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Department of Informatics Information Management Research Group

Seminar: Information Management (Bachelor / Master)

Description

This year's seminar will deal with the topic "Digital Health". We will strive to integrate economic, managerial, technical, social, legal and medical aspects and will particularly look at innovative digital health topics as framed by the German Informatics Association. They include: Data Science and Artificial Intelligence for Digital Health, Digital Health Apps, Digital Transformation and Health Ecosystems, Ethics, Health Care Analytics, Health Information Systems, Information Systems for the Ageing Society, Patient-Centred Information Systems and Regulations and Data Protection. Students can either cover a topic through a systematic literature review or engage in a empirical or technical mini-study. Note that the extra effort in this seminar is compensated by 6 ECTS.

Module (Bachelor): BINFS148

Module (Master): MINFS550

ECTS Points: 6.0

VVZ Link: BSc, MSc

Dates

  • 24.02.22 16:15 - 17:45 Topic assignment / KickOff Meeting​
  • 26.02.22 - 05.03.22 Literature research, Meetings with advisors​

  • 02.03.22 17:00 - 17:30 Introduction to scientific writing ​

  • 06.03.22 23.59 Final topic formulation to advisors

  • 13.04.22 16:15 - 17:45 Introduction to Reviewing ​

  • 18.04.22 23:59 Submission first version ​

  • 25.04.22 23:59 Submission of reviews ​

  • 09.05.22 23:59 Submission final version ​

  • Block seminar:
    • 12.05.22 16.00-19.00 ​
    • 13.05.22 12.30-18.00 ​
    • 14.05.22 9.00 - 18.00​

Language

English

Output

  • Seminar paper (first readable version, final version)
  • Written feedback to your peer students for 2-3 other seminar papers ("Peer-Review")
  • Continuous and active participation in the block seminar at the end of the semester, including a presentation of your seminar paper.

Further information

This module is currently planned to take place in person. We will adjust to online teaching if COVID measures make it necessary. Materials and recordings are made available online via MS Teams. This seminar is limited to 10 participants.

IMPORTANT: Simply booking the seminar in the module booking tool does not guarantee a spot. Getting a spot for sure is only possible if students also register via seminar@ifi.uzh.ch between January 19th and February 8th, 2022. More information on the process can be found on our website: https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/studies/seminar.html.

Topics for seminar papers

Here you will find the list of the topics. Please see the indication of bachelor or master to find topics suitable for your degree. We give some initial literature, which you can use to consider to choose a topic.

Topic

Bachelor or Master Initial Literature

 

Technical Foundations

 

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Health Care Analytics master
  • Saranya, P., & Asha, P. (2019, November). Survey on big data analytics in health care. In 2019 International Conference on Smart Systems and Inventive Technology (ICSSIT) (pp. 46-51). IEEE.
  • White, S. E. (2014). A review of big data in health care: challenges and opportunities. Open Access Bioinformatics6, 13.
  • Bhardwaj, R., Nambiar, A. R., & Dutta, D. (2017, July). A study of machine learning in healthcare. In 2017 IEEE 41st Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC) (Vol. 2, pp. 236-241). IEEE.
Health Information Systems/ ERP Health Systems bachelor 
  • AbouZahr, C., & Boerma, T. (2005). Health information systems: the foundations of public health. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 83, 578-583.
  • Kuhn, K. A., & Giuse, D. A. (2001). From hospital information systems to health information systems. Methods of information in medicine, 40(04), 275-287.)
  • Monteiro, E. (2003). Integrating health information systems: a critical appraisal. Methods of information in medicine, 42(04), 428-432.
  • K. Siau, “Health care informatics,” in IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1-7, March 2003, doi: 10.1109/TITB.2002.805449.

 

AR, VR, XR for digital health bachelor
  • Baghaei, N., Stemmet, L., Hlasnik, A., Emanov, K., Hach, S., Naslund, J. A., ... & Liang, H. N. (2020, April). Time to Get Personal: Individualised Virtual Reality for Mental Health. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-9).
  • BreathCoach: A smart in-home breathing training system with bio-feedback via VR game
  • Ahmad Abushakra and Miad Faezipour. 2014. Augmenting Breath Regulation Using a Mobile Driven Virtual Reality Therapy Framework. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 18, 3: 746–752.
  • Smartphone-Based Tapping Frequency as a Surrogate for Perceived Fatigue. An In-the-Wild Feasibility Study in Multiple Sclerosis Patients. 
Data sharing in patient dossiers with focus on Distributed Ledgers bachelor
  • Dubovitskaya, Alevtina, et al. “ACTION-EHR: Patient-centric blockchain-based electronic health record data management for cancer care.” Journal of medical Internet research 22.8 (2020): e13598.
  • Dubovitskaya, Alevtina, et al. “Intelligent health care data management using blockchain: current limitation and future research agenda.” Heterogeneous Data Management, Polystores, and Analytics for Healthcare. Springer, Cham, 2019. 277-288.
  • Houtan, Bahar, Abdelhakim Senhaji Hafid, and Dimitrios Makrakis. “A survey on blockchain-based self-sovereign patient identity in healthcare.” IEEE Access 8 (2020): 90478-90494.
  • Gordon, William J., and Christian Catalini. “Blockchain technology for healthcare: facilitating the transition to patient-driven interoperability.” Computational and structural biotec
Management, Ethics, Law -

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Digital Transformation and Health Ecosystems master
  • Hermes, S., Riasanow, T., Clemons, E.K. et al. (2020) The digital transformation of the healthcare industry: exploring the rise of emerging platform ecosystems and their influence on the role of patients. Bus Res 13, 1033–1069 (2020). 
  • Benis A, Tamburis O, Chronaki C, Moen A (2021) One Digital Health: A Unified Framework for Future Health Ecosystems. J Med Internet Res 2021, 23(2).
  • Ritu Agarwal, et al., (2010) Research Commentary—The Digital Transformation of Healthcare: Current Status and the Road Ahead. Information Systems Research 21(4):796-809.
  • Mustafa Bayram, et al. (2020). COVID-19 Digital Health Innovation Policy: A Portal to Alternative Futures in the Making. OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology. Aug 2020.460-469. 
  • Kim, S.H., Song, H. (2022). How Digital Transformation Can Improve Hospitals’ Operational Decisions. Harvard Business Review. 

Data protection concerns and solutions in health records

bachelor
  • Spriggs, M., Arnold, M. V., Pearce, C. M., & Fry, C. (2012). Ethical questions must be considered for electronic health records. Journal of Medical Ethics38(9), 535-539.
  • Sulmasy, L. S., López, A. M., & Horwitch, C. A. (2017). Ethical implications of the electronic health record: in the service of the patient. Journal of general internal medicine32(8), 935-939.
  • Rumbold, J. M. M., & Pierscionek, B. (2017). The effect of the general data protection regulation on medical research. Journal of medical Internet research19(2), e7108.
  • Kwon, J., & Johnson, M. E. (2013). Health-care security strategies for data protection and regulatory compliance. Journal of Management Information Systems30(2), 41-66.

Ethical concerns and justifications of automated decision making in healthcare (might be limited by adding ‘from the perspective of x’, x in {health provider, patient, etc.})

master
  • Grote, Thomas, and Philipp Berens. “On the ethics of algorithmic decision-making in healthcare.” Journal of medical ethics 46.3 (2020): 205-211.
  • Schönberger, Daniel. “Artificial intelligence in healthcare: a critical analysis of the legal and ethical implications.” International Journal of Law and Information Technology 27.2 (2019): 171-203.
  • (not scientific) World Health Organization. “Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health: WHO guidance.” (2021).
  • Durán, Juan Manuel, and Karin Rolanda Jongsma. “Who is afraid of black box algorithms? on the epistemological and ethical basis of trust in medical AI.” Journal of Medical Ethics 47.5 (2021): 329-335.
  • Quinn, Thomas P., et al. “Trust and medical AI: the challenges we face and the expertise needed to overcome them.” Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 28.4 (2021): 890-894.
  • Tsamados, Andreas, et al. “The ethics of algorithms: key problems and solutions.” AI & SOCIETY (2021)
Business Process Modeling in Healthcare bachelor
  • Ruiz, F., Garcia, F., Calahorra, L., Llorente, C., Gonçalves, L., Daniel, C., & Blobel, B. (2012). Business process modeling in healthcare. Stud Health Technol Inform179, 75-87.
  • Rad, A. A., Benyoucef, M., & Kuziemsky, C. E. (2009). An evaluation framework for business process modeling languages in healthcare. Journal of theoretical and applied electronic commerce research4(2), 1-19.
  • Braun, R., Schlieter, H., Burwitz, M., & Esswein, W. (2015). Extending a business process modeling language for domain-specific adaptation in healthcare.

 

When Is It Adequate to Rely on AI in the Medical Field? Evaluating Current Topics on (Appropriate) Reliance in AI bachelor
  • Trust and medical AI: the challenges we face and the expertise needed to overcome them (Quinn et al., 2020).
  • Trust in AI: why we should be designing for APPROPRIATE reliance (Benda et al. , 2021).
  • Medical Informatics in a Tension Between Black-Box AI and Trust (Sariyar and Holm, 2022)
Applications - -
Community Health Information System (CHIS) Design in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) (e.g., system models & functional components) bachelor
  • Krist, A. H., Phillips, R., Leykum, L., & Olmedo, B. (2021). Digital health needs for implementing high-quality primary care: recommendations from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 28(12), 2738-2742.
  • Tummers, J., Tobi, H., Catal, C., & Tekinerdogan, B. (2021). Designing a reference architecture for health information systems. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 21(1), 1-14.
  • Were, M. C., Savai, S., Mokaya, B., Mbugua, S., Ribeka, N., Cholli, P., & Yeung, A. (2021). mUzima Mobile Electronic Health Record (EHR) System: Development and Implementation at Scale. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(12), e26381.
  • Marcolino, M. S., Oliveira, J. A. Q., Cimini, C. C. R., Maia, J. X., Pinto, V. S. O. A., Sá, T. Q. V., … & Ribeiro, A. L. (2021). Development and implementation of a decision support system to improve control of hypertension and diabetes in a resource-constrained area in Brazil: mixed methods study. Journal of medical Internet research, 23(1), e18872.
  • Zaidi, S., Kazi, A. M., Riaz, A., Ali, A., Najmi, R., Jabeen, R., … & Sayani, S. (2020). Operability, usefulness, and task-technology fit of an mhealth app for delivering primary health care services by community health workers in underserved areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan: Qualitative study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(9), e18414.
  • Faujdar, D. S., Sahay, S., Singh, T., Kaur, M., & Kumar, R. (2020). Field testing of a digital health information system for primary health care: a quasi-experimental study from India. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 141, 104235.
Closing the loop/ Integration of Apps with Health Information Systems bachelor
  • Brahmbhatt Ronak; Niakan Shadi; Saha Nishita; Tewari Anukriti; Pirani Ashfiya; Keshavjee Natasha et al. (2017): Diabetes mHealth Apps: Designing for Greater Uptake. In Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 234, pp. 49–53. DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-742-9-49.
  • Kong, Tracie; Scott, Mary Morgan; Li, Yang; Wichelman, Cynthia (2020): Physician attitudes towards-and adoption of-mobile health. In Digital health 6, 2055207620907187. DOI: 10.1177/2055207620907187.
  • Lobelo, Felipe; Kelli, Heval M.; Tejedor, Sheri Chernetsky; Pratt, Michael; McConnell, Michael V.; Martin, Seth S.; Welk, Gregory J. (2016): The Wild Wild West: A Framework to Integrate mHealth Software Applications and Wearables to Support Physical Activity Assessment, Counseling and Interventions for Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction. In Progress in cardiovascular diseases 58 (6), pp. 584–594. DOI: 10.1016/j.pcad.2016.02.007.
  • Paglialonga, Alessia; Patel, Anisha A.; Pinto, Erica; Mugambi, Dora; Keshavjee, Karim (2019): The Healthcare System Perspective in mHealth. In Giuseppe Andreoni, Paolo Perego, Enrico Frumento (Eds.): m_Health Current and Future Applications. Cham: Springer International Publishing (SpringerLink Bücher), pp. 127–142
A Framework for Explainable Image Detection (Would involve the implementation of a deep learning approach using state-of-the-art XAI approaches, e.g., Grad-CAM) master
  • van der Velden, B. H., Kuijf, H. J., Gilhuijs, K. G., & Viergever, M. A. (2021). Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) in deep learning-based medical image analysis. arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.10912.
  • Litjens, G., Kooi, T., Bejnordi, B. E., Setio, A. A. A., Ciompi, F., Ghafoorian, M., ... & Sánchez, C. I. (2017). A survey on deep learning in medical image analysis. Medical image analysis42, 60-88
  • Adadi, A., & Berrada, M. (2018). Peeking inside the black-box: a survey on explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). IEEE access6, 52138-52160.
Supporting Doctoral Advice-Giving bachelor
  • Crampton, Noah H., Shmuel Reis, and Aviv Shachak. “Computers in the clinical encounter: a scoping review and thematic analysis.” Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 23.3 (2016): 654-665.
  • Saleem, Jason J., et al. “You and me and the computer makes three: variations in exam room use of the electronic health record.” Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 21.e1 (2014): e147-e151.
  • Duke, Pamela, Richard M. Frankel, and Shmuel Reis. “How to integrate the electronic health record and patient-centered communication into the medical visit: a skills-based approach.” Teaching and learning in medicine 25.4 (2013): 358-365.
  • Mørck, Peter, et al. “Variations in oncology consultations: how dictation allows variations to be documented in standardized ways.” Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 27.3 (2018): 539-568.
  • Pearce, Christopher, et al. “The patient and the computer in the primary care consultation.” Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 18.2 (2011): 138-142.

Additional Topics, if we have a large number of participants, include:

Technical Foundations

  • Patient-Centred Information Systems
  • Systems for Health Research
  • Data Quality and Its Influence on Fate (Fair, Accountable, Transparent, Explainable) Algorithms in Digital Health
  • Quality assurance in digital healthcare ecosystems.
  • Causality vs. Correlation: Multiple Case Studies, When Correlation Was Not Enough to Treat Patients and Showcasing New Approaches in the Field of Causal Inference

Management, Ethics, Law

  • Ethical and medical concerns and justifications of app-based healthcare
  • Algorithmic bias in medical applications. Consequences and solutions.
  • How and why are medical algorithms / medical apps morally relevant? Applying moral mediation framework to automated decision making in healthcare.
  • Data protection concerns and solutions in app-based healthcare
  • Policy for automated decision making in medicine: rights, responsibilities, expectations
  • Supporting vs. Substituting Health Care Professionals: (When) Is It Adequate to Let Machines Take Over?
  • A Survey on Biases In Health Care and Its Negative Influences on the Health of Patients.
  • literature analysis of the ethical issues investigated by the digital health community vs “traditional” health. Skills in NLP is required.
  • Are we on the way towards a doctor-free healthcare? Visions, reality, and potential impact of IS.

Applications

  • Applications for Pandemics
  • Digital Health Apps for x (Fitness, Nutrition, doctor appointments)
  • Telemedicine Applications
  • Information Systems for the Ageing Society
  • COVID: What Really Did the Restrictions Achieve? A Verdict After 2 Years.
  • Comparative analysis – digital health applications across the world, Africa vs Americas vs Asia vs Europe. What can we learn from each other?
  • Individualized/personalized and easy-to-understand patient information based on EMR (e.g., through patient portals)
  • Explainability of decisions as a core aspect of patient-centred healthcare. Today’s practice/aspirations of healthcare professionals vs. automated decision making.
  • General trends in digital-healthcare discourse and emerging gaps. What follows after apps, automated decision making, and platformization?
  • Social media / web 2.0 in healthcare: patient empowerment or source of confusion?

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