Dr. Mark Braunstein from the College of Computing and Institute for People & Technology (IPaT) will be our next speaker in the Policy@Tech Speakers Series.  His presentation will take place on Monday, March 31, from 11 a.m. to noon, in the Technology Square Research Building (TRSB) Auditorium.  Dr. Braunstein will explore the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act and federal investment in Health IT (HIT) in his talk “Federal HITECH Policies: How They Work, What They Have Achieved So Far, and Remaining Challenges.”

Dr. Braunstein teaches health informatics in Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive Computing and is involved in fostering research and community outreach aimed at the wider and deeper adoption of health information technology to improve the quality and efficiency of care delivery.  He is the author of over fifty papers; articles and book chapters devoted to various aspects of clinical automation.  His most recent publication, Health Informatics in the Cloud, is a brief text on contemporary health information technology written for a general audience but with health care practitioners particularly in mind.  He also taught the first public Mass Open Online Course (MOOC) devoted to health informatics based on the book (and of the same name) to a global class of thousands of students.  Dr. Braunstein received his BS degree from MIT in 1969 and his MD degree from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in 1974.  After an internship at Washington University he joined the faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy at MUSC where he developed one of the first four ambulatory electronic health record systems working in a clinic that had many of the key attributes now attributed to the patient-centered medical home model of care. 

The TSRB Conference Center is located at Technology Square (85 5th Street) next to the Centergy building.  Outside visitors may use the attached pay parking deck, which has entrances on both 5th Street and Williams Street.  For more information about the venue, please visit http://www.tsrb.gatech.edu/index.html.  Parking information is available at http://techonfifth.org/centergy-parking-deck-rates/