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Publications

Original Reports :

  1. Psoter W, Triola M , Morse D, Rekow D. Enhancing medical and public health capabilities during times of crisis. N Y State Dent J. 2003;69:25-7. Medline UI: 12875135.
  2. Triola M, Holzman R. Agent-Based Simulation of Nosocomial Transmission in the Medical Intensive Care Unit. In: Krol M, Mitra S, Lee D, editors. Proceedings of the 16th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems; 2003; New York , NY . California : IEEE Computer Society; 2003. p 284-8. Medline UI: 9738777.
  3. Triola M , Feldman H, Pearlman E, Kalet A. Meeting Requirements and Changing Culture: the Development of a Web-based Clinical Skills Evaluation System. J Gen Intern Med 2004;19:490–493.
  4. Qualter J, Triola M , Weiner M, Hopkins MA , Kirov M, Nachbar M. The Virtual Surgery Patient: Development of a digital, three-dimensional model of human anatomy designed for surgical education. Long R, Antani S, Lee DJ, Nutter B, Zhang M, editors. Proceedings of the 17th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems; 2004; Bethesda , MD. California : IEEE Computer Society; 2004.
  5. Triola M , Weiner M, Hopkins MA , Holloway W, Levin R, Riles T, Nachbar M. Surgical Interactive Multimedia Modules: A novel, non-browser based architecture for medical education. Long R, Antani S, Lee DJ, Nutter B, Zhang M, editors. Proceedings of the 17th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems; 2004; Bethesda , MD. California : IEEE Computer Society; 2004.
  6. Triola M, Holzman R. Computer Simulation of Pathogen Transmission in the Medical Intensive Care Unit: A Comparison of Two Probabilistic Methods. Shortliffe E, ed. MEDINFO 2004. Proceedings of the 11th World Congress on Medical Informatics; 2004; San Francisco , CA. Amsterdam: IOS Press; 2004:1277-81. PMID: 15361020
  7. Kushniruk A, Triola M , Stein B, Boryckid E, Kannry J. The Relationship of Usability to Medical Error: An Evaluation of Errors Associated with Usability Problems in the Use of a Handheld Application for Prescribing Medications. Shortliffe E, ed. MEDINFO 2004. Proceedings of the 11th World Congress on Medical Informatics; 2004; San Francisco , CA. Amsterdam: IOS Press; 2004:1073-6. PMID: 15360977

Books and Book Chapters:

Freeman R, Kalet A, Kachur E, Lipkin M, Prager J, Triola M , Zabar S. Psychosocial Aspects of Terrorism and Disasters. In: Coule PL, Dallas CE, James JJ, et al, eds. Basic Disaster Life Support Provider Manual. V 2.5. Chicago , IL : American Medical Association; 2004.

Computer Software and Internet publications :

  1. Triola M. Statdisk [computer program]. Version 9.5, 9.5.1, 9.5.2, 9.5.3, 9.5.5. Boston MA : Addison-Wesley Inc.; 2003, 2004, 2005.
  2. Triola M , Freeman R, Kachur E, Praeger J, Lipkin M. Psychosocial aspects of bioterrorism and disaster medicine: education for readiness and response [CD-ROM]. New York University Center for Health Information Preparedness. Version 1.0, 1.1, 1.5. New York : NYUSM; 2003.
  3. Triola M, Heinzerling K. Interactive safe injection tutorial. Clean Needles Now. [WWW Document]. October, 2003; http://www.cleanneedlesnow.org/.
  4. Triola M , Feldman H. Center for Health Information Preparedness. NYU School of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine. [WWW Document]. April, 2004; http://chip.med.nyu.edu.

  Presentations :

  1. Lipkin M, Cope D, Eisenman D, Freeman R, Lee J, Lurie N, Schwartz M, Triola M , Zabar S. Psychosocial aspects of bioterrorism: preparing Primary Care. The 26th Annual Meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine; 2003 April 30 – May 3; Vancouver , Canada .
  2. Zabar S, Kachur E, Kalet A, Triola M , Yedidia M, Freeman R, Blaser M, Steigbigel N, Lipkin M. Practicing Bioterrorism-Related Communication Skills with Standardized Patients (SPs). American Academy on Physician and Patient 2003 Teaching & Research Forum: Emerging Trends in Health Communication; 2003 October 9-12; Baltimore Maryland .
  3. Lipkin M, Kalet A, Zabar S, Triola M , Freeman R. Psychosocial Aspects of Bio-terrorism: Preparing Physicians Utilizing an Evidence-Based, Experiential Model and Multi-Modal Evaluation. The 114th American Association of Medical Colleges Annual Meeting; 2003 November 7-12; Washington , D.C.
  4. Nachbar M, Hopkins MA, Weiner M, Levin R, Weider J, Holloway W, Poultney C, Chase J, Krackov S, Triola M , Castiglia C, Uretsky M. Infrastructure For Rich Media Educational Environments. The 114th American Association of Medical Colleges Annual Meeting; 2003 November 7-12; Washington , D.C.
  5. Lipkin M, Kalet A, Zabar S, Triola M , Freeman R. Practicing bioterrorism-related psychosocial skills with standardized patients. The 2004 SGIM Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting; 2004 March 19; Philadelphia , PA.
  6. Triola M , McGee JB. Medical Education and the World Wide Web: Features, Issues, Directions for Innovation. The 13th International World Wide Web Conference; 2004 May 18; New York , NY .
  7. Triola M . Computer simulation of pathogen transmission in the medical intensive care unit: a comparison of two probabilistic methods. the 11th World Congress on Medical Informatics; September 11 th , 2004; San Francisco , CA.

Abstracts and Posters :

  1. Heinzerling K, Shalev N, Triola M . Brief intervention to reduce harmful injection practices among injection drug users in health care settings. The 4th National Harm Reduction Conference; 2002 December 1-4; Seattle , Washington .
  2. Nachbar M, Hopkins MA, Weiner M, Levin R, Weider J, Holloway W, Poultney C, Chase J, Krackov S, Triola M , Castiglia , Uretsky M. Infrastructure for rich media educational environments. The 114th American Association of Medical Colleges Annual Meeting; 2003 November 7-12; Washington , D.C.
  3. Triola M , Blaser M. An email alert system for internal medicine physicians. In: Musen M, ed. Biomedical and health informatics: from foundations to applications. The 2003 American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium. Bethesda , MD : American Medical Informatics Association; 2003. p. 1035. PMID: 14728538.
  4. Triola M. A computer simulation of pathogen transmission dynamics in the MICU. Department of Medicine Research Day, NYU School of Medicine , May 2003.
  5. Triola M , Holzman R. Modeling transmission of pathogens in the medical intensive care unit (MICU): length of stay (LOS) is an important determinant of transmission rate. The 41 st annual meeting of the Infectious Disease Society of America, October 8 th -12 th , 2003. Abstract 549.
  6. Holzman R, Triola M . The effect of length of stay (LOS) on infection rates in the medical intensive care unit (MICU). The 41 st annual meeting of the Infectious Disease Society of America, October 8 th -12 th , 2003. Abstract 550.
  7. Zabar S, Kalet AL, Kachur EK, Triola M , Yedidia M, Blaser M, Steigbigel NH, Freeman R, Lipkin M. Practicing bioterrorism-related psychosocial skills with standardized patients. The 27th Annual Meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine; 2004 May 12-15; Chicago , Illinois .
  8. Feldman H, Triola M . ResEval: A Web-based Evaluation System for Internal Medicine House Staff. Feldman S, Uretsky M, eds. Proceedings of the 13th International World Wide Web Conference; 2004; New York , NY . New York : the Association for Computing Machinery; 2004.
  9. Triola M , Feldman H, Kachur E, Holloway W, Friedman B. A novel feedback system for virtual patient interactions. Shortliffe E, ed. MEDINFO 2004. Proceedings of the 11th World Congress on Medical Informatics; 2004; San Francisco , CA. Amsterdam: IOS Press; 2004: 1886. PMID: 15360714
  10. Kachur EK, Praeger J, Freeman R, Lipkin M, Zabar S, Triola M , Yedidia M. Strategies for teaching clinicians about communicating with the media - What worked, what did not work. The Second International Conference On Communication In Healthcare; 2004; Bruges Belgium . London : Elsevier Press; 2004: P01.10.

 

Research Projects

Our goal is to compile a comprehensive list of Medical Informatics activities and projects taking place at NYUMC. If you would like the work you are doing listed here, please email us.

Modeling Nosocomial Transmission in the Medical Intensive Care Unit

This project uses the Objective C/Swarm simulation languages to model the transmission of a nosocomial pathogen transmission in the medical intensive care unit at our affiliated public hospital. Using data collected from the MICU in Bellevue Hospital, a probabilistic model was created to simulate the conveyance of the carrier state of an unspecified organism from patients to nurses and back. The model investigates the effects of hand washing frequency, conveyance factors, staffing issues, and patterns of antibiotic usage.

Psychosocial aspects of bioterrorism

A CDC Center for Public Health Preparedness initiative, the purpose of this project is to educate primary care physicians about the diagnosis and treatment of psychosocial and emotional pathology that follows a disaster. There is both a live workshop and web-based educational component to this effort.

Enhancing Medical and Public Health Capabilities During Times of Crisis

A Department of Homeland Security funded initiative, this is a project to educate health care professionals who have traditionally not had a significant role in disaster response (i.e. dentists, non hospital-based physicians, etc.). This project uses the Infrastructure for Rich Media Educational Environments technology developed at NYUSM.

ResEval

The Internal Medicine Residency Training Program has recently moved to a new online application for capturing house staff evaluations (ResEval). This project is a longitudinal study designed to assess house staff satisfaction and overall compliance with the new system as well as contrast this analysis with performance measures from our traditional paper-based system. We are using online surveys and database analysis to assess our outcomes.

Infrastructure for Rich Media Educational Environments (IRMEE)

A system for the accumulation, sharing and amplification of the knowledge and experience that flows through the medical campus on a daily basis. This system is designed to facilitate teaching and learning through the collaborative assemblage and re-assemblage of a wide variety of media. Participation and device independency are favored over static, discreet teaching and learning. Various forms of intelligence operate on the system to provide services such as knowledge versioning and review, learner assessment and courseware evaluation.

Email emergency response study

This study evaluates the effectiveness of an email-based alerting system for internal medicine house staff and faculty in geographically dispersed locales. Responses to a test-alert email message are used to quantify the rapidity by which physicians read an alert message and to define subgroups in which this communication modality proves successful. The results of this study are being used to improve our preparedness for emergencies.

Handheld prescription writer study

A collaborative Mount Sinai/NYU effort, this study will consist of a rigorous usability study of two Palm-based prescription write applications. Participants will be asked to perform a series of standardized tasks with one of the applications as well as with traditional paper solutions. Video and audio recordings of their use will be analyzed using a coding method that is goal/task centric.