National Web-Based Teleconference on Patient Empowerment
Leveraging Health Information Technology for Patient Empowerment
This free 90-minute teleconference will explore the latest research on how patients can utilize health IT to increase participation in their healthcare.
Date: April 8, 2010
Time: 3:00 – 4:30 p.m., EST
Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) National Resource Center for Health IT
Presenters:
- Alexander Krist, M.D., M.P.H., serves as an Assistant Professor in the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Medicine's Department of Family Medicine. The majority of his research is conducted through the VCU Department of Family Medicine’s multidisciplinary research team and its practice-based research network (the Virginia Ambulatory Care outcomes Research Network) of more than sixty primary care practices, spanning six health systems assembled to coordinate on research projects. In 2004 he helped direct his practice to implement a paperless electronic health record including e-prescribing, laboratory and radiology interfaces, electronic billing, performance monitoring, and a registry for population management.
- Christine Ritchie, M.D., M.S.P.H., is an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) School of Medicine’s Center for Palliative Care. She holds the title of Director of the UAB Center for Palliative Care and Director of the Palliative Care Section within the Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine. She served as the VA Network 9 Palliative Care Consult Team mentor, a member of the VA Network 9 Health Systems Council, and co-chair of the Network 9 Geriatrics and Extended Care Committee.
- Christine Sinsky, M.D., B.S., is a General Internist at Medical Associates Clinic and Health Plans, in Dubuque, Iowa. She is a frequently invited lecturer on practice innovation, redesign, and the patient centered medical home (PCMH) and has been a presenter at the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative Stakeholder meeting. She serves on the physician advisory panel for the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) physician recognition programs and is a Director on the American Board of Internal Medicine.
To register for the teleconference, please visit: https://ahrq.peachnewmedia. com/store/seminar/seminar.php? seminar=4324 and select "Register."
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