Today, I participated in a meeting at the White House described as an "expert roundtable on patient access to health data" hosted by Todd Park (Chief Technology Officer of the United States), Farzad Mostashari (the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology), Leon Rodriguez (Office of Civil Rights) and Peter Levin (CTO Veterans Administration).
Commissions and inquiries into tough social challenges often follow a common formula: smart people, analysis of issues, public submissions, expert consultations and roundtables.
I think that a lot of us could contribute to putting some 'beef' on the P by looking at inception cohorts or intensive care unit populations or hospital populations to try to understand the relative contributions, giving some shape and flavor to the P with data rather than just with roundtable expert opinion.
To help with this effort, the NCHS and the Office of Dietary Supplements of the National Institutes of Health recently convened a roundtable expert panel to review the scientific and public health issues involved in past, current, and future measurement of folate and vitamin B-12 status biomarkers in NHANES.
Reports: These are reports of UNICEF-organised expert-level events, consultations, roundtables and meetings to on the harmonization of national legislations with international human rights instruments and standards.
FVN roundtable experts explain why record home sales will slow in 2006 but not stall out.
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Minutes after the blackout happens, cable news has "experts" doing a roundtable discussion about it.
Such was the general consensus among leading Iran experts at a roundtable discussion moderated by Newsweek's Nisid Hajari Wednesday on Capitol Hill for the ninth National Iranian American Council (NIAC) conference on US-Iran relations.
Roundtable experts agreed that these differences required a data adjustment for time-trend analyses.
