Dr. Jeff R. Collmann Profile

Dr. Jeff R. Collmann

Radiology Manager at Georgetown Univ

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Proceedings Article | 19 May 2003 Paper

Developing and theoretically justifying innovative organizational practices in health information assurance

Jeff Collmann

Proceedings Volume 5033, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.480454

KEYWORDS: Information assurance, Defense and security, Computing systems, Computer security, Medicine, Reliability, Information security, Modulation transfer functions, Safety, Information technology

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Proceedings Article | 19 May 2003 Paper

Policy revision in health enterprise information security: P3WG final report

Kristen Sostrom, Jeff Collmann

Proceedings Volume 5033, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.480468

KEYWORDS: Information security, Defense and security, Computer security, Medical research, Information technology, Information assurance, Medicine, Computing systems, Telemedicine, Standards development

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Proceedings Article | 19 May 2003 Paper

Web survey data collection and retrieval to plan teleradiology implementation

Adil Alaoui, Jeff Collmann, Jeffrey Johnson, David Lindisch, Dan Nguyen, Seong Mun

Proceedings Volume 5033, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.480678

KEYWORDS: Teleradiology, Computing systems, Imaging systems, Systems engineering, Medical imaging, Radiology, Databases, Medicine, Data compression, Internet

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This case study details the experience of system engineers of the Imaging Science and Information Systems Center, Georgetown University Medical Center (ISIS) and radiologists from the department of Radiology in the implementation of a new Teleradiology system. The Teleradiology system enables radiologists to view medical images from remote sites under those circumstances where a resident radiologist needs assistance in evaluating the images after hours and during weekends; it also enables clinicians access to patients’ medical images from different workstations within the hospital. The Implementation of the Teleradiology project was preceded by an evaluation phase to perform testing, gather users feedback using a web site and collect information that helped eliminate system bugs, complete recommendations regarding minimum hardware configuration and bandwidth and enhance system’s functions, this phase included a survey-based system assessment of computer configurations, Internet connections, problem identification, and recommendations for improvement, and a testing period with 2 radiologists and ISIS engineers; The second phase was designed to launch the system and make it available to all attending radiologists in the department. To accomplish the first phase of the project a web site was designed and ASP pages were created to enable users to securely logon and enter feedback and recommendations into an SQL database. This efficient, accurate data flow alleviated networking, software and hardware problems. Corrective recommendations were immediately forwarded to the software vendor. The vendor responded with software updates that better met the needs of the radiologists. The ISIS Center completed recommendations for minimum hardware and bandwidth requirements. This experience illustrates that the approach used in collecting the data and facilitating the teamwork between the system engineers and radiologists was instrumental in the project’s success. Major problems with the Teleradiology system were discovered and remedied early by linking the actual practice experience of the physicians to the system improvements.

Proceedings Article | 19 May 2003 Paper

Safe teleradiology: information assurance as project planning methodology

Jeff Collmann, Adil Alaoui, Dan Nguyen, David Lindisch

Proceedings Volume 5033, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.480455

KEYWORDS: Teleradiology, Information assurance, Information security, Computer security, Information technology, Computing systems, Radiology, Medicine, Telecommunications, Defense and security

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This project demonstrates use of OCTAVE, an information security risk assessment method, as an approach to the safe design and planning of a teleradiology system. By adopting this approach to project planning, we intended to provide evidence that including information security as an intrinsic component of project planning improves information assurance and that using information assurance as a planning tool produces and improves the general system management plan. Several considerations justify this approach to planning a safe teleradiology system. First, because OCTAVE was designed as a method for retrospectively assessing and proposing enhancements for the security of existing information management systems, it should function well as a guide to prospectively designing and deploying a secure information system such as teleradiology. Second, because OCTAVE provides assessment and planning tools for use primarily by interdisciplinary teams from user organizations, not consultants, it should enhance the ability of such teams at the local level to plan safe information systems. Third, from the perspective of sociological theory, OCTAVE explicitly attempts to enhance organizational conditions identified as necessary to safely manage complex technologies. Approaching information system design from the perspective of information security risk management proactively integrates health information assurance into a project’s core. This contrasts with typical approaches that perceive “security” as a secondary attribute to be “added” after designing the system and with approaches that identify information assurance only with security devices and user training. The perspective of health information assurance embraces so many dimensions of a computerized health information system’s design that one may successfully deploy a method for retrospectively assessing information security risk as a prospective planning tool. From a sociological perspective, this approach enhances the general conditions as well as establishes specific policies and procedures for reliable performance of health information assurance.

Proceedings Article | 7 August 2001 Paper

HIPAA and the military health system: organizing technological and organizational reform in large enterprises

Jeff Collmann

Proceedings Volume 4323, (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.435465

KEYWORDS: Information assurance, Computer security, Modulation transfer functions, Defense and security, Information security, Medicine, Information technology, Telecommunications, Defense technologies, Surgery

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Proceedings Article | 7 August 2001 Paper

Reviewing and reforming policy in health enterprise information security

Kristen Sostrom, Jeff Collmann

Proceedings Volume 4323, (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.435464

KEYWORDS: Information security, Defense and security, Information technology, Computer security, Modulation transfer functions, Medicine, Computing systems, Matrices, Process modeling, Information assurance

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Proceedings Article | 22 May 1997 Paper

Design of a multimedia PC-based telemedicine network for the monitoring of renal dialysis patients

Walid Tohme, James Winchester, Hailei Dai, Nassib Khanafer, Marion Meissner, Jeff Collmann, Kevin Schulman, Ayah Johnson, Matthew Freedman, Seong Mun

Proceedings Volume 3035, (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.274619

KEYWORDS: Telemedicine, Video, Multimedia, Diagnostics, Video compression, Data storage, Medicine, Databases, Imaging systems, Ultrasonography

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Proceedings Article | 22 May 1997 Paper

Protecting clinical data in PACS, teleradiology systems, and research environments

Marion Meissner, Jeff Collmann, Walid Tohme, Seong Mun

Proceedings Volume 3035, (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.274570

KEYWORDS: Computer security, Computing systems, Information security, Control systems, Picture Archiving and Communication System, Network security, Telemedicine, Internet, Medical research, Biometrics

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Proceedings Article | 22 May 1997 Paper

Comparing the security risks of paper-based and computerized patient record systems

Jeff Collmann, Marion Meissner, Walid Tohme, James Winchester, Seong Mun

Proceedings Volume 3035, (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.274569

KEYWORDS: Computing systems, Computer security, Information security, Kidney, Telemedicine, X-rays, Medicine, Systems modeling, Network security, Computer networks

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Proceedings Article | 15 April 1996 Paper

Design-based approach to ethics in computer-aided diagnosis

Jeff Collmann, Jyh-Shyan Lin, Matthew Freedman, Chris Wu, Wendelin Hayes, Seong Mun

Proceedings Volume 2707, (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.238492

KEYWORDS: Computer aided diagnosis and therapy, Databases, Computer aided design, Computing systems, Mammography, Breast cancer, Neural networks, Chest imaging, Lung cancer, Lung

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Proceedings Article | 12 May 1995 Paper

Project RavenCare: global multimedia telemedicine in Alaska

Walid Tohme, Jeff Collmann, Seong Mun, David Vastola

Proceedings Volume 2435, (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.208817

KEYWORDS: Telemedicine, Medicine, Telecommunications, Teleradiology, Radiology, Multimedia, Satellites, Satellite communications, Imaging systems, Chromium

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Proceedings Article | 12 May 1995 Paper

Reflecting on the ethical administration of computerized medical records

Jeff Collmann

Proceedings Volume 2435, (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.208822

KEYWORDS: Computing systems, Medicine, Radiology, Picture Archiving and Communication System, Telecommunications, Information science, Computer security, Databases, Clinical research, Medical imaging

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This presentation examines the ethical issues raised by computerized image management and communication systems (IMAC), the ethical principals that should guide development of policies, procedures and practices for IMACS systems, and who should be involved in developing a hospital's approach to these issues. The ready access of computerized records creates special hazards of which hospitals must beware. Hospitals must maintain confidentiality of patient's records while making records available to authorized users as efficiently as possible. The general conditions of contemporary health care undermine protecting the confidentiality of patient record. Patients may not provide health care institutions with information about themselves under conditions of informed consent. The field of information science must design sophisticated systems of computer security that stratify access, create audit trails on data changes and system use, safeguard patient data from corruption, and protect the databases from outside invasion. Radiology professionals must both work with information science experts in their own hospitals to create institutional safeguards and include the adequacy of security measures as a criterion for evaluating PACS systems. New policies and procedures on maintaining computerized patient records must be developed that obligate all members of the health care staff, not just care givers. Patients must be informed about the existence of computerized medical records, the rules and practices that govern their dissemination and given the opportunity to give or withhold consent for their use. Departmental and hospital policies on confidentiality should be reviewed to determine if revisions are necessary to manage computer-based records. Well developed discussions of the ethical principles and administrative policies on confidentiality and informed consent and of the risks posed by computer-based patient records systems should be included in initial and continuing staff system training. Administration should develop ways to monitor staff compliance with confidentiality policies and should assess diligence in maintaining patient record confidentiality as part of staff annual performance evaluations. Ethical management of IMAC systems is the business of all members of the health care team. Computerized patient records management (including IMAC) should be scrutinized as any other clinical medial ethical issue. If hospitals include these processes in their planning for RIS, IMACS, and HIS systems, they should have time to develop institutional expertise on these questions before and as systems are installed rather than only as ethical dilemmas develop during their use.

Proceedings Article | 1 May 1994 Paper

Tests of a new paper display for radiology images

Richard Patt, Matthew Freedman, Dorothy Steller Artz, Sunder Rajan, Jeff Collmann, Seong Mun

Proceedings Volume 2164, (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.174003

KEYWORDS: Printing, Nonimpact printing, Magnetic resonance imaging, Image quality, Radiology, Imaging systems, Telecommunications, Cameras, Interfaces

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