Plenary Panel Session
One Person, one picture:
The value of standardized and interoperable data
This plenary session will highlight the value of using standardized tools such as the interRAI suite of assessment instruments at the point of care to support decisions for direct clinical care, organizational program planning, resource allocation, and health care policy.
The interRAI assessment instruments collect and generate interoperable data across the continuum of care through the use of standardized common language. The key is to collect data once at the point of care and use the same information for managing the care of an individual and for to managing the health care system.
Come and learn more about the implementation of interRAI assessment instruments in Canada and other countries. Highlights include co-ordinated care across health care settings in Belgium, and implementation of the interRAI assessment information using HL7 to transmit assessment information between clinicians in New Zealand, and, the influences this approach has on other health information tools.
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Nadine HENNINGSEN, Executive Director, Canadian Home Care Association | ||
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John HIRDES, PhD FCAHS, Canada Dr. Hirdes is a professor and chair of the Ontario Home Care Research and Knowledge Exchange at the School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He is the senior Canadian Fellow and a board member of interRAI. He chairs the interRAI Network of Excellence in Mental Health (iNEMH) and the interRAI Network of Canada, a collaborative network of researchers and graduate students from across Canada. Dr. Hirdes has over 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals and academic book chapters and has received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal through the Canadian Home Care Association and the Canadian Association on Gerontology. His primary areas of interest include geriatric assessment, mental health, health care and service delivery, case-mix systems, quality, health information management, social determinants of health, and quantitative research methods. |
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Anja DECLERCQ, PhD, Belgium Dr. Declercq has a degree in applied economics and in sociology, and a PhD in social sciences. She is currently a professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium and project manager at Lucas, an interdisciplinary research institute of that same university. Her research mainly focuses on care for elderly people in terms of innovation and quality improvement. In Belgium, Dr. Declercq manages a government-sponsored project to research the conditions in which interRAI Long-Term Care Facilities (LTCF) and interRAI Home Care (HC) could be implemented at a national level. She is also involved in a project concerning the use of interRAI Acute Care (AC). She became an Associate interRAI Fellow in 2007. |
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Andrew DOWNES, New Zealand A Physiotherapist by background, Andrew worked in neuro-rehabilitation for most of his 12 years in clinical practice. During the past 16 years Andrew has been involved in a number of large clinical change management projects that have all included a major healthcare IT component. He is currently the manager of the National interRAI Software Service for New Zealand. This services provides access to a national clinical assessment system, interRAI, which is used by several thousand clinicians from several hundred health care providers across the acute, community, primary and residential care sectors in New Zealand. Andrew has a particular interest in interoperability in healthcare and has recently worked in collaboration with the New Zealand Ministry of Health, the interRAI collaborative and other stakeholders to develop and implement a New Zealand HL7-CDA standard to support interoperability for interRAI clinical data. |
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