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Webinar - Use of the Electronic Medical Record in Prevention Research

Webinar - Use of the Electronic Medical Record in Prevention Research

​Thursday, June 15, 2017.
8:00-9:00am

The widespread adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) has created enormous possibilities for embedding prevention activities into the fabric of care and for conducting research to formally evaluate various prevention strategies. This webinar will provide some examples of the types of prevention activities that can be fostered using the EMR, provide some historical perspective on the challenges of using the EMR to conduct research more generally, and give specific examples of prevention-oriented research that heavily relies on the EMR for its conduct.

Presenter:
William M. Vollmer, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator, Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente

Registration is required for this webinar. You will receive a confirmation email that contains detailed information about joining the webinar.

This is part of the Medicine: Mind the Gap webinar series.  This series explores research design, measurement, intervention, data analysis, and other methods of interest to prevention science. Examples of webinar topics include design and analysis of studies to evaluate multilevel interventions, N-of-1 and novel within-subject trial methods, applying mediation analysis to understand how interventions work, illustrating strengths and weaknesses of experimental and quasi-experimental designs, and engineering optimized behavioral interventions for increased public health impact. The webinar series aims to engage the prevention research community in thought-provoking discussions to promote the use of the best available methods in prevention research and to support the development of better methods.