2012 Summer Meeting
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Electronic Health Records on the National Level: Update from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Track:
Education Sessions (CE)
Program Code: 128-L04
Date: Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Time: 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM EST
Location:
321, Level 300
PRESENTER(S):
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Brent Fox,
PharmD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pharmacy Care Systems,
Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy
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Brent I. Fox is originally from Daphne, Alabama, a bay community outside of Mobile, Alabama. He received a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and a Doctor of Pharmacy from Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy. After working in the health-system software development industry as a pharmacy specialist, he returned to Auburn where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree, serving as a Fellow with the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education. Dr. Fox spent the next two years as an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Center for Pharmacy Informatics at Shenandoah University's Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy. He subsequently returned to the Harrison School of Pharmacy where he served as the Assistant to the Dean for Educational Technology. In this role, Dr. Fox led the evaluation, selection, implementation, training, and monitoring of information technologies to support the School's education, research, and outreach missions. In his current role as Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Care Systems, Dr. Fox's teaching, research, and outreach activities are focused on the optimal use of healthcare information technology to improve medication-related outcomes. Dr. Fox is also very active in several national professional associations. He has coauthored two texts on informatics, both published by the American Pharmacists Association.
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Doug Fridsma,
MD, PhD, Director, Office of Standards and Interoperability,
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
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Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, is the director of the Office of Standards and Interoperability in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the US Department of Health & Human Services. He is currently on leave from the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University and from his clinical practice at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale.
Dr. Fridsma completed his medical training at the University of Michigan in 1990, and his PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University in 2003. His research interests include the development of computational tools to study patient safety, clinical work processes, and methods to improve model-driven standards development processes. He has served on the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Board of Directors from 2005-2008, and was appointed to the HIT Standards Committee in 2009. He recently resigned from the HIT SC to become the acting director of the Office of Interoperability and Standards at ONC.
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Nancy Smestad,
MS, RPh, Pharmacist Consultant,
Veterans Health Administration Informatics Patient Safety
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Nancy Smestad is a Pharmacist Consultant with the Veterans Health Administration Office of Informatics and Analytics Informatics Patient Safety. Ms. Smestad has a Masters Degree in Pharmacy Practice and has been employed by the Veterans Health Administration for 28 years. As an informatics pharmacist consultant Ms. Smestad assists in high level analysis and documentation associated with medication management, information management and pharmacy practices.
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PROGRAM CHAIR:
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Brent Fox,
PharmD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pharmacy Care Systems,
Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy
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Brent I. Fox is originally from Daphne, Alabama, a bay community outside of Mobile, Alabama. He received a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and a Doctor of Pharmacy from Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy. After working in the health-system software development industry as a pharmacy specialist, he returned to Auburn where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree, serving as a Fellow with the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education. Dr. Fox spent the next two years as an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Center for Pharmacy Informatics at Shenandoah University's Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy. He subsequently returned to the Harrison School of Pharmacy where he served as the Assistant to the Dean for Educational Technology. In this role, Dr. Fox led the evaluation, selection, implementation, training, and monitoring of information technologies to support the School's education, research, and outreach missions. In his current role as Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Care Systems, Dr. Fox's teaching, research, and outreach activities are focused on the optimal use of healthcare information technology to improve medication-related outcomes. Dr. Fox is also very active in several national professional associations. He has coauthored two texts on informatics, both published by the American Pharmacists Association.
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Description
Meaningful Use efforts appear to have slowed down–or have they? Timelines have been adjusted but hospitals, vendors, and governmental groups are continuing to feverishly work on Stage 1 implementation while squarely focusing on what is coming in future stages. Join us as we explore a timely topic that is high on the list of desired programming by Summer Meeting attendees. This session fills up fast, so get a seat early to hear the latest news from the Office of the National Coordinator.
- Describe how knowledge learned through Meaningful Use efforts to date has influenced requirements in upcoming stages.
- Describe the progress to date on Meaningful Use of EHRs and the criteria and timelines for each stage.
- Describe what we have learned from early data regarding the impact of meaningful use of certified EHRs on health care professionals practice and patient outcomes.
