3227.1 Reforming Healthcare: Opportunities for Health IT Innovations

Monday, November 9, 2009: 12:30 PM
Roundtable
If the Obama administration has anything to say about it, Health IT innovations will be an integral tool in reforming American health care. This session will examine some of these breakthrough concepts and practices, such as - HIT in emergency preparedness, barriers to widespread adoption of HIT, delivering HIT functionality through handheld devices, and using web-based applications in patient engagement.
Session Objectives: *Identify the various factors that impede EMR implementation; *Describe the ways that a web-based health information infrastructure can be leveraged for disaster preparedness.
Moderator:
Steven Godin, PhD, MPH

Table 1
Mobile healthcare interventions for Top-25 public health diseases: A systematic review
Ajay Bakshi, MCh and Emma Hannay, MBChB, MPH
Table 2
Leveraging an electronic health information infrastructure for disaster preparedness
Ann Forsberg, MA MPH, Diane J. Aschman, MS, Steven Humes, MM MPH and Tami Wood-Lively, JD, MHA
Table 3
An Overview of NASA Public Health Projects using Remote Sensing Data
John Haynes, MS and Sue Estes, MS
  
Table 4
Internet as a Source for Health Information: User Assessments of Utility and Quality
James B. Weaver, PhD MPH, Stephanie Sargent Weaver, PhD, MPH and Darren Mays, PhD MPH
  
Table 5
Utilization of high-resolution satellite data from the National Land Cover Data: The relationship between hypertension and living environment in the Reasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study
Leslie A. McClure, PhD, William Crosson, PhD, Mohammad Al-Hamdan, PhD, Shia Kent, MSPH, Sue Estes, MS, Dale Quattrochi, PhD and Maurice Estes, PhD
Table 6
Pilot-testing of multilingual health-education voice messages for limited English proficiency (LEP) populations
Amie Parikh, MA
Table 7
An Emergency Database Management System: A Real-Time Public Health System for Disaster Preparedness
Jason Goldwater, MA, MPA
Table 8
Application of an EMR/EHR Needs Assessment Instrument in EMR Implementation
Steven Godin, PhD, MPH and Arshjyot Narula, MD
  

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Organized by: Health Informatics Information Technology

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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