B6 Advancing the Continuum of Care: Public Health, Health Care and Human Services

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Monday, August 22, 2011: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Dunwoody
Public health, human services departments, and community health care providers stand at a crossroads in electronic information systems development. The impetus of health reform and MU, compounded by the need to reduce national healthcare costs, has lead to investments that support secure, interoperable, electronic health records, and health information exchange. However, to address the root causes of health, social, and economic inequities, health and human services officials are now utilizing the evolving products of the information age to allow the transfer of information more freely across siloed programs thus providing a treasure-trove of robust community health and wellness data. Interoperability across health and human services programs also supports better case planning, improved delivery of treatment services, and improved outcomes for the consumers of our shared services. This session will include presentations from federal, state, and local entities working across categorical funding silos to create interoperable health and human service systems that support MU of electronic information towards actionable policy and preventative community services. Panelists: Uma Ahluwalia, MSW, Montgomery County (MD) Department of Health and Human Services Martin Rice, MS, RN-BC, Health Resources and Services Administration Daniel Stein, MBA, Stewards of Change
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