July 13, 2011
Etc.: Campus news & notes
HEALTHY SMART APP: A research and development team led by recently graduated MS student Michael Watt, Professor Mark Haselkorn and Affiliate Professor Keith Butler — all of Human Centered Design & Engineering — is one of the top award winners in a national challenge competition for Smart Apps for health care, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The team worked in partnership with one of Human Centered Design & Engineerings corporate affiliates, General UI, to develop Priority Contact, a health information technology application designed to work on a common platform of electronic patient records. The application was awarded honorable mention in the competition.
Priority Contact is a software application to reduce nonproductive physician time by managing contact with patients about their test results. It was designed by modeling clinical workflow using MATH, an advanced tool suite for process capture and analysis. MATH identifies “pain points,” captures the “business rules” and generates the information architecture needed to improve a process for fast translation into software. Priority Contact is the first product to come out of Haselkorn and Butler’s research with the National Center for Cognitive Informative and Design Making in Healthcare.
Marjorie Rombauer
LEGAL WRITING STAR: Law Professor Emerita Marjorie Rombauer was given the Burton Award for Outstanding Contributions to Legal Writing Education by the Burton Foundation, a volunteer, not-for-profit, academic organization concentrating on legal writing. The award is presented for outstanding contributions to the education of new lawyers in the field of legal analysis, research and writing, whether through teaching, program design, program support, innovative thinking or writing. Rombauer graduated from the UW Law School in 1960 and taught legal writing from then until her retirement in 1993. After her retirement, the Association of Legal Writing Directors created the Rombauer Award in her honor, given annually to a person who has contributed significantly to the field of legal writing.
RADIO DRAMA: Peter Kelley, News & Information writer and assistant editor of UW Today, is an occasional actor for The Adventures of Harry Nile, local radio man Jim Frenchs decades-old series about a Seattle-based private detective in the 1940s and 50s. Kelley played a role in a new episode, recorded before a live audience Monday, July 11, at the Kirkland Performance Center. The show will be broadcast Sept. 11 on KIXI radio, as well as XM Radio and about 100 other stations nationwide.
