Academic Forum

Speaker Information:
Brian Malec, MA, PhD
Professor of Health Administration, California State University

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
S404 a

Description:
A new revolution in healthcare evolves where the clinical prowess and engineering genius are brought together to meld the disciplines of medicine and engineering. Academic Medical Centers are increasing joining forces with their engineering and Computer Science partners to come up with innovations in healthcare. As Kurzweil states in his book, "The singularity is near... when humans transcends biology". The interaction between carbon and silicon is indeed remarkable

Speaker Information:
Jay Srini, FHIMSS
Chief Innovation Officer, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
S404 a

Description:
Published IS implementation studies and descriptions of clinical implementations are used to validate and refine a framework of success factors for EMR/EHR projects. Implications for both practice and research are discussed.

Speaker Information:
Carol Brown, PhD
Program Director, IT in Healthcare, Howe School of Technology Management

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
S404 a

Description:
This session will highlight key research findings regarding critical factors, challenges and promising practices for successful and sustainable electronic heath record adoption and use in community health centers.

Speaker Information:
Oliver Dropper, MPH
Research Assistant/Adjunct Faculty, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University
Sherril Gelmon, Dr.P.H.
School of Government, Portland State University

Objectives:

• Identify and improve our understanding of the unique and complex organizational barriers and challenges related to electronic health record implementation in community health centers
• Evaluate a set of promising practices for successful electronic health record decision-making and implementation

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
S404 a

Description:
This presentation analyzes the factors related to physician use of a web-based portal linking referring physicians with their patient's electronic health record at a large academic medical center.

Speaker Information:
Joe Gerald, MD, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Eta Berner, Ed.D
Professor, Health Informatics Department of Health Services, Administration School of Health Professions, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
S404 a

Description:
The purpose of this research is to identify hospital characteristics associated with best of breed, best of suite, and enterprise solution IT strategies. Prior to identifying if any strategy is associated with improved performance (financial, quality of care, etc), it is necessary to identify the organizational antecedents of adoption.

Speaker Information:
Darrell Burke, PhD
Associate Professor Department of Health Administration, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Nir Menachemi, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, Health Care Organization and Policy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Public Health
Feliciano Yu, MD MSHI MSPH CPHIMS
Assistant Professor, Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Medical Informaticist, Children's Health System Information Technology Division, University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Medicine

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
S404a

Description:
Over the past years, the AUPHA IT Faculty Forum has been making substantial progress toward identifying and expanding the understanding of a competency-based healthcare IT curriculum. With that awareness, some of us move forward with frustration about how to deliver that content. However, others among us do not have the resources to implement the curriculum. Now it's time to discuss how to work collaboratively to get the needed content into classrooms across all our programs.

Speaker Information:
Margaret Schulte, PhD, CPHIMS, FACHE
Associate Professor, Grand Valley State University

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
S404 a