Workshop on Health IT & Economics 2014-2016

 描述(申请人提供)：在医疗信息的持续数字化、技术的快速创新以及《平价医疗法案》的实施的推动下，医疗保健的格局正在发生戏剧性的变化。在卫生信息技术的设计、管理、使用和评估方面每天都会出现新的挑战，以支持提高质量和降低成本的使命。它们代表着前所未有的研究机会，为回答重要问题提供了巨大的潜力，并有可能影响政策制定者和实践者实现这一使命。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。卫生信息技术与经济研讨会(WITE)的广泛目标是通过前沿研究、研究结果的传播以及将研究转化为实践和政策，支持国家努力提高医疗质量，促进卫生信息技术的采用和有意义的使用。这与AHRQ在PAR-13-017中关于会议赠款的使命是一致的，以促进其使命，提高所有美国人的医疗保健的质量、安全、效率和有效性。在这个大目标下，我们致力于实现四个具体目标：(1)通过聚集来自公共卫生、商业、经济、医疗信息学、计算机科学和相关学科的研究人员，培养一个跨学科的卫生信息技术研究社区；(2)制定卫生信息技术研究议程，并为决策者和实践者提供机会，帮助制定研究议程；(3)为领先的研究人员提供一个传播尖端成果和知识的论坛；以及(4)培养下一代卫生信息技术研究人员。White 2014将是第五届年会。怀特是一个典型的研讨会，包括论文会议、主旨演讲、会前会议和小组讨论，融合了来自行业、政策和创新领域的独特观点。怀特已经形成了一个强大的品牌，并正在为与会者创造巨大的价值，他们每年都会继续回来。白人参与者对怀特的评价占压倒性多数，在所有方面都处于优秀和非常好之间。怀特的定位是一个非常独特的利基市场，据我们所知，任何其他关于健康信息技术的会议或研讨会都没有提到这一点。研讨会的形式支持亲密、丰富和详细的互动和讨论，这在大型会议中往往是不可行的。它通过在建设性的环境中培训下一代卫生信息技术学者的形式，使人力资本得以发展。我们希望AHRQ在未来三年继续支持这一具有重大影响的会议。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Driven by the continuing digitization of medical information, rapid innovations in technology, and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the landscape of healthcare is changing dramatically. New challenges emerge every day regarding the design, management, utilization, and evaluation of health IT to support the mission of improving quality and reducing costs. They represent unprecedented research opportunities that offer significant potential to answer important questions, and have the potential to influence both policymakers and practitioners towards the mission. 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 broad goal of the Workshop on Health IT & Economics (WHITE) is to support national efforts at advancing healthcare quality and facilitating the adoption and meaningful use of health IT through cutting- edge research, the dissemination of findings, and the translation of research into practice and policy. This is consistent with the mission of AHRQ as stated in PAR-13-017 for conference grants to further its mission to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. Within this broad goal, we are pursuing four specific aims: (1) to foster a cross-disciplinary health IT research community by gathering researchers from public health, business, economics, medical informatics, computer science and related disciplines; (2) develop the health IT research agenda and afford policymakers and practitioners the opportunity to help shape the research agenda; (3) provide a forum for leading researchers to disseminate cutting-edge findings and knowledge; and, (4) nurture the next generation of health IT researchers. WHITE 2014 will be the 5th annual conference. WHITE is structured as a typical workshop with a mix of paper sessions, keynote presentations, pre-conference sessions and panels that merge distinctive perspectives from industry, policy and innovation domains. WHITE has developed a strong brand and is creating significant value for attendees, who continue to return each year. WHITE participants overwhelmingly evaluated WHITE between excellent and very good along all dimensions. WHITE is positioned in a very unique niche that is not addressed, to the best of our knowledge, by any other conference or workshop on health IT. The workshop format supports intimate, rich, and detailed interaction and discussion that is often infeasible in large conferences. It enables the development of human capital in the form of training the next generation of health IT scholars in a constructive setting. We hope that AHRQ will continue to support this high impact conference for the next three years.