FREE to Members: Electronic Medical Records - The Impact on Your Health Care

Featured Guest: John Halamka, M.D.

John Halamka is a practicing emergency care physician, but in the course of his medical career he caught the technology bug. As the CIO and Associate Dean for Educational Technology at Harvard Medical School, as well as CIO at CareGroup Healthcare Systems with 14,000 employees and 3,000 doctors, Halamka is seeking ways to apply technology to solve many of the vexing health care industry and patient care problems.

As a member of the faculty of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Halamka continues to integrate his knowledge of medicine and technology focusing on the use of the Internet to exchange clinical patient data, electronic health records, electronic prescriptions, etc. His research includes security / confidentiality issues, scalability issues, and implementation of standards for exchange of administrative and clinical information. As a clinician as well as researcher, Dr. Halamka uses these tools to improve the care of the patients. He is also an active teacher, lecturing on both medical and technology topics to the students, residents, and faculty of schools across the country.

Date: Monday, February 7, 2011 Time: 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.

For Additional information please see:

http://www.ssa.gov/fstap/bios/john_halamka.htm

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Schools interested in participating in this educational opportunity should contact John Ramicone at 216-916-6360 or john.ramicone@ideastream.org by February 3rd.