UB Schools of Nursing and Engineering Team Up on Health Research Innovations to Improve Patient Care
Pictured l to r: Sharon Hewner, PhD, RN, UB SON; Rose Rustowicz, student, Rochester Institute of Technology; Gary Noronha, MD Co-Chair of the UNYTE Scientific Session; Sabrina Casucci, Doctoral Candidate, UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Industrial and Systems Engineering Program.
Published June 5, 2015 This content is archived.
Sharon Hewner, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor of Nursing at the University at Buffalo School of Nursing and Sabrina Casucci, Doctoral Candidate in the UB Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Program win poster award at UNYTE Scientific Session hosted by the Clinical & Translational Science Institute at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
Dr. Sharon Hewner won the Faculty Poster Award for the UNYTE Scientific Session Hitting the Accelerator: Health Research Innovation through Data Science at the Clinical & Translational Science Institute of the University of Rochester on May 28, 2015 for her poster “Translating the Patient-Centered Assessment Method (PCAM) into a Clinical Decision Support Tool to Prevent Unnecessary Hospitalizations”.
The Coordinating Transitions research team at UB’s School of Nursing (SON) and Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) have been working to convert the paper-based Patient Centered Assessment Method (PCAM) developed by the University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health into an interoperable electronic tool that can be incorporated into the primary care electronic health record. The poster describes preliminary attempts to develop a scoring systems that can be used to identify domains of care where the individual may need assistance. These will eventually be incorporated into a patient-centered interprofessional care plan. Additionally the team [including students Sabrina Casucci (ISE), Suzanne Sullivan and Francine Mistretta (SON)] is working on data visualization methods that provide a snapshot of problems the patient is facing based on social determinants of health. The research is funded by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) grant number R21IS022575.
Sabrina Casucci, a PhD Candidate in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Industrial and Systems Engineering Program, tied for the top Student Poster Award for the UNYTE Scientific Session Hitting the Accelerator: Health Research Innovation through Data Science at the Clinical & Translational Science Institute for her poster “Modeling the Impact of Chronic Disease Combinations on 30-day Hospital Readmissions”.
UNYTE, a project of the Clinical & Translational Science Institute at the University of Rochester Medical Center, is a consortium of biomedical and academic research centers performing clinical and translational research within the Upstate New York and surrounding regions. This spring’s Scientific Session was focused on exploring innovative biomedical informatics methods and their recent applications in health research, sharing discipline-specific expertise, and accelerating cross-institutional collaborations.
Coauthors on the student poster include Dr. Alexander Nikolayev (UB-ISE), Dr. Li Lin (UB-ISE), and Dr. Sharon Hewner (UB-SON).
