Elliot B. Sloane, PhD, CCE, FHIMSS
Research Professor and Director of Health Systems Engineering
Drexel University School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
(www.drexel.edu and www.biomed.drexel.edu/)
Drexel University Health Systems Engineering-Related Courses and Other Educational Activities
Spring '10
BMES 336 - Biomedical Informatics 2
Fall '10-11
BMES 335 - Biomedical Informatics 1
BMES 680 - Introduction to Health Systems & Informatics I
Delaware Valley - Philadelphia Area Health IT, HITECH Conference 21-22 October 2010, Valley Forge, PA This conference is shaping up to be a "must attend event" for CIOs, CMIOs, CTOs and Health IT managers, featuring presentations by CMS, FCC, and CONNECT and many others! Open to the public, AFCOM, PAeHI, and DVHIMSS members! Organized with the assistance of Drexel, CHIRP, and ARRAHealth.
The Second Annual Canada-Philadelphia eHealth Summit, Tuesday, November 16, 2010 This event will continue to pursue effective ways to combine and leverage the eHealth, Health IT, and Health IT Education and Workforce expertise available in Canada and Philadelphia.
Spring '11
Open Health Tools Academic Challenge: (March 16-17) "Consumer Empowerment in Healthcare Improvement" This event will feature the VxVista version of the US Veteran's Administration EHR. For the first time, the Academic Challenge will also include Medical Device and Patient Care Device data integration. The Challenge is being organized with assistance and leadership from Drexel University and CHIRP.
Drexel University's Health Systems Engineering Conference and Workshop Presentations
1. The US ONC Roadmap to Meaningful Use
(October 2009 - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Stokes Biomedical Informatics Symposia)
2. Planning, Designing & Building 21st Century Digital Hospitals
Chinese Version:
(October 2009 - Chinese Clinical Engineering Society Annual Conference - Nanjing, China)
3. Clinical Research, Meaningful Use, and the Interoperable EHR
(January 2010 - Delaware Valley HIMSS (DVHIMSS) Winter Clinical Research Conference - Philadelphia, PA)
4. Medical Device Interoperability Workshop
(March 2010 - HIMSS '10 Annual Conference - Atlanta, GA)
5. HIPAA 2.0 - The Next Generation of HIPAA: Effects of ARRA- and FDA-Related Security Issues
(April 2010 - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Stokes Biomedical Informatics Center's Annual Conference - Philadelphia, PA)
6. Assuring Medical Device Security & Safety - HIPAA 2.0 & HITECH
(May 2010 - Joint NIST-HHS/ONC/OCR Annual HIPAA Security and Privacy Workshop - Washington, DC)
7. Interoperable EHRs and EMRs - The "Meaningful Use" Strategy
(June 2010 - Drug Information Association (DIA) 46th Annual Conference - Washington, DC)
8. Health Data Sharing: Privacy and Security and Advanced Public Health Solutions
(June 2010 - Government Health IT Conference Panel (HIMSS) - Lockheed Martin Sponsor - Washington, DC)
9. Meaningful Use, EHRs, and Medical Devices
(June 2010 - Clinical Engineering Symposium at the AAMI '10 Annual Conference - Tampa, FL)
10. Update on Medical Device Interoperability, IHE-PCD, and Continua
(June 2010 - AAMI Annual Conference - Tampa, FL)
11. Current State of Wireless Medical Device and Communications Convergence
(July 2010 - Joint FDA-FCC Workshop on Wireless Medical Devices - Washington, DC)
12. Medical Device and EHR Interoperability
(August 2010 - Global Health Information Workshop - IEEE EMBS Annual Conference - Buenos Aires, Argentina)
13. The Health Reform Act's (PPACA '10) Medical Device Implications
(September 2010 - ACCE Fall Web Teleconference)
14. Engineering 21st Century Healthcare - Interoperability - Medical Devices and EHRs
(October 2010 - Drexel University - Fall '10 BIOMED Symposia Series - Wireless Medical Device Interoperability Lab)
Additional Valuable Links and Resources
The entire FDA Medical Device Interoperability Workshop (Silver Spring, MD January 2010) Choose either or both of the complete Workshop Presentations and Videos
The entire HIPAA 2010 Conference Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security (Washington, DC May 2010)
The entire Joint FCC and FDA Medical Device and Communications Workshop on Wireless Lifesaving Technologies (Washington, DC July 2010)
The entire Institute of Medicine "Electronic Infrastructure for the Learning Healthcare System: The Road to Continuous Improvement in Health and Healthcare" sponsored by ONC (July 2010)
World Health Organization's Medical Devices Program (Bangkok, September 2010)
EHR and Medical Device Interoperability Standards Resources
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise International (IHE) Open library of published and tested Integration Profiles for Electronic Health Records interoperability (including Cardiology, Pathology, Pharmacy, Radiology, Security, and more!)
IHE Open Source EHR Testing Tools: MESA ( and here), Kudu, and Gazelle
IHE Patient Care Device Domain (IHE-PCD) Open library of published Integration Profiles for international Medical Device Interoperability, and the IHE-PCD Wiki resources.
The invaluable ANSI/HITSP (Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel) Collection of Interoperability Standards, an open library of incredibly thorough Interoperability Standards that is, for now, dormant and waiting to be brought back online! [Two of my favorites: Medical Device Interoperability Technical Note (TN 905) and the Remote Patient Monitoring Interoperability Specification (RMON - IS 77)]
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Medical Device Interoperability and Communications Open Source Testing Tools and Project Notes (What a HUGE contribution this team of NIST employees have made to our industry worldwide. KUDOS and THANKS!)
The (quite amazing) Federal Health Authority CONNECT Open Source Project and the CONNECT Blog
US Federal Electronic Health Record Software Certification Regulations and Testing Methods for "Meaningful Use" reimbursement by Medicare/Medicaid.
ONC Regulations on the EHR Certification: Authorized Testing and Certification Bodies (ATCB) etc.
NIST's EHR Certification conformance testing procedures that MUST be used by ATCBs.
Some thoughtful voices in the wilderness
(I guess Sun Tzu wasn't the last warrior on the planet, and maybe, just maybe, Don Quixote was really slaying dragons after all. My hat is off to these folks for the time, energy, and passion they bring to re-inventing healthcare for the 21st Century.)
Healthcare Standards blog by the Motorcycle Guy, Keith Boone
ePatient Dave The Voice of Patient Engagement
Life as a Healthcare CIO (aka "GeekDoctor") Blog Dr. John Halamka, Beth Israel Deaconess and Harvard Healthcare / Harvard University
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