Timothy Carney, PhD, MPH, MBA, will be speaking on "Multilevel Intelligence Assessment Strategy for Smart Response to Health Disparities". Dr. Carney is an Assistant Professor and Cancer Health Disparities Fellow in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his PhD in Health Informatics from the University of Indiana in 2012. He has also received an MBA from DeVry University in Atlanta, Georgia in 2004 and a MPH from Tulane University in 1998. His research interests are in the areas of informatics, disparities and cancer prevention and control.

Critical problems for Learning Health System (LHS) design and implementation are realized in the lack of comprehensive needs and capabilities assessments for LHS, the lack of LHS standardized performance metrics, and in the inability to demonstrate a quantifiable “Return-on-Learning” (ROL) in the organizational, technical, and human factors that shape (1) the management of uncertainty, (2) levels of informed decision making, and (3) in the quality of communication and information exchange as factors shaping health outcomes. KLEMSA® represents LHS domains of Knowledge (K), Learning (L), Empowerment (E), Memory (M), and Situational Awareness (SA) critical in achieving high performing health systems that exploit ROL opportunities in complex multilevel health system decisions and actions. This presentation will review the modules of KLEMSA Intelligence Assessment and the pilot instrument that will be launched as a precursor to HIT tools development to address health disparities.