Agenda

Improving Health-Care Statistics Through Electronic Medical Records and Health Information Exchange Workshop, May 29-30, 2007

Goals for Workshop:

•  Explore the potential for electronic medical records EMRs to enhance the nation's health-care statistics capabilities, and
•  Identify ideas for further development and research

May 29, 2007: Dinner, Marriott Conference Center, College Park, MD

6:00 pm - 6:30 pm Cash Bar

6:30 pm - 7:00 pm Dinner

7:00 pm - 7:20 pm Introductions

Jane Sisk
National Center for Health Statistics

Edward Sondik
National Center for Health Statistics

James Scanlon
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

7:20 pm - 7:40 pm Vision for EMRs and Where We Are in Realizing That Vision

Karen Bell
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

7:40pm - 8:00 pm Health-Care Statistics Enterprise and Requirements for Successful Statistics

Catharine Burt
National Center for Health Statistics

8:00 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
 

May 30, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD

8:00 am - 8:30 am Coffee and bagels

8:30 am - 8:45 am Introductions

Richard Kronick
University of California, San Diego, and NCHS

8:45 am - 9:30 am Data Elements in EMRs
Routinely-collected data elements
Standardization across EMR systems

Discussion leader: Paul Tang
Palo Alto Medical Foundation and American Medical Informatics Association

9:30 am - 10:30 am Accessing EMR Data
Where the data reside
How federal agencies could arrange access

Discussion Leader: Linda Kloss
American Health Information Management Association

10:30 am - 10:45 am Break

10:45 am - 11:45 am Use of EMR Data
Quality, completeness, accuracy, comprehensiveness, and timeliness of data
Cost of converting data for use in health-care statistics

Discussion Leader: Mark Hornbrook
Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research

11:45 am - 12:15 pm Privacy and Confidentiality
How these concerns may affect use of data for health-care statistics

Discussion Leader: Marcy Wilder
Hogan & Hartson

12:15 pm - 1 pm Lunch

1 pm - 2:30 pm Discussion, Summary, and Next Steps
Potential, prerequisites, obstacles to enhance the nation's health-care statistics
Ideas for further development and evaluation

Discussion Leader: Richard Kronick

2:30 pm Adjourn
 

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