2011 Public Health Informatics Conference

Get ready for the 2011 Public Health Informatics conference. This year, you can attend the virtual conference for free!

The annual conference for the public health informatics community will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, August 21–August 24, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Atlanta.

The theme this year is Engaging, Empowering, Evolving…Together, and we hope you'll join us as the best of the public health and health informatics communities meet in one place to invest in the future of public health informatics and every discipline it may touch. The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) will co-sponsor this event.

The 3 A's of IT Security

ScriptLogic is having a webinar titled, "The 3 A's of IT Security." What are those 3 A's?

1. Assess
2. Assign
3. Audit

Before you can ensure security within your IT environment, you need to understand your current security (Assess). You then need to make changes to your security where it is appropriate (Assign). Finally, you need to monitor your security (Audit). It’s an endless cycle, so shouldn’t you have the solutions to make this possible?

During this webinar we will discuss how to:

* Report on current security permissions in your environment
* Identify and change over privileged user access from a simplified, centralized, console
* Track security changes and security issues in real-time

Title:"The 3 A's of IT Security"
Date: Thursday, October 14th, 2010
Time: 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM EST

Click here for more information.

Technology in medicine

The keyword (or phrase) "technology in medicine" is currently the #1 keyword that is causing people to visit my site from search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing.

What are people looking for when they type "technology in medicine" into a search engine? Maybe they're interested in the following topics:

• health information technology (or health IT)
  
• advances in medical technology
• technology and medicine (or medicine and technology)
• health sciences and technology (Harvard MIT HST)
  

Have you noticed how the word "health" is starting to replace the word "medical" in many different circles? For instance, fewer people are talking about electronic medical records and more people are talking about electronic health records. Or, the focus is shifting from medical informatics to health informatics. No longer medical professionals, but health care professionals. I'm glad to see that we're being more inclusive by using the word "health" instead of "medicine." Even though I have a medical degree, I also have a public health degree. So both terms (medical and health) are very relevant to me.

Technology in medicine continues to be a very popular topic these days because of all the changes that are occurring in clinical research, drug development, patient care, diagnostics, patient health records, hospital work flow, patient safety, and much more.

Adoption of Health IT

Read my post titled, "The Adoption of Health IT" on Brain Blogger.

Cisco Connected Health

Cisco is a huge player in the healthcare technology sector. A key industry solution provided by Cisco is called "Cisco Connected Health." Want to stay connected all the time? Improvements in the healthcare system will only occur by leveraging certain pieces of information technology so that patients and clinicians can improve inefficiencies and streamline data flow. Patients are more than consumers and they need to have access to vital information during critical times.

Working as a Chief Medical Information Officer

If you love computers, technology, and healthcare, then you may want to consider the opportunity of being a Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO). Healthcare IT is changing rapidly and there are growing opportunities in this area. Every major health system needs to incorporate and improve their IT infrastructure as hardware and software evolve with improved capabilities.

Want to learn more? Take a look at this article titled, "What does a chief medical information officer do?"

Other related opportunities include being a Chief Technology Officer (CTO), or a Chief Information Officer (CIO) - although that may be the same as a CMIO in some settings.