Webinar: What is Health Informatics?

Webinar: What is Health Informatics? Q&A featuring Abby Kazley, Ph.D., and Robert W Warren, MD, Ph.D., MPH. May 15, 2020 from 12 to 1 pm.

If you’re curious about data analytics and have wondered how big data can be used across the health care industry, this webinar is for you.

During this Q&A with Robert W. Warren, MD, Ph.D., MPH, and Abby Kazley, Ph.D., we’ll explore some of the most frequently asked questions about health informatics. For starters, what exactly is health informatics? We’ll also discuss how health informatics has impacted health care and what a typical day of a health informaticist might look like.

Other topics include:

  • The future of health informatics.
  • Implications of COVID-19 or similar situations as it relates to health informatics.
  • How to become a health informaticist.

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About the Speakers

Abby Swanson Kazley, Ph.D.

Dr. Abby Swanson Kazley is a professor and program director for the MS in Health Informatics (MSHI) program at MUSC. She is an award-winning teacher with expertise in the areas of Management and Strategic Management. She teaches courses on the topics for the MSHI and Master in Health Administration (MHA) programs.

Kazley earned a Ph.D. in Health Services Organization and Research from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2006. Her research examines the relationships between hospital health information technology (HIT) use and cost, quality and efficiency by examining electronic medical record (EMR) use, computerized physician order entry (CPOE) use, and telemedicine. She has published more than sixty peer-reviewed research articles.

Before earning her Ph.D., Kazley worked at LifeNet OPO in Virginia for more than two years doing public education. Additionally, before becoming the director of the MSHI program, Kazley served as director for the MHA program. In that role, she oversaw the transition from content to competency-based education and evaluation.

Robert W. Warren, MD, Ph.D., MPH

Dr. Robert "Bob" Warren is recognized as a national top medical doctor and chief medical information officer. For 35 years, he has held various faculty leadership positions and cared for children as a pediatric rheumatologist at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). He served as the chief medical information officer at Texas Children's Hospital for 12 years before assuming the position at MUSC in 2011.

Although Warren retired from MUSC in 2018 as a professor emeritus, he continues to teach "Applied Health Informatics" as well as serve on the advisory council for the MS in Health Informatics program. In addition to his teaching role, he uses his expertise in health informatics to consult for health systems across the U.S. Warren is Epic and ITIL certified and has served as a national examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Program.

Warren grew up in Athens, Georgia. He earned his bachelor's degree from Yale, where he graduated summa cum laude. He attended medical school at Washington University in St. Louis, where he earned his M.D. and Ph.D. Following graduation, Warren completed his pediatrics residency and pediatric rheumatology and allergy-immunology fellowships at Duke in Durham, N.C. He later earned his Master of Public Health with a focus on informatics and health care systems from the University of Texas in Houston.

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