This is part of a series of workshops on Health IT – view the series page.

An invitation-only workshop, “Discovery and Innovation in Health IT” was sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology , the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the National Library of Medicine, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Computing Community Consortium, and the American  Medical Informatics Association. It was held at the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco on October 29 and 30, 2009.

The goals of the workshop were to:

Explore and define fundamental research challenges and opportunities in healthcare IT in both the near- and long- term;

Provide opportunities for relevant academic and industrial researchers, healthcare practitioners, and IT healthcare suppliers to identify mutual interests in healthcare IT, as they relate to both near- and long- term challenges and solutions;

Identify a range of “model” proof-of-concept, integrative systems that might serve as motivating and unifying forces to drive fundamental research in healthcare IT and that might accelerate the transition of research outcomes into products and services;

The workshop had four half-day sessions.  Each of the first three sessions had two plenary talks followed by small-group breakout discussions to define particular research challenges, multiple lines of attack, and possible test-beds or demonstration systems. Each of these sessions, which are further described subsequently, ended with short reports from the breakouts. The workshop concluded with a session in which the participants synthesize the research opportunities defined in the earlier sessions and frame a call-to-action for the future.

The participants were selected to represent a wide variety of interests and expertise.  In addition to interacting at the workshop with fellow participants coming from other disciplines and backgrounds, the participants brought the results of the workshop back to their communities to foster increased interest in innovative uses of computing and information science and engineering for healthcare.

CCC to Hold Fall 2012 Symposium

Aug. 18, 2012 – The Computing Community Consortium today announced that it will hold an invitation-only symposium in October 2012 titled “Computing and Health: New Opportunities and Directions.” This two-day event, to be held in Bethesda, MD, near the campus of the National Institutes of Health, will serve as a follow-on to the workshop archived here.
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