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MICROCARES
ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL MEETING At the American
Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting FORMAL
PRESENATATIONS AND DISCUSSIONS TUTORIAL,
PRACTICE SESSIONS, INSTALLING SOFTWARE, DEMONSTRATIONS, QUESTIONS Co-chairmen James J.
Strain, M.D. Jay J. Strain,
M.D. LOCATION: Nikko Hotel,
Monterrey Room, LUNCH: To be provided. EQUIPMENT: Laptops and PalmPilots with cradles to Hotsync Palmpilot data into laptops. TOPICS: 1) INTRODUCTION of Attendees. 2) PALM PERSONAL DATA ASSISTANT ("PDA") demonstration and distribution CDs to allow the transfer of data from the PalmPilot to the archive computer. Using the PalmPilot as the data collection tool will enhance the utility of MICROCARES since the data collection hardware will cost about $200 per user. This means that multiple consultants at a single institution can all have data collection devices and only the need for one computer. The downloading of data from the PalmPilot to the office computer, the production of reports, e.g., medical chart notes, physician’s patient profiles, letters to referring physicians, or to third party payers, and the ad hoc analysis of data from multiple files will be demonstrated. And, with an infra red printer some reports can be printed directly from the PalmPilot at the nurses’ station to be placed in the patient’s medical chart. 3)
LITERATURE DATABASE and the 2003 update will be discussed and
demonstrated. There have been
several enhancements to the Literature Search software, including the capacity
to print lists, abstracts, and commentaries in WORD.
The Literature Database can be examined at the same time the clinical
information system is open, allow the users to peruse essential literature and
print citations, abstracts, commentaries without opening a separate program.
Literature databases have been contributed by 4)
LANGUAGE CONVERSION is now possible with translating 1100
words in and EXCEL spread sheet. With
CISCL VERSION 7.2 which is
programmed in Visual Basic 6, it is possible to switch from one language to
another. It is anticipated there
will be a German and Greek MICROCARES
version during 2003 to accompany the Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, and
English versions currently available. 5)
DRUG – DRUG INTERACTIONS COMPONENT will be added to the
MICROCARES system during 2003. This
will permit within the CISCL program to examine drug – drug interactions while
entering clinical patient data. An
important component of this enhancement is to examine the interaction potential
from the administration of psychotropic medications with other medical drugs.
Further comparison with epocrates and the APA system – Interact
will be explored. 6)
METHODS to extract data from MICROCARES data sets and from
multiple users will be presented. An example of demonstrating data from one of
the first collaborative studies from 7)
COLLABORATIVE STUDIES will be reviewed: 1) within an
institution; 2) among institutions; 3) between cities, countries, regions; 3)
educational studies (how are trainees performing? Number of cases, number of
follow-up visits, range of diagnoses, range of treatments, e.g., the frequency
of using psychotropic agents, versus non psychiatric drug treatment, etc.
It is anticipated the members of the group will contribute to ideas,
especially database studies in developing countries to bench mark psychiatric
consultation characteristics in these nations. 8)
FUTURE GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS FOR MICROCARES: CISCL AND LITERATURE
DATABASE. The attached Microsoft
Power Point Presentation presented at the American Association for Technology in
Psychiatry (ATTP) provides a summary of where MICROCARES VERSION 7.2 currently
stands, and the enhancements proposed in the upcoming year.
This summary slide presentation is available from Jim_Strain@hotmail.com
or on our website: www. microcares.com The hardware and software functional
requirements to run the MICROCARES operating system is described, and the
additional enhancements required to enable the use of the PalmPilot (PDA).
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