About Us: Health 2.0 NC Triangle provides a forum to showcase and discuss engaging and emerging topics in the realm of health innovation, digital health and technology through both online and in-person events. Thank you for joining our March 23rd event at the Raleigh Convention Center presented by Visit Raleigh & Data4Decisions!

Light Appetizers & Drinks will be provided.

Event Schedule:

Networking 4:30 – 5:00 PM

Introduction 5:00 – 5:15 PM

Speaker 5:15 – 5:45 PM

Saif Khairat, PhD Assistant Professor Carolina Health Informatics Program Division of Healthcare Systems – School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Speaker Q&A 5:45 – 6:00 PM

Host Sponsor: VisitRaleigh -The Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) joins the interests of city and county government, trade and civic associations and travel suppliers to build visitor traffic to the area. The Bureau also acts as a liaison between potential visitors and the businesses that host them.

Event Sposonsor: Data4Decisions – Data4Decisions is a powerful opportunity that provides business executives with strategies they can use to turn increasing amounts of data into actionable intelligence and strategic insight.

Speaker Bio

Dr. Saif Khairat is an Assistant Professor at the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Previously, Dr. Khairat served as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Institute for Health Informatics at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Khairat is the Chair-Elect of the Education Working Group, and member of the Working Group Steering Committee at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).
Among his research interests are mobile technologies in chronic disease management, and human factors in EMR systems. Dr. Khairat earned his PhD in Health Informatics at the Informatics Institute at the University of Missouri with a focus on ICU clinical communication. During his Informatics training, Dr. Khairat worked as a Research Fellow at the Division of Clinical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He also has a track record of computer science training. In 2007, He designed and developed a clinical content tracking system that bridged Database Management Systems and web applications.

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