Consumer Health Informatics Course in CA in April

Posted February 11, 2008 by Lygeia Ricciardi

FYI -- Claremont Graduate University is offering a 2.5 day educational workshop on research, systems, and practice in Consumer Health Informatics starting April 11, 2008. A description from the course website is as follows: This course provides dialogue between you and those most respected in the field of Consumer Health Informatics. Through presentations, panel discussions, and case study analyses participants will explore:

* PHR uses across diverse communities
* Consumer options for PHRs
* The role of consumer informatics in practice
* PHRs in times of emergency
* Educating the consumer on HIT
* The effect of policy on consumer adoption of HIT
* Consumer use of HIT

This two and a half day intensive learning session will serve to educate professionals on the gaps and needs of the consumer as a springboard for considering and enacting exciting new ideas for using e-health systems to provide benefits throughout society. This course will also provide an opportunity for educators to share their interests and experiences in providing a consumer health informatics perspective in the classroom.

Instructors and Guest Faculty include:
** Thomas A. Horan, PhD; Claremont Graduate University

** Karen Bell, MD; Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
** Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc; Center for Information Technology Leadership (CITL)

** Susan Daniels, PhD, Former Deputy Commissioner for Disability and Income Security Programs, Washington, DC
** Bill Hersh, MD, Oregon Health & Science University
** Don Detmer, MD, Professor of Medical Education at the University of Virginia, President AMIA
** Ted Shortliffe, MD, PhD, University of Arizona
** Holly Jimison, PhD, Oregon Health & Science University
** Paul Torrens, MD, UCLA
** Robert Jenders, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, UCLA
** Kim Nazi, Veterans Administration
** Will Crawford, Boston Children’s Hospital

For more information and to register see: http://kaycentersymposium.cgu.edu