Speech Abstract:
From Molecules to Population
Informatics is becoming the roadway that can connect all of the silos of the healthcare system. Globally, the focus on biomolecular informatics in dealing with genomic and proteomic data and in using genetic information in personalizing patient care; in clinical research informatics in identifying candidates for clinical trials, increasing the use of patient care data in research, and in advancing the results of research into routine patient care; and in clinical informatics in supporting meaningful use of data, in implementing and effectively using electronic health records, in advancing use, content and quality of decision support, in creating and mining clinical data warehouses, and in clinical effectiveness research by documenting and analyzing outcomes; in community and public health in understanding the impact of social, economic, and environment on health and in health surveillance for rapid recognition of pending epidemics; to populations in understanding how best to use resources to deal with an aging population and determining the best uses of resources for the highest possible quality of life. The personalization of health results from bringing all of these domains together in a seamless manner – focus on the individual. All of these activities require the aggregation of data from all sites of care, the integration of data among the various foci of informatics use, and in the use of global standards to enable global interoperability. The theme of this forum “Connect: Collaborate: Care” provides the opportunity to focus on what must be achieved to deliver the quality and amount of health at best cost.
Bio Sketch:
W. Ed Hammond has had extensive experience in the design and implementation of electronic health records. He is a co-developer of The Medical Record (TMR), which functions in both inpatient and outpatient settings and is a clinical as well as a billing record system. He is also involved in the development of health data standards and in the development of controlled vocabularies.
Dr. Hammond is Director of the Duke Center for Health Informatics. He is Professor in Community and Family Medicine, School of Medicine and Professor Emeritus in Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University, Durham, NC. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Health Sectors Management Division of the Fuqua School of Business. He also teaches in the Duke School of Nursing.
In addition, Dr. Hammond is Past President of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). He has served on the AMIA Board since its beginning until 2004. He has served as Chair of Health Level Seven on three occasions. He served as the Vice Chair of the HL7 Technical Steering Committee and is currently a member of the HL7 Board. He was Chair of the Data Standards Working Group of the Connecting for Health Public-Private Consortium and served on the Board of the eHealth Initiative. Dr. Hammond served as a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Patient Safety Data Standards. He also served as President of the American College of Medical Informatics, as Chair of the Computer-based Patient Record Institute and on the CPRI Board. He was a Chair of ACM SIGBIO for two terms. He served two terms as the Convenor of ISO Technical Committee 215, Working Group 2. He was the Chair of the Joint Initiative Council of ISO/CEN/HL7/CDISC/IHTSDO/GS1 ending in 2009. He is Chair, Steering Committee of the open EHR Architecture Project sponsored by Rockefeller Foundation and OASIS. He is a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors, Lister Hill Center, National Library of Medicine.
Dr. Hammond has served and is serving on a number of editorial boards and has served on a number of NIH review committees, is a reviewer for numerous informatics journals, has published over 300 technical articles, and is a frequent international keynote speaker. He was awarded the American College of Medical Informatics Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence in November 2003 and the Paul Ellwood Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003.
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