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Duke Center for Health Informatics: 21st Century Cures Act – Interoperability: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Genie McPeek Hines, PhD
Informatics Research Seminars

Seminar Abstract:
The first phase of the 21st Century's Cures Act went into effect on April 5th 2021 with a goal to support seamless and secure access, exchange and use of electronic health information for all patients and secondarily to remove barriers for research. This seminar will review the federal mandates, implementation challenges as well as the unintended consequences for both health systems and patients. Both the benefits and limitations and potential harms will be examined.

Instructor Biosketch:
Eugenia McPeek Hinz is an Associate Chief Medical Information Officer for Duke University Health System. She is a Physician Informatician with extensive experience in the build and configuration of Duke's EHR. She completed a Master of Science in Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University in 2012 as a National Library of Medicine Fellow. In August 2012, she joined Duke University Health System to lead more than 30 physician champions in support of the roll out of our EHR across more than twenty applications in Inpatient, Surgical and Ambulatory environments. She focuses on the use of the EHR to provide quality care, safely for our patients and be a joy for our clinician users. She has supported the implementation and roll out of tools, policies and education to support the 21st Century Cures Act for Duke University Health System.

Zoom Meeting link:
https://duke.zoom.us/j/2186100752?pwd=V21yelR5TS84TXRaKzZEYktYaGE4UT09
Meeting number (access code): 218 610 0752, Meeting password: 950986