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MLA Distance Education

Keeping Patients Safe: Roles for Information Professionals

Keeping Patients Safe: Roles for Information Professionals

MLA's Educational Webcast
Held November 16, 2005

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Philip Aspden Senior Program Officer, Institute of Medicine, The National Academies, Washington, DC

Philip Aspden is currently the director for a congressionally mandated Institute of Medicine study on identifying and preventing medication errors. In December 2001, he joined the staff of the Health Care Services Board at the Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC, to be the director of a health care data standards study, which produced Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard for Care. Subsequently he was a senior staff member on, Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health Care, a study recommending ways to improve the quality of health care in rural America.

Earlier at the National Academies, Aspden was on the staff of the Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) Board, where he was a senior staff member of a major IT Workforce project, which led to the report, Building a Workforce for the Information Economy. Also at the STEP Board, he edited the report of a conference, Medical Innovation in the Changing Healthcare Marketplace.

Prior to joining the National Academies, Aspden, along with James Katz (Rutgers, NJ), set up, during the period 1995-1999, one of the first groups to carry out empirical research on the socioeconomic impact of the Internet. During this period and earlier, Aspden also acted as consultant for Bellcore, Morristown, NJ, and for Battelle and Celeste & Sabety, both Columbus, OH, In 1992, Aspden was research manager for Infrastructures for the 21st Century, a study carried out by the Diebold Institute, Bedford Hills, NY. For seven years until 1991, Aspden was a leading telecommunications consultant at Butler Cox, London. He began his career in the British Scientific Civil Service working successively in the Department of the Environment, Department of Health, and Her Majesty's Treasury.

Aspden received a bachelor's degree (Hons.) in mathematics from Cambridge University, England. He carried out postgraduate work in operations research at Lancaster University, England, earning master's and doctoral degrees. During 1979-1980, he was a research scholar at the International Institute of Applied System Analysis, Austria.

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