IEEE Event: Health Informatics on #FHIR

Feb 14, 2016

Health Informatics on FHIR: Opportunities in the New Age of Interoperability

A half day, pre-HIMSS Workshop on Saturday February 27th from 9:30 – 12:30 Westin Las Vegas Hotel, Casino & Spa

Organizers: Professors May Wang, PhD Professor ([email protected]) and Mark Braunstein, MD Professor of the Practice ([email protected] – Georgia Tech

Keynote: Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD, CEO of HL7: Toward a Global Health Interoperability Standard (30 minutes)

Panel 1: The FHIR Standard (90 minutes - Moderator: Mark Braunstein) + Panel Discussion / Q&A

  • Grahame Grieve, HL7 FHIR Project Leader: Toward Global Interoperability through the FHIR Standard
  • Josh Mandel, MD Lead Architect for the SMART on FHIR project, Harvard Boston Childrens Hospital: FHIR as a Universal App Platform
  • Charles Jaffe: The Argonaut Project

Panel 2: Healthcare in the Age of Interoperability (90 minutes - Moderator: May Wang) + Panel Discussion / Q&A

  • Robert A Greenes, MD, PhD, Professor, Biomedical Informatics, Arizona State University (co-author Aziz Boxwala, MD, PhD, Meliorix Inc, and mWorksHealth, Inc, La Jolla, CA): Enabling Patient-Centered Care by Liberating Data.
  • Jimeng Sun, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Tech: FHIR-based Clinical Decision Support: An Epilepsy Case Study.
  • Paula Braun, MS Data Science Entrepreneur, CDC: FHIR and Public Health: Death Reporting Case Study
  • Gil Alterovitz, PhD, Harvard/MIT Health Sciences and Technology Division Children’s Hospital Informatics Program: SMART on FHIR Genomics

In addition, there will be up to five poster presentations available to the audience.

See IEEE page for  registration