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2012 |
Third Annual Workshop on Health IT and Economics -
Keynotes Announced!
Dennis Wagner, MPA to provide Friday keynote. Mr. Wagner is a national
and international leader in the fields of healthcare quality improvement, the
environment, and social marketing. He currently works in the U.S. Department
of Health & Human Services as Co-Director of the Partnership for Patients Initiative
and as Associate Director for Campaign Leadership in the CMS Innovation Center,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Stephen T. Parente, PhD, MPH, MS to provide Saturday keynote.
Dr. Parente is the Minnesota Insurance Industry Professor of Health Finance
in Carlson School of Management and the Director of the Medical Industry Leadership
Institute at the University of Minnesota. As a Professor in the Finance Department,
he specializes in health economics, information technology, and health insurance.
Dr. Parente has been the principal investigator on funded-studies on consumer
directed health plans since 2002. Dr. Parente was a health policy adviser for
the McCain 2008 Presidential Campaign and served as Legislative Fellow in the
office of Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (D WV) in 1992/93. |
| February 27, 2012: CHIDS at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith
School of Business is offering a unique peer-to-peer based executive education
program for state officials and health insurance exchange boards focused on
setting up a successful exchange in their state. CHIDS is committed to accelerating
the understanding and use of best practices for developing, governing and operating
Health Insurance Exchanges.
Visit the HIX Leadership
Program site to learn more. |
| January 31, 2012: CHIDS announces the
Innovate 4 Healthcare Challenge.
CHIDS is challenging students nationwide to develop solutions that radically
improve healthcare outcomes by using information technology to improve patient
engagement with health care providers. |
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2011 |
| November 20, 2011: CHIDS hits 500 followers on Twitter! Are you one of them?
If not, follow us at @HealthIT.
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| November 1, 2011: The second annual Workshop on Health IT and Economics (WHITE)
summit was held in October at the Washington Marriott, where more than 100 participants
- including prominent scholars from across the globe - gathered to discuss the
latest in health IT and present new ideas with both policy and business implications.
Thank you to our sponsors AHRQ, Optimal Solutions Group, University of Minnesota
and AcademyHealth. Click here
for more on WHITE 2011. |
| October 15, 2011: The University of Maryland Center of Excellence in Health
IT Research recently hosted the University of Maryland Fall Health IT Summit
at the Adele H. Stamp Student Union in College Park. In attendance were representatives
from the government, military, academic institutions, healthcare providers and
others - all there to discuss the health information technology strategy, policy
and technology issues facing both Maryland and the United States.
Read more here. |
| August 1, 2011: CHIDS is proud to partner with CareFirst, the largest health
insurer in the Mid-Atlantic, on a research program to assess the potential impact
of emerging social media tools on health IT and determine these tools implications
for healthcare finance and delivery. Check out the
CHIDS Fall 2011 Newsletter for more. |
| June 28, 2011: The University of Maryland Center of Excellence in Health
IT Research (COEHITR) a multi-campus initiative with collaboration across the
College Park and Baltimore campuses has awarded $15,000 in funding to each of
two teams working on promising health information technologies as part of the
inaugural Health IT Seed Grant Program.
Click here for details. |
| June 20, 2011: CHIDS Fellow Brad Greenwood, presents findings from the paper
“The Information Value of Online Physician Ratings” at INFORMS Healthcare 2011
in Montreal, Quebec. The paper is co-authored by CHIDS Director Ritu Agarwal,
CHIDS Senior Fellow Guodong “Gordon” Gao, and PhD candidate Brad Greenwood,
all from the Smith School, along with Jeffrey McCullough of the School of Public
Health at the University of Minnesota. The authors investigated potential biases
among Internet users rating general practitioners on websites such as Angie’s
List, healthgrades.com, RateMds.com, Vitals.com, and Yelp.com.
Click here for Working Paper.
Click here
for Podcast. |
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April 18, 2011: The University of Maryland Center of Excellence in Health Information Technology Research (COEHITR) is
pleased to announce the launch of the inaugural Health IT Seed Grant Program. The program is also intended to foster collaborations
between junior and senior investigators and provide mentorship for new investigators in the art of grant writing and research.
Click
here for details. |
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February 22, 2011: CHIDS Associate Director Kenyon Crowley presented the CHIDS Health Information Exchange Evaluation
Framework at the HIMSS Annual Conference in Orlando; the health IT industry's premier conference attended by over 30,000
professionals and policymakers. Click here for presentation. |
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2010 |
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November 5, 2010: The 11th Annual CIO Forum - Information Technology in
Government and Business. This year our distinguished speakers will attempt
to address ideas and topics such as sustaining an innovative culture inside
organizations and managing waves of technological innovation. Please
click here for more information. |
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October 2010: CHIDS Director Ritu Agarwal is appointed to the Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ) Health Services
Research Initial Review Group (IRG), Health Care Quality and Effectiveness Research
(HCQER) Study Section. In this role, Dr. Agarwal provides review of programs related to the quality and cost-effectiveness of health
care, including clinical outcomes studies, as well as studies to develop/test quality measures, methods, tools and indicators. |
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September 2010: Based on the CHIDS HIE Evaluation Framework, CHIDS completes its assessment of the District of Columbia Regional
Health Information Organization (DC RHIO) which is managed by the District of Columbia Primary Care Association (DCPCA) and funded by
the Government of the District of Columbia.
Download the full report:
The District of Columbia Regional Health Information Organization (DC RHIO) Current Progress and the Road Ahead:
An Assessment Report based on the CHIDS HIE Evaluation Framework.
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June 2010: "A close
encounter with the problem of low-tech medical records" op-ed article by CHIDS Director Dr. Ritu Agarwal is featured in the
Baltimore Sun, which recounts a personal story of the effect of missing and uncoordinated information which is plaguing our
health system and yielding quality, safety and cost issues.
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2009 |
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March 2009: Reuters, eHealth SmartBrief, Medical Device Daily, Fierce HealthIT and Healthcare
Finance covered the CHIDS study on the cost of poor communications in US hospitals.
The study found that hospitals waste $12B annually due to poor
communication, which equals almost 2% of hospital revenues
nationwide. Please
click here
to read article. |
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February 15, 2009: Washington Post Sunday business section of February 15, in an article
titled "Online Health Data in Remission" features commentary by CHIDS director, Ritu Agarwal
on the $19B health IT component of the stimulus package. Please
click here
to read article. |
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2008 |
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Professor Agarwal presents a policy perspective on privacy at the
"Leadership during Organizational Transformation" at Oakland University,
October 9, 2008. [Download
Presentation] |
| In collaboration with Insight
Policy Research and Westat, CHIDS has been awarded a research contract
for the project “Personal Health Information Management and Design of
Consumer Health IT” from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This
project seeks to establish a foundation and propose an action agenda for
the integration of patients’ personal health information management into
the design of patient-centered health information technology. |
| The project will involve an
assessment and synthesis of existing research and evidence regarding
patients’ personal health information management practices and its
linkage to effective development and use of patient-centered health IT;
identifying and convening a multi-disciplinary expert panel to establish
a research agenda around personal health information management and
health IT; and synthesizing the information gained into a final report
to include a preliminary framework for studying this topic and
recommendations for ongoing research, implementation and policy work in
this field. This project will be an important addition to the existing
research portfolio of health information technology research at CHIDS.
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| CHIDS is collaborating with
researchers at the Children's' National Medical Center on a study of
workflow process improvement caused by an electronic documentation
system. |
| Prof. Ritu Agarwal was Invited to
present “Isolating the Effects of Health IT on Performance” at the
INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, November. |
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2007 |
| CHIDS participated in the event
"The Challenge of Maintaining Medical Privacy and Security Relating to
Laptop Theft" by the Healthcare Technology Network of Greater Washington,"
held on October 19, 2007. P. Kenyon Crowley, CHIDS Fellow attended the
event and represented CHIDS. |
| Professor Ritu Agarwal was the
Panel Chair and Presenter on the Academy of Management Annual Symposium,
August 2007. Her talk and presentation on “Transforming the Practice and
Delivery of Healthcare Through Information Technology,” was well
attended by symposium participants and generated much lively discussion
and debate. |
| P. Kenyon Crowley, CHIDS Fellow
attended the event and discussion on "Future of HIT: Where Are We
Going?" organized by Healthcare Information Management Systems Society
(HIMSS) National Chapter Area, on April 19, 2007. |
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2006 |
| CHIDS was invited to participate in a conference "The HIT View from the Hill and
Beyond" organized by the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
National Chapter Area on September 21, 2006. P. Kenyon Crowley, CHIDS Fellow attended
the event and represented CHIDS. |
| CISCO Systems joins CHIDS as an Associate Member. |
| 12-14-2006 - Capital Technology Information Services (CTIS) Inc. signs corporate
membership with CHIDS. |
| 11-16-06 - CHIDS launches nationwide study of Electronic Health Record systems
used in Physician offices. |
| CHIDS Fellow Jiban Khuntia participated in the Second Nationwide Health Information
Network Forum: Health Information Network Security and Services on October 16-17,
2006 at Washington DC. Ref : http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/NHIN_Forum. |
| 08-20-2006
- Department
of Health and Human Services awards a contract to CHIDS. |
| 08-01-2006 -
NSF
awards Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC) planning grant
to CHIDS. |
| 07-27-2006 - CHIDS researchers testify before American Health Information Community
(AHIC). |
| 07-12-2006 - Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc. signs corporate membership
with CHIDS. |
| 06-05-2006 -
CHIDS researcher presents at HITWeek in Washington, DC on the value of the PHR.
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04-19-2006 -
A recent study by CHIDS' researchers shows privacy concerns related to EHR use can
be alleviated through proper messaging. [PDF] |
| 03-13-2006 - CHIDS' researchers partner with Pfizer and Coastal to study feasibility
of using HIT in storm-ravaged Gulf Coast. |
| 01-16-2006 - CHIDS produces white paper for Vocera Communications Inc. examining
the use of Wireless HIT by nurses. |
| 01-03-2006 - Pfizer Inc signs corporate membership with CHIDS.
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