Greater health equity needs local advocacy
Encouraging state and regional HIMSS chapters to advocate for healthcare information policies in their area is critical, says Lawrence Voyten, HIMSS board member and national advocacy chair. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - May 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
Increasing care quality by uncovering data insights
Verana Health uses large amounts of structured and unstructured de-identified patient data, including medical images, to inform value-based care models, explains Lawrence Whittle, CCO. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - May 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
Ethics of Sharing Individual-level Data from Research with Human Subjects
The objectives for this session are: • Consider the benefits and potential risks of data sharing • Appreciate that potential risks of sharing data across data types and contexts • Acquire insight into investigators ’ and research participants ’ views on data sharing • Better understand the position that ethically appropriate protections for sharing data may be proportional to the potential risks of data sharingAir date: 5/4/2023 3:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 24, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Bringing clarity to the post-Dobbs regulatory landscape
The Supreme Court ' s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women ' s Health Organization affected healthcare data and access, as well as other key privacy regulations, says Matthew Fisher, general counsel at Carium, in a preview of his HIMSS23 discussion. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - April 10, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
NIH Bids Dr. Fauci Farewell
Virtual farewell event to celebrate the remarkable career of Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. For more information, please visit: https://employees.nih.gov/pages/farewell-dr-fauci.aspxGuest of Honor:Anthony Fauci, M.D., Director, NIAIDModerator:John Burklow, Acting Chief of Staff, NIHSpeakers:Lawrence Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D., Performing the Duties of the Director of the NIHJohn Gallin, M.D., Associate Director for Clinical Research, NIHCliff Lane, M.D., Deputy Director for Clinical Research, NIAIDFrancis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Special Projects Advisor to the President of...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 5, 2022 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
“ We ’ re here, we ’ re queer, get used to it ” : Struggles and Stories to Be Heard for Today and Tomorrow
Starting with two documents in the archival collections of the NLM, Dr. Sell will examine how early sexual and gender minority (SGM) Americans worked to normalize the presence of SGMs in society. Ralph Werther (1874-?) hoped that his writings might render “ nature ’ s step-children ” lives more tolerable and he “ offered no apology ” for their publication. Specifically, he hoped to repeal laws under which SGMs were incarcerated, put a stop to a continuous string of murders of these stepchildren, and save “ hundreds ” of these “ melancholy sexual intermediates from suicide. ” In addition to these objec...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 28, 2022 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Knowledge Based Data Science
Dr. Lawrence Hunter is a Professor of Biomedical Informatics (School of Medicine), Pharmacology (School of Medicine) and Computer Science (Boulder). He received a Ph.D. in computer science from Yale University in 1989, and then joined the National Institutes of Health as a staff scientist, first at the National Library of Medicine and then at the National Cancer Institute, before coming to Colorado in 2000. Dr. Hunter is widely recognized as one of the founders of bioinformatics; he published some of the first papers in biomedical NLP and in machine learning predictions of molecular function; he served as the first Preside...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 15, 2022 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Lawrence Hunter is a Professor and Director of the Center for Computational Pharmacology and of the Computational Bioscience Program at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is an internationally known scholar, focused on computational biology, knowledge-driven extraction of information from the primary biomedical literature, the semantic integration of knowledge resources in molecular biology, and the use of knowledge in the analysis of high-throughput data, as well as for his foundational work in computational biology, which led to the ge...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 1, 2022 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
NIH Assembly of Scientists (AOS) Town Hall
The agenda for the 2022 AOS Town Hall includes: • NIH Assembly of Scientists – brief history, structure, accomplishments and upcoming election, Drs. Bibi Bielekova and Kathy Calvo (10 min.) • 2021 AOS survey, Dr. Melissa Brotman (5-7 min.) • Introduction of Dr. Nina Schor – Acting DDIR, Dr. Michael Gottesman (3-5 min.) • Forward vision for the NIH IRP, Dr. Nina Schor (15 min.) • What role does the NIH IRP play in fulfilling the NIH mission and how can the AOS best serve both the DDIR and NIH Director, Dr. Lawrence Tabak (15 min.) • Questions (10 min.)Air date: 9/23/2022 1:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 13, 2022 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
James H. Cassedy Lecture in the History of Medicine: Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South - September 2022
In 1969, after a protracted legal battle, Judge Frank M. Johnson of Alabama ordered that segregation of that state ’ s psychiatric hospitals was illegal and unconstitutional. In his judgement, Johnson drew on government inspections and grass roots legal activism to critique the terrible conditions that prevailed for Black patients. In this lecture Dr. Smith will give a preview of her forthcoming book Jim Crow in the Asylum in which she will demonstrate that racial segregation in psychiatric hospitals in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi was supported by underlying racist ideologies and has had long term consequences for p...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 15, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
TeamHealth wins fraud suit against UHC; UC Davis Health launches Cloud Innovation Center
This week ' s top stories include TeamHealth ' s court victory against UnitedHealthcare for engaging in unfair reimbursement practices, and UC Davis Health ' s AWS-powered CIC that aims to further digital health equity. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - December 3, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
Ethics Grand Rounds: How Should We Train Fellows in Medical Aid-in-Dying?
Ethics Grand Rounds
How should we teach medical aid-in-dying to trainees?
Medical aid-in-dying (aka physician-assisted suicide) is controversial. It is also legal in some states and DC, but illegal in other states. This situation raises an important challenge for training programs. To what extent should training programs teach medical aid-in-dying to trainees? Should trainees be able to opt out of receiving this training? Should trainers be able to opt out of providing it?For more information go tohttps://cc.nih.gov/about/news/grcurrent.htmAir date: 10/6/2021 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 30, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
COVID-19, International Law, and Data Governance
Speaker Alexandra L. Phelan is an Adjunct Professor in Global and Public Health Law and Ethics, Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) candidate and General Sir John Monash Scholar at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Professor Phelan ’ s doctoral research examines the global governance of infectious diseases, with a focus on Australian, Chinese and US laws relating to the health and human rights of vulnerable population groups. Professor Phelan ’ s research explores the key legal issues of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases – such as Ebola, Pandemic Influenza, MERS, and Zika Virus – in the face of press...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 21, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Aetna suit claims LGBTQ+ discrimination; skills gaps causing security threats
This week ' s top stories include a class-action lawsuit alleging Aetna doesn ' t provide equal access to fertility treatments, and healthcare IT decision-makers saying their organizations are at risk of security threats due to skills gaps. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - September 17, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
Scripps Health sued after cyberattack; AWS creates new accelerator
This week ' s top stories include Scripps being hit with multiple lawsuits, AWS giving startups a crash course in technical training, and five Blue Cross Blue Shield plans launching a for-profit company focused on lowering drug prices. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - June 25, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
