Live Webinar:
Patient Identification – The Challenges Healthcare Leaders and the Industry are Facing Today

Presented by:
Andrew Gettinger, M.D.
Acting Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
and Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) at the ONC

Presented on:
Wednesday, February 8th, 2017
1 - 2 PM EST

Exchanging information across the healthcare ecosystem and achieving interoperability is a goal and challenge all healthcare organizations share. Developing proper processes and procedures continues to play a larger role in facilitating interoperability, improving patient outcomes, and creating efficiencies.

And while healthcare is achieving interoperability in some areas, a critical area of focus should fall on accurate patient identification. Further progress is being hindered by the lack of standardization and accuracy of patient data, which when exchanged increases errors exponentially across the industry. The most significant impact of these errors is patients receiving incorrect treatments.

In this session, Andrew Gettinger, M.D. Acting Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) at the ONC, will address many of the challenges the industry is facing around patient identification today.  He will also discuss the role that healthcare leaders, enterprises, physicians, and even patients plays in improving quality outcomes.

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Meet the Speaker:

Dr. Gettinger is theActing Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) at the ONC. Prior to joining ONC, he was Professor of Anesthesiology and adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and was the CMIO for Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Associate Dean for Clinical Informatics at Geisel. Gettinger has extensive experience in the field of health information technology. He led the development of an electronic health record (EHR) system at Dartmouth and subsequently was the senior physician leader during Dartmouth’s transition to a vendor-based EHR.

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