Interconnected Health 2012 Conference

Two members of the HWCIR team presented this week at the Interconnected Health 2012 conference held April 2-4 near Chicago, Illinois. Jason Gagner, MBA, assistant director, along with Sid Thornton, PhD, senior medical informaticist, made a presentation entitled "Getting Data to Flow: Overcoming Current False Negative Limitations of Trait Matching in a Health Information Exchange (HIE)." Les Westberg, principal architect for Agilex Technologies, also participated in the presentation.



Web banner for the Interconnected Health 2012 conference held April 2-4, 2012

The presentation focused on the complexities of matching patients across organizations and the work that Intermountain Healthcare is doing with several exchange initiatives to implement a sustainable HIE that is compatible with the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN) specifications.

The slide deck from the presentation will be available shortly on the soon-to-be-unveiled Homer Warner Center for Informatics Research website.

The Interconnected Health 2012 conference was presented by the Object Management Group (OMG), Health Level Seven International (HL7), Open Health Tools and HIMSS. Designed for the CxO audience, this year's conference theme was "Enabling Health through High-Impact IT." Sub-tracks were also available with a focus on Clinical Decision Support, Clinical Vocabulary and Terminology, Service-Oriented Architecture, Mobile Health, Enterprise Architecture, the Role of Open Source in Health IT, Devices, and Health Information Exchange. For more information about the Interconnected Health conference, visit their website at http://www.interconnected-health.org/.