On December 4-5, 2007 National Science Foundation sponsored a workshop focusing on emerging research areas in biomedical informatics, particularly on barriers to access medical records and means for leveraging information embedded in medical records for research purposes. The workshop drew participants from academic and industrial institutions and generated several new directions requiring further focus and development. Based on remaining funds from the original NSF grant, another meeting is being planned which will take up some of the proposed directions. The new meeting will have a much narrower scope and will engage a small set of experts in specific areas related to the new scope. The new scope will investigate the development of educational and research programs and capacities in biomedical informatics. We have selected a few key priority areas under the new scope.
Our goal is to use the above issues as “seeds” for questions and discussions. Five external participants have agreed to be roundtable leaders. They are:
- William Hersh, Professor & Chair, Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, OHSU
- Thomas Payne, Medical Director, IT Services, UW Medicine
- Hai Hu, Sr. DIR of Bioinformatics, Windber Research Institute
- Philip Payne, Asst. Professor & DIR Biomedical Informatics, Ohio State Medical Center
- Jake Chen, Asst. Professor & DIR Indiana Center for Systems Biology, Indiana and Purdue University
- Charles Guttman, Asst. Professor & DIR Center for Neurological Imaging, Harvard University
- Vipul Kashyap, PhD; Director, Clinical Programs, CIGNA Healthcare
The session will be moderated by: Javed Mostafa, Assoc. Professor & Assistant DIR of Clinical Data Management, TraCS, UNC at Chapel Hill (PI of the NSF Grant)
