Health Informatics with Katie Siek (Part 2)

Catalyzing Computing

Part two of Khari Douglas' interview with Dr. Katie Siek, a professor in Informatics and the Chair of Informatics at Indiana University – Bloomington. Dr. Siek is interested in integrating pervasive technologies in health and wellness environments to study how technology affects interventions. Her research interests include human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, and health informatics. In this episode Katie discusses health disparities and how computing technologies can play a role in their reduction, as well as the challenges to doing health informatics research in the field. Timestamps to jump to certain topics: Sociotechnical Interventions for Health Disparity Reduction - (1:07) Ethical Use of Data in Research - (14:36) Challenges to Studying Usability of Technology Systems in the Wild - (20:50) Social Media and Health - (28:05) Proactive Health Informatics RU - (31:00) Dream Health Informatics Research Center - (32:50) Outro - (37:11)