{"155261":{"#nid":"155261","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Brown Bag Seminar: William M. Gregg","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWilliam M. Gregg, MD, MS, MPH\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EImproving Care for Patients with Chronic Conditions: An Engineering Approach\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite the strong recommendations from the 2001 IOM report \u201cCrossing the Quality Chasm\u201d, improvements in health care quality have been modest and cost has continued to rise. Improvements in quality and safety in inpatient care have not translated easily to the fragmented outpatient system where the majority of care is provided. \u0026nbsp;Our talk will review the unique challenges in improving outpatient care and present an engineering approach to the problem currently underway at Vanderbilt. \u0026nbsp;Our methodology seeks to develop a system based on continuous improvement and data driven resource allocation that is self-correcting, patient centric and cost efficient. Successes, challenges and preliminary results are presented.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDr. Gregg is a practicing general internist and Assistant Professor in Biomedical Informatics and Medicine at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Gregg received his bachelor\u2019s degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech and his MD degree from the University of Miami-Miller School of Medicine. After finishing his internal medicine residency at Vanderbilt, he earned a Master\u2019s degree in Biomedical Informatics as an NLM fellow and a Master\u2019s in Public Health as a VA Quality Scholar\u2019s Fellow.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Gregg\u2019s research is primarily focused on the intersection between chronic disease care, quality improvement and biomedical informatics. As Co-Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Health Promotion and Disease Management he leads several projects in population level patient management involving more than 10,000 patients. In his role as Director of Population Health Informatics, he has led the development of the software underpinning Vanderbilt\u2019s Care Coordination system \u2013 My Health Team at Vanderbilt. He is also the primary inventor of Vanderbilt\u2019s chronic disease tracking system and has implemented the system for more than 10 different conditions\/diseases across more than 50,000 patients.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EImproving Care for Patients with Chronic Conditions: An Engineering Approach\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27659","created_gmt":"2012-09-18 15:15:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:00:01","author":"Christopher Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-09-27T12:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-09-27T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-09-27T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-09-27 16:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-09-27 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-09-27 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003Egvu@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}