190576 Power and problems of health care information

Sunday, October 26, 2008: 10:15 AM

Carol L. Macnee, PhD , C/O Health as Human Capital Foundation, Cheyenne, WY
Marcie Lee Thomas, MS , Health as Human Capital Foundation, Cheyenne, WY
This discussion introduces the problems inherent in statistically generated health information which is often asymmetrical, incomplete and/or inaccurate and introduces models to integrate, stratify and share population based information and studies.

Learning Objectives:
List two kinds of problematic health information and provide one example of each.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Academic Credentials BSN University of Michigan MSN University of Virginia PhD University of Michigan “I am qualified to be planning, coordinating or organizing because I am currently a Professor of Nursing and the Director of Research at the Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing, University of Wyoming. In my 30 years of experience as a nurse and 20 years of practice as an adult nurse practitioner, I have served as a co-Director for two different primary care clinics and implemented a DHHS program grant to develop clinical and educational services in a clinic in Southern Appalachia. I have also established a program of funded research examining health behavior change and outcomes of primary care. I have been a nurse educator with academic appointments for 17 years, and have participated as faulty for the Health as Human Capital approach for three years. I have organized a variety of continuing education programs, ranging from short one hour continuing education programs, to all day work shops. Most recently I have coordinated the Wyoming Nursing Summits in 2005, 2006, and 2007 which were one and a half day conferences regarding nursing and nursing workforce. I was on the planning committee for the development of a two day Child’s Health Interdisciplinary program offered in the Fall of this year, including completing the application for CEUs for nursing for this program; and I was a member of the planning committee for a one day work shop “Pandemic Flu: It is your business” presented September 6, 2007 ” Memberships: American Public Health Association; Sigma Theta Tau; American Nurses Association; Council for the Advancement of Nursing Scholarship.
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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