New York: Author Night @ New York Academy of Medicine on 3/21/12

• Book: Medical Informatics: an Executive Primer, 2nd Edition
  
• Date: March 21, 2012
• Time: 5:30PM: Check-in and Refreshments, 6:00-7:00PM: Presentation, 7:00-7:30 PM Networking
• Location: The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029
• Speaker(s):
  
• Abha Agrawal, MD, FACP, Medical Director of Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, NY
• Rachel Block, Deputy Commissioner for Health Information Technology Transformation in the New York State Department of Health
• Curtis Cole, MD, Chief Information Officer for Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City
• Deborah Johnson-Ingram, Senior Program Manager on the Performance Improvement Team with Primary Care Development Corporation (PCDC) in New York City
• Joseph Kannry, MD, Lead Technical Informaticist on the EMR Clinical Transformation Group at Mount Sinai
• Glenn Martin, MD, Director of Medical Informatics for the Queens Health Network (QHN) in New York, a winner of the Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence
• Ken Ong, MD, MPH, CMIO of New York Hospital Queens
• Jason Shapiro, MD, MA, Associate Professor and Chief of the Division of Informatics in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai
• Mytri Pritam Singh, MPH, Executive Director of Implementation at the Primary Care Information Project (PCIP), a Bureau within the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH)
• Alan Silver, MD, MPH, Medical Director at IPRO, a non-profit health care assessment and quality improvement company
  
• Salvatore Volpe, MD, FAAP, FACP, CHCQM, Physician Liaison and Clinical Champion for the NYC DOH Primary Care Information Project and NYC REACH (Regional Extension Center) 

Click here for more details.

Registration fee: Free, but advance registration required

Register now!

In an election held from Oct. 15 through Nov. 15, four members were selected to the HIMSS Board of Directors. Dana Alexander, RN, MSN, MBA, FHIMSS; Brian R. Jacobs, MD, MS, FHIMSS; Kenneth R. Ong, MD, MPH, FACP, FIDSA, FHIMSS; and Fred D. Rachman, MD, FHIMSS; will serve three-year terms beginning in July 2012.

3 recent presentations from our team published in the New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System System Quality Review. Proceedings of the Symposium on Cost, Quality, and Efficiency, November 11, 2011. (http://www.nypsystem.org/pdf/SQR_2011.pdf).

• A Multidisciplinary Approach to Managing Medication Alerts Using EHR Functionality.Regina Cregin, MS BCPS PharmD; Kenneth Ong, MD, MPH; Dennis Hoang, BSEE PharmD.
• Getting to Meaningful Use: One Hospital’s Journey. Ken Ong, MD MPH; Geeta Nastashe, RN MS; Catherine Suspenski, MPA; Teresa McCormack, RN; Phil Myones, MS; Stephen Rimar, MD MBA.
• To Meaningful Use and Beyond: Physician Documentation. Ken Ong, MD, MPH; Wendell D. Forde, Clinical Analyst II; Victoria MacKey, Clinical Analyst II.

Medical Informatics: an Executive Primer, Edition 2.0, available now!

Welcome to Ken's personal website. Ken is the Chief Medical Informatics Officer of New York Hospital Queens, a member of the New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System. 

The second edition of Ken's award winning 'Medical Informatics: an Executive Primer' was published 2011.

Ken's past projects include implementing and maintaing an acute care EMR with CPOE; clinical decision support for the ambulatory EMR; a hospital pharmacy system; web-based results review, and mobile physician charge capture.

Ken is active in a number of professional groups. He is Chair, Informatics Council of the New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System, a member of the Hospital Association of New York State's Health Information Strategy Group, a member of the Greater New York Hospital Association Health I.T. Steering Committee, a member of the Collaborative Care Work Group of the New York eHealth Collaborative, a past president of the New York State chapter of the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS); past president and board member of Medical Informatics New York; and, a reviewer for the Informatics Review, Applied Clinical Informatics, and the International Journal of Medical Informatics.

He enjoys teaching and is adjunct faculty at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Ken's medical informatics seminar was among the top rated in 2005. He is a previous recipient of the AMDIS Award In Applied Medical Informatics and the Centers for Disease Control Charles C. Shepard Science Award. Ken is a former deputy commissioner in the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Ken is residency-trained and board certified in family practice, internal medicine, and infectious diseases. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the Infectious Disease Society of America, HIMSS, and the New York Academy of Medicine. He received his MPH at Columbia University, MD at Wayne State University, and BS at University of Michigan.

Ken's proudest accomplishments are his children, Kimberly and Ryan. His most remarkable collaboration has been and continues to be with his wife, Donna.