Keynote and Plenary

Keynote Speaker

New Incentives + Information Liberation = Rocket Fuel for Innovation

Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer, US Department of Health and Human Services

Todd's presentation will describe why there has never been a better time to be a health care innovator than right now. He will discuss how incentives in the health care system are shifting to reward improvements in quality, health, and value, and how key information to power these improvements is being liberated at multiple levels. Learn more about the growing "ecosystem" of innovators who are embracing this historic opportunity to help reinvent American health care and improve health.

 

Plenary Speakers

Using GIS for interior space management

Bob Wiseman, Vice President for Facilities Management at the University of Kentucky

A custom GIS application, designed to support maintenance of the UK Chandler Hospital, stores asset information, and generates room data sheets for tracking and analyzing the status of occupancy. Hospital management and facility maintenance mangers rely on the application, with added innovations including the integration of CAD drawings, on-the-fly symbolization, pre- and post-drywall 360° panoramic images, and a web-based asset editing module. Soon the application will be expanded to serve as an overall facility management application across campus for maintenance and operations including linking data and records from the university’s SAP Plant Maintenance system.

 

Place | Person | Time | Condition: Cardinal Points for the Public Health Informatics

Seth Foldy, MD MPH, Director, Public Health Informatics and Technology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Under the HITECH and Affordable Care Acts, health care and public health are destined to share an increasing amount of electronic information and interest in prevention.   These trends will require greater record linking by location, person, time, and condition with implications for geo-enabled systems as well as new challenges.

 

 

 

 

Doing Our Best with GIS

Ellen K. Cromley, Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Health Care

Normative modeling techniques help us find the best answer to a problem. A number of these techniques available in GIS have been used in health-related applications, but there is a need to develop GIS software to broaden the use of normative methods in health research. A review of selected applications suggests new directions in health research and software development.