The Autobahn of Change—Where are our safety belts?
The ongoing discussions of health reform and the next few years of effort for defining and refining the health reform bill offer exceptional opportunities for immense progress to be made to improving the efficiency and quality of health care. The collaboration and partnership of information technology specialists, clinicians, and administrators will enhance the progress to be made. The implementation and achievement of standards in electronic communications will be impacted by education (pre-degree and continuing education), reimbursement, interoperability, and attitudes. However, the request for rapid change and broad change mean that significant risk evaluation and attenuation should accompany the efforts to exhort change. This presentation will focus on identified risks and means of managing or reducing those risks while simultaneously expanding utilization and application of electronic communication and documentation. We are in it together—lack of safety by one driver impacts everyone else on the road.
Nancy W. Dickey, MD, is president of the Texas A&M University System Health Science Center and vice-chancellor for Health Affairs for the Texas A&M University System. She is a past president of the American Medical Association (1998-99). It was during her tenure in AMA leadership that she developed her passion for patient safety and the value of electronic records in promoting safety. She was the founding chair of the board of the National Patient Safety Foundation and the inaugural editor of the Journal of Patient Safety. Dr. Dickey also chairs the iHealth Alliance, a board tasked with overseeing the privacy and appropriateness standards for the PDR Network; through this work she has attained an interest in the risks and benefits of electronic communications in health care. She is a board certified family physician with an appointment as professor in the department of family and community medicine.
Nancy will give this presentation at ACE on Thursday, August 5, 2010.
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