Jose F. Arocha

Teaching interests

Health informatics, decision-making, cognitive science and human computer interaction

Courses

HLTH 330 Health Informatics

HLTH 473/630 Special Topics in Health Informatics / Decision Making

Research interests

Consumer health informatics, clinical problem solving, reasoning, and decision making, cognitive methodologies for the analysis of human computer interaction, knowledge acquisition, medical expertise, cognitive aspects of computerized clinical practice guidelines

Current major funding sources

• Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Selected publications

• Patel VL, Arocha JF, Diermeier M, Greenes RA, Shortliffe EH. 
  Methods of cognitive analysis to support the design and evaluation 
  of biomedical systems: the case of clinical practice guidelines. J 
  Biomed Inform. 2001;34:52-66.
• Pantazi SV, Arocha, JF, & Moehr, JR (2004). Case-based medical 
  informatics. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak <URL: http:// 
  www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6947-4-19.pdf>.
• Friedman DB, Hoffman-Goetz L, Arocha JF. Readability of cancer 
  information on the internet. J Cancer Educ. 2004;19:117-122.
• Patel VL, Arocha JF, & Zhang J. Thinking and reasoning in medicine. 
  In: Holyoak, K.J. & Morrison, R.G, editors. Cambridge handbook of 
  thinking and reasoning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 
  2005. p. 727-750.
• Arocha JF, Wang D, & Patel VL Identifying reasoning strategies in 
  medical decision making: A methodological guide. J Biomed Inform. 
  2005;38,154-171.
• Friedman, DB, Hoffman-Goetz L, & Arocha JF. Health literacy and the 
  World Wide Web: Comparing the readability of leading incident 
  cancers on the internet. Med Inform Internet Med. 2006;31: 67-87.
• Arocha JF, & Patel VL. Methods in the study of clinical reasoning. 
  In: Higgs J, Jones M, Loftus S, & Christensen N, editors. Clinical 
  reasoning in the health professions. London: Elsevier. In press.

Selected Professional Activities and Networks

• Centre for Behavioural Research and Program Evaluation
• Laboratory of Decision Making and Cognition, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University
• Canadian Research Transfer Network
• American Medical Informatics Association
• Association for Computing Machinery
• American Association for Artificial Intelligence
• Control Systems Group

Technology-related Links

• The Informatics Review
• Linux Medical News
• Slashdot
• First Monday
• Edge

Visit my research page on Consumer Health Informatics at:
http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/chirp/