Paper on Medication Affordability Resources

Happy to announce that our team’s paper on’ ‘The Administrative Burden of Medication Affordability Resources: An Environmental Scan with Implications for Health Informatics to Advance Health Equity has been accepted and will be published shortly in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. The paper summarizes an environmental scan of medication affordability resources for… Continue reading Paper on Medication Affordability Resources

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Presentation on Narrative Inquiry for Mixed Methods Research

Always appreciate the opportunity to be part of the Michigan Medicine’s Mixed Methods workshops. This year they had a special focus on Intersecting a Qualitative Research Design with a Mixed Methods Research Design. It was wonderful to hear about all of the projects people are working on and how mixed methods continues to advanced across… Continue reading Presentation on Narrative Inquiry for Mixed Methods Research

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Media Review Published in the Journal of Mixed Methods Research

My media review of Shan’s book on ‘Philosophical Foundations of Mixed Methods Research: Dialogues between Researchers and Philosophers‘ has been published in the Journal of Mixed Methods Research. I really appreciated to collation of chapters by foundational methodologists in mixed methods research. I found it to be a good book to introduce graduate students to… Continue reading Media Review Published in the Journal of Mixed Methods Research

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Workshop at AMIA’s 2024 Symposium

Just finished up with a workshop on ‘Research methods to advance health and healthcare equity within health informatics’ at the American Medical Informatics Association’s Annual Symposium in San Francisco. Thank you to the 60+ attendees in attending one of the activities for the Health and Healthcare Equity Working Group.

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Introducing AMIA’s Health and Healthcare Equity Working Group

It’s official the American Medical Informatics Association’s discussion forum on Health and Healthcare Equity is now a working group! As secretary for the group, I will be joining Drs. Tiffany Veinot (Chair), Pamela Charney (Vice Chair) Carolyn Petersen (Chair Elect), Anthony Rios (Member-at-Large) and Cheryl Givens (Student Member-at-Large) on the leadership team. As I am… Continue reading Introducing AMIA’s Health and Healthcare Equity Working Group

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Invited Presenter for the JAMIA Journal Club

Had the wonderful opportunity to present to JAMIA’s Journal Club on my paper that was published earlier in the year on ‘From illness management to quality of life: Rethinking consumer health informatics opportunities for progressive, potentially fatal illnesses‘. Thank you to the student editorial board for inviting me to present and for facilitating a great… Continue reading Invited Presenter for the JAMIA Journal Club

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The administrative burden of financial support programs for atrial fibrillation and hypertension medication costs: an environmental scan with implication for informatics intervention design

Jennylee Swallow, doctoral student at the University of Michigan, presented at the Academy Health Research meeting on our team’s ongoing work focused on the addressing the administrative burden experienced by patients in navigating financial resources for their medications. You can find the poster and abstract at the following QR code:

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Presenting at the Qualitative & Mixed Methods Learning Lab

Had the wonderful opportunity to present to the Qualitative and Mixed Methods Learning Lab (QMMLL) at Michigan Medicine on Integrated mixed methods analyses: from beginning to end. In this presentation I go through my process of integrated mixed methods that I applied in my dissertation research.

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Human technology intermediation to reduce cognitive load: understanding healthcare staff members’ practices to facilitate telehealth access in a Federally Qualified Health Center patient population

My research team has a published a paper on how healthcare staff helped patients get connected to their telehealth visits. Through data collected from interviews with staff (n=9) and patients (n=22) we propose approaches to support access to and usage of video visits and patient portals: (1) shielding patients from cognitive overload; (2) drawing from… Continue reading Human technology intermediation to reduce cognitive load: understanding healthcare staff members’ practices to facilitate telehealth access in a Federally Qualified Health Center patient population

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