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Who’s using health data from your fitbit and smartphone?
The importance of ethical standards for consumer-generated data use in healthcare was a hot topic at AcademyHealth's recent 2018 Health Datapalooza conference. In this blog post in partnership with AcademyHealth, MITRE’s Jessica Skopac and Susan...
Jessica Skopac
Jessica Skopac Health Policy Analyst Health Systems and Strategy Jessica Skopac is a Health Policy Analyst with 12 years of experience in healthcare. Her career spans work for Local, State, and Federal Government sponsors. At MITRE, her work includes serving as...
Putting the patient at the center of the healthcare system
Kim Warren highlights four areas where the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the health industry could have high impact on expanding patient access to data.
Using mobile health assessments to improve outcomes for individuals with chronic neurological conditions
A Datapalooza18 presentation by Elizabeth Brokaw, Michael Fine, and Tony Donadio from MITRE and Sahana Kukke from The Catholic University of America.
Easier Clinical Notes to Improve Care and Research
Greg Quinn and Andrew Quina from MITRE demonstrate in this HIMSS18 presentation an open source application to empower clinicians to author clinical notes while simultaneously enabling low burden collection of structured clinical data.
Democratizing Patient Data: A Story of Patient Empowerment
The most critical member of the care team, the patient, is being left out. Hear insights from this HIMSS18 video presentation by Kristina Sheridan, MS, Principal Investigator and Researcher Patient Empowerment, MITRE, and Kate Sheridan, Student, George Mason University about managing pediatric chronic conditions, the value of patient-generated data, and an update of the patient empowerment research that was inspired by their experience.
Health Information Sharing Maturity Model
In this HIMSS18 presentation Gail Hamilton, MITRE and Thomas Novak, HHS discuss how health interoperability is key for improving care coordination, efficiency, and reducing physician burden.
A National Repository of Widely-Shareable, Computable CDS
CDS Connect is an AHRQ-sponsored project to collect, build, store and make available a wide range of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) artifacts in both human-readable and computable forms. This HIMSS18 presentation led by Rob McCready, MITRE and Edwin Lomotan, MD, AHRQ demonstrates the CDS Connect Repository.
Buy-in through Opt-in: Shared Services Engagement Strategies
Through a powerful public health case study, this HIMSS18 presentation by Suzie Carmack and Dawn Stapleton from MITRE, articulates how successful social marketing and stakeholder engagement strategies were applied to develop and execute both strategic communication and standards harmonization efforts for CDC’s Surveillance Data Platform with Shared Services Initiative.
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