The University of Maryland School of Graduate Studies Clinical Informatics program invites the public to its monthly conference sessions as part of the school’s Clinical Informatics Conference course.
The next free, virtual conference session takes place on Thursday, Nov. 5, from noon until 2 p.m. EST. The topic for the October session is "Clinical Information Systems." Attendees can join using Zoom.
David Kaelber, MD, PhD, MPH, FAAP, FACP, FACMI, FAMIA is a practicing internist and pediatrician, board-certified in clinical informatics and the chief health informatics officer of the MetroHealth System, the public health care system for Cleveland. Kaelber is also a professor of internal medicine, pediatrics, and population and quantitative health sciences at Case Western Reserve University. He is the founding director of MetroHealth’s Center for Clinical Informatics Research and fellowship director of MetroHealth’s Clinical Informatics Fellowship.
Kaelber received his BSE in biomedical and electrical engineering from Duke University and completed his MD, MS, and PhD in biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University. After completing his residency and chief residency, Kaelber was a National Library of Medicine Medical Informatics Fellow at the Center for Information Technology Leadership at Partners Healthcare and completed his MPH.
His areas of interest and research include personal health records, electronic health records, clinical decision support, health information exchange, telehealth, the teaching of medical informatics to medical students, resident physicians, and fellows, using electronic health records for chronic disease detection and management, and other areas of clinical informatics, as well as research in med-peds.
Readings for the first hour:
Macklin S, Woods L, Sullivan C. The Flow of Healthcare Information in Rural and Remote Settings: A Qualitative Approach. J Eval Clin Pract. 2026 Apr;32(3):e70446. PMID: 42013234; PMCID: PMC13099109
Du X, Shi H, Peng Y, Jiang S, Song J, Wang C, Li L, Xiao M, Zhao Q, Huang H. Influencing factors of self-reported near-miss in clinical nursing information system tasks among nurses: a multicenter cross-sectional study. BMC Nurs. 2025 Jul 22;24(1):960. PMID: 40696341; PMCID: PMC12281732.
Readings for the second hour:
Interoperability, or rather lack thereof, is a key impediment to coordination of applications within a health system, and indeed between health systems, especially those using different vendor products.
Agassi N, Schreiber R, Pan E, McClay J, Overhage JM, Baker R, Kush R, Lyle J, Craven CK. An Interoperability Moonshot Proposal. Appl Clin Inform. 2026 May;17(3):493-501. Epub 2026 Jun 24. PMID: 42341837; PMCID: PMC13301294.
Disclosure: Schreiber is an author on this paper, but would like the participants to read and critique the article. He will not be able to attend the next conference in real time, but will listen to the recording, so please express yourselves freely.
Brunner J, Bilodeau C, Molloy-Paolillo B, Helfrich CD, Dashtestani K, Cohen-Bearak A, Hauck JD, Herout J, Fuller H, Nebeker JR, Cutrona SL, Rinne ST. Clinical Standardization Across a National Health System: Perspectives From the Veterans Affairs' Electronic Health Record Transition. Med Care. 2026 Jul 1;64(7):442-446. Epub 2026 Jun 9. PMID: 42262367.
The INFO 610: Clinical Informatics Conference course is a monthly conference in biomedical and health informatics. Students are introduced to experts in the field of biomedical informatics, exposing them to key experimental and theoretical literature in the discipline, and encouraging discussion and further in-depth exploration of topics in clinical informatics.
The course emphasizes the application of informatics to the practice of medicine, to enhance health outcomes, improve patient care, and strengthen the clinician-patient relationship. The course expands on fundamental clinical informatics content, including clinical decision-making, process improvement, health information systems, ethics, and management.
While attendees who are not enrolled in the course do not receive course credit, these conference sessions, which focus on biomedical and health informatics, are open to the public.
For more information or updates on future conference sessions, please contact Michael Grasso, MD, PhD, FACP, FAMIA, ABPM-CI, clinical associate professor, Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, at mgrasso@som.umaryland.edu