The
infraNET Project and
Waterloo Institute for Health Informatics Research
University of Waterloo
present ...
"Why Not Improve Health Care
Through
Effective Knowledge Translation?"
by
Dr. Brian Haynes, MSc,
PhD, FRCPC, MACP, FACMI
Chair, Dept. of Clinical Epidemiology &
Biostatistics;
Professor, Dept. of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics &
Dept. of Medicine,
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Davis Centre, Room 1302
University of Waterloo
Seminar Series Sponsors:
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
McKesson Information Solutions - Smart Systems for Health Agency
Healthcare Information Management and Communications Canada
Abstract
At present, it takes about a generation for reasonably uniform
uptake of new knowledge by health practitioners about as long as it
takes for practitioners beyond formal training to retire or die. Given
this and the about $100B invested globally in generating new health
knowledge, this is tragedy for many people with preventable or
treatable health problems, hugely wasteful, and a serious challenge to
the concept of professionalism and self-regulation of health practitioners.
Knowledge translation (KT) has to do with the testing, timely
retrieval, critical appraisal, distillation, synthesis, policy
formulation, and application of knowledge. From an informatics
perspective, applying what we now know about KT for usable evidence
from health research would help, especially if we collaborated in
doing so, rather than continuing in the current state of competitive
and largely feckless efforts to foster KT. In this presentation, I will
describe efforts to engender a collaborative approach. I will also
present an agenda for KT research for discussion and suggest that a
much higher proportion of investments in health research be shifted to
study KT until we eliminate this bottleneck in improving health care.
About the Speaker
Brian Haynes received his MD in 1971 from the University of
Alberta, and a PhD in clinical epidemiology from McMaster University
in 1975. He completed residency training in internal medicine at the
Toronto Hospital in Toronto, Ontario and St. Thomas s Hospital in
London, England. He joined the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster
University in 1977, where he is currently Professor of Clinical
Epidemiology and Medicine, Chair of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology
and Biostatistics, Chief of the Health Information Research Unit, and
on the active medical staff of Hamilton Health Sciences. Brian is the founding
editor ACP Journal Club, published by the American College of Physicians,
and its electronic database, ACPJC.org, BMJUpdates+
(www.bmjupdates.com), an electronic best evidence dissemination
service, and several other evidence-based information services. He is
a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. His main
research interests are in improving health care through enhancing the
validation, distillation, dissemination and application of health care
knowledge.
For more information
Shirley Fenton
Managing Director, WIHIR
University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4074
Seminar Hosts
This seminar is hosted by the Waterloo Institute for Health
Informatics Research (WIHIR) and The infraNET Project, University of Waterloo.
The infraNET Project, initiated by the University of Waterloo in
1996, is a partnership to advance Web and Internet technologies. Its founding
partners were: LivePage (now part of Siebel), MKS, Open Text, RIM,
Sybase (Waterloo) and Waterloo Maple.
We also gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the Institute for
Computer Research, University of Waterloo.
