Welcome. I'm Connie White Delaney from the
University of Minnesota. I serve as Dean of the School of Nursing
and also had biomedical health informatics for the Academic Health
Center. And, what you'll discover in our time
together is my absolute passion for biomedical health informatics.
And I have focused most of my career on the topic we're going to be talking
about, which is standardization. A key element of infomatics and
essentially forms the foundation for all interoperability and exchange.
But this is my real passion for informatics.
You and I have the ultimate opportunity and empowered opportunity to ensure that
families, communities, and in fact all of us in the global community, are
represented within the electronic health records, electronic databases, in our
research, in their fullness. And what I mean by fullness is We can
have diagnostic data about patients and families and communities.
We can have demographic data, but what really matters to the people we serve, is
what they think about their patient experience.
Getting home being able to interact with their family, having appropriate support
systems, being a full part of their communities.
And if the time and when the time comes, transition into a natural supportive and
peaceful death. So my foundation and passion for
informatics and for the topic we are talking about standardization Is always
fundamentally grounded in the people we serve, and my family.
So, let's share some thoughts as we deal with this topic of standardization.
The first place I would like to start when we think about our healthcare system
and the electronic Foundation that you and I are helping to create is
represented by a large initiative in the United States entitled the Continuously
Learning Health System. Our vision for that system is that we
will learn from the system, it will support our learning, it will support our
patient care and from those learning's also we will improve the system.
So, the continuously learning health system as you see here will generate and
apply the very best evidence, the best practice.
For you and I, and, and in supporting healthcare choices and provider.
It will drive the process of new discoveries.
And that will be a very natural outgrowth of the care process.
Whether it be patient, families, or communities.
And most significantly, to us as well is. A system that ensures a continuous
process of innovation, quality safety, and assuring value and healthcare.
You see a quick picture that captures all the elements at a very high level that
contribute to create a continuously learning health system.
You'll notice. That policy and technical infrastructure
are the core foundation as is privacy and security.
And an area that you and I spend a lot of our time on is how do we determine the
meaningful use and support the meaningful use of health infromation technology.
So, standardization comes in, in all three of these levels.
The continuously learning health system in the United States is supported by a
clearly defined Federal health IT strategic plan.
This is the plan for 2011 to 15. And you see the pattern of thought,
better technology, better information. And therefore we have transformed
healthcare. There are five fundamental goals.
We'll start with number one. Achieving adoption and information
exchange through the meaningful use of information technology.
And then you can follow the goals two through five that build upon this
fundamental information infrastructure. It's this fundamental infrastructure that
you and I are talking about at this time. And ultimately it empowers people through
IT to improve their health and to improve the healthcare system.
And then, helping us acheive a rapidly learning and technologically advanced
Information system and learning health care system.