ASTHO-NACCHO Webinar – Exploring the Use of Electronic Health Records to Support Tobacco Cessation and Million Hearts

Exploring the Use of Electronic Health Records to Support Tobacco Cessation and Million Hearts

Date: Monday, April 13, 2015, 1:00-2:30 PM ET

Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States. The use of electronic health records can play an important role in improving health by supporting tobacco cessation efforts.

This webinar, hosted by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and the National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO) will explore and identify opportunities for using electronic health records (EHRs) to improve two of the ABCS of Million Hearts: smoking cessation efforts and improving blood pressure control. Furthermore, we will provide an overview and national perspective of EHR use, state and local examples, and available resources to support these efforts.

The intended audience for this webinar includes state health agencies, local health agencies and community based clinics.

Register at: https://cc.readytalk.com/r/c1xclol8vxxo&eom

1st International Who's Who in One Health Webinar

Dear One Health Friends and Colleagues:

The One Health Commission (OHC) is pleased to announce the 1st International Who's Who in One Health Webinar to be held November 10, 2014. The Webinar will bring together noted One Health leaders, advocates, professionals and students in real-time to discuss global One Health efforts while providing a forum for dialogue within and across disciplines.

 The main objectives of the Webinar are to:

• Connect One Health stakeholders around the world to better understand, share and highlight individual- and agency-level efforts;
• Educate Webinar participants about the One Health paradigm and way of thinking towards improved health outcomes; and
• Create new strategic partnerships and networks for collective, purposeful and coordinated action

 Click here to register.

Already there are 240 registrants from 50 countries. The goal of this webinar is to connect with as many One Health leaders/supporters  around the world as possible on November 10.  We hope you might join in for part or all of this day long webinar.  Also, as an advocate for One Health, please consider sharing this information with your own networks and listservs (email, website, social media etc). Feel free to add this information directly to your own website and hyperlink back to the OHC International Webinar page (www.onehealthcommission.org/globalwebinar). Thank you! 

Hope you can join in.  

The One Health Commission
Who’S Who in One Health International Webinar Team

2014 Ebola Response in the U.S. – Use of Travel History within Clinical Workflow

Invitation for:

Date:    Thursday, October 16, 2014 

Time:    1:00 pm to 2:30pm Eastern Time

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 The meeting agenda and the registration information for a special webinar are provided below. 

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When- Date: 10/16/2014 Time: 1p.m. to 2.30p.m. EDT

What- Special Webinar- Public Health and Electronic Health Records Vendor Collaboration Initiative

Agenda:

·         Presentation Title: 2014 Ebola Response in the U.S. – Use of Travel History within Clinical Workflow [45 minutes]

• Question and Answer Session - [45 minutes]

Presenters:

• Dana Meaney Delman – Deputy Lead Medical Care Task Force (Ebola Response), Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
• Timothy M. Uyeki- Clinical Team lead (Ebola Response), Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
• Jon White – Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)
• Jim Daniel – Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)
• Brian Lee- Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
• Laura Conn- Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)

Abstract

In light of the confirmed U.S. cases of Ebola in Dallas, there is a lot of attention on electronic health records (EHRs) and their intersection with public health. The EHR vendor community has responded with components within their respective tools to address Ebola and assist within a healthcare environment.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) will convene key stakeholders to encourage collaboration in the development of Ebola electronic screening tools. The CDC Ebola team will review the CDC clinical algorithm and checklist for evaluation of individuals with suspected Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), with the intent to explore the inclusion of travel history and assessment of pertinent clinical signs and symptoms into a electronic format that will alert clinicians to consider the diagnosis of EVD. Additionally, the ONC will lead a discussion on how existing products may be configured to support screening protocols. The presentations will be followed by a Question & Answer session for EHR vendors and public health practitioners.

Webinar Registration Instructions

Pre-register for this online event at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7081033365571067649

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

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 Kindly let us know, if you have questions or need more information by writing to us at meaningfuluse@cdc.gov

Upcoming NAACHO Webinar – Detecting and Monitoring Disease and Illness Outbreaks

Detecting and Monitoring Disease and Illness Outbreaks 

Data Sources and Systems for Public Health and Emergency Management Officials

Please register for this informative webinar on best practices, lessons learned and resources on how to detect and monitor illness, disease, and syndrome trends and outbreaks. This webinar is hosted by the First Responders Group – US Department of Homeland Security Science And Technology Directorate and co-sponsored by the National Information Sharing Consortium (NISC). Information regarding speakers and registration is below.

Date and Time:

Thursday, October 23, 2014

1:00 PM EDT

Registration Link:

http://bit.ly/register-for-CBW21  

Presenters:Dr. Michael JhungMedical Officer, Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Dr. Teresa QuituguaDeputy Director, National Biosurveillance Integration Center, Office of Health Affairs
U.S. Department of Homeland Security

LT Cody ThorntonProgram Manager, Division of International Health Security
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

The Requirements Dilemma: choosing between 'shall' statements and 'user stories'

Please join ASTHO for a unique opportunity to engage with Dr Seater on the benefit of looking at requirements gathering through the perspective of the "user story."

Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Time: 2:00PM EDT

Speaker: Dr. Robert Seater

Abstract:

Dr. Seater will discuss the fundamental contradiction that requirements often present us with -- that they are both critical and a waste of time.  Understanding how this contradiction comes about helps us to address the problem by choosing an appropriate notation based on the phase of the project.  He will discuss the tradeoffs and appropriate use of traditional 'shall' statements and 'user stories'.  These tradeoffs are especially important to user-facing projects, but they are also valuable to projects focused on infrastructure or modernization.

Bio:

Dr. Seater received his PhD from MIT in Computer Science, where he worked on a technique for mapping requirements to automated software analysis and applying the technique to a working radiation therapy machine.  He is currently a research scientist at MIT Lincoln Lab, where he works on requirements.  When he is not worrying about requirements, Dr. Seater plays and publishes strategic tabletop board games.

Register now!

CDC seeking volunteers for PH-EHR Vendors Collaboration Initiative webinar panel

CDC is looking for volunteers from public health to be part of a panel during the PH-EHR Vendors Collaboration Initiative webinar scheduled for July 15th from 1-2 pm ET.

The plan is to first have a generic presentation on the Stage 2 MU registration and onboarding process and then the panel members will share and discuss their experiences (barriers, challenges, etc.) while onboarding providers.  Panel members would not need to prepare or provide any slides.  Panel members would also have the opportunity to respond to questions from the audience during the webinar.

Please let STandon@cdc.gov know if you are interested by July 8th COB

Thanks in advance.

NACCHO – PHII Webinar this Monday, June 23rd “Building Informatics Capacity Through Workforce Development”

Please join NACCHO and PHII this Monday, June 23rd for an exciting webinar on building informatics capacity in local health departments through workforce development!

UPCOMING WEBINAR JUNE 23 BUILDING INFORMATICS CAPACITY THROUGH WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

Title: Building Informatics Capacity through Workforce Development
Date: June 23, 2014
Time: 3:00- 4:00 PM EDT
Join: Reserve your Webinar seat now: http://naccho.adobeconnect.com/wfdev2014/event/registration.html

Description:
The challenges to building the informatics capabilities of public health agencies are many and varied. A common challenge is related to workforce development activities to recruit, select, hire, train and retain individuals that have the combination of skills and competencies needed by informatics professionals. Some of these challenges are related to establishing competitive salaries, finding individuals with the appropriate skill sets and distinguishing between IT and Informatics positions, skills, knowledge and abilities.

The webinar presentation is intended to:

• Increase awareness of common workforce related challenges to building informatics capability.
• Increase awareness of products and resources that are available to assist local health agency staff to develop informatics position descriptions.
• Provide an opportunity to hear how your colleagues have addressed informatics challenges in their organizations.

In 2013, CDC sponsored an opportunity that supported NACCHO and the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII) to develop useful tools to assist public health agency staff to address of these issues. As an emerging discipline, the resources to assist public health agencies to establish informatics capacity at an agency level were limited. The partners established a process to draft, review and create example position descriptions for public health agencies to utilize within their organizations to establish informatics positions. These included sample position descriptions for the executive, management, clinical, and professional levels, and a brief description of a professional career ladder that describes the various positions for professionals that seek further career growth. A cross-walk document that links informatics competencies to tasks and duties was also created to assist agencies to develop position descriptions for various types of informatics jobs.

ASTHO webinar: Decision Analysis Tool for Syndromic Surveillance in Public Health

Decision Analysis Tool for Syndromic Surveillance in Public Health

Date: Monday June 2, 2014

Time: 2-3pm Eastern Time

Description:

This webinar will present a decision support tool for jurisdictions to evaluate the Value of Information (VOI) and Return on Investment (ROI) for Syndromic Surveillance system implementation.  One of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials’ (ASTHO) key goals is to help its jurisdictions meet member needs for technical assistance, which includes making informed decisions about their syndromic surveillance options. During this webinar, Booz Allen Hamilton will present a quantifiable decision-analysis tool built for this purpose. The presentation will elaborate on the developed model and possible user inputs that allow for detailed customization for various event scenarios (using influenza as a scenario).

Register here.

Upcoming Webinar: “Beneficial Practices for Improving Biosurveillance: Outbreaks – Lessons Learned from Seasonal Influenza”

Please save the date for the webinar below.  Dr. Ed Baker and Dr. Perry Smith will discuss surveillance efforts regarding the outbreak of seasonal flu.  

Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/797109960

In this third webinar in the series, you will hear from Marion County Public Health Department (Indianapolis, IN) staff Shandy Dearth, Epidemiology Administrator, and Melissa McMasters, Coordinator for Immunization and Infections Disease Programs describe their experiences with seasonal flu.  Additionally you will hear from Kathleen Kimball-Baker, Director of the Public Health Practices Project at the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), a national online practice exchange for emergency preparedness and response professionals.

Webinar hosts, Dr. Ed Baker (Project PI and Research Professor, Health Policy and Management, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Dr. Perry Smith (Research Professor Epidemiology, State University of New York at Albany and former New York State Epidemiologist), will discuss with the guests and the audience:

• How does a local health department competently respond to an outbreak of seasonal flu?
• What are the surveillance challenges in gathering situational awareness information during an outbreak?
• How can localities best prepare their surveillance systems for responding to outbreaks?
• What special surveillance challenges does seasonal flu present to health departments?

Public health preparedness and surveillance professionals are invited to participate in this webinar.
Learn about the upcoming webinars in the series: http://sph.unc.edu/nciph/biosurv-webinar

Questions? Contact Carol Gunther-Mohr, Webinar Coordinator, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill cgm@email.unc.edu

The webinar series is presented by the North Carolina Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Center (NCPERRC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response. 

CSTE Webinar on the ACA and Health Care Integration: February 12th, 1 pm ET

On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 from 1-2pm EST, CSTE will be hosting a webinar entitled Notes from the Field: Oregon’s and Illinois’ Experiences with Public Health and Health Care Integration.  This webinar will characterize the role of the epidemiologist in a post-ACA environment.

After this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the role of the epidemiologist in a post-ACA environment.
2. Describe the importance of metrics for successful public health and primary care integration efforts.

The webinar will be presented by Katrina Hedberg, State Epidemiologist in Oregon, and Craig Conover, State Epidemiologist in Illinois.

Topic: Feb. Primary Care Integration Call 

Host: Jessica Pittman 

Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 

Time: 1:00 pm, Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00) 

Session number: 792 743 127 

Session password: epi1234 

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1. Go to https://cste.webex.com/cste/k2/j.php?MTID=tef337c6156deb092061e945b8a522ff8 

2. Enter your name and email address (or registration ID). 

3. Enter the session password: epi1234 

4. Click "Join Now". 

5. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.

Fridays from the Archives: Schools & Flu

Friday, January 24, 2014: Schools & Flu

Schools are often, for lack of a better descriptor, prime places for infectious disease transmission. But how do common infectious diseases, like seasonal influenza, move through a school? Are there specific patterns that could be accounted for to mitigate transmission?

It turns out that certain factors, such as social networks, may affect not only epidemic impact but also intervention effectiveness.  Through extensive modeling Gail Potter, PhD explores these social contact factors in School Disease Transmission: Has the time come for coordination between monitors and modelers? 

Of course, the other half of the title indicates needed coordination between modelers like Gail and monitors like Guoyan Zhang, MD, MPH and Anthony Llau, MPH, PhDc  who monitored ILI for Miami-Dade County in Florida. Daily school absenteeism surveillance used in coordination with evolving models of transmission could improve analysis of the absenteeism data. This is especially important since, as the presenters mention, absenteeism may not always equal true illness (or illness at all).

To learn more about flu and school absenteeism surveillance, and the modeling that can aid in analysis and intervention decisions, be sure to watch the full webinar from October 18, 2011 on our website.


This post is part of the series Fridays from the Archives. You can access all posts in the series here.


Written by Becky Zwickl, MPH, ISDS Public Health Analyst (bzwickl@syndromic.org)

Fridays from the Archives: Twitter Data

Did you know that there's a whole archive of past ISDS webinars, easily accessible and searchable by key terms? My new bi-weekly series, Fridays from the Archives, will select one webinar from the ISDS vault and summarize its content.

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Friday, October 18, 2013: Twitter Data

This morning on the bus I found myself mindlessly scrolling through my twitter feed, inspiring my first Fridays from the Archives keyword search of "twitter data". That brought me to the June 28, 2012 webinar, "Application and Visualization of Twitter Data for Disease Surveillance". Presented by Courtney Corley (US), Marcel Salathe (US), and Mark Cameron (Australia), this webinar looked at a variety of details that are integral to effective surveillance using twitter.

In particular, the presentations focused on:

• Filtering and processing;
• Analysis; and
• Presentation of findings.

For me, the highlight of this webinar was seeing the myriad and differing ways in which twitter data was utilized by the three presenters. For instance, Mark Cameron's presentation notes twitter's use in surveillance of the February 2009 Victorian bushfires, whereas Courtney Corley summarized the importance of understanding twitter's unique terminology and presenting data visualizations. Finally, Marcel Salathe described how you can use twitter data as part of a health behavior assessment.

If you're interested in twitter, crowd sourcing, or social media in general, this webinar will provide you with ideas for effectively using new data sources without ignoring potential drawbacks of social media data.

A video recording of the full presentation and copies of the slides are available in the ISDS Webinar Archive (http://www.syndromic.org/component/content/article/29/218).

I hope you've enjoyed this first installment of Fridays from the Archives. Please let me know if you have any suggestions for improving this series!

Written by Becky Zwickl, MPH, ISDS Public Health Analyst (bzwickl@syndromic.org)

Webinar: Global Public Health Surveillance, Governance, and Viral Sovereignty

Hosted by the ISDS Global Outreach Committee
Date and Time: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

Presenters

• Affan Shaikh, M.P.H, Senior Epidemiologist, Public Health Practie, LLC
• Scott McNabb, Ph.D., M.S., Research Professor, Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health | Managing Partner, Public Health Practice, LLC 

Contributors

• Qanta Ahmed, M.D., Attending Sleep Disorders Medicine, Winthrop University Hospital | Associate Professor of Medicine, State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook, New York
• Ziad Memish, M.D., Deputy Minister of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

 

Description

Microbes carry no national passports; neither do they recognize geo-political boundaries or state sovereignty. Yet a recent violation of viral sovereignty has brought up unresolved governance issues, challenged ethical public health practice, and added unnecessary global security risk.  Viral sovereignty refers to a sovereign state’s ownership rights over pathogens found within national borders.  First coined in the wake of tensions rising from the Indonesian government’s decision to conditionally withhold samples of H5N1 avian influenza virus in early 2007, viral sovereignty has been interpreted both in a positive light as a guiding, ethical rule to govern control of modern pandemics on the one hand and a potential risk to global health security on the other.

While the World Health Organization (WHO) revised the International Health Regulations (IHR [2005]) to provide a global framework to prevent, protect against, control, and facilitate a public health response to the global spread of disease, its success firmly rests on the delicate balance of trust and transparency.  Current disputes now highlight the imbalance between respecting and trusting legitimate national sovereignty while complying with global transparency in reporting.

This webinar reviews the history and role of the IHR 2005.  In it, we discuss the rights and responsibilities of various parties for public health surveillance and global health security.  We also discuss the origins and implications of viral sovereignty. And through two case studies, we point out the critical and current issues to be discusses and weigh the pros and cons of various options to move forward to greater global health security.

Learning Objectives

By the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Describe the history and role of the International Health Regulations (IHR [2005])
• Review the authority and obligations of National Ministries of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) for public health surveillance
• Delineate national and global rights and responsibilities for public health surveillance
• Define viral sovereignty and its impact on global health security
• Illustrate a way forward

Register here to attend!

Join the conversation on twitter! Use the hashtag #ViralSovereignty

Interested in Prioritization? Sign up for ISDS's Aug 1 Webinar!

On Thursday, August 1, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EDT (17:00 - 18:30 GMT), ISDS will host a webinar on prioritization approaches to multi-dimensional health problems.

Victor Del Rio, from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), will introduce multi-dimensional problems and provide examples of prioritization exercises in health settings.

Next, Gilberto Montibeller of the London School of Economics and Political Science will describe methodological challenges and focus on assessing impacts, modeling values, and ranking priorities.

Finally, Kim Stevens of the Royal Veterinary College, London, will provide applications of multi-criteria-decision analysis to spatial risk prioritization and describe approaches to validation.

Looking for more information? Want to register? Click here!

AMIA Upcoming Webinar - Immunization Decision Support

ISDS would like to share an upcoming event hosted by one of our partner organizations, AMIA, regarding Immunization Decision Support from Electronic Health Records. You can learn more about this event and how to register below.

American Medical Informatics Association

Public Health Informatics Webinar Series

Immunization Decision Support

With reporting to Immunization Information Systems (IIS) from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) advancing, it is important to think about how information from EHRs and IIS can work together to provide the most effective immunization decision support. Immunization decision support requires connection across many different systems in many different clinical and public health jurisdictions and represents a leading example of public health decision support in clinical settings. This webinar will consider the kinds of immunization decision support rules needed, decision support use in EHRs and the ways in which IIS’s and EHRs need to connect to support needed transactions.

Speakers:

Stuart T. Weinberg, MD FAAP

Project Director, Outpatient Whiteboard

Technical Director, Immunization Registry Project

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Stuart Myerburg, JD

Health Scientist, Informatics

Immunization Information Systems Support Branch

National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Bill Adams, MD

Director of BU-CTSI Clinical Research Informatics

Director of Child Health Informatics,

Professor of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine

April 9, 2013 at 2:00 PM EST

Register at: http://www.amia.org/education/webinars/immunization-decision-support

 (There will be a $50 charge for non-member participation)

The last webinar is viewable at:

Data and Informatics Needs of the Recent Fungal Meningitis Events

(http://www.amia.org/webinar/webinar-data-needs-recent-meningitis-event)

 AMIA aims to lead the way in transforming health care through trusted science, education, and the practice of informatics. AMIA connects a broad community of professionals and students interested in informatics. AMIA is the bridge for knowledge and collaboration across a continuum, from basic and applied research to the consumer and public health arenas. One of the five domains supported by AMIA is the Public Health Informatics Working Group. Public Health Informatics is the application of informatics in areas of public health, including surveillance, reporting, and health promotion.

AMIA - Public Health Informatics Workgroup Webinar Series

Public Health Informatics Workgroup Webinar Series

AMIA and the AMIA Public Health Informatics Work Group are planning a series of webinars on timely issues in public health and population health informatics. The webinars will include information from relevant experts and an opportunity for questions and interaction with all participants. These webinars are open to both AMIA members and non-AMIA members for no charge. 

The Data and Informatics Needs of the Recent Meningitis Events

Date – February 12, 2013

Time – 12:00 Noon EST

At least 44 people have died and more than 678 people in 19 states have become ill from fungal meningitis, epidural abscesses, and other infections after receiving contaminated steroid shots made by the New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts.   Public health response to these events required coordination among multiple Federal and State organizations, recommendations for the management of possible and confirmed cases and strong patient and physician communications. This webinar will focus on data and informatics needs of this event and what capabilities could facilitate similar responses in the future.

Speakers:

Janet J Hamilton, MPH
Disease Control and Health Protection
Bureau of Epidemiology
Florida Department of Health

Marion Kainer, MD MPH FRACP
Director, Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance Program
Tennessee Department of Health

J. Todd Weber, MD
Incident Manager, CDC Response to Multistate Outbreak of Fungal Meningitis and Other Infections 
Chief, Prevention and Response Branch
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, NCEZID
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

To participate – Register beforehand at: 

https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/526283406

AMIA aims to lead the way in transforming health care through trusted science, education, and the practice of informatics. AMIA connects a broad community of professionals and students interested in informatics. AMIA is the bridge for knowledge and collaboration across a continuum, from basic and applied research to the consumer and public health arenas. One of the five domains supported by AMIA is the Public Health Informatics Working Group. Public Health Informatics is the application of informatics in areas of public health, including surveillance, reporting, and health promotion.