3140.0 Health Disparities: Trends, Tracking, and Tools in Technology

Monday, October 29, 2012: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Oral
Health inequity and disparities in health care lead to disparate outcomes among America's most vulnerable populations. Among ethnic minorities, the need to improve these outcomes underscores the need for more robust Health IT tools. This session will focus on tools that would help practitioners collect and arrange online data and content for visualization purposes, as well as help researchers design and deliver linguistically and culturally competent health education and awareness messages.
Session Objectives: At the end of this session, participants should be able to: *Discuss the impact of language on the quality of medical care and patient-provider interactions; *List the features and functionality of a data visualization and content management system.
Organizer:
Diane L. Adams, MD, MPH, CHS-III
Moderator:
Armando Valdez, PhD

10:30am
Starling Bedside Communication System – Assessing the efficacy of a patient-initiated, multilingual request conveyance system
Margaret Bradley, MPH, Jorge Bernal and Bill Z. Tan, BS
     
10:50am
Telecommunications and Internet Funding for Health Care Providers Serving Rural Communities: Latest Developments
Paloma Costa
11:10am
Data democratization: A case study for designing and implementing a population health data platform among rural counties in California's community transformation initiative
Amy Neuwelt, MPH, Jessica Tomlinson, JD and Carmen R. Nevarez, MD, MPH
     
11:30am
Empowering medically underserved communities through health IT: Efficacy of cancer education touchscreen kiosks
Armando Valdez, PhD, Marilyn A. Winkleby, MPH, PhD, Rene Salazar, MD, Susan Stewart, PhD and Maria E. Fernandez, PhD
     

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

Organized by: Health Informatics Information Technology
Endorsed by: Asian Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health, Black Caucus of Health Workers

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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