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Dr. Ross Fletcher, Chief of Staff for the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington, DC — he will conduct a short demonstration on the Department's use of EMRs.
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Dr. William Stead, Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, Professor of Medicine and of Biomedical Informatics, Assistant to the Chancellor for Informatics and Chief Information Architect for Vanderbilt University — he has worked with electronic medical records for over thirty years.
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Peter Swire, Professor of Law at the Ohio State University and former Chief Counselor for Privacy under the Clinton Administration — he will discuss privacy concerns associated with the widespread deployment of EMRs.
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Dr. Paul Ellwood, President of the Jackson Hole Group — he will discuss the group's recent proposal called Heroic Pathways, which would use information technologies and electronic patient records to improve health care and reduce costs.
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Electronic medical records (EMR) have been around in one form or another for decades, but recent advances in technology and continued efforts to streamline and improve the health care system have brought EMRs into the forefront of the current health policy debate. Proposals ranging from health smart cards to personal health databases are being put forward as ways to improve the care of patients and reduce costs at all levels of the health care system. Yet, concerns remain with the security of EMRs, particularly with regard to patient privacy.
The briefing will address the debate on EMRs from several perspectives including new proposals for the use of EMRs, ongoing privacy concerns, voluntary versus mandatory EMR use, and the pros and cons of government involvement in the deployment of EMRs.
