3418.0 Availability of Integrated Health Data: Environmental Public Health Tracking

Monday, November 9, 2009: 4:30 PM
Oral
Widespread adoption of EMRs encourages data extraction that would inform policy, and the potential for integrating said data for the benefit of the entire public health system. These benefits are becoming increasingly important in environmental health, and in other non-infectious disease settings. This session will highlight a few examples.
Session Objectives: *Discuss how to extract data from EMR for research purposes *Describe an innovative platform for the sharing of public health data
Moderator:
Alex Charleston, MPH

4:30 PM
Extracting data from an incrementally implemented electronic health record system: Lessons learned from tracking colorectal cancer screening at a community health center
Mei-Po Yip, PhD, Alan Chun, MD, Alison Shigaki, MD, Luong An, Genji S. Terasaki, MD and Shin-Ping Tu, MD MPH
  
4:50 PM
Facilitating health data sharing: The Connecticut Health Information Network's innovative approach to data integration and data dissemination
Robert H. Aseltine, PhD, Ofer Harel, PhD, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, PhD and Cal Collins
5:10 PM
Environmental Public Health Tracking Network
Alex Charleston, MPH
5:30 PM
Adapting IBIS-PH for a State Environmental Public Health Tracking Portal
Jerald Fagliano, MPH, PhD

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Health Informatics Information Technology
Endorsed by: Black Caucus of Health Workers, Maternal and Child Health, Veterinary Public Health

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

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