For the past nine years, AUPHA and HIMSS have partnered to present an Academic Forum at the HIMSS Annual Conference. Papers for presentation at the Forum are selected in a competitive peer review process and through this, four to five abstracts are selected for presentation. This year, the conference is being held in Orlando, Florida, February 23- 27. The 9th Annual Academic Forum will be held on Sunday afternoon February 23rd from 1:00-5:00PM Room 312B of the Orange County Convention Center. The Forum is sponsored this year by the University of Central Florida.
HIMSS and AUPHA have a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that allows full-time faculty to register for the entire conference, including the Academic Forum and other AUPHA sponsored events, for a discounted registration fee of only $120 (code DFCAUPHA). It is a great opportunity for AUPHA faculty to attend the world’s largest health information technology conference with 200 educational sessions, keynote addresses, over 37,000 attendees, and over 1,000 HIT vendors. Student members of HIMSS can volunteer each fall to work at the conference or attend at a special student rate.
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This year’s presenters at the Academic Forum are:
A Time-Motion Study Before and After Implementation of an Electronic Health Record
Kevin Valadares, PhD, and Gabriela Mustata Wilson, PhD
Department of Health Services Administration
University of Southern Indiana
MHA Students Team Up with Academic Medical Center to Analyze and Improve Workflow Prior to EHR Implementation
Karen A. Wager, DBA
Professor, Department of Healthcare Leadership and Management
Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)
College of Health Professions
Assessment of eHIT Use by Kentucky Physicians Pre-and Post-HITECH: Changes, Barriers, and Facilitators of Adoption and Use
Katherine Sandford, PhD, MSP
Project Associate, Department of Health Services Management
University of Kentucky
College of Public Health
Crossing the Early Adopter Chasm of HIE
Cynthia LeRouge, PhD
Associate Professor
Saint Louis University
Department of Health Management and Policy