Carl T. Brighton Workshop on Health Informatics in Orthopaedic Surgery

The 2009 ABJS Carl T. Brighton Workshop on Health Informatics in Orthopaedic Surgery brought together various stakeholders in health informatics from across the World to present, debate and develop recommendations for advancing the field of orthopaedic informatics. Representatives from health care institutions, surgeons, HIT vendors, researchers, informaticians, regulators and policymakers, and payers participated in the active discussions on the eight major themes covered including (1) patient education and the Internet; (2) Internet-based education and simulation; (3) telemedicine, disparities in utilization, access to information communication technology (ICT); (4) Web 2.0 and publishing; (5) ontologies and search; (6) informatics in orthopaedic training; (7) information systems, databases, registries – aligning data models in orthopaedics; and (8) EHRs in orthopaedics.

We asked each of the Workshop participants to provide constructive feedback with the objective to create summary recommendations and answer the three questions originally asked by Dr. Carl Brighton who established these Workshops in 1996: (1) Where are we now? (2) Where do we need to go? and (3) How do we get there?