Making the Connection: Local & National Perspectives on Public Health Data Exchange
Provided by University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy & School of Medicine Office of Community and Continuing Medical Education, Center for Quantitative Medicine
Date: Thursday, June 9, 2022
Time: 1:00-2:00PM
Location: WebEx Live Event. Register Here
Presenters:
- Thomas Agresta MD., MBI, Director of Clinical Informatics, CQM - UConn Health
- Adi Gundlapalli, MD, PhD, MS, Chief Public Health Informatics Officer - Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, & Laboratory Srvcs, CDC
- Manisha Juthani, MD, Commissioner, Dept. of Public Health - State of CT
This is a knowledge-based activity.
Learning Objectives: Participants will (be able to):
1. Define disease surveillance and the standards required for a robust network
2. Describe the current status of how public health data are collected and exchanged
3. Discuss lessons learned from COVID-related data exchange
4. Identify the optimal infrastructure necessary to develop a public health surveillance network
Speaker Disclosure Statement: Drs. Agresta, Gundlapalli and Juthani, in their role as speakers for this educational event, have no relevant financial relationship(s) with any ineligible companies that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation that needs to be disclosed.
Drs. Agresta, Gundlapalli and Juthani will not be discussing the off-labeled or investigational use of any product or device.
Accreditation: The University of Connecticut School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Connecticut School of Medicine designates this CME activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The University of Connecticut, School of Pharmacy, is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a Provider of Continuing Pharmacy Education and will award 0.10 CEU's (1 contact hour) to pharmacists in attendance who complete an evaluation form; ACPE _0009-9999-22-044-L04-P. CE Statements of Credit will be electronically uploaded to the CPE Monitor system within 24 hours of submission via the learning management system.
Conflict of Interest Policy: Conflict of Interest Policy: All faculty members participating in CME activities provided by the University of Connecticut School of Medicine are required to disclose to the program audience any actual or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of their presentations. Program planners have an obligation to resolve any actual conflicts of interest and share with the audience any safeguards put in place to prevent commercial bias from influencing the content.
Activity Director Disclosure Statement: Dr. Agresta, as the activity director, for this educational event, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with any ineligible companies that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation that needs to be disclosed.
Planning Committee Disclosure Statement: Dr. Burrows, Dr. Kashyap, Ms. Burke, Ms. Magennis and Mr. Tran, as members of the planning committee, for this educational event, has/have no relevant financial relationship(s) with any ineligible companies that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation that needs to be disclosed. Dr. Jeffery has a financial interest/arrangement with CVS Health that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of his role as a planner. The following safeguard(s) have been put in place to avoid the insertion of commercial bias into the content: recusal from Dr. Jeffery controlling aspects of planning and content with which there is a financial relationship.
Commercial Support Statement: This CME activity is supported by an educational grant from Connie, which did not influence the content of the program.
Evaluations: Participants are required to complete an electronic evaluation in order to obtain CME Credits. A Qualtrics survey containing the evaluation will be emailed to all external participants, while an email from MyEvaluations.com with instructions will be sent to all UCHC participants. Please complete the evaluation within one week of receiving the email. If you do not receive an email or evaluation assignment from MyEvaluations.com within 10 business days of this activity, please contact the Department that hosted this activity (indicated above) to ensure that your MyEvaluations.com account is set up and your participation in this activity was forwarded to the CME office.
For more information, contact: Ryan Tran at rytran@uchc.edu