273125 Technology strategies to advance public health: North Carolina perspectives

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 : 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM

Steve Cline, DDS, MPH , Office of Health Information Technology, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Raleigh, NC
     
Public Health stands to benefit greatly from the healthcare industry's movement to automate clinical information and develop interoperability to share personal health information across the healthcare ecosystem. This presentation will explore the vision for NC Public Health and a few of the early successes.

Learning Areas:
Clinical medicine applied in public health
Communication and informatics
Conduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practice
Provision of health care to the public
Public health or related public policy
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
1. Define the role of public health in the newly automated and connected healthcare ecosystem. 2. Describe at least one promising practice in NC Public Health that is enabled by advancements in HIT

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have been the North Carolina Health Information Technology (HIT) Coordinator since May 2010. Prior to that, I completed 27 years in both state and local public health as the Deputy State Health Director. As the NC HIT Coordinator, I monitor over $1 billion in state and federal funds coming to North Carolina to advance HIT.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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