The learning health system and clinical informatics
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Event date
Thursday, 5 May 2016
Speaker
Dr. Jonathan Palma, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine at Stanford University
Abstract
In the United States, electronic medical records have been adopted rapidly since the turn of the century due to their potential to enhance patient safety, and as a result of federal incentive programs. While increased automation in healthcare supports billing and other administrative functions, the benefits to patient care are less clear, and the impact on provider workflow is generally perceived as negative. Secondary use of electronic data captured as a result of routine clinical workflows is one potential benefit of widespread EMR adoption that is not yet fully realised at most institutions. The concept of the Learning Health System and a process for enabling it were delineated in the 2012 Institute of Medicine Report Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America. This talk explores the IOM report and the role of Clinical Informatics (including an example from Neonatology) in realising the concept of a Learning Health System.
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Speaker profile
Dr. Jonathan Palma is Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine at Stanford University. In addition to his clinical role in newborn intensive care, he holds an administrative appointment as Medical Director of Clinical Informatics at Stanford Children's Health. He completed a Master's in Biomedical Informatics at Stanford, became board certified in Clinical Informatics with the inaugural class in 2013, and serves as Program Director for the Stanford Clinical Informatics Fellowship program.
Dr. Palma’s clinical informatics efforts focus on optimising electronic workflows for neonatology providers, and his academic interests include interventional informatics to achieve examples of a learning healthcare system. He also enjoys applying technologies such as text and predictive analytics to hospital data to enhance the quality and safety of healthcare.
Dr. Palma attended Davidson College and graduated cum laude from the University of Florida College of Medicine, then completed clinical training in pediatrics and neonatal-perinatal medicine at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. During residency and fellowship his scholarly work included optimising EMRs for neonatal care, and his Master's research was mining clinical data to predict the development of disease.
Seminar details
Date: Thursday 5 May 2016
Time: 12 – 1pm
Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 75 Talavera Road, Macquarie University
Chairperson: Dr Blanca Gallego Luxan
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