| Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 12:30 |
Harold Lehmann, Director- Johns Hopkins Division of Health Sciences Informatics Training Program |
Introduction |
| 12:30-12:45 |
Dean Michael Klag, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
Welcome |
| 12:45-1:05 |
William Davenhall, Manager, Health and Human Services Solutions-ESRI
|
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the Health Organization
Objectives:
- Learn the definition of a GIS
- Learn how GIS works technically
- Learn how GIS technology is being applied in research practice
|
| 1:05-1:35 |
Alain-Jacques Valleron, Director- Doctoral School of University Paris6, Public Health and Information Sciences |
Health Information Systems: the French Experiment and International Perspectives
Objectives:
- Review the possible applications of Public Health Informatics (PHI) to research and surveillance of communicable diseases.
- List the conditions of failure, or of success of these applications, based on the french experience.
- Show how general practitioners can be an active irreplaceable part of a PHI application.
- Describe the present needs in PHI to detect and investigate epidemics and emergent diseases.
|
| 1:35-1:55 |
Kathleen McCormick, Vice President/ Senior Scientist- SAIC Health Solutions |
Public and Private Partnerships in Biodefense and Public Health
Objectives:
- To discuss a model framework for public health and biodefense
- To recommend the IT infrastructure related to this model
- To describe the public private partnership projects that SAIC is engaged
|
| 1:55-2:25 |
PANEL |
|
| 2:25-2:45 |
BREAK |
|
| 2:45-3:05 |
Anna Orlova, Executive Director- Public Health Data Standards Consortium |
Building a National Health Information Network: Challenges and Opportunities for Public Health
Objectives:
- Provide an overview of the DHH's efforts to develop a NHIN
- Describe the role of public health in a NHIN
- Describe benefits of integration of clinical and public health systems under a NHIN
- Articulate challenges for clinical and public health system integration under NHIN
|
| 3:05-3:25 |
Francesca Dominici, Associate Professor - Johns Hopkins Univerisity, Biostatistics |
A National System for Population Health Research
Objectives:
- Understand how national goverment data bases can be integrated and analyzed for tracking the health of a population
|
| 3:25-3:45 |
Richard Rothman, Associate Professor- Johns Hopkins Univeristy, Emergency Medicine |
Hopkins Local Disaster Preparedness (CEPAR, PACER and MARCE): Research and IT Issues in Infectious Disease Surveillance and Diagnosis
Objectives:
- Describe Hopkins organizations involved in disaster and biothreat prepardness
- Understand potential sites for public health and medical interventions that can impact prepardness for an infectious disease outbreak (natural or manmade)
- Provide overview of evolving systems, relevant IT input/needs, and research plan for PACER as they relate to syndromic survelliance and laboratory diagnostics
|
| 3:45-4:05 |
Vic Plavner, Director - Maryland/D.C. Collaborative for Healthcare Information Technology |
Challenges in Creating a Local Health Information System
Objectives:
- Participants will learn about the complexities of healthcare information exchange within a Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO)
- Articulate how a RHIO can help all stakeholders in the Public Health arena
|
| 4:05-4:25 |
Milton Corn, Director -
Extramural Programs,
National Library of Medicine |
Federal Funding Opprtunities for Research in Public Health Informatics
Objectives:
- Clarify distinction between research in public health informatics and public health research that uses informatics tools
- Survey sources of support from federal agencies for public health informatics projects
- Suggest research areas of particular interest to the government
- Provide examples of funded public health informatics projects
- Offer some advice about "grantsmanship" in seeking funding for public health informatics projects
|
| 4:25-4:45 |
Steve Downs , Senior Program Officer-Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
Funding and Directions: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Objectives:
- Articulate the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's goals for public health broadly and public health informatics in particular
- Describe a program to train more public health informatics professionals and a particular partnership between goverment and philanthrophy
|
| 4:45-5:00 |
PANEL |
|
| 5:00 |
Harold Lehmann |
Closing Comments |
