Abstract
The keynote speaker for the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries symposium on electronic health records (EHRs) and knowledge-based information was Kenneth Mandl. Mandl is associate professor at Harvard Medical School and director of the Intelligent Health Laboratory at the Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Harvard University–Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences Technology. He is a pioneer in both consumer informatics and population health monitoring, and he has innovated and published extensively in the areas of personally controlled health records (PCHRs), disease outbreak detection, public health surveillance, and national health information infrastructure. Mandl has reviewed and approved the following account of his keynote address, “Electronic Health Records: Platforms, Libraries, and Evidence.”
Highlights
The keynote speaker for the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries symposium on electronic health records (EHRs) and knowledge-based information was Kenneth Mandl
One would have to deal with all sorts of local variations from one institution to the because no two implementations are exactly alike, even for a particular EHR vendor
The platform model that allows for substitutable applications provides a better architecture to insert knowledge in the right places in ways that are highly scalable
Summary
The keynote speaker for the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries symposium on electronic health records (EHRs) and knowledge-based information was Kenneth Mandl. Mandl is associate professor at Harvard Medical School and director of the Intelligent Health Laboratory at the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program, Harvard University– Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences Technology. He is a pioneer in both consumer informatics and population health monitoring, and he has innovated and published extensively in the areas of personally controlled health records (PCHRs), disease outbreak detection, public health surveillance, and national health information infrastructure. Mandl has reviewed and approved the following account of his keynote address, ‘‘Electronic Health Records: Platforms, Libraries, and Evidence.’’
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