MedInfo - program

SESSION 223: <br/>Human, organisational and social aspects

Track 4

Sunday, July 9, 2023

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

C4.4

Overview

C4.4
Panels

Details

This session contains two 40 minute panels.

Panel: Workforce expectations disconnect between settings

In this panel session, the audience will hear from international leaders in education, accreditation, and workforce about the strategies in each area and the disconnects from workforce need. These leading experts will discuss current strategies to develop a skilled health workforce and specialist digital health workforce to support care delivery and services. Current capability frameworks and accreditation systems will be examined, including where they address workforce needs and where they are outdated or not co-designed with industry. The panel will explore the future workforce and training needs to support a safe practicing, consumer-centric workforce, and how the various stakeholders can facilitate skills development needs.

Panel: The learning health (record) system: Moving from theory to practice

A Learning Health System (LHS) can be defined as an environment in which knowledge-generation processes are embedded into the daily activities of a health system to continually improve the quality, safety, outcomes, and value of care delivery. While still largely an aspirational goal, the promise of the LHS is a future in which every patient encounter is an opportunity to learn and improve that patient’s care, as well as the care their family and the broader community receive. Critical to the foundation for building the LHS includes access to multi-scale data derived from the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and complementary real-world sources that span multiple scales of measurement, as well as the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) methods to derive insights from those data. When combined, these platforms and capabilities serve as components in the digital transformation of healthcare and the decision-making processes that impact patients and populations. In this panel, we will explore critical questions that can and should be answered when translating the theories that underpin this conceptual model into practice to generate actionable insights and deliver such emergent knowledge in the right time, place, and format and improving health and healthcare.

Speaker

Tricia Liebke

General Manager Clinical Engagement

Telstra Health

Session chair

Biography

A driven and energetic Registered nurse with a comprehensive background in clinical leadership, I have a desire to lead transformational change throughout healthcare by ensuring a seamless integration of technology and high clinical adoption that will improve patient safety, quality of care and business efficiencies. I have a well established reputation for achieving goals by engaging staff, being an influential leader, understanding legal requirements and standards, maintaining a solution focussed attitude and delivering high quality results.

Prof Kerryn Butler-Henderson FAIDH CHIA

Director, RMIT Digital Health Hub

RMIT University

Panel: Workforce expectations disconnect between settings

11:00 AM - 11:40 AM

Presentation

Biography

Professor Kerryn Butler-Henderson is the Director of the RMIT University Digital Health Hub. She has several large-funded research projects evaluating digital health interventions in various health settings and digital health workforce research and leadership. Kerryn was recognized for her expertise with several national and international awards.

Dr Susan Fenton

Associate Dean

UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics

Panel: Workforce expectations disconnect between settings

11:00 AM - 11:40 AM

Presentation

Biography

Dr Fenton is the project director for the Gaining Equity in Training for Public Health Informatics and Technology training program at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She is responsible for the School of Biomedical Informatics certificate, master’s and doctoral degree programs.

Dr Philip Payne

Associate Dean and Chief Data Scientist

Washington University in St. Louis

Panel: The learning health (record) system: Moving from theory to practice

11:50 AM - 12:30 PM

Biography

Dr Payne is the Associate Dean and Chief Data Scientist at the Washington University School of Medicine. His research spans a broad spectrum, including 1) machine learning and computational phenotyping; 2) EHR and CDSS optimisation; 3) HCI and workflow in clinical environments, and 4) data sharing and interoperability.

Prof Wendy Chapman

Centre Director

The University of Melbourne

Panel: The learning health (record) system: Moving from theory to practice

11:50 AM - 12:30 PM

Biography

Professor Wendy Chapman is the Associate Dean of Digital Health and Informatics. She also directs the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health. Her research aims to leverage data and digital technology to transform healthcare delivery. She is currently serving on the Board of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health.

Dr Peter Embi

Professor & Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics

Vanderbilt University

Panel: The learning health (record) system: Moving from theory to practice

11:50 AM - 12:30 PM

Biography

Peter Embí, MD, MS, FACP, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI, is an internationally recognized researcher, educator and leader in the field of clinical and translational research informatics, with numerous peer-reviewed publications and presentations describing his innovations in the field. Dr Embí serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Professor of Medicine and Senior Vice-President for Research and Innovation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Prior to joining VUMC, he served as President and CEO of the Regenstrief Institute, Professor and Associate Dean for Informatics and Health Services Research at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Associate Director at Indiana CTSI and Vice President for Learning Health Systems at IU Health and on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati, where he was the founding director of the UC Center for Health Informatics. Among his other leadership roles, he was the Past President and Chair of the Board of Directors of AMIA and on the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Prof Charles Friedman

Chair, Department of Learning Health Sciences

University of Michigan

Panel: The learning health (record) system: Moving from theory to practice

11:50 AM - 12:30 PM

Biography

Charles Friedman has focused his recent academic interests and activities on the concept of Learning Health Systems, socio-technical infrastructure for learning systems, and information system evaluation. He is editor-in-chief of the open-access journal Learning Health Systems and co-chair of the movement to Mobilize Computable Biomedical Knowledge.

Dr Genevieve Melton-Meaux

Professor

University of Minnesota

Panel: The learning health (record) system: Moving from theory to practice

11:50 AM - 12:30 PM

Biography

Dr Melton is a Professor of Surgery and Health Informatics and founding Director of the Center for Learning Health System Sciences at the University of Minnesota. She also serves as Chief Analytics and Care Innovation Officer for M Health Fairview, an integrated academic healthcare system in Greater Minnesota and Western Wisconsin, leading informatics, data analytics, and evidence-based care practices and associated care transformations across 10 hospitals and over 50 clinics. Dr Melton received her medical degree and completed surgical training at Johns Hopkins, a colorectal surgery fellowship at Cleveland Clinic, postdoctoral training in Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Health Informatics at the University of Minnesota. She co-founded the University of Minnesota’s highly successful Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction Program, which has extended clinical NLP methodologies and applications, as well as provided robust tools for clinical and translational researchers. Her leadership in informatics includes leadership with the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), including current Chair-elect to its Board of Directors, serving 8 years on the inaugural Clinical Informatics Fellowship Board Examination Committee, and being President of the American College of Informatics. Dr. Melton is an author of over 300 publications. Her current research portfolio is focused on projects and evaluations toward building learning health systems.