Using Health IT to Prevent Adverse Events
National Web-Based Teleconference on Health IT and Safety
Using Health IT To Prevent Adverse Events
This free 90-minute teleconference will explore health IT systems designed to enhance safety in clinical settings.
Date: July 13, 2010
Time: 3:30 – 5:00 p.m., ET
Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ’s) National Resource Center for Health IT
Presenters:
• George Hripcsak, M.D., M.S., is Vivian Beaumont Allen professor and chair of Columbia University's department of biomedical informatics, director of medical informatics services for New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and senior informatics advisor at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Dr. Hripcsak is a board-certified internist with degrees in chemistry, medicine, and biostatistics. He led the effort to create the Arden Syntax, a language for representing health knowledge that has become a national standard. Dr. Hripcsak's current research focuses on the clinical information stored in electronic health records. Using data mining techniques such as machine learning and natural language processing, he is developing the methods necessary to support clinical research and patient safety initiatives. He is currently co-chair of the Meaningful Use Workgroup of HHS's Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology; it defines the criteria by which health care providers collect incentives for using electronic health records. Dr. Hripcsak chaired the National Library of Medicine's Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee, and he is a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and the New York Academy of Medicine. He has published over 200 papers.
• Tejal Gandhi, M.D., M.P.H., is a board certified internist and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. She received her M.D. and M.P.H. from Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health and trained at Duke University Medical Center. Her undergraduate training at Cornell University was in biochemistry. Dr. Gandhi’s research interests focus on patient safety and reducing errors using information systems. She won the 2009 John Eisenberg award for her contributions to understanding the epidemiology and possible prevention strategies for medical errors in the outpatient setting. Dr. Gandhi was the executive director of quality and safety at Brigham and Women’s Hospital for 10 years, and in that role, she worked to redesign systems to reduce medical errors and improve quality. Currently, Dr. Gandhi is director of patient safety at Partners Healthcare. In this role, she is helping to lead the efforts to standardize and implement patient safety best practices across the system.
• Kevin B. Johnson, M.D., M.S., is professor and vice chair of biomedical informatics, with a joint appointment in the department of pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Johnson is an internationally respected developer and evaluator of clinical information technology. His research interests are related to developing and encouraging the adoption of clinical information systems to improve patient safety and compliance with practice guidelines; the uses of advanced computer technologies, including the World Wide Web, personal digital assistants, and pen-based computers in medicine; and the development of computer-based documentation systems and e-prescribing systems for the point of care. He is the author of over 100 publications and books or book chapters and is assistant editor for the preeminent journal in biomedical informatics (JAMIA). His knowledge about electronic health records and patient safety has led to a recent appointment on three Institute of Medicine committees focused on medication safety and pediatric health care quality measures. He was awarded membership in the American College of Medical Informatics in 2004.
Dr. Hripcsak will begin the teleconference by speaking about his research funded by an AHRQ CLIPS award, which used electronic health records to detect adverse events. He will discuss using informatics techniques like natural language processing and machine learning to develop methods to detect new event types and to measure the rate of known error types. Dr. Gandhi will be discussing the results of an AHRQ-funded study on the impact of bedside barcode/electronic medication administration on medication errors, workflow, and nursing satisfaction. In addition, she will discuss clinical and operational pearls related to implementation of the system. Dr. Johnson will conclude the teleconference by discussing two AHRQ-funded projects. First, he will discuss a project where decision-support results were added to computer-generated prescriptions, and the impact of that addition on perceived prescription safety. Second, he will discuss an ongoing project, called STEPStools, which is using Web services to add pediatric dose rounding and extemporaneous compounding knowledge to e-prescribing systems.
Using Health IT To Prevent Adverse Events
This free 90-minute teleconference will explore health IT systems designed to enhance safety in clinical settings.
Date: July 13, 2010
Time: 3:30 – 5:00 p.m., ET
Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ’s) National Resource Center for Health IT
Presenters:
• George Hripcsak, M.D., M.S., is Vivian Beaumont Allen professor and chair of Columbia University's department of biomedical informatics, director of medical informatics services for New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and senior informatics advisor at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Dr. Hripcsak is a board-certified internist with degrees in chemistry, medicine, and biostatistics. He led the effort to create the Arden Syntax, a language for representing health knowledge that has become a national standard. Dr. Hripcsak's current research focuses on the clinical information stored in electronic health records. Using data mining techniques such as machine learning and natural language processing, he is developing the methods necessary to support clinical research and patient safety initiatives. He is currently co-chair of the Meaningful Use Workgroup of HHS's Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology; it defines the criteria by which health care providers collect incentives for using electronic health records. Dr. Hripcsak chaired the National Library of Medicine's Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee, and he is a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and the New York Academy of Medicine. He has published over 200 papers.
• Tejal Gandhi, M.D., M.P.H., is a board certified internist and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. She received her M.D. and M.P.H. from Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health and trained at Duke University Medical Center. Her undergraduate training at Cornell University was in biochemistry. Dr. Gandhi’s research interests focus on patient safety and reducing errors using information systems. She won the 2009 John Eisenberg award for her contributions to understanding the epidemiology and possible prevention strategies for medical errors in the outpatient setting. Dr. Gandhi was the executive director of quality and safety at Brigham and Women’s Hospital for 10 years, and in that role, she worked to redesign systems to reduce medical errors and improve quality. Currently, Dr. Gandhi is director of patient safety at Partners Healthcare. In this role, she is helping to lead the efforts to standardize and implement patient safety best practices across the system.
• Kevin B. Johnson, M.D., M.S., is professor and vice chair of biomedical informatics, with a joint appointment in the department of pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Johnson is an internationally respected developer and evaluator of clinical information technology. His research interests are related to developing and encouraging the adoption of clinical information systems to improve patient safety and compliance with practice guidelines; the uses of advanced computer technologies, including the World Wide Web, personal digital assistants, and pen-based computers in medicine; and the development of computer-based documentation systems and e-prescribing systems for the point of care. He is the author of over 100 publications and books or book chapters and is assistant editor for the preeminent journal in biomedical informatics (JAMIA). His knowledge about electronic health records and patient safety has led to a recent appointment on three Institute of Medicine committees focused on medication safety and pediatric health care quality measures. He was awarded membership in the American College of Medical Informatics in 2004.
Dr. Hripcsak will begin the teleconference by speaking about his research funded by an AHRQ CLIPS award, which used electronic health records to detect adverse events. He will discuss using informatics techniques like natural language processing and machine learning to develop methods to detect new event types and to measure the rate of known error types. Dr. Gandhi will be discussing the results of an AHRQ-funded study on the impact of bedside barcode/electronic medication administration on medication errors, workflow, and nursing satisfaction. In addition, she will discuss clinical and operational pearls related to implementation of the system. Dr. Johnson will conclude the teleconference by discussing two AHRQ-funded projects. First, he will discuss a project where decision-support results were added to computer-generated prescriptions, and the impact of that addition on perceived prescription safety. Second, he will discuss an ongoing project, called STEPStools, which is using Web services to add pediatric dose rounding and extemporaneous compounding knowledge to e-prescribing systems.
Seminar Date:
July 13, 2010