Registration is Open for EHR Webcast

[Update: Presenter bios are available.]

Register now for the MLA Distance Education Webcast “Understanding the Electronic Health Record Maze and Health Sciences Librarians’ Roles”

Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 1:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

The goal of this program is to clarify the terminology surrounding the emerging electronic health information environment and to illustrate how and why health sciences librarians can and should become engaged with the efforts to achieve the national 2014 goal of instituting an electronic health record for each person in the United States.

Program Objectives

• To remove the ambiguity and confusion revolving around the electronic health environment. Technology, management, and the exchange of health information will be discussed.
• To illustrate the emerging electronic health information environment by profiling working electronic medical records (EMRs), electronic health records (EHRs), and personal health records (PHRs).
• To highlight the recent involvement health sciences librarians have had with EMRs, EHRs, and PHRs

Potential issues to be addressed include:

Part I: Introduction to the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Concept

• Terminology, history, and acronyms
• Electronic health record vs. personal health records

Part II: A Hands-on Look at EHR Systems

• What systems are being used?
• Who are the major players?
• What does an EHR system look like?
• What is HL7?
• EHR standards
• Where are things headed?
• Question & answer session

Part III: The Role of Health Sciences Librarians

• What are the different strategies for getting involved?
• Pitfalls to look out for
• What knowledge base should librarians be focusing on?
• Other stakeholders and how to work with them
• Question & answer session

Part IV: Wrap Up

• Final comments from the speakers

Conclusion

Presenters

See MLANET for full bios.

• Margaret M. Bandy, AHIP
  Manager of library and media services at Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver, CO.
• Janice H. Willis
  The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) support coordinator in the MEDLARS Management Section (MMS) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), Bethesda, MD.
• Sara Pimental, AHIP
  Senior consultant for Kaiser Permanente’s national clinical website for staff, Clinical Library.
• David Sweet
  Has been director of library services for the American Health Information Association (AHIMA) for the past eleven years.

Video-Taped Presenters

• Elaine Alligood
  Has worked at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), Johns Hopkins, the University of Virginia, Elsevier, Harvard, and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
• Kelly Near
  Outreach librarian for the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia (UVa).
• Annette Williams
  Associate director, Vanderbilt University’s Knowledge Management and Eskind Biomedical Library where she works closely with assistant vice-chancellor for knowledge management and director of the Eskind Biomedical Library, Nunzia B. Giuse, AHIP, FMLA.