Psychiatr News February 15, 2008
Volume 43, Number 4, page 12
© 2008 American Psychiatric Association
Annual Meeting Highlights
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Get Inside Scoop on HIT and Psychiatry
APA's 2008 annual meeting
will offer several opportunities to learn the latest about electronic health
records (EHRs) and how they will impact psychiatry. All sessions will be held
in the Washington Convention Center.
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Robert Kolodner, M.D.
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According to government agencies and health care experts, EHRs and other
forms of health information technology have great potential to improve health
care quality, improve communication and care coordination, and prevent medical
errors. There is much activity on the national level to fulfill the goal
proposed by President Bush for most Americans to have access to secure
electronic health records by 2014.
Psychiatrist Robert Kolodner, M.D., national coordinator for health
information technology in the Department of Health and Human Services, will
chair the forum "Coming to the Table: Psychiatry and Information
Technology" on Tuesday, May 6, from noon to 1:30 p.m. Kolodner and a
series of panelists will address the risks and benefits of using health
information technology for the treatment of psychiatric patients, describe how
the national health information technology agenda impacts psychiatry, and
identify opportunities to further advance psychiatry in the health information
technology agenda.
Kolodner will also participate in a symposium on privacy issues and
electronic health records along with several panelists. The session, titled
"Privacy and Fraud Policies and Electronic Health Records,"
will be held Wednesday, May 7, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
In addition, APA's Corresponding Committee on Electronic Health Records is
sponsoring a workshop showcasing the experiences of psychiatrists currently
using EHRs: "Electronic Health Records in Psychiatry: Experiences of
Early Adopters." It will be held Tuesday, May 6, from 9 a.m. to 10:30
a.m. 
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