University at Buffalo (UB)
SEAS and Nursing team up on health research innovations to improve patient care
Pictured l to r: Sharon Hewner, PhD, RN, UB School of Nursing; 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.
Published June 5, 2015 This content is archived.
Sabrina Casucci, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Sharon Hewner, School of Nursing, won poster awards at the UNYTE Scientific Session hosted by the Clinical & Translational Science Institute. The event was held at the University of Rochester Medical Center on May 28, 2015.
Casucci, a PhD candidate in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE), tied for the top Student Poster Award for the UNYTE Scientific Session Hitting the Accelerator: Health Research Innovation through Data Science for her poster “Modeling the Impact of Chronic Disease Combinations on 30-day Hospital Readmissions.” Co-authors included Alexander Nikolayev, assistant professor and Li Lin, professor, both of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and Sharon Hewner, RN, assistant professor in the School of Nursing.
Hewner won the Faculty Poster Award for the UNYTE Scientific Session Hitting the Accelerator: Health Research Innovation through Data Science 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 and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences' Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering 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 system 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. In addition, the team [including Casucci and School of Nursing students Suzanne Sullivan and Francine Mistretta] is working on data visualization methods to provide a snapshot of problems that the patient is facing based on social determinants of health.
The research is funded by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
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 collaboration.
