1998 AVI, AVMA Convention Richard Talbot Veterinary Informatics Symposium

Three Day Program of Presentations
"Improving Patient Care with Informatics"

Day Three is devoted to Telemedicine
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Schedule

Date:  July 25         Day:  Saturday

Presiding Officer/Moderator:    Duane Steward, DVM, MSIE, Fellow AAVI
ALLIED GROUP CO-SPONSOR -   Association for Veterinary Informatics
COMMERCIAL CO-SPONSOR -  Idexx InformaticsRemote Veterinary Consultants,   DVM Communications

Start/End Time of Presentation                        Title of Presentation
 Speaker

Saturday 8:00-8:15am    Introduction & Presidential Address
Duane Steward, DVM, MSIE;   (Chuck Cohen, DVM - AVI President)

Saturday 8:15-8:50am    Multiple Site Medical Records Over The Web: Problems Solved and Problems Exposed in Sharing Data
Isaac S. Kohane, MD, PhD

Saturday 8:55-9:30am    Image Guided Surgery -- Seeing where you are going before you get there.
W. Eric L. Grimson, PhD

Saturday 10:15-10:45am    Computer Interface Device for Catheter Procedures Instruction and Monitoring
Stephen Dubin VMD PhD

Saturday 10:45-11:45am    Keynote Address: At the Envelope: Can Technology and Logic Help?
Steve Pauker, MD, MACP, FACC
COMMERCIAL CO-SPONSOR -  Idexx Informatics

Presiding Officer/Moderator:
Craig Carter, DVM, MS, PhD.

Saturday 1:00-1:30pm    Online Veterinary Communities: The Glue that Bonds Us Together
Paul D. Pion, DVM, DACVIM

Saturday 1:30-2:00pm    Integration of veterinary clinical decision support systems with the electronic patient record-challenges and benefits.
CRAIG N. CARTER, DVM, PhD

Saturday 2:00-2:30pm    Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Decision Analysis for Veterinarians
Duane Steward, DVM, MSIE

Saturday 2:30-3:15pm   Poster Session

Saturday 3:15-3:45pm    The patient information acquisition model: a framework for identifying causes of missing or inaccurate information.
Eric (Rick) M. Mills, DVM, PhD

Saturday 3:45-4:15pm    The use of an Apple(r) MessagePad 2000 in an integrated veterinary invoicing and medical records keeping system.
William B. Ley, DVM, MS

Saturday 4:15-4:45pm    Clinipharm: a computer-based drug and poison information system for veterinarians.
Daniel Christian Demuth, DVM, PhD
 

Date:  July 26         Day:  Sunday
Morning AVI Working Groups
Business Luncheon

11:00am-1:pm
Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor (Stadium 1)

Presiding Officer/Moderator:
Robin Starr, DVM, President Elect, AVI

Sunday 1:00-1:20pm    Comparing rule based and neural network based knowledge systems.
Allen W. Hahn, DVM, PhD, ACVIM(Cardiology)

Sunday 1:20-1:40pm    The use Claris FileMaker(r) Pro to maintain and deliver preventive medicine and herd health information for both restricted and public use over intra- and internet networks.
William B. Ley, DVM, MS

Sunday 1:40-2:00pm    Web Access to Referred Case Clinical Information
Paul R. Brentson, MBA; James Allen Self

Sunday 2:00-2:20pm    Word search performance of free-text electronic patient records by surgical diagnoses in a veterinary medical teaching hospital clinical database
Leah Estberg, DVM, PhD

Saturday 2:30-3:15pm   Poster Session

Sunday 3:15-3:35pm    The impact of information derived from a search of an electronic bibliographic database on veterinary clinical decision making: the information search process.
Elizabeth T. Hewins, MSLIS, PhD

Sunday 3:35-3:55pm    Solving the technician shortage via distance education
Guy Hancock, DVM, MEd

Sunday 3:55-4:15pm   The Virtual Veterinary Patient as a CE "Tool"
Cheryl Dhein, DVM, MS, ACVIM

Sunday 4:15-4:35pm    Teaching Animal Intensive Laboratories Without Animals : Development of a Win 32 Application to Teach the Principles of Mechanical Ventilation.
Robert D. Keegan, DVM, Diplomate ACVA
 

Telemedicine: Networking Resources for Improved Veterinary Patient Care

Date:  July 27         Day:  Monday

ALLIED GROUP CO-SPONSOR -   Association for Veterinary Informatics
COMMERCIAL CO-SPONSOR -  Remote Veterinary Consultants,   DVM Communications

Monday 8:00-8:30am    Digitizing case material. What it takes and what it makes.
Peter K Shires, BVSc, MS, ACVS

Monday 8:30-9:00am    One-Way Telemedicine for Clinical Pathology Consultation
Charles E. Branch, BME, PhD;  Joseph S. Spano, DVM, PhD

Monday 9:00-9:30am    World Class Digitized Image Transfer, Keeping Pace with Radiologists
Adrian Gropper, MD

Monday 10:15-10:45am    Internet Based Image Management and Communications
Marc Karyo, MAIT

Monday 10:45-11:15am    How telemedicine will assist the daily practice routine
T. Arch Robertson, DVM

Monday 11:15-11:45    Telemedicine at the New England Medical Center
John B Wong, MD, FACP

Monday 1:00-1:30pm    Live Teleconsult with the New England Medical Center and other veterinary centers.
John B Wong, MD, FACP; Duane Steward, DVM, MSIE, T. Arch Robertson, DVM, Marc Karyo, MAIT

Monday 1:30-2:30pm    Multiple Workstations for Hands on Experience; including teleradiology, telesonsography, telecytology, document camera, teleoto-ophthalmology, etc.
Remote Veterinary ConsultantsT. Arch Robertson, DVM,  DVM Communications, Marc Karyo, MAIT

Monday 3:15-3:45pm    Telemedicine: what's in it for practitioners?
Marc Papageorges, DVM, MS, PhD

Monday 3:45-4:45pm    Tough Questions: A Panel of the day's speakers addresssing and fielding questions on the tough issues.
All the day's speakers plus invited referral hospital department heads weathered by efforts to establish telemedicine services;
Duane Steward, DVM, MSIE presiding.

Monday 4:45-5:00pm    Awards Ceremony
 
 

Computer Wet Lab
Cheryl Dhein, DVM, MS, ACVIM (Computer Wet Lab Captain)
Charles E. Branch, BME, PhD
Joseph S. Spano, DVM, PhD
Lab Facilities Sponsored by Remote Veterinary Consultants
Sunday Afternoon - 1.5 hours (twice offered)
Basic Lab on Accessing the Internet and the World Wide WEB

For tickets to the Computer Lab, see the presiding officer at the Talbot Symposium
(Sat: Room # 302/303; Sun: #307).
Tickets are available on a first come first served basis.
 

This computer laboratory is intended for those who have little or no experience using the internet. Topics will include:
 
1. What is needed to get connected to the internet.
2. The basics of using email including how to subscribe to internet based discussion groups.
3. The basics of web browsing including a tour of popular Veterinary WEB sites.
4. Using the WEB to perform Veterinary medical searches.

Monday Afternoon - 1.5 hours (twice offered)
This computer laboratory is intended for those who have some previous experience using computers for word processing. In this laboratory participants will learn the basic skills of creating a WEB page using a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) WEB editor.

1. Setting the appearance of WEB pages
2. Building tables
3. Inserting images
4. Editing images
5. Creating links
6. Creating Image maps
7. Getting your WEB pages to the internet
 

Poster Presentions
Date:  July 25         Day:  Saturday

Who is Richard B. Talbot?
AVMA Informatics Committee

Information Technology in the Diagnostic Laboratory: Use of spreadsheets, databases, and the world wide web to support technicians, nurses, and doctors in daily practice.
Chuck Cohen, DVM

An independent formulation of disease theory for computer
R D C Miller, BVM&S, PhD

VETPLUS-L, A Continuous International Veterinary  Meeting
Jeff Parke, DVM, MS and Allan Berger, DVM

Case based problem solving on the computer. To err is not to maime.
Peter K Shires, BVSc, MS, Diplomate ACVS

Outbreak Investigation Exercises on the World Wide Web
Ronald D. Smith, DVM, MS, PhD

Systematic Approaches to Determining the Values of Patient Outcomes
Duane Steward, DVM, MSIE, Fellow AAVI
 

Date:  July 26         Day:  Sunday

Who is Richard B. Talbot?
AVMA Informatics Committee

Evolution of a Comprehensive Electronic Medical Record
Paul Brentson, MBA; Jim Self, MA and W J Hornof, DVM

Vertical Integration in a horizontal Veterinary Curriculum (subtitle: The Urinary System: A Bridge over yellow waters...)
Cheryl R Dhein DVM, MS

A web based approach to seamless linking of textual reports to medical images in a hospital information
W J Hornof, DVM;, D W Ballance; Jim Self, MA and Paul Brentson, MBA

The Development and Implementation of the North Carolina State College of Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital Information System (THIS).
Harriet Mermes, et al

Rapid Retrieval of Pertinent Cases in a Free-text Environment
James A Self, MA; Paul Brentson, MBA; and W J Hornof, DVM

Veterinary Medical PATIENT CARE © (Problem-based Access Tool for Interactive Evaluation Network of Teaching Cases to Assure Relevant Education)
Kristine Tischer, BS, MA, DVM