Secondary Use of Electronic Health Data
for Child Health Research:
Opportunities and Challenges
EnRICH (Research Innovations & Challenges) Webinar
Maternal Child Health Research Program
Please join us on:
Thursday, May 5, 2016
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm ET
Objectives
Learning objectives for this webinar:
- Understand the types of data readily available in electronic health records (EHRs) that support child health research activities
- Recognize the challenges with cleaning and organizing electronic health data before statistical analyses can be performed
- Gain a practical understanding of how researchers working with the American Academy of Pediatrics are using data from an EHR “supernetwork” to conduct cutting-edge research
Guest Speaker
Robert Grundmeier, MD
Dr. Grundmeier (Bob) is a
practicing Primary Care Pediatrician at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
(CHOP) and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University Of
Pennsylvania School Of Medicine. He currently serves as the Section Chief of
Informatics in the Division of General Pediatrics, and is the Director of the
Clinical Reporting Unit in CHOP’s Department of Biomedical and Health
Informatics (DBHI). Bob is a founding member of the Pediatric Research Consortium
(PeRC), which facilitates EHR-mediated research within CHOP's dozens of primary
care practices across the region.