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Health IT Experts to Meet and Discuss Industry's Latest Research, AdvancesCOLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 15, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Experts representing the likes of IBM Watson Health and the Food and Drug Administration will join researchers from such institutions as Harvard Medical School and Johns Hopkins University for the seventh annual Workshop on Health IT and Economics (WHITE) on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 21-22, 2016, at The Westin Georgetown in Washington, D.C. The participants will present and discuss the latest findings and practices connected to information technology making healthcare more patient-centered, effective and cost-efficient. The Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS) at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business hosts the conference (8 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday including an evening reception and 8 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday), which is open to the public. Register at http://go.umd.edu/WHITE2016registration. Early-registration rates apply through Tuesday, Sept. 20. Onsite registration is available until capacity is reached. This year's forum will signal health IT research is reaching a turning point, say WHITE organizers. "I believe we are approaching an inflection point in regard to leveraging data and technology to improve healthcare practice and delivery, says WHITE Chair Ritu Agarwal, CHIDS founding director, Robert H. Smith Dean's Chair of Information Systems and senior associate dean at Smith. "Today, when we combine the increasingly large amounts of digitized medical data with state-of-the-art analytical methods, we have unprecedented opportunities to improve health outcomes and reduce costs." Research sessions will involve experts from leading academic institutions such as University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, Carnegie Mellon University, New York University, Cornell University, Oregon Health & Scienes University, and more than two dozen other research institutions; government agencies such as the FDA and ONC; healthcare policy and practice organizations such as AcademyHealth and Brookings Institution; and industry leaders such as Tenet Healthcare and Optum Labs. The participants will present their latest findings in areas including:
"WHITE provides a great venue to facilitate the interactions among academia, policymakers, and practitioners," says WHITE program co-chair Guodong (Gordon) Gao, CHIDS co-director. "The research presentations and panel discussions will surely stimulate new ideas to unleash the power of technology that will lead the nation to a new level of patient engagement, quality transparency, and care delivery." Keynote speakers and plenary panelists (full bios here) for the workshop include:
The conference also will include awards presented for Best paper, Best student-authored paper and Young researcher. WHITE is offering a limited number of patient and provider scholarships for attending the conference. Interested patients or clinical providers can inquire about the scholarships via [email protected] WHITE is partially supported by a grant from the United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). About CHIDS Media Contacts: Kenyon Crowley, WHITE director and CHIDS deputy director Greg Muraski
To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/health-it-experts-to-meet-and-discuss-industrys-latest-research-advances-300328384.html SOURCE University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business 
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