CDC - Grand Rounds ► Electronic Health Records: What's in it for You?

We invite you to join us for July's session of CDC's Public Health Grand Rounds, entitled Electronic Health Records: What's in it for You?, which will be webcast live from CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday, July 21 at 1 p.m. (EDT) at www.cdc.gov/about/grand-rounds, with an archived video being made available by July 25. This session is available for Continuing Education (*CE/CME) credit.

Electronic health records (EHRs) allow for the systematic collection and management of patient health information in a form that can be shared across multiple health care settings. By providing easier access to patients’ medical records, EHRs can help improve healthcare quality, efficiency and safety. These systems can also promote use of preventive services, improve public health surveillance, and support research to improve population health. But despite these advantages, the expense of system implementation has slowed EHR adoption rates. With U.S. health care expenditures exceeding $2.5 trillion yearly (17% of our GDP), such investments must provide cost-effective support for better health at the individual and population levels.

Fortunately, there is substantial evidence to show that while initial costs remain a concern, converting from paper records to EHR systems will ultimately reduce health care expenses across the board. Research indicates that Medicare and private payers would receive tens of billions of dollars in cost savings each year. To further encourage EHR adoption, the federal government has introduced a plan to provide $44.7 billion during 2010-2019 for an EHR incentive program to supplement the implementation process for many health care providers.

This session of Public Health Grand Rounds will explore the advantages of EHR implementation with particular attention to public and population health while addressing concerns of cost, patient confidentiality, and other challenges.


Presented By:

Seth Foldy, MD, MPH, FAAFP
Director, Public Health Informatics & Technology Program Office,
Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services, CDC
Presentation - Electronic Health Records: A Transformative Change for Public Health

Robert Lamberts, MD
Evans Medical Group, Evans, GA
(2003 HIMSS Award for excellence in use of computers in primary care)
Presentation - Electronic Health Records: The View from the Trenches

Jac J. Davies, MS, MPH
Director, Beacon Community of the Inland Northwest Health Services
Spokane, WA
Presentation - Health Information Exchanges at a Multi-Facility Health Care Company

Amy Zimmerman, MPH
State Health Information Technology Coordinator,
Health & Human Services, Rhode Island
Presentation - Electronic Health Records: A State Health Department Perspective

Farzad Mostashari, MD, SCM
Director, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology,
Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
Presentation - Health IT and Public Health: Opportunities, Realities, and a Proposed Approach

Facilitated by:

Tanja Popovic, M.D., Ph.D., Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds

Shane Joiner, Communication Manager, Public Health Grand Rounds


*Grand Rounds is now available for Continuing Education (CE) credits:

ALL Continuing Education credits/contact hours for PHGR are issued online through the CDC/ATSDR Training & Continuing Education Online system, http://www2a.cdc.gov/TCEOnline. If you have questions, call Learner Support at 1-800-418-7246 (1-800-41TRAIN), or ce@cdc.gov.

Those who attend PHGR either in person, Envision, IPTV, or “web on demand” (www.cdc.gov/about/grand-rounds), and who wish to receive Continuing Education must complete the online seminar evaluation. Thirty days from the initial seminar the course number will change to WD1640 and will be available for continuing education until January 21, 2012. The course code for PHGR is PHGR10.

Target Audience: Physicians, nurses, epidemiologists, pharmacists, veterinarians, certified health education specialists, laboratorians, others



Objectives:
1. List key measures of burden of disease involving morbidity, mortality, and/or cost.

2. Describe evidence-based preventive interventions and the status of their implementations.

3. Identify one key prevention science research gap.

4. Name one key indicator by which progress and meeting prevention goals is measured.


CE certificates can be printed from your computer immediately upon completion of your online evaluation. A cumulative transcript of all CDC/ATSDR CE’s obtained through the TCE Online System will be maintained for each user. We hope that this will assist CDC staff to fulfill the requirements for their professional licenses and certificates.



For Continuing Medical Education for Physicians (CME):

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME®) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.



Continuing Education designated for Non-Physicians:

Non-physicians will receive a certificate of participation.



For Continuing Nursing Education for Nurses (CNE):

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited as a provider of Continuing Nursing Education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

This activity provides 1.0 contact hours.


For Continuing Education Contact Hours in Health Education (CECH):

Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designed for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) to receive up to 1.0 Category I CECH in health education. CDC provider number GA0082.

IACET Continuing Education Units (CEU):

The CDC has been approved as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), 1760 Old Meadow Road, Suite 500, McLean, VA 22102. The CDC is authorized by IACET to offer 0.1 ANSI/IACET CEU's for this program.

For Continuing Pharmacy Education (CPE):

(For EV1640-live course)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This program is a designated event for pharmacists to receive 1.0 Contact Hours in pharmacy education. The Universal Activity Number is 0387-0000-09-031-L04-P.

(For WD1640-Web on demand)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This program is a designated event for pharmacists to receive 1.0 Contact Hours in pharmacy education. The Universal Activity Number is 0387-0000-09-031-H04-P.

Course Category: This activity has been designated as Knowledge-based.

There is no cost for this program.

In compliance with continuing education requirements, all presenters must disclose any financial or other associations with the manufacturers of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial supporters as well as any use of unlabeled product(s) or product(s) under investigational use. CDC, our planners, and the presenters for this seminar do not have financial or other associations with the manufacturers of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial supporters. This presentation does not involve the unlabeled use of a product or product under investigational use. There was no commercial support for this activity.

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