People in Recovery Health Information Technology Summit- October 25
The rapid pace of technological innovation and application of health information technology (HIT) has helped health care providers improve efficiencies in processes, communication, documentation and treatment. The addiction and mental health systems are particularly affected by both the tremendous opportunities, such as coordination of care and better access to treatment, and challenges, such as adopting a new system traditionally not designed for the behavioral health field, ensuring interoperability of HIT systems, and training not only behavioral health providers but patients on the use and benefits of HIT. Given the importance of HIT and the evolution of the greater health care field with the adoption of HIT, SAMHSA is hosting a 1-day meeting designed to provide the recovery community an opportunity to discuss HIT resources, share experiences and highlight emerging issues.
When addressing the adoption of new processes, policies, or systems, it is critical to have a constructive discussion with those the changes will affect the most. That being said, we would like to engage in a conversation regarding HIT and the recovery community. We want anyone interested in this topic to be involved! We feel that every opinion counts and every question needs to be heard from the recovery community. There will be a live-Tweet hosted from the summit all day on October 25, 2011.
Please follow the summit on Twitter @samhsagov using hashtag #recoveryhit to weigh in on the discussion. Online participants will be able to follow the important topics and issues as they are discussed, ask questions and post comments to SAMHSA’s Twitter feed. Some important areas of discussion will be:
- SAMHSA’s Strategic Initiative on HIT Adoption
- SAMHSA’s Investment in HIT to Date
- Software Demonstration
- Privacy and Confidentiality Issues
- Discussion of the HIT needs of the Recovery Community in an open – forum session of those in attendance of the summit
We hope to see you there! More information on HIT and SAMHSA’s role can be found under SAMHSA’s HIT Strategic Initiative.
where is the event being held at what time does it start and end?
Time: 9 am- 4:30 pm (EST)
Being held in Gaithersburg MD at the Hilton Washington DC/North
whether there will be live web conference but only Twitter?
This is great. More information can be gather to this.
I followed you today on twitter but was unable to find a live broadcast. If you have a broadcast could you please post it.
I work in the medical field as well as have a mental illness and there is the belief that the person with the mental illness is more likely to present with a false symptom to get attention. This is not true the mentally ill have medical problems like everyone else. The other thing that happens is that personal problems can manifest in everyone as behavioral problems displaced agression or anger real life problems still trigger this behavior even in the mentally ill but they are often pushed aside. The caregiver has no time for this( children taking money from parents) but plenty of time to document how this is acted out by the patient. confusing reallife problems and medical concerns with symptoms of illness that are not understood by caregivers and they by leaving patients to suffer both physically and emotionally without any help or guidance because of a mental illness. There appears to be a genuine lack of understanding of the emotional needs of the patients. Are my complaints psychosymatic or is there an underlying physical or emotional cause to a problem? Many times on my job these complaints go unresponded to because of a mental illness.
How do you cope with the loss of your way of life do to a handicap or disability? Anger, frustration would be normal. But are the patients always crying wolf due to a mental illness? What do we know happens when we cry wolf to many times?
I just found this article and am so sorry that I missed the discussion on this topic. Will you be holding another one soon?
By providing new ways for providers and their patients to readily access and use health information, information technology (IT) has the potential to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of health care. Great article.
Interesting topic on HIT. I’ve worked in the healthcare business for years and have see first hand the difference it makes to have pt medical records retrieveable by internet.
excellent post. keep up the good work.
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