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Presentation: Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records and Preventive Care
Dr. Agrawal will provide examples of how to apply EHR to track and monitor preventive care for different conditions and diseases.
Time: Sunday Afternoon
Purpose:
To improve on clinical competence and performance in the use of electronic health records for preventive care
Objectives:
- Examine the application of the term "meaning use in EHR
- Apply EHR to track and monitor preventive care for different conditions and diseases, such as in the case of diabetes prevention
- Incorporate EHR to record outcomes for quality improvement projects
Current Positions:
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Informatics, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY; Adjunct Assciate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; Chief Medical Officer and Chief Operating Officer, Norwegian American Hospital, Chicago
Bio:
Dr. Abha Agrawal currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer / Chief Medical Officer at Norwegian American Hospital in Chicago, IL. In this role since November 2012, she has been instrumental, along with the CEO, in successfully leading a successful transformation of quality of care and financial health of the hospital.
Prior to her moving to Chicago, she served as the Chief Medical Officer of Kings County Hospital Center, a 690-bed tertiary care academic medical center in Brooklyn, NY. Her previous roles have included Chief Medical Information Officer and Associate Medical Director of Kings County Hospital Center and Informatics Coordinator at the VISN1 network of the VA in New England.
In recognition of her role as a rising healthcare leader, she was invited to the White House in 2011 to meet with President Obama’s health and economic policy advisor and to provide testimony at the US Senate. More recently, she was awarded the Healthcare Leadership award by the American College of Healthcare Executives and was included in the “130 Women Hospital and Health System Leaders to Know” national list by Becker’s Hospital Review. In 2013, she was inducted into Fellowship by the prestigious Institute of Medicine Chicago.
Her professional focus over the last decade has been on improving quality of care and patient safety in safety net hospitals specially coupled with innovations in health information technology. She has published her quality improvement accomplishments in a number of academic journals and presented in conferences nationally and internationally.
She is the Editor of a book titled “Patient Safety: A Case-based Comprehensive Guide”, published by Springer and released in October 2013. She is also a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright scholarship as a Senior Specialist in Information Technology; her work as a Fulbright Scholar focused on improving patient safety at a tertiary academic center in India.
Dr. Agrawal is a practicing physician trained in Internal Medicine (SUNY Downstate) and Medical Informatics (Yale School of Medicine). Her academic appointments include Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University (current), Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Medical Informatics at SUNY Downstate (2005-2012), and clinical faculty at Harvard Medical School (2001-2004).
She serves on important national and regional organizations including as a Commissioner on the Certification Commission on Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) and prior membership of the Medical Informatics Committee of the American College of Physicians. She currently serves as a Board Member on the Board of Chicago Physicians for Social Responsibility. Previously, she was on the Board of the New York Clinical Information Exchange (www.NYCLIX.org), a prominent RHIO in New York City (2005-2010), served as the President of Medical Informatics New York (www.medinfoNY.org), an association of physician leaders in informatics from hospitals, academia and corporations (2007-2010), and was elected Councilor-at-large for the New York chapter of the American College of Physicians (2011-2012).
She has numerous publications and awards in quality / safety and health IT including the 2007 National Association of Public Hospitals Safety Net Award in the patient safety category for her work on electronic medication reconciliation and the 2006 IndUS Business Journal award for innovation in healthcare. She also authored “EndNote 1-2-3” published by Springer (1st edition: 2005; 2nd edition: 2009).