CIHI News videos
THIA Conference 2021: Plenary Session 1: COVID-19 and Social Media
“An “Infodemic”: Leveraging High-Volume Twitter Data to Understand Early Public Sentiment for the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Outbreak”
Dr. Christoph U. Lehmann, UT Southwestern
THIA 2021 Opening Keynote
“There’s No Place Like Home- Health Informatics Lessons from the Wizard of Oz”
Nora Belcher, Executive Director, Texas e-Health Alliance
THIA Conference 2021: Panel: Informatics Solutions for COVID-19
Katherine Lusk, Senior Director for strategic relationships for the Texas Health Services Authority
Dr. Dean F. Sittig, School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth
Dr. William M. Tierney, Professor of Population Health, Internal Medicine, and Oncology at Dell Medical School, UT Austin
Dr. Ferdinand Velasco, Senior Vice President/Chief Health Information Officer, Texas Health Resources
Moderated by:
Dr. Susan H. Fenton, UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics
Dr. Gabriela Mustata Wilson, UT at Arlington
THIA Conference 2021: Student Session: Student involvement in combating COVID-19
“The Association Between COVID-19-related Stress and Demographics in relation to Social Determinants”
Nicole Cevallos, UT at Arlington
“Reimagining Technology Implementation Strategies for the Front Lines in LTC: Lessons from the COVID-19 Response”
Debra Graham, UT Tyler
“Your TWEETS matter: How social media sentiments influence COVID-19 vaccination rates and vaccine hesitancy”
Ana Aleksandric and Mercy J. Obasanya, UT at Arlington
Moderated by:
Jitenga Knox, UT at Arlington
THIA Conference 2021: Plenary Session 3: Making life easier for health care providers
“Information Emergency: Guidelines Needed, Stat! A Call to Action”
RaeAnna Jeffers, UT at Arlington
“A Randomized Study to Assess Improving Documentation Complexity Using Non-interruptive Clinical Decision Support”
Dr. Jakub Furmaga, UT Southwestern
Moderated by:
Dr. Christoph U. Lehmann, UT Southwestern
THIA Conference 2021: Plenary Session 2: Fighting COVID-19 through Evidence and Crowdsourcing
“Searching for Scientific Evidence in a Pandemic: An Overview of TREC-COVID”
Dr. Kirk Roberts, UT Health Houston School of Biomedical Informatics
“Early Crowdfunding Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-sectional Study”
Dr. Sameh Saleh, UT Southwestern
Moderated by:
Dr. Gabriela Mustata Wilson, UT at Arlington