2011-2013 Workshop on Health IT and Economics (WHITE)

描述(申请者提供)：本资助申请申请资助2011-2013年度的卫生、信息技术和经济研讨会(怀特)。人们越来越意识到，信息系统和技术在医疗保健转型中发挥着重要作用。电子病历、远程医疗、远程监控设备、个人健康记录等形式的健康信息技术(IT)承诺对质量和患者安全产生积极影响，并降低医疗成本。随着最近HITECH法案的通过，将IT融入医疗系统的方方面面都有相当大的势头。然而，在卫生信息技术的设计、实施、利用和评估方面仍然存在重大的研究问题和挑战。现有的许多关于卫生信息技术的研究都是在狭窄的学术竖井中进行的，相互影响有限。White的具体目标包括：(1)通过聚集来自医学信息学、计算机科学、公共卫生、商业和经济学的研究人员，为建立一个多学科的卫生信息技术研究社区奠定基础；(2)为领先的研究人员提供一个传播尖端发现和知识的论坛；(3)为决策者和实践者提供机会，以制定不断发展的卫生信息技术研究议程；(4)培养下一代卫生信息技术研究人员。怀特是由马里兰大学学院公园健康信息和决策系统中心(CHIDS)主办的。首届研讨会于2010年10月8日至9日在华盛顿特区举行。第一次会议有来自49个领先研究机构的90名与会者，包括哈佛大学、麻省理工学院、芝加哥大学、约翰霍普金斯大学、宾夕法尼亚大学、明尼苏达大学和亚利桑那州立大学。会议还吸引了来自国会和政府机构的与会者，以及行业从业者，包括CBO、ONC、NIH、AHRQ、RWJ、HIMSS、InterMountain Healthcare和Duke Medical Center。精选的发言和讨论已张贴在会议网站上，并可应要求免费向公众提供。我们希望在讲习班取得初步成功的基础上再接再厉，并正在为今后三年(2011-2013年)的年度会议争取资金。怀特的关注点与AHRQ通过信息技术提高医疗质量的使命直接相关。怀特将从跨学科的角度产生协同效应，这可以导致对卫生信息技术的设计解决方案和影响的更深层次的理解。此外，怀特还将促进学术界、政府(包括ONC)和业界之间的必要合作，以加快医疗保健系统中医疗信息技术的传播。 公共卫生相关性：卫生、信息技术和经济学年度研讨会(WITE)于每年10月在华盛顿特区举行。WITE是一个健康信息技术峰会，聚集了来自40多个多学科背景的领先研究机构的知名学者，讨论健康信息技术设计、实施和管理方面的挑战及其经济影响。一年一度的会议在促进学术界、政府和行业之间的互动、为卫生信息技术研究社区创建基础以及促进卫生信息技术的广泛注入以提高卫生保健质量和效率方面发挥着至关重要的作用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This grant application requests support for the annual meeting, the Workshop on Health IT and Economics (WHITE) for years 2011-2013. There is increasing awareness that information systems and technology have a major role to play in the transformation of healthcare. Health information technologies (IT) in the form of electronic medical records, telemedicine, remote monitoring devices, personal health records, etc. offer the promise to positively influence quality and patient safety, and reduce healthcare costs. With the recent passing of the HITECH Act, there is considerable momentum behind incorporating IT into every aspect of the healthcare system. Yet, significant research questions and challenges remain regarding design, implementation, utilization, and evaluation of health IT. Much of the existing research on health IT has been conducted within narrow academic silos with limited cross-fertilization. The specific aims of WHITE include: (1) to build the foundation for a multidisciplinary health IT research community by gathering researchers from medical informatics, computer science, public health, business, and economics; (2) provide a forum for leading researchers to disseminate cutting-edge findings and knowledge; (3) afford policymakers and practitioners the opportunity to shape the evolving health IT research agenda, (4) develop the next generation of health IT researchers. WHITE is hosted by the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS) at the University of Maryland, College Park. The inaugural workshop was held on Oct 8-9, 2010, in Washington DC. The first conference had 90 participants from 49 leading research institutes including Harvard, MIT, CMU, Johns Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania, University of Minnesota, and Arizona State University. The conference also attracted attendees from congressional and government agencies, as well as industry practitioners, including CBO, ONC, NIH, AHRQ, RWJ, HIMSS, Intermountain Healthcare, and Duke Medical Center. Selected presentations and discussions were posted on the conference website and available to the public upon request free of charge. We hope to build on the workshop's initial success and are seeking funding for the annual conferences for the next three years (2011-2013). The focus of WHITE is directly linked to the mission of AHRQ to improve healthcare quality via information technology. WHITE will generate synergies arising from an inter-disciplinary perspective which can lead to deeper understanding of the design solutions and impacts of health IT. Additionally, WHITE will facilitate needed collaborations between academia, government (including ONC), and industry to accelerate the diffusion of health IT throughout the healthcare system. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Annual Workshop on Health IT and Economics (WHITE) is held in October each year in Washington DC. WHITE is a health IT summit that gathers prominent scholars from more than 40 leading research institutes in a multidisciplinary setting to discuss challenges in the design, implementation and management of health IT, and its economic impacts . The annual conference plays a critical role in facilitating interactions between academia, government, and industry, creating the foundation for a health IT research community, and promoting the broad-based infusion of health IT to improve healthcare quality and efficiency.