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Edward Hammond (HL7 Int, USA)

Tutorial sobre Interoperabilidad
Presentación destacada “Interoperabilidad y Estándares”

Panel “Agendas Digital de Salud, El Desafío de implementar Redes Asistenciales Integradas - Experiencias Regionales”

Dr. Hammond holds appointments in the departments of Community and Family Medicine and Biomedical Engineering at Duke University.  He is experienced in networking (hardware and software), in database and database design, in programming languages, in decision support and in the computer-based medical record.  Dr. Hammond has taught courses and given tutorials in these areas for many years.  For almost thirty years, Dr. Hammond was been developing the internationally known computer-based medical record system, The Medical Record (TMR).  Dr. Hammond has been very active nationally and internationally in medical informatics.  He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the American Medical Informatics Association and now serves as Treasurer of that organization, has twice served as Chairman of the Health Level 7 standards group; is immediate- past-president of the American College of Medical Informatics; and is a former chair of ACM's SIGBIO.

W. Ed Hammond, M.D., is professor emeritus of community and family medicine and professor emeritus, biomedical engineering at Duke University. He is an adjunct professor in the Health Sectors Management Division of the Fuqua School of Business. He has extensive experience in the design and implementation of electronic patient records. He is a codeveloper of The Medical Record, a clinical and billing record system.

Ph.D., President of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), Vice-Chair of the Technical Steering Committee of HL7, and Professor Emeritus, School of Medicine at Duke University and Pratt School of Engineering.