Our DBMI Seminar on Wednesday, March 16, 2022 was titled: "Getting to the Heart of It: Making Health Information Actionable for Patients with Cardiac Conditions"
Ruth Masterson Creber, PhD, MSc, RN, FAHA, FAAN
Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences and Cardiothoracic Surgery
Weill Cornell Medicine
Abstract:
Ruth Masterson Creber, Ph.D. M.Sc., RN, is an associate professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences and cardiothoracic surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine. She leads the Patient Decision Support lab at Weill Cornell Medicine. As a trained nurse, epidemiologist and health informatician, she has an independent, interdisciplinary program of research focused on using consumer health informatics tools to support patients with cardiovascular disease management across the care continuum. She will present strategies for making health information actionable for patients who are managing complex cardiac conditions.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify two strategies for developing patient centered consumer health informatics tools.
- Describe how to measure comprehension and why we need to move beyond preferences when evaluating tools with patients.
- Describe why we have an ethical responsibility to return information to patients.