Cerner’s Glaser on Intelligent Electronic Health Records; Dozens of Presentations on Improving Healthcare Using Analytics
PHILADELPHIA, PA, October 27, 2015 – How can electronic health records help doctors make better medical decisions? What new analytics tools will help physicians flag patients at risk of cancer? What do text analytics predict about an expectant mother’s labor?
These, and numerous other healthcare analytics issues, will be in the spotlight in Philadelphia November 1-4 during the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the leading professional association in analytics and operations research.
The INFORMS Annual Meeting, being held at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, will bring together over 5,000 experts, academics, and students of analytics, operations research, and math modeling in a meeting that will span a wide range of current topics and issues.
John Glaser, Senior Vice President of Cerner, a global leader in healthcare technology, will deliver a keynote, Advent of the Intelligent Electronic Health Record, on Monday, November 2 at 3:10 PM in the Grand Ballroom B, Upper 200 Level. The intelligent EHR of the future will be characterized by sophisticated and flexible decision support, rules engines, process monitoring engines, intelligent displays of important patient data, access to knowledge resources, the ability to collect data from multiple care settings through a health information exchange, and tools that enable provider collaboration. He’ll probe the future of EHR in this address.
Dr. Glaser will be available to talk with reporters after his address, at 4 PM.
In addition to Dr. Glaser’s keynote, a number of other presentations will highlight the nexus of analytics and healthcare, including:
- Brian Denton of the University of Michigan, and the INFORMS 2016 President Elect, is co-author of Modeling Optimal Cancer Detection Protocols and Improving the Health of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
- Eva K. Lee of Georgia Tech, winner of the 2007 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award together with Sloan Kettering Hospital, is delivering Personalized Treatment Design for Managing Diabetes
- Using Text Analytics to Identify Labor and Delivery Sentiment from the Internet and Social Media, is presented by co-author Karen Hicklin, a North Carolina State University PhD candidate.
- The Potential Impact of Reducing Indoor Tanning on Melanoma Prevention in the United States is by a team from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
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