FYI Begin forwarded message: Subject: [metro-l] Invitation to June 2 NYAM event "Healthcare is Going Digital: What it Means for You": attend via webinar remotely or in person Sponsored by: The NYAM Special Interest Group on Informatics Location: The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029 ________________________________ NYAM's Special Interest Group on Informatics presents an evening for both health care professionals and the public on developments in Health IT, especially as they relate to patients having their own electronic health record. Lygeia Ricciardi will give an overview of plans of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology with particular concern for how they affect individuals, whether healthy or sick. Patricia Brennan will give a high-level overview of how patients can or will interact with the health system and their own health information in the world of patient portals and personal health records. Panel: Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD Lillian L. Moehlman Bascom Professor, School of Nursing and College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison Lygeia Ricciardi Senior Policy Advisor for Consumer e-Health Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT US Department of Health and Human Services For more information, contact Rick Ziehler at rziehler@nyam.org<mailto:rziehler@nyam.org> Registration Information Cost: Free Register><http://support.nyam.org/site/Calendar?id=101321&view=Detail> at www.nyam.org/events<http://www.nyam.org/events> to attend in person. Webinar Registration This event will also be available via webinar. To register to participate remotely, click here<https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/791644598>. [cid:image001.jpg@01CC098D.50CD6AE0]Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD is the Lillian L. Moehlman Bascom Professor, School of Nursing and College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. Currently Theme Leader of the Living Environments Laboratory at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, Dr. Brennan received a Masters of Science in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Following seven years of clinical practice in critical care nursing and psychiatric nursing, Dr. Brennan held several academic positions. She developed the ComputerLink, an electronic network designed to reduce isolation and improve self-care among home care patients and directed HeartCare, a web-based tailored information and communication service that helped home-dwelling cardiac patients recover faster, and with fewer symptoms. Dr. Brennan is National Program Director of Project HealthDesign, a RWJ-funded initiative designed to stimulate the next generation of personal health records. Additionally, she leads the WI-TECNE project, a statewide nursing faculty development effort supported by HRSA that will improve the integration of informatics and telehealth into nursing curricula. She is fellow of both the American Academy of Nursing (1991) and the American College of Medical Informatics (1993). Dr. Brennan was elected to the of the Institute of Medicine in 2002, and in 2009 became an elected member of The New York Academy of Medicine. [cid:image002.jpg@01CC098D.50CD6AE0]In January of 2011 Lygeia Ricciardi joined the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) as its Senior Policy Advisor for Consumer e-Health. She is responsible for developing and managing ONC's national consumer e-health program. For the last several years she has been a consultant on consumer e-health through her own company, Clear Voice Consulting, and Clinovations, where she led the Consumer Health Division. Her consulting clients included the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the California Healthcare Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and the New York State Department of Health. Previously, Lygeia was a Director in the Health Program at the Markle Foundation, a health policy analyst and speechwriter for the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, a content producer at a dot com, and a Research Associate at Harvard Business School. She earned a Masters in Technology & Education from Harvard, with extensive independent study at the MIT Media Lab with its co-founder, Seymour Papert. She writes, speaks and tweets frequently about consumer engagement in health and health care via technology. 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