Using Informatics to Improve the Health of Populations
Webinar Description
Technology and informatics tools are projected to be the key to improving health outcomes for individuals and populations as well as decreasing costs. Critical questions include how to best use an information tool or data set to change health behaviors, manage chronic conditions, and increase access to care. There are opportunities to further explore the relationship between the social determinants of health and informatics for improving patient care and health outcomes. This webinar will focus on the intersectionality of informatics and population health and highlight curricula examples to help prepare future health professionals to use data in their clinical practice.
This webinar is co-sponsored by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and the Association of American Medical Colleges and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Academic Partnerships to Improve Health.
Objectives
- Explain currently existing gaps and how these gaps affect the field.
- Examine the intersection of social determinants of health and informatics concepts.
- Discuss key questions being posed in this field as they relate to population health.
Speakers
Marisa L. Wilson DNSc
Associate Professor, Specialty Track Coordinator, MSN Nursing Informatics
School of Nursing/Family, Community, and Health Systems
UAB School of Nursing| The University of Alabama at Birmingham
In 2006, Dr. Wilson transitioned her career to full time academia after 30 years of clinical care, public health, and operational informatics management work. Dr. Wilson received her Master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and her doctorate from the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. Dr. Wilson spent over two decades in epidemiological, clinical, and operational informatics work in public health, acute care, and post acute care settings. She is currently an Associate Professor and Specialty Track Coordinator for the MSN Nursing Informatics program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing and core faculty member in the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program teaching informatics for quality, safety, and the transformation of care. Dr. Wilson is also an Associate faculty member for the Informatics Institute of the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. She was a 2012 American Association of Colleges of Nursing Leadership for Academic Nursing fellow. She was the Director of Masters Programs, taught in the MS informatics and DNP programs, and mentored graduate students at both the University of Maryland School of Nursing and the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. Dr. Wilson is actively involved in MedBiquitous, AMIA and HIMSS through her work with informatics continuing education programs and mentorship of new informaticians.
William Hersh, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE)
Oregon Health & Science University
Dr. Hersh is Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). Dr. Hersh is a leader and innovator in biomedical informatics both in education and research. In education, he serves as Director of OHSU's Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program, which includes two master's degrees (research and professional), a PhD degree, and Graduate Certificate. Dr. Hersh also spearheaded OHSU's efforts in distance learning for biomedical informatics, which is available up to the master's degree level. He also conceptualized and implemented the first offering of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 10x10 ("ten by ten") program, which has provided education to over 2400 health care professionals and others in biomedical informatics. Dr. Hersh also co-leads efforts to teach clinical informatics to other health professions students. He helped define competencies and shape the curriulum for OHSU medical students. He has also been involved in the teaching of nursing, graduate basic science, and undergraduate health science majors (at Portland State University).
Moderator
Susan M. Swider, PhD
Professor, College of Nursing
Rush University
Dr. Swider is a Professor in the Department of Community, Systems and Mental Health Nursing at Rush University in Chicago. Dr. Swider has practiced in acute care, home health care and public health settings over the past thirty years. Her research has focused on program development and evaluation of community health workers, engaging urban communities in health promotion, and health policy to support health promotion efforts. She has taught public health nursing at the pre-licensure and graduate/specialty level at several universities, and co-directed 10 years of HRSA supported work to develop an on line doctoral program in Advanced Public Health Nursing, ensuring that it met the Quad Council competencies for Public Health Nursing practice. She is a member of a number of public health and public health nursing organizations, and is a past president of the Association of Community Health Nursing Educators (ACHNE). In her role with ACHNE, she served on the Quad Council for Public Health Nursing organizations, and was a member of the Task Force that revised the Competencies for Public Health Nursing (2010-2012). In 2011, Dr. Swider was appointed by President Obama to the Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion and Integrative and Public Health, a group designed to advise on the development and implementation of the National Prevention Strategy. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago. In 2016, she was appointed to serve on the Community Preventive Services Task Force of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free and open to everyone including non-members, communities of interest, practice representatives, and AACN member schools including deans, faculty, staff, and students.
Continuing Education Credits:
Eligible attendees may receive one continuing nursing education (CNE) contact hour for participating in this webinar. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is an accredited CNE-provider by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.