DIMACS/CINJ Workshop on Electronic Medical Records - Challenges and Opportunities

September 13, 2010
The Cancer Institute of NJ (CINJ)
The Auditorium at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
195 Little Albany Street
New Brunswick, NJ

Organizers:
Guna Rajagopal, The Cancer Institute of NJ (CINJ), rajagogu at umdnj.edu
Rebecca Wright, Rutgers University, rebecca.wright at rutgers.edu
Presented under the auspices of the DIMACS/BioMaPS/MB Center Special Focus on Information Processing in Biology.

Workshop Program:

Monday, September 13, 2010

Session 1: Introduction and Overview (9:00am - 10:30am)

 9:00 -  9:15  Welcome Address & Overview of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
               Robert DiPaola, M.D.
               Director, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey

 9:15 -  9:30  Overview of DIMACS & its programs on Computer Science and Mathematics in Medicine
               Fred Roberts, Ph.D.
               Director of DIMACS, Rutgers University

 9:30 - 10:30  Keynote Address: Overview of the New Jersey Health IT Deployment Plan
               Kennedy Ganti, M.D.
               Chair, New Jersey Health IT Commission

10:30 - 11:00  Coffee Break 

Session 2: Addressing Challenges & Opportunities in the use of EMRs (11:00am - 1:00pm)

11:00 - 11:30  EMRs - Opportunities & Challenges in Biomedical Research
               Guna Rajagopal, Ph.D.
               Executive Director of Bioinformatics, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey

11:30 - 12:00  EMRs - Opportunities & Challenges in Pharmaceutical Research
               Eric D Perakslis, Ph.D.
               Vice President, R&D IT Johnson & Johnson

12:00 -  1:00  EMR - Patient Privacy, Security and Confidentiality Issues
               Brad Malin, Ph.D.
               Director, Health Information Privacy Lab, Vanderbilt University

 1:00 -  2:00  Lunch Break 

Session 3: - EMRs - Impact on the Patient, Provider and the Health Industry (2:00pm - 5:00pm)

 2:00 -  2:45  EMRs - Data Mining Challenges and Opportunities
               Hans Peter Graf, Ph.D.	
               Head, Machine Learning Laboratories, NEC Lab America

 2:45 -  3:30  EMRs - Opportunities & Challenges in Using Natural Language 
               Processing to Analyze EMR Data for Improving Clinical Outcomes
               Garreth Hippe, Director, Ariadne Genomics, Inc. 

 3:30 -  3:45  Tea Break

 3:45 -  4:45  Healthcare Transformation: IBM's Initiative in Enabling 
               Evidence-Centric Healthcare Eco-System
               Shahram Ebadollahi, Ph.D.
               IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

 4:45  - 5:00  Closing Remarks
               Guna Rajagopal, Ph.D., The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
               Rebecca Wright, Ph.D., Deputy Director of DIMACS, Rutgers University

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