ISQua Webinars

Upcoming Open Webinars

We have a number of open access webinars scheduled for the coming months.

Starting with Prof Dean Sittig's (Professor, UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics (SBMI)) webinar on the new unintended consequences of electronic health records (EHRs) on 2nd May 2018.

About the Webinar:

Although the health information technology industry has made considerable progress in the design, development, implementation, and use of electronic health records (EHRs), the lofty expectations of the early pioneers have not been met. The rapid increase in the adoption of EHRs, coupled with the changes in the types and attitudes of clinical users, has led to several new UACs, specifically: complete clinical information unavailable at the point of care; lack of innovations to improve system usability leading to frustrating user experiences; inadvertent disclosure of large amounts of patient-specific information; increased focus on computer-based quality measurement negatively affecting clinical workflows and patient-provider interactions; information overload from marginally useful computer-generated data; and a decline in the development and use of internally-developed EHRs.

While each of these new UACs poses significant challenges to EHR developers and users alike, they also offer many opportunities. The challenge for clinical informatics researchers is to continue to refine our current systems while exploring new methods of overcoming these challenges and developing innovations to improve EHR interoperability, usability, security, functionality, clinical quality measurement, and information summarization and display.

Future Webinars

28th May 2018 - Ran Balicer, Founding Director of the Clalit Research Institute, Israel, will discuss 'Data, Information and Knowledge'

27th June 2018 - Paulo Sousa, Professor at National School of Public Health, New University of Lisbon and member of The Research Center on Public Health, Lisbon, will discuss 'Responding to AE's/ Open Disclosure'

3rd July 2018 - Christian von Plessen, CEO of the Center for Kvalitet, Denmark, will discuss 'Resilient health care and the Safety-I and Safety-II distinctions'

24th July 2018 - Maria Ward, Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Innovative Human Systems, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, will be discussing 'Human Factors'