Integration of Medical and Dental Care and Patient Data

Prof. Valerie Powell is presently a Professor at Robert Morris University and teaches discrete mathematics for IS professionals, networks and data communications, information security and assurance, as well as M programming for health care applications. Her present areas of research focus are on clinical data integration. Amit Acharya, BDS, MS, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute (MCRI) at Marshfield Clinic Health System (MCHS) in Wisconsin, USA. Dr. Acharya provides leadership and direction to support the mission and vision of the Institute as well as responsible for the oversight of the research operations. He subsequently serves as the Chief Dental Informatics Officer of the Family Health Center at MCHS and as a tenured Research Scientist at the Center for Oral and Systemic Health at MCRI. With over a decade of experience in the field of Health Information Technology, Health Informatics, and Clinical Research, Dr. Acharya is a well-regarded leader in dental informatics. As a general dental surgeon and a computer scientist with expertise in the field of biomedical informatics, Dr. Acharya's research focus has been in the area of applied clinical informatics focusing on integration of medical and dental data, clinical and research information systems, design and architecture of electronic health records, developing clinical decision supports and investigating the oral-systemic relationship between periodontal and systemic disease such as diabetes, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. He has served on the 2012 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Scientific Programming Committee (SPC) and many other national committees. He has received multiple grant funding dedicated to bridging the medical and dental divide throughout the course of his career. Dr. Acharya has published over 100 scientific abstracts and manuscripts in national and international peer-reviewed journals and was also one of the editors of the first edition of this book - 'Integration of Medical and Dental Care and Patient Data'. Dr. Thankam Thyvalikakath is Director of Dental Informatics Core at the Indiana University School of Dentistry as well as a Research Scientist at the Center for Biomedical Informatics, Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis, IN. As core director, she has established a program to enhance patient care through improved data capture and retrieval to assess treatment outcomes. Dr. Thyvalikakath earned her PhD degree in Biomedical Informatics from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She also holds a dental degree and certificate in clinical research from the University of Pittsburgh as well as a dental degree from the University of Kerala, India and a Master's degree in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery from the University of Calicut, India. Dr. Thyvalikakath has served as Principal Investigator, co-investigator or consultant on numerous National Institutes of Health grants. Her research established foundational knowledge on applying user-centered design and cognitive engineering methods to design and evaluate clinical systems. Currently, she is leading a study supported through the National Dental Practice-based Research Network of the NIDCR to explore the feasibility of mining electronic dental records data from Network practices to assess treatment outcomes. In addition, she is co-investigator on a recent NIDCR funded study to implement clinical decision support for tobacco cessation in dental practices. Dr. Thyvalikakath also participates in clinical teaching and practice at the IU School of Dentistry. She has several publications, presentations and guest lectures to her credit and is a peer reviewer for five journals. She served as member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) task force to develop eligibility requirements for the Advance Health Informatics Certification (AHIC). She i

Mouth: the Gateway to the Body and the Importance of Medical and Dental Data Integration.- Achieving the 'True' Triple Aim in Healthcare.- An Environmental Scan of the various Oral-Systemic Contact Points.- Interdisciplinary Care Model: Diabetes and Oral Health.- Interdisciplinary Care Model: Papillon- Lefèvre Syndrome and Oral Health.- Interdisciplinary Care Model: Cardiovascular Diseases and Oral Health.- Interdisciplinary Care Model: Chronic Kidney Disease and Oral Health.- Interdisciplinary Care Model: Odontogenic Infections and Systemic Complications.- Interdisciplinary Care Model: Pneumonia and Oral Health.- Interdisciplinary Care Model: Metabolic Syndrome and Oral Health.- Health Information Technology Considerations of Medical and Dental Data Integration.- Biosurveillance and Dentistry.- Knowledge Standardization, Management and Integration.- Economics of Clinical Data Integration.- The Need for Interprofessional Medical-Dental Education.- Integrated Care Case Study: Marshfield Clinic Health System.- Conclusion.- Appendix.- Index.