Health Services and Informatics Research (HSIR) at Parkview Health was founded in 2014 – bringing concrete solutions to problems that patients, healthcare providers, the community, and the health care system face through traditional research studies, pilot studies, and program evaluation.
Led by Tammy Toscos, Director of Health Services and Informatics Research, the team researches how to use technology to impact patient behaviors and engagement to improve health outcomes and workflow for providers. Projects focus on social-behavioral, cardiology, public health, data science, and health informatics that are sponsored internally by Parkview Health or externally funded through federal or private grants. The team collaborates with Parkview clinicians, patients, and community partners to conduct research and quality improvement projects ranging from focus groups and online surveys to workflow and technology evaluation, supported by their in-house User Experience lab.
The HSIR team also hosts student interns throughout the year who work directly with research scientists on private and federally funded studies. In this internship program, students gain experience in a variety of aspects of the research process, such as research ethics, the daily management of research studies, observational coding, qualitative coding, data analysis, and the presentation of research findings.
Led by Tammy Toscos, Director of Health Services and Informatics Research, the team researches how to use technology to impact patient behaviors and engagement to improve health outcomes and workflow for providers. Projects focus on social-behavioral, cardiology, public health, data science, and health informatics that are sponsored internally by Parkview Health or externally funded through federal or private grants. The team collaborates with Parkview clinicians, patients, and community partners to conduct research and quality improvement projects ranging from focus groups and online surveys to workflow and technology evaluation, supported by their in-house User Experience lab.
The HSIR team also hosts student interns throughout the year who work directly with research scientists on private and federally funded studies. In this internship program, students gain experience in a variety of aspects of the research process, such as research ethics, the daily management of research studies, observational coding, qualitative coding, data analysis, and the presentation of research findings.
Submissions from 2007
Why it’s worth the hassle: The value of in-situ studies when designing ubicomp., Yvonne Rogers, Kay Connelly, Lenore Tedesco, William Hazlewood, Andrew Kurtz, Robert E. Hall, Josh Hursey, and Tammy Toscos Phd
Submissions from 2006
Mobile applications that empower people to monitor their personal health, Kay Connelly, A M. Faber, Y Rogers, Katie Siek, and Tammy Toscos PhD
Chick clique: persuasive technology to motivate teenage girls to exercise, Tammy Toscos PhD, Anne Faber, Shunying An, and Mona Praful Gandhi