Working Group Webinar Library

In this presentation, Karin Verspoor introduces ideas presented in a recent JAMIA Perspective paper, grounding them in some recent examples of information extraction systems developed with clinical partners.

Digital health is rapidly expanding due to surging healthcare costs, deteriorating health outcomes, and the growing prevalence and accessibility of mobile health and wearable technologies. Recent technological advancements make it possible to closely and continuously monitor individuals using multiple measurement modalities in real time.

The easy availability of a vast repository of user-generated health information on video sharing social media platforms, such as YouTube, offers an effective way to deliver medical information that may be more understandable for the public, with the potential to improve health literacy, patient-physician interactions, self-care and health outcomes.

In this session, Emma Rourke, Director of Health Analysis and Pandemic Insights at ONS, outlines how the organization leveraged large-scale linked administrative data assets alongside ambitious survey data collection, including wide scale biological sampling, to offer unique evidence and insights that have informed the UK's pandemic response. Emma will detail how ONS stood-up the gold-standard longitudinal Coronavirus Infection Survey (CIS) in April 2020, offering trusted regular estimates of Covid-19 infection and immunity across all four nations of the UK.

An overview of the 25 by 5: Symposiumo Reduce Documentation Burden on US Clinicians by 75% or less by 2025 from Sarah Rosetti, PhD, RN and Trent Rosenbloom, MD, MPH, FACMI, FAMIA.