In May the University of Texas at the UTMB campus organized a three day Information Technology and Distance Education (IT&DE) seminar on electronic records management. At that seminar the UTMB Cardiology Division and CRA jointly presented a paper titled "A New System of Computerized Patient Records".
UTMB Contributing Authors
Dr. Thomas Meade pursued a medical degree after first receiving a Mechanical Engineering degree. He received his MD from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, and spent one year in a family Practice training program at Fort Worth, Texas, and completed a residency on Internal Medicine at the University of New Mexico. He has completed his fellowship in Cardiology at UTMB and is now in private practice, with Scott and White, in College Station, Texas.
Dr. Javier F. Otero received a degree in Medicine and Surgery and completed a fellowship in Emergency Medicine at the University of Sevilla, Spain, where he was Acting Intern (fourth out of 200 students). He has finished a residency in Internal Medicine at University of Texas Medical Branch and is beginning his final year of Cardiology fellowship at UTMB.
Dr. Richard G. Sheahan received his medical degree from the University College, Cork, Ireland, in 1984 and postgraduate degrees from the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. In 1993 he was awarded the Irish Heart Foundation/Knoll Fellowship in Cardiology. Dr Sheahan joined the University of Texas Medical Branch faculty in 1995 and as an Assistant Professor after completing a fellowship in electrophysiology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Ms. Carol S. Evans (Fannin), is the Administrative Director of the Heart Center at UTMB. She joined the University in 1996 to consolidate the Divisions of Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery into a Cardiovascular Service Line.
Ms. Katherine I. Hula, is the Office Supervisor, Cardiology Division, UTMB. Kathy has an A.S. in Business Administration from Mesa College, Colorado, with an additional 2 years towards credentials in medical records management. Prior to joining UTMB in 1995 she worked as a Law Office Manager and Medical Paralegal. Kathy also has extensive experience in healthcare records management and as an instructor at a Community College in Medical Terminology. She is talented beyond her UTMB work as an accomplished poet, with her most recent poem, commemorating her daughter's wedding, being accepted for publication, for a late summer 2000 anthology, by the International Society of Poets.
Drs. Meade, Otero, and Sheahan have been instrumental in gaining the acceptance and in fostering the use of the product by the Cardiology Fellows at UTMB. Kathy Hula has had the day to day operational responsibilities for the program at UTMB.
Canon Contributing Author
and UTMB/Canon Project Overview
Dr. Gerald May is with Canon R&D Center Americas in San Jose, California. Jerry earned a B.S. in physics at the University of Santa Clara in 1971. He received an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1973 and a Ph.D. in 1977.
Jerry has spent the last 9 years at Canon R&D Center America in the development of advanced office equipment concept products. The objective of these products is to showcase new technology developments in the various aspects of document imaging. These new technologies are in the areas of document scanning and printing, wide-area networking, and image database document management. He developed a multifunction document image server running Windows NT on a dual Pentium processor system board.
Several of these concept document servers were put into service at various test sites in the United States and Europe. One particular site is in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston. The document imaging system is used to scan the division's repository of patient records with the objective of providing fast online access. The system uses Canon's prototype Document Warehouse (DW3) scanning and retrieval software tailored in particular to the medical document imaging application. The software employs web browser technology to enable online access to patient records from any computer having internet access. Extensive security and encryption software protects the privacy of the records from unauthorized viewing.
The following presentation describes the UTMB application and some of the attending improvements in productivity resulting from the Scanned Electronic Patient Record (SEPR) application.
Jerry can be reached at jerry@cra.canon.com
For further information on UTMB visit it's website www.utmb.edu or the Cardiology Divisions website at www.cardiology.utmb.edu. Further information about Canon can be requested through Canon R&D Center Americas, Inc., 3300 North First Street, San Jose, California, 95134, or visit Canon at it's website www.canon.com
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