Michigan IT Symposium 2019 View Other Sessions

Virtual Care: Successful Telemedicine Programs – Rolling out a successful telemedicine program requires significant collaboration and coordination between people, organizations, and health information technologists.

Connecting MDs to MDs and MDs to patients to optimize patient care, minimize inefficiencies, and maximize access requires orchestration between patients and providers, billing, scheduling, compliance, insurance reimbursement, EHRs/PACs, affiliate/partner organizations, credentialing, and training. Tele-stroke, tele-neurology, pediatric tele-epilepsy, tele-maternal fetal medicine, neurointensive care tele-rounding, Michigan Child Care Collaborative (MC3) pediatric and perinatal tele-psychiatry and child protection team teleconsults are some examples of Michigan Medicine’s telemedicine successes. Also, over 30 different multidisciplinary tumor boards allow radiologists, pathologists, surgeons, oncologists and many other specialists to connect and optimize complex patient diagnosis and treatment. 

This patient care utilizes an infrastructure integrating Polycom, Cisco, Vidyo, Blue Jeans, and peripheral devices to provide connectivity between Michigan Medicine and its affiliates and strategic partners around the world including MidMichigan Health, Metro Health, MD Anderson, Ghana, Ethiopia, India, and many other locations.

To date, the Center for Academic Innovation has developed over a dozen software tools from faculty ideas into full applications, some of which have become commercially available products. With the help of our faculty innovators, we have established an effective process for idea exploration, product planning, software and content development, implementation, and iteration. 

Our presentation will focus on four practices of our team that have contributed to our successful software development: 

• Collaborating closely with a faculty innovator who has deep knowledge of the problem we’re addressing, while our team works to develop a software solution for it
• Focusing on building an MVP (minimum viable product) and then iterating once we learn from the way users engage with the MVP Drawing on the skill sets and perspectives of a multidisciplinary team to ensure that we build well-designed, user-centered software that solves real problems 
• Considering the future commercialization opportunities for a software tool from the beginning of development, so that we build for scale and breadth of applicability
• Through experimentation and iteration, our team continues to hone our approach to evaluating ideas and building software. In this session, we are eager to share what we’ve learned so that others can reflect on our process, pitfalls, and successes in order to inform their own practice.

ArcGIS Online is a simple yet powerful interactive mapping tool to which everyone at the University of Michigan has access. ArcGIS Online can be used to visualize data, analyze spatial patterns, and present materials in a professional-looking app. 

In this hands-on workshop, we will learn how to use ArcGIS Online to easily turn a spreadsheet into a map, discover and add data from authoritative sources to the map, customize the map's appearance, and publish the map for sharing, all on the web. We will also look at some of the options for analyzing and presenting map data, as well as some of the tools and technologies available for collecting geographic datasets.

The My Learning Analytics (MyLA) team will share their experience developing and implementing student-facing visualizations of Canvas course data. With a focus on providing students actionable insights, the team drafted, discarded, and redesigned many prototypes along the way to piloting. This presentation focuses on the impact of collaboration between faculty researchers and ITS staff to design, develop, prototype, and pilot visualizations that support student learning. We hope to give a flavor of the process, the resulting software, and the preliminary research results.   

Partnering with faculty and student researchers from the U-M School of Information and School of Education, a team from ITS Teaching & Learning developed MyLA, a set of student-facing data visualizations about student learning activity. Research on previous student-facing dashboards informed development of the tool. The visualizations provide a transparent view of students’ course standing, reveal behavioral patterns associated with good learning skills, and guide decisions about actions students can take that may improve their academic outcomes. To increase visibility, we embedded the visualizations in the normal learning workflows of the LMS.  

Presenters will share the story of the tool development, as well as lessons learned and feedback from initial student users. Discussion will address how the team leveraged expertise in learning, motivation, and information visualization in an iterative approach to design and development. We will also discuss how this collaboration supports faculty research goals, provides a successful proof of concept as the first application to use the nascent Unizin Data Platform (UDP), and provides a service that supports student success.

The ability to interact with devices through voice and conversational user interfaces is opening many possibilities to enhance and expand existing services. Some talk about voice now similar to the early days of the web, and could be similarly ubiquitous in a few short years.

Staff from ITS Teaching and Learning and Information Quest would like to lead an innovative session discussion around how we've incorporated voice into our existing applications and how they can further enhance teaching, learning and other services.

In order to accommodate a recent growth in enrollment, Engineering has begun utilizing a suite of SAAS applications to: allow for online scheduling (with approval workflow), sync classes from Mpathways into the application, utilize a scheduling algorithm to optimize the class to classroom assignments and generate analytics and reports. These software products allow the College of Engineering to maximize the use of our classrooms while utilizing analytics to make data informed decisions. We have been working with the Provost Office, Registrar’s Office, ITS, and others across campus to implement a solution that could be used by others on campus. 

Participants need to register for Part 1 and Part 2.

Learning how to ask for and offer help has been proven to build positive culture, increase employee engagement, and improve productivity. In this two hour session, attendees can hear from business process owners who will present brief summaries of challenges they face in their departments, including topics such as tracking visiting scholars and managing budget commitments. We will then break out into groups to collaborate with peers on different ways to leverage technology and our experience to solve the issues presented.