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2021 Annual Meeting: SDOH Information Exchange Innovation, Referrals, Consent, and Equity

2021 Annual Meeting: SDOH Information Exchange Innovation, Referrals, Consent, and Equity

Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT

March 29, 2021This session will explore innovative efforts for SDOH information exchange and interoperable referrals, along with considerations for consent and equity. The session will highlight initiatives from1) CyncHealth, describing the use of HIE to enhance SDOH collaboration in Nebraska2) San Diego Health Connect, noting relevant take-aways from their 2019 LEAP Project for consent and reducing health disparities3) Ohio Health Information Partnership, describing their efforts on SDOH referrals4) Bronx RHIO, discussing community-based health IT efforts to address SDOH, and5) The Gravity Project to provide an update on progress toward SDOH core data for interoperability and standards-based information exchange.Brett Andriesen, ONC, ModeratorElizabeth…

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2021 Tech Forum: Integrating SDOH Data Into Clinical Systems & Connecting with Human Services

2021 Tech Forum: Integrating SDOH Data Into Clinical Systems & Connecting with Human Services

Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT

September 10, 2021Providers are increasingly capturing SDOH data from patients as part of a clinical encounter and using this data to help inform clinical care delivery and to support social care referrals in the community. Existing and emerging health IT standards and codes sets specific to SDOH enable this data to be integrated into a care record and exchanged to support referrals aligned with an individuals’ social need(s). This session will outline technical workflows and use cases for integrating SDOH data into an EHR and as part of a shared care plan and will describe the applicable standards and codes sets…

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2022 Tech Forum: Developing Clinical Decision Support with SDOH Data for Improved Patient Outcomes

2022 Tech Forum: Developing Clinical Decision Support with SDOH Data for Improved Patient Outcomes

Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT

September 16, 2022This session will identify next steps to advance electronic clinical decision support (CDS) focused on social determinants of health (SDOH). We are interested in exploring the different stages of guideline development to determine an outcome of successful CDS that incorporates SDOH. JaWanna Henry, MPH, ONC (Moderator) Alison Kemp, MPH, ONC (Moderator) Rose Almonte, MITREMike Gillam, MD, FACEP, HealthLab Kristen Miller, DrPH, MSPH, MSL, CPPS, MedStar Health Research Institute Douglas E. Peterson, DMD, PhD, FDS RCSEd, FASCO, UConn Health Mona Saraiya, MD, MPH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Scott T. Tagawa, MD, MS, FACP, Weill Cornell Medicine Emily C….

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2022 Tech Forum: Availability of SDOH & Health Equity Related Data & Implications for Public Health

2022 Tech Forum: Availability of SDOH & Health Equity Related Data & Implications for Public Health

Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT

September 16, 2022This session will demonstrate how social determinants of health (SDOH) and health equity related data are collected and used in clinical notes and discuss the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for extracting these data from electronic health record systems. The session will also include discussion around SDOH, health equity, and public health use cases and how they can be used with NLP.  JaWanna Henry, MPH, MCHES, ONC (Moderator) Catherine DesRoches, DrPH, Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Elizabeth Shenkman, PhD, University of Florida Chelsea Richwine, PhD, ONCYonghui Wu, PhD, University of Florida…

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2022 Tech Forum: Real World Implementations and Innovation Through LEAP in Health IT

2022 Tech Forum: Real World Implementations and Innovation Through LEAP in Health IT

Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT

September 16, 2022The LEAP in Health IT Program seeks to address emerging challenges that inhibit the advancement of interoperable health IT. This session will feature speakers from three LEAP projects, sharing implementation strategies and the innovative approaches awardees are using to promote data exchange, patient engagement, and semantic data harmonization.   Alison Kemp, MPH, ONC (Moderator) Wei Chang, MPH, ONC (Moderator) Angie Brenner, Missouri Department of Mental Health Anjum Khurshid, MD, PhD, University of Texas at Austin Eliel Oliveira, University of Texas at Austin Wilson D. Pace, MD, FAAFP, DARTNet Institute Burak Serdar, Cloud Privacy Labs Duane Shumate, Missouri Department of Mental Health…

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2021 Annual Meeting: HHS Health IT Activities to Advance SDOH Data Use & Interop for Health Equity

2021 Annual Meeting: HHS Health IT Activities to Advance SDOH Data Use & Interop for Health Equity

Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT

March 30, 2021HHS is committed to achieving improvements in people’s lives by reducing health inequities. Social determinants of health such as poverty, unequal access to health care, lack of education, stigma, and racism are underlying, contributing factors of health inequities. This session will spotlight health data and interoperability related activities and approaches across several HHS agencies that aim to help address persistent inequities in health and health care and will include visionary remarks from HHS experts involved in research, public health, community living, and minority health.JaWanna Henry, MPH, ONC, ModeratorSamantha Meklir, MPP, ONC, ModeratorTimothy Carney, PhD, MPH, MBA, CDCKelly Cronin, MPH,…

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Cortisol, Learning to Master the Master Hormone

Cortisol, Learning to Master the Master Hormone

eHealth Radio Network

Wibe Wagemans who has spent years researching every scientific paper on cortisol and other hormones and has interviewed the world’s leading scientists & PhDs, who have studied cortisol across many medical disciplines (endocrinology, gynecology, psychology, gastroenterology, physiology) joins eHealth Radio & the Health News Channel. He has a comprehensive understanding of the role cortisol plays and is an engaging speaker and can converse in ways that nonscientists can understand. He is co-author of Cortisol: The Master Hormone.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Wibe Wagemans discuss the following:
What made you want to write this book?
What is Cortisol?
What do people…

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