230386 Health Information TEchnology and Disparities Lessons form the field

Monday, November 8, 2010 : 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Diane Hauser, MPA , Institute for Family Health, New York, NY
  
Health Information Technologies offer significant promise for enhancing clinical interventions and improving healthcare disparities. While much of the promise has been based on speculation and theory, a few clinicians have been using Health Information Technologies to address healthcare disparities in the clinical setting. Dr. Calman will discuss the challenges, successes and experience of the Institute for Family Health's utilization of HIT to address healthcare disparities in the clinical setting.

Learning Areas:
Clinical medicine applied in public health
Communication and informatics

Learning Objectives:
1. List successful examples of the use of health IT in communities of color and other underserved communities. 2. Outline the challenges faced by clinicians in using Health Information Technologies to address Healthcare Disparities in the clinical setting and improve population health. 3. Understand how health information exchanges apply to underserved communities. 4. Understand how "Meaningful Use" applies to physicians serving in underserved communities.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am actively engaged in research related to health disparities using the electronic health record system of the Institute for Family Health.
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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