Chairs

Current SIG Co-Chairs:

Leonid Bederman, MD

Jason Lau, MD

 

Current SIG Mentor:

Joseph Zorc, MD

Health informatics is the multidisciplinary medical subspecialty that unites people, processes and technology to benefit and advance individual patient care, public health and the healthcare industry.

The Health Informatics SIG seeks to create an inclusive community of pediatric academicians with an interest in the field of health informatics to improve pediatric patient care, conduct evidence-based research, and facilitate collaborative work.

Current SIG Goals

  • Catalyze opportunities for networking and collaboration
  • Support career development in the field of health informatics
  • Foster data and analytics literacy for research, operations and quality improvement
  • Highlight emerging challenges and opportunities for future work

Upcoming Events

  • In 2025, we are looking forward to joining our SIG members in Honolulu for PAS where we will be hosting our annual SIG meeting on Sunday April 27th at 10:45 am and hope to see everyone there. Click here for our PAS Poster!

Annual Summary

Key Events in 2024

Webinar focused on Big Data Pediatric Networks.

  • Keynote Speakers were Dr. Joseph Zorc and Dr. Levon Utidjian from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
  • They explored PEDSNet and PECARN networks and how informaticists and researchers can use networks like these to answer important research questions.
  • Recording Link: here [childrensnational.zoom.us].

 

PAS Collaborative Workshop between APA Health Informatics SIG, Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) SIG and Serving the Underserved SIG

Workshop: Moving the Needle on Social Needs: From Screening to Data Management and Response

  • With over 60 attendees, we presented a review of current social needs screening and regulatory requirements, followed by an outline of potential downstream regulatory impacts on patients and families.  Screening considerations and modalities were reviewed with an ethical lens.
  • Small groups focused on 3 topics: 1) Development of an ideal process for screening. 2) Best documentation strategies and metrics to capture the screening-to-referral pathway, 3) Best practice for referrals that are close-looped, HIPAA compliant and best integrated to the EHR.
  • To close the session, the SDOH SIG highlighted 2 real world examples of existing social needs screening and referral programs that showcased the success, challenges and lessons learned from each institution.
  • Resource from Workshop: Visualization Tools and Considerations
  • This was the inaugural presentation for colleagues in SDOH SIG, and was a wonderful collaboration between the 3 groups. Find out more about the new SDOH SIG.

Other groups (other SIGs and other groups not in the APA) that work in your area of interest:

  • AAP Council on Clinical Information Technology
  • APA Simulation-based Medical Education
  • APA Quality Improvement SIG