2017 Health Informatics Symposium
2017 UNC-Chapel Hill Health Informatics Symposium
Using Big Data To Move the Learning Health Systems To Reality
Friday, April 7, 2017
8:30 AM – 3:00 PM
The Friday Center — Chapel Hill, NC
Registration
Registration is required and space is limited.
UNC-Chapel Hill Affiliates – register
Invited Non-UNC Chapel Hill Guests – register
Agenda
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Check-In, Networking, Breakfast |
| 9:00 – 9:15 | Welcome Address |
| 9:15 – 10:30 | Keynote Address: Using Big Data to Improve Outcomes Under Accountable Care | Dr. David Bates |
| 10:30 – 10:50 | Break |
| 10:50 – 12:00 | Concurrent Workshops
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| 12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch / Break |
| 1:00 – 2:15 | Panel Discussion: Some Learnings From Learning Health Systems |
| 2:15 – 2:25 | Closing Remarks |
| 2:25 – 3:00 | Networking |
Keynote Address
Using Big Data to Improve Outcomes Under Accountable Care
Abstract
The way payment for health care is delivered in the U.S. is changing, with more of it being done under accountable care arrangements. In such arrangements, providers will be strongly incented to deliver care more efficiently. Dr. Bates will discuss what “big data” are, and will describe an array of approaches for using data to improve outcomes. He will also describe the strategy being implemented at Partners and Brigham and Women’s to harness these data.
Bio
Dr. David Bates
Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health
Medical Director of Clinical and Quality Analysis for Partners Health Care System, Inc.
Dr. Bates is an internationally renowned expert in patient safety, using information technology to improve care, quality-of-care, cost-effectiveness, and outcomes assessment in medical practice. He is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he co-directs the Program in Clinical Effectiveness. He directs the Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and serves as external program lead for research in the World Health Organization’s Global Alliance for Patient Safety.
He is the immediate past president of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) and the editor of the Journal of Patient Safety. He serves as the principle investigator of the Health Information Technology CERT. He has been elected to the Institute of Medicine, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians and the American College of Medical Informatics, and was chairman of the Board of the American Medical Informatics Association. He has published over 700 peer-reviewed papers and has an h-index of 115, which ranks him among the 400 most cited biomedical researchers of any type.
Websites
www.patientsafetyresearch.org
www.cert-hit.org
Lodging
The Courtyard Chapel Hill is located next to the Friday Center.
100 Marriott Way Chapel Hill, NC 27517
919.883.0700
There is not a room block reserved for this event.
This event is sponsored by the Carolina Health Informatics Program, the Program on Health and Clinical Informatics, and the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute.