[CSEE-colloq] talk: The Learning Health System, 11am Fri 10/19, ITE456, UMBC

[Tim Finin]

	       UMBC Information Systems Department
	     Fall 2012 Distinguished Lecture Series

The 'Learning Health System' as the Consummate Informatics Challenge

			Charles Friedman

	   Professor of Information and Public Health
        Director of the Michigan Health Informatics Program
		     University of Michigan

	      11:00am 19 October 2012, ITE456, UMBC


It is widely recognized that the nation requires a Learning
Health System (LHS) to provide higher quality, safer, and more
affordable health care.  An LHS is one that can routinely and
securely aggregate data from disparate sources, convert the data
to knowledge, and disseminate that knowledge, in actionable
forms, to everyone who can benefit from it.  Achieving a Learning
Health System at national scale requires solution of a wide array
of technology and policy problems and, as such, is the consummate
challenge in health informatics.  This presentation will describe
the LHS, why it is vital to our future, the specific problems
that must be addressed, and a pathway through which the nation
might achieve an LHS.


Charles Friedman directs the Health Informatics program at the
University of Michigan. Prior to joining the university in 2011,
he was chief scientific officer of the Office of National
Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services.  From 2007-2009 he
served as the nation’s deputy national coordinator for health
IT. He has also held federal positions as associate director for
research informatics and information technology at the National
Heart Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of
Health and senior scholar at the National Library of Medicine.
He led the creation of informatics programs during his
professorships in medicine, information science, and biomedical
engineering at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of
North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He is the author of a well-known
health informatics textbook and serves as associate editor of the
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

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