Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine Section Meeting, Oct 2013

10/09/2013 in Royal College of Physicians, 6 Kildare Street

Health Intelligence in Practice 

CPD: 4.5 points

10:00                     Welcome address – Patrick O’Sullivan, President, Epidemiology and Public Health, RAMI

 10:05                     Update on the Information Bills – Peter Lennon, Assistant Principal, Legislation Unit, Department of Health

 10:35                     Record linkage, e-chart and data protection – G O’Neill, Legal Adv., Off. Data Protection Commissioner

 11:05                     Tea/coffee break

11:20                     Single Assessment Tool – Douglas Beaton, Management Lead, Health Intelligence, H&W Directorate, HSE

 11:50                     What we really need to know – Prof. Anthony Staines, Chief Medical Information Officer, HSE 

 12:20                     Working in Health Intelligence: the SpR experience – Coilín ÓhAiseadha, SpR, Health Intelligence,

                                 H&W Directorate, HSE

12:35                     Lunch

13:45                     Health and Wellbeing: drivers for improvement – Stephanie O’Keeffe, Nat. Director, Health & Wellbeing, HSE

14:15                     Small-area statistics, deprivation and large datasets – Trutz Haase, Social & Economic Consultant

14:45                     Tea/coffee

15.00                     Health Atlas Ireland: evolving modules from design to deployment – Howard Johnson, Clinical Lead, Health

                                Intelligence, H&W Directorate, HSE

15.30                      NQAIS Histopathology: evolution and roll-out – Georgina Farr, QA Programme Manager, RCPI               

16.00                      Close of meeting