The LHS Academy fellows shone last week as they shared their accomplishments and learnings from the last year at a symposium in Melbourne Connect. The fellows gave fantastic talks that in many cases were the result of passion for their projects and of a lot of practice with feedback from the education team. Most of you reading this will probably relate to the concern many fellows had that they didn’t accomplish everything they hoped to when they started the Academy in February (welcome to the world of research in complex systems). Some fellows faced big hurdles in their institutions or with governance requirements. Some worked mostly alone, whereas others were part of a larger team. Some projects are being implemented now, and others won’t make it to implementation now or maybe ever. But all of the projects were addressing important problems in healthcare and were motivated by the desire to help patients receive better care and outcomes. And the fellows came through as creative problem solvers, more knowledgeable leaders, and quite good storytellers. See my Twitter feed (@wendywchapman) for photos and short summaries of each presentation. I look forward to continuing to partner with them as they go back to their regular or new positions as new digital health champions. I hope they continue their learning journeys that we are all on as we seek solutions to the vexing problems of healthcare.
There was an energy in the room for the Symposium and the Pitchathon that followed that you just don’t get on Zoom. The room was abuzz with students, fellows, managers, clinicians, C-suite folks, researchers, technical experts, and educators connecting with each other. Thanks to the education team for designing and pulling off such a fantastic pair of events during a marathon education week!
Kit led a lively discussion at staff meeting this week about learnings from his trip to AMIA. A few takeaways that stood out to with me:
· The US is further down the path with FHIR than can be seen from afar and has about a decade of experience we can learn from. In spite of their progress, most applications involving FHIR are still a combination of native vendor processes + FHIR
· Regulation has played a large role in disseminating EHRs and FHIR in the US, which has ripple effects globally since, for example, vendors like Epic and Apple Health are now all supporting FHIR (to different degrees), making it available in Australia as well
· Common data models like OMOP, used by OHDSI, have enabled international knowledge generation through merging datasets that has changed policy, as was described by George Hripcsak from Columbia University in his Morris Collin Award talk in relation to COVID-19.
Regional Linguistics Quirks (RLQ): I would say something like "Comparing Mexican food to hamburgers is like comparing apples and oranges." Someone used a similar phrase last week but said "it's like chalk and cheese." Apparently, "chalk and cheese" is a British saying. Chalk doesn't look anything like American cheese, so maybe that's why we don't say it in the US :)
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