This free 90-minute teleconference will explore the use of health IT applications to improve patient involvement in the management of their health and health care.
Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) National Resource Center for Health IT
Presenters:
- Paul Tang, M.D., M.S., is an Internist and Vice President, Chief Innovation and Technology Officer at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF), and is Consulting Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Tang directs the David Druker Center for Health Systems Innovation and also oversees PAMF’s electronic health record (EHR) system and its integrated personal health record (PHR) system, PAMFOnline. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and his M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Tang is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and serves on its Health Care Services Board. He is a past chair of the Board for the American Medical Informatics Association. Dr. Tang is Vice Chair of the federal Health Information Technology Policy committee, and Chair of its Meaningful Use workgroup. He is also a member of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), and co-chairs the NCVHS Quality Subcommittee. He received the 2009 AMIA Don E. Detmer Award for Health Policy Contributions in Informatics.
- Elizabeth A. Chrischilles, Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Epidemiology, holds the Marvin A. and Rose Lee Pomerantz Chair in Public Health in the University of Iowa College of Public Health. Dr. Chrischilles is Principal Investigator of two research centers funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): the University of Iowa Older Adults Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (Iowa CERT) and the Iowa Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions about Effectiveness Center (Iowa DEcIDE-2 Center). Dr. Chrischilles is also Principal Investigator for an AHRQ grant about the role of personal health records for improving medication use quality. This grant began with physician focus groups within a practice-based research network to determine the value and uses of a personal health record for their patients and was followed by multidisciplinary participatory design to build an internet-based personal health record (PHR) focusing on older adults. The project is now in the midst of a randomized controlled trial of the PHR. The grant was supported through AHRQ #5 R18 HS017034. Dr. Chrischilles received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D in Pharmacy from the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy.
- Silke von Esenwein, Ph.D. is an assistant research professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, and collaborates with Benjamin Druss MD, MPH on several federally funded projects. These projects aim to develop and test new evidence-based strategies to integrate services and improve health in persons with serious mental illnesses. She also works closely with the Carter Center Mental Health Program, which seeks to reduce stigma and discrimination against people with mental illnesses and to increase public awareness about mental health, and with the Jane Fonda Center, which is exploring the need to alter current sex education frameworks to intersect more dynamically and meaningfully with the future. She has a longstanding commitment to improving the lives of persons with mental disorders, particularly those in poor underserved communities. Dr. von Esenwein received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Animal Behavior from Emory University in 2005.
Dr. Tang will begin the webinar with an overview of a tool designed to assist diabetic patients manage their condition via an online tool. Dr. von Esenwein will then transition the discussion to the use of personal health records among patients with a serious mental illness and chronic condition. Lastly, Dr. Chrischilles will share her AHRQ funded research examining the improvement of medication management in older adults using a free standing online personal health record with a decision evaluation component.
Learning Objectives:
Outline the types of patient tools being developed for self management and decision making.
Describe how the use of these tools can improve patient outcomes.
Physicians will be able to describe how health information technology can be used to improve health care quality.
Physicians will be able to identify health information technology strategies to implement in their practice to improve health care decision making, support patient-centered care, and improve the quality and safety of medication management.
To register for the teleconference, please visit:
· Nurses/PA’s/Other - http://ahrq.peachnewmedia.com/store/seminar/seminar.php?seminar=7427
