Work in Progress

A brief history of time in dental informatics

Titus Schleyer, DMD, PhD June 12, 2013

Center for Biomedical Informatics

Titus Schleyer, 2013

Goals
comprehensively review 20 years of dental informatics research specifically, Titus 60+ papers Ok, lets get started with Paper #1.

Goals
selectively review 20 years of dental informatics research learn a little bit about me and (some of) my philosophy discuss (briefly) where we can go together

A few things about me

Europa

Bayern

Unterfranken

Europa

Bayern

Unterfranken

1989

Some professional history

started programming in ~1975 1st dental degree: 1987; 2nd: 1991 PhD: 1989; MBA: 1995 practiced fulltime in the Bundeswehr @Temple: CIO, then informatics @Pitt: informatics, also CIO

Selected research
operations management electronic dental records (EDR)
CMSWeb 3D dental record cognitive task analysis

human-computer interaction EDR adoption research networking datamining

Operations management

1994

Electronic dental records (EDR)

CMSWeb

1999

3D dental record

Allports Registering Dental Ledger (1858)

Eaglesoft (2013)

Escaping 2D space

2007

Cognitive task analysis

initial, sequential review of: patient information medical, dental and social history medications medical consults cross-referencing of medications, and medical history and consults rapid switching and concurrent review of: hard tissue chart images x-rays occasional note-taking

2013
note-taking with occasional referencing of various artifacts

A word about human-computer interaction

woven into most of our research heavily influenced by Carnegie Mellon University
user-centered design new methods (e.g. KLM)

Overarching question: How do we produce better designs faster?

EDR adoption

forever

Information storage - 2006

Information storage - 2013

Research networking

2012

http://di.dental.pitt.edu/orc/

Datamining

2013

http://vimeo.com/50843791

Classify data Oral Health and Disease Ontology Import data

Query aggregated and classified data

Triplestore Repository Perform Statistical Analyses Electronic Dental Record Systems

Takeaway points
Our work is mainly interdisciplinary. Interdisciplinarity is difficult. Cross the Valley of Death decisively and effectively. Look for projects that make a significant difference. True innovation often requires highly fundamental work. Innovating for a broad audience requires deep understanding of use and needs. Automation is reaching farther than we think. You can succeed and fail at the same time. Dont forget about advancing your infrastructure.

A few observations on informatics

Informatics is operating in a changed landscape. Industry has difficulty innovating. Academic informatics is marginalized. Custom development is (almost) out. Informatics is a confused term. It means (almost) nothing to the public.

Thank you for your attention!

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