c a l l f o r a b s t r a c t s
The 18th Annual HMO Research Network Conference
Learning Health Care Systems: Leading Through Research
April 29–May 2, 2012, Seattle, Washington
The call for abstracts is closed. Corresponding authors will be informed of the status of their abstracts and, if accepted, the type of presentation no later than February 2012.
The 18th annual HMO Research Network conference will be hosted by Group Health Research Institute in Seattle, Washington, on April 29 – May 2, 2012. The theme of the 2012 conference, Learning Healthcare Systems: Leading through Research, denotes the network's commitment to reach beyond our borders and traditional collaborators to share our experiences, discuss tools and technologies, and expand opportunities for productive public-private partnerships in cutting edge healthcare research and delivery.
September 9, 2011 |
Online abstract submission system opens. Conversation Café topics and requests for ancillary meeting rooms welcomed |
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November 28, 2011 |
Abstract submission deadline. Online submission system closes at 11:59PM Eastern Time. |
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No later than February 2012 |
Notification of submission outcome. Conversation Café topics and ancillary meeting rooms finalized. |
The conference welcomed contributions from authors who have perspective on the selected theme and broad categories for planned concurrent sessions, which are listed below. Suggested paper topics include:
- Behavior Change: Behavioral medicine, self management support
- Cancer: Risk factors (including commonly used medications), prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis, palliative care, survivorship, and patient communication
- Cardiovascular Disease: Epidemiology, risk factors, screening, diagnosis, prevention and treatment strategies, disease self-management, surveillance, genetics
- Chronic Illness and Multimorbidity: Adherence to treatment, disease self-management, translation of evidence-based interventions, case management,
- Comparative Effectiveness Research: CER methods, trials, observational methods, statistics
- Diabetes: Risk factors, prevention and treatment strategies, disease self-management, epidemiology, genetics
- Genetics: Genetic epidemiology, phenotyping, consent, acceptance, ethical issues, patient ownership of genetic material, tissue banking, public access
- Health Informatics: Using electronic health records and other health data to improve care and conduct research, patient portals
- Health Services Research: Effects of health care utilization, financing, and plan benefit structures, economic evaluation, primary care redesign, accountable care organizations, public partnerships, translational research, medical home
- Healthcare Disparities: Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in health care use and outcomes, high-risk populations
- HMORN Administrative and Technical: IRB, grants and contracts administration, finance, information technology, survey methods
- Learning Health Care Systems: Improving and accelerating the pace of development and application of evidence in health care decision making, advances in research methodology, patient engagement, and measurement — and capturing the results for improvement
- Mega-epidemiology and Methods: Challenges and solutions working with large data sets in a multi-site environment, electronic data (EMR), large retrospective or prospective cohort studies, registries, surveillance
- Mental Health: Epidemiology, health services, prevention, treatment and management
- Obesity: Epidemiology, prevention, treatment, risks, weight loss maintenance, weight loss in special populations
- Pharmacoepidemiology: The use, safety, costs, and effectiveness of medications, vaccines, biologics, devices, and other medical products in populations
- Prevention and Wellness: Epidemiology, interventions, randomized trials, population-based strategies, guideline implementation
- Virtual Data Warehouse
Corresponding authors will be informed of the status of their abstracts and, if accepted, the type of presentation no later than February 2012. All presenters, oral and poster, must register for the conference.
For issues related to abstract submission please first check the website and then contact:
HMORN Conference Coordination Team
18th Annual HMORN Meeting
Group Health Research Institute
hmornconf@ghc.org
(206)287-2900 (Tel)
(206)287-2871 (Fax)
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