2020 Michigan IT Symposium Posters

This poster will demonstrate the basic idea of what AI is and how to spot it, explore tools that leverage Computer Vision, a subfield of AI, to automate repetitive or hard to learn processes for analyzing and understanding digital images in applications. 

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The Michigan Education Data Center (MEDC) is a secure data clearinghouse for the State of Michigan’s education data and personally identifiable information (PII) on Michigan’s K-12 population. 

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The Cancer Registry filter was added to the Research Data Warehouse DataDirect interface in February 2020. It contains important data for cancer research which is abstracted by certified tumor registrars in Health Information Management to meet American College of Surgeons requirements.

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This project leverages existing documentation to drive new documentation to custom formula flowsheet rows which automate inpatient psychiatric sleep count for both a 24-hour period and a defined nighttime period.

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We created a recurring process that compares U-M Data Warehouse approved grants (aka golden grants) to the current state of grants. The goal was to keep the U-M Data Warehouse refreshed with the proper access.

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This poster will describe how healthcare policy at both federal and state levels drives data aggregation, reporting, and analysis as well as the creation of IT infrastructure to support this work.

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This session presents options and methods for building community and getting students to connect with each other virtually. 

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The winning 2020 Hacks with Friends project, 'Mapping Inclusivity', utilized a suite of cloud-based GIS tools to create a mobile-friendly web map and navigation applications to easily find the nearest accessible, and/or gender-neutral restroom, changing table, lactation or reflection room on campus.

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The Michigan IT Mentorship Program seeks to help IT staff build their professional network by facilitating mentoring either in-person or remotely, individually or in groups.

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MitiGate is an online gateway to unit IT security risk data for Security Unit Liaisons (SULs), unit IT leaders, and unit leadership. It provides a window into certain types of IT security risk data from multiple systems in one place.

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Simple Storage Service (S3) is a popular method of storing data in the cloud and on campus. In order to facilitate gathering these performance metrics, the University of Michigan has developed a S3 performance benchmarking plugin for the popular perfSONAR network toolkit. This plugin was developed by an ITS Intern, and was the result of a departmental project. It will be released as part of the next production perfSONAR release.

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Taubman College rolled out Faculty180, a faculty activity reporting system from Interfolio, this year. The system uses data pulls from central university resources: courses, evaluations, grants, scholarly citations, advisees, etc., to auto-populate fields. 

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March 2020 found the ITS Internship Planning Team organizing interviews with 111 candidates for 44 summer intern positions.  The pandemic forced ITS to make a difficult decision. We had to re-think all aspects of the program (the people, process, and technology) to maintain this unique value and be successful.

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The Data Asset Catalog is both the culmination and the starting point for a wide range of initiatives that aim to create stronger connections among members of the Michigan Medicine Data Community.

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The ITS Salesforce Center of Excellence (SFCOE) is a centralized resource to help unify knowledge, structure, and process around the use of Salesforce across U-M. This poster will discuss the broad needs campus has for effectively using Salesforce, how the ITS SFCOE is helping improve existing uses of Salesforce, bringing in new use cases, and responding to varied and unique needs on the platform.

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What are some of the warning signs that appear when your project or solution is headed down a path that may not end in success? Join us as we share case studies from our own experience, and provide actionable methods to correct your trajectory and bring it back in line with your project goals.

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This poster will focus on the overview of the Alumni Association DART Integration Project 2.0 that was completed in collaboration with ITS and OUD.

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In Fall 2020 ITS is upgrading the antivirus/anti-malware software used across our academic campuses and replacing Microsoft Defender and Sophos with Falcon from CrowdStrike. Come learn how both ITS and unit IT staff can use the new tool to identify and prevent cyber threats before they compromise security.

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In 2019, a small team of staff from across ITS came together to update a decades-old service: Targeted Email. Over the past year, the team integrated disparate technologies (drupal, maestro, MySQL, TeamDynamix, and our existing email campaign system) to build Targeted Email Self-Service (TESS), releasing it on August 21, 2020.

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Building upon the existing CDMs for initiatives such as the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Network (PCORnet) and the Accrual to Clinical Trials (ACT) Network, the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research Network-Based Research Unit (MICHR NBRU) rapidly developed COVID-specific infrastructure with additional data elements that were being developed in real-time as the pandemic unfolded.

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The Liaison Committee for Medical Education (LCME) was scheduled to visit the University of Michigan Medical School (UMMS) in April 2020 for the every-eight-year accreditation survey visit, following an18-month self-study period, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. This poster will detail the process of planning and execution of the second-ever virtual LCME medical school accreditation site visit, and the first to be hosted by the visited school using Zoom.

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As social distancing continues to be the order of the day, there is a need for technology solutions to support real-time synchronous musical performance online. ITS Teaching & Learning is piloting a Jamulus server to support experimentation in online instruction and performance needs by the School of Music, Theater and Dance and other campus units. 

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The ResponsiBLUE screening application was developed to support initial return to campus for U-M Researchers and Health Professionals. 

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Developing interactions for virtual reality and holographic experiences is hard. This poster presents two efficient methods for handling manipulation interactions of 3D models using both controller-based and hand-tracked approaches.

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The software development field has exploded in the past several years and engineers now have countless options to add tools, automations, and services into their projects. Let’s compare notes.

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In 2020, due to COVID-19, some of these had to be cancelled, but collaborations between the ITS Outreach & Special Programs team and key program coordinators allowed many summer camps, professional conferences and other programs to successfully move online. This poster will show the processes developed to respond to program needs and share lessons learned.

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Prior to COVID, Ross had only 38 student-reservable study rooms for group / project work. Learn how Ross added 312 more reservable seats to the system, permitting over 1,750 reservations a day.

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The Data Concierge service provides personalized assistance with locating data-related resources across Michigan Medicine.

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By leveraging the existing pain documentation, we were able to implement a custom formula driven flowsheet row, which automatically evaluates and files data each time a pain score is documented. This flowsheet row evaluates the current pain score being documented and compares it to the previous documentation, regardless of pain scale used for either. This allows us to track, in real time, if any pain score constitutes consecutive 7+ equivalency pain documentation.

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To respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Learning Design and Delivery (LDD) team underwent a one-week transition from in-person to virtual training. The team selected and implemented a remote learning platform (WebEx), the LDD staff trained and became proficient in managing classes online, and entire courses were converted so that they could be effective in a virtual setting.

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The Cardiac Surgery Advancing Care, Treatment Efficiency, Innovation, Value, and Teamwork for Cardiac Episodes (ACTIVATE) team is using data analytics to identify areas of improvement that will help streamline their workflow and decrease hospital length of stay.

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TeamDynamix is a possible alternative now becoming available that can meet the needs of many current MRequest (FootPrints) users. Learn about whether TeamDynamix is a good fit for your needs and options for moving from MRequest to TeamDynamix.

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Vulnerability remediation was a painful process on campus. The presenters will share the success of their process, including how to get buy-in from campus partners. While we will provide information about the scanning process, the focus of the presentation will be on what to do after you get the results.

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Employing expert-validated definitions and mappings, the COVID-19 Clinical Registry provides a complete picture of the COVID population at Michigan Medicine, including patient-level data on testing, outcomes, inpatient admissions, comorbidities, medications, and ICU and ventilator utilization.

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Facilitators from three Michigan IT Communities of Practice (CoP’s) offer an insight into how their groups not only remained relevant, but also tailored their engagement for their members as they weathered the crisis together. You’ll also hear about the history of CoP’s at Michigan and some of our plans for the future.

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Learn about a Dashboard in Tableau, designed to help ease this administrative burden for the Program Offices, the Finance Office, and the Dean's Office, that uses data from Salesforce and the Ross Oracle database, provides a realtime snapshot of how enrollment is progressing against targets, is refreshed daily, and uses more standardized metrics across the degree programs.

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The HITS DevOps Team, in partnership with the ITS Virtualization and Cloud Computing team, is working to produce a service on Google Cloud to provide a cost-effective, rapidly deployable environment with pre-configured security policies. We enable Cloud-Ready Developers to deliver solutions with locality, enabling velocity.

This presentation will provide an overview of how the LinkedIn Learning service may be used in the context of credit-bearing instruction with students, as well as for professional development by faculty and staff.

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SimplyVoting is a Software as a Solution (SaaS) service that allows for online elections. With our recent need to have all IT tools and applications available online, SimplyVoting is an answer to many election coordinators' problem of being able to hold timely, accurate, and secure elections at U-M and Michigan Medicine.

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This poster will provide an overview of the process of capturing 360 video and delivering it to end users using institutionally provided platforms.

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When researchers at the Randall Building reported poor network performance ITS Network Infrastructure staff were tasked with identifying any degradations in the high speed network. This poster shows the tools and techniques used during the investigation, including lessons learned.

Sparked by record high requests for support related to Canvas, the ITS Teaching & Learning group offered the Teaching Online with Canvas Workshop Series in response to Covid-19. This daily, sequential workshop series was designed to support U-M faculty with their spring/summer/fall courses during 2020. 

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The MEDC is a secure data clearinghouse that helps researchers use State of Michigan education data to answer critical questions that improve outcomes for students. We'll overview the breadth of data now hosted at the U-M, discuss the process of aligning security requirements of two large organizations, and share how we're using ITS infrastructure to operationalize a data repository.

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UM Audit Services performs over 40 audits every year with units across U-M's four campuses. Nearly every audit includes aspects of IT controls critical to the audit objectives and provide insight into common IT control gaps. The Audit Services IT team analyzed 5 years of audit findings to identify common IT control gaps, changes over time, and how units addressed the gaps. 

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With the emergence of Covid-19, Remote Device Support was able to convert the Work-From-Home Distribution Initiative into the Covid-19 Work-From-Home Equipment Drive Through Initiative.

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When Governor Whitmer’s first “Stay Home, Stay Safe” Executive Order took effect on March 24, 2020, Health Information Technology and Services (HITS) teams collaborated to quickly develop and deliver two innovative services that were instrumental in bridging those gaps: Remote Desktop Access and Windows Virtual Desktop. 

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Zero-day webserver vulnerabilities are a concern for all organizations. They represent a particular challenge for large, decentralized universities, because identifying affected sites can take time. With WebStor, Information Security professionals can identify all instances of exposed webservers with a zero-day vulnerability in minutes or even seconds and pass the information on to affected server administrators.

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