142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Personalized Healthcare Analytics Platform

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 : 2:50 PM - 3:10 PM

Erin Payne, PhD, MPH , Northrop Grumman Health, McLean, VA
As “big data” becomes more common in clinical settings, tools that synergize that data are necessary. This presentation will highlight our approach to clinical data integration and provide examples of its use in pharmacogenomic and natural language processing applications.

Learning Areas:

Basic medical science applied in public health
Clinical medicine applied in public health
Other professions or practice related to public health
Public health or related research

Learning Objectives:
Describe how unstructured text mining can aid clinicians, leading to new treatments and preventive actions.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a Scientific Adviser in the Life Sciences program at Northrop Grumman Corporation. I provide subject matter expertise for our personalized healthcare research efforts, and am familiar with our NIH and CDC projects and their relationship with Public Health. I have been a member of APHA for a number of years, and held leadership roles with the Genomics Forum a few years ago.
Any relevant financial relationships? Yes

Name of Organization Clinical/Research Area Type of relationship
Northrop Grumman Life Sciences Employment (includes retainer)

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.