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Quality Matters Podcast: Maximizing the Value of Health Information Technology
The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that aims to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, conducted an audio interview with Justin Starren, M.D., Ph.D. Sarah Klein interviewed Dr. Starren for their July/August 2009 newsletter.
The podcast can be accessed at www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Newsletters/Quality-Matters/2009/July-August-2009/Quality-Matters-Podcast.aspx.
2009 World Usability Day - November 12 "Designing for a Sustainable World"
What is World Usability Day? - It's about making our world work better.
It's about "Making Life Easy" and user friendly. Technology today is too hard to use. A cell phone should be as easy to access as a doorknob. In order to humanize a world that uses technology as an infrastructure for education, healthcare, transportation, government, communication, entertainment, work and other areas, we must develop these technologies in a way that serves people first.
BIRC Presents at the AMIA 2009 Annual Symposium, November 14-18, San Francisco, CA
The AMIA Annual Symposium is the world’s most comprehensive annual meeting on biomedical and health informatics. The Annual Symposium provides a wide range of formats for education and discussion. Papers and posters present peer-reviewed state-of-the-art scientific and technical work. Panels, keynote presentations, tutorials, and workshops bring together thought leaders for in-depth and active audience exchange about critical issues of the day.
November 16, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
- AMIA-0688-A2009 – Panel: “Reflecting on the CCHIT Experience: How far have we come?” – Panelist Justin Starren, MD, PhD
November 16, 5:15 - 7:00 pm
- Poster: “Implementation of Infobutton Functionality using HL7 Infobutton API: A Case Study with Clin-eguide™”presented by Luke Rasmussen, Vojtech Huser, MD, PhD, Justin Starren, MD, PhD
- Poster: “Extending a Clinical Patient Portal for Research Data Collection” presented by Trish Siegler, PMP, MBA
November 16, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
- AMIA-0127-A2009 – Panel: “Phenotyping Using the Electronic Medical Record - Experiences from the eMERGE Network” - Panelist Peggy L. Peissig
November 16, 5:15 - 7:00 pm
- Poster: “EHR Data Pre-processing Facilitating Process Mining: an Application to Chronic Kidney Disease” presented by Vojtech Huser, MD, PhD
- Poster: “Patient Attitudes Toward Electronic Data Entry of Symptoms: Survey Development and Preliminary Results” presented by David Pieczkiewicz, Trish Siegler, Hong Liang, Edward Belongia, Justin Starren, MD, PhD
- AMIA-0382-A2009 – Panel: “Development, Selection, and Adoption of Clinical Research Eligibility Representation Standards and Screening Methods: Current and Future Directions” – Panelist Vojtech Huser, MD, PhD
November 17, 5:15 - 7:00 pm
- Poster: “Leveraging the Continuity of Care Document (CCD) Standard to Support an Emergency EHR Backup System” presented by Justin Starren, MD, PhD