[AISWorld] Final Program Available: 5th Workshop on Health IT and Economics (WHITE 2014)

Mon Sep 8 16:58:47 EDT 2014

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*WHITE 2014 Full Program Released - Register by September 10th for
discounted rates*

*The 5th annual Workshop on Health IT and Economics*

October 10-11th in Washington, DC

  http://rhsmith.umd.edu/chids/white

Join over 100 scholars and thought leaders from more than 40 institutions,
8 federal agencies and industry at the *5th annual Workshop on Health IT
and Economics (WHITE 2014)*.  WHITE is an annual summit designed to deliver
the latest research, inspire innovation, and accelerate healthcare
transformation around the topic of health information technology.

Some of the outstanding speakers to be featured this year at WHITE include:

   - *Kelly Cronin*, Director of the Office of Care Transformation at the
   Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)
   - *Anand K. Iyer*, PhD, MBA, Chief Data Scientist at WellDoc
   - *Jonathon Linkous*, CEO at American Telemedicine Association
   - *Kevin Patrick*, MD, MS, Professor, Department of Family and
   Preventive Medicine, UCSD, Director, Center for Wireless and Population
   Health Systems, Calit2
   - *Taha A. Kass-Hout*, M.D., M.S., Chief Health Informatics Officer at
   FDA
   - *Wendy Nilsen*, PhD, Health Scientist Administrator at the NIH Office
   of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
   - *James Rebitzer*, PhD, Professor and Everett W. Lord Distinguished
   Faculty Scholar and Chair of Markets, Public Policy and Law at Boston
   University's School of Management

Cutting-edge findings will be presented by researchers from over 40
institutions, such as those from:

   - University of Maryland
   - University of Minnesota
   - Carnegie Mellon University
   - Brookings Institution
   - Harvard
   - Johns Hopkins University
   - Notre Dame
   - University of Colorado
   - University of Michigan
   - Indiana University
   - UC-San Diego
   - UC-San Francisco
   - Emory University

...any many more!...

Sessions will cover the latest topics, evidence and programs spanning the
health IT ecosystem's impact and opportunities, such as with mobile health,
analytics, patient engagement, meaningful use, provider technology use and
care coordination.

The 5th WHITE will be held in Alexandria, VA, just outside Washington DC,
center of health policy debates, on October 10-11th, 2014. The conference
is hosted by the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS)
at the Robert H. Smith School of Business of University of
Maryland. CHIDS was established in 2005, and is the first academic research
center focused on health information and decision systems in a leading
business school. Partial support for WHITE is provided by the United States
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and our sponsors, the
University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Booz Allen Hamilton, CNSI
and the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES).

*Register by September 10th for discounted registration rates and book
discounted hotel rooms at the Westin Alexandria through September 12th. *

*More details and registration can be found on the WHITE
website:http://rhsmith.umd.edu/chids/white
<http://rhsmith.umd.edu/chids/white>*
*Hope to see you in October!*

Ritu Agarwal (Chair)

Gordon Gao (Co-Chair)

Jeff MCullough (Co-Chair)

Kenyon Crowley (Program Director)

Faye Baker (Conference Coordinator)

*About CHIDS*
The Center for Health Information & Decision Systems (CHIDS)
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is
an academic research center in the Robert H. Smith School of Business,
University of Maryland at College Park. CHIDS works in collaboration with
industry, clinical and government partners to develop solutions to the
challenges surrounding the design, adoption and integration of information
technologies into the health system. The research at CHIDS seeks to
understand how digital technologies can be more effectively deployed to
address outcomes such as patient safety, healthcare quality, efficiency in
healthcare delivery, and a reduction in health disparities. CHIDS draws on
the expertise of the Decision, Operations & Information Technologies
Department (DO&IT) at the Smith School and affiliates at the University of
Maryland Schools of Engineering, Public Health, Computer Science, Medicine,
Nursing and Pharmacy. DO&IT is acknowledged by several publications as a
Top 5 performer in research production worldwide and the Information
Systems group ranks in the top 10 worldwide in Business Week and U.S. News
and World Report. Since its inception in 2005, CHIDS has served as a focal
point for thought leadership around the topic of digitally-enabled health
system transformation.

-- 
Ritu Agarwal
Professor and Dean's Chair of Information Systems
Chair, Department of Decision, Operations, and Information Technologies
Director, Center for Health Information and Decision Systems
Robert H. Smith School of Business
4327 Van Munching Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD  20742-1815
301.405.3121 TEL
301.405.8655 FAX
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/chids
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/faculty/ragarwal
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