

Workshops

The TISH team will, on occasion, host workshops to bring together experts in the field to discuss a range of relevant topics.  In May of 2010, the team brought together more than two dozen experts from clinical practice and academe to address three related challenges for IT in healthcare:

1. Security and usability of mobile, sensor and implantable technologies that monitor patient health;
2. Security and usability of electronic health records (EHR);
3. Understanding of, and communication of, the privacy and security risks from #1 and #2 to various stakeholders

The full conference proceedings are available here.