[TAO] Fwd: AHRQ Health IT - Upcoming National Teleconference

[Catherine Britain]

 FYI....

*National Web-Based Teleconference on Health IT and Underserved Populations*

*Health IT Adoption in Rural Clinical Settings*

*This free, 90-minute teleconference will discuss efforts to implement,
integrate, and enhance care in rural clinical settings using health IT
systems.*

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*Date: August 27, 2010*

*Time: 12:00 – 1:30 p.m., EST*

*Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ’s)
National Resource Center for Health IT*

*Presenters:*



·         Maggie Gunter, Ph.D., is a medical sociologist and health services
researcher who is president and executive director of LCF Research, a
nonprofit health research and innovation institute affiliated with Lovelace
Health System, a large integrated health care system in Albuquerque, NM.
Dr. Gunter has extensive experience in the development, implementation, and
evaluation of system changes and other interventions designed to improve the
quality and cost-effectiveness of health care. In the mid-to-late 1990s, Dr.
Gunter was instrumental in the development of Lovelace’s nationally
recognized Episodes of Care Disease Management Program. She has also served
as principal investigator for numerous health services research projects,
with an emphasis on the use of population-based data to identify
deficiencies in care and to evaluate the impact of interventions. Since
2004, Dr. Gunter and her LCF IT team have led the New Mexico Health
Information Collaborative, the designated statewide health information
exchange (HIE) network. Dr. Gunter holds a Ph.D. in medical sociology from
the University of Pittsburgh.



·         Paul Gorman, M.D., is associate professor in the department of
medical informatics and clinical epidemiology at Oregon Health Sciences
University (OHSU). He is a fellow of the American College of Medical
Informatics and the American College of Physicians. He is board certified in
internal medicine and is on the teaching faculty at OHSU as well as at
Providence Portland Medical Center. He is an active member of Physicians for
a National Health Program. Dr. Gorman completed formal training at Rush
Medical College in Chicago, learned about the realities of primary care in
private practice in Astoria, OR, and completed a fellowship in general
internal medicine at the Portland Veterans Administration. He currently
divides his time between clinical care, supervising residents and students
in inpatient and outpatient settings; teaching medicine and medical
informatics to health professionals and informatics professionals; and
research, focused on how clinicians use information and technology in
patient care.



·          John Kravitz, M.H.A., is the assistant vice president of
information technology at Geisinger Health System located in Danville, PA.
He has responsibility for the Keystone Health Information Exchange, the only
functioning HIE in the State of Pennsylvania, which connects disparate
health care providers across the community to share clinical patient
information. He also shares responsibility for the technology for the Beacon
Communities Grant, of which 15 health care organizations across the country
are participating to improve patient outcomes while reducing cost for a
defined population.  In addition, he has IT responsibility for the Geisinger
Tele-Medicine program, which currently consists of several services, e.g.,
e-ICU, Tele-Stroke, Tele-Trauma, Tele-Rheumatology, Tele-Pulmonary,
Tele-Psychiatry, and Tele-Echo for Pediatrics, among others.



Dr. Gunter will begin the teleconference by discussing the challenges of
establishing an HIE in a rural area. She will also speak about efforts to
use telemedicine to improve health care in New Mexico. Dr. Gorman will
present findings from his AHRQ-funded project, which aimed to improve
medication safety for elderly populations in rural areas. Mr. Kravitz will
conclude the teleconference by discussing Geisinger Health System’s HIE and
some new efforts to improve their HIE in rural Pennsylvania. He will also
explain how they are incorporating telemedicine into their health care
efforts.



To register for the teleconference, please visit:

https://ahrq.peachnewmedia.com/store/seminar/seminar.php?seminar=5705#blank

and select "Register."

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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) · 540 Gaither Road ·
Rockville MD 20850 · 301-427-1364





-- 
Catherine S. Britain
csbritain at gmail.com
541-910-7366
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