Gary Marchionini, Ph.D., of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been appointed to the health information technology report work group of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Gary Marchionini, Ph.D., of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been appointed to the health information technology report work group of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Marchionini, dean of the School of Information and Library Science and Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor in the school, is one of 18 group members. Their task: to synthesize and analyze public comment on a report the council released in December, “Report to the President Realizing the Full Potential of Health Information Technology to Improve Healthcare for Americans: The Path Forward.”
The group reports to committees that advise David Blumenthal, national coordinator for health information technology, advising his office on the report’s implications for and impact on office strategies and programs. Elaborating on how the report’s recommendations could be integrated into the office’s operations also is on the group’s agenda. Its report is due in April.
Marchionini previously served on committees of the National Library of Medicine, including the biomedical library and informatics review committee. The group advises the library and the National Institutes of Health.
Marchionini specializes in information seeking in electronic environments, human-computer interaction, digital libraries, information design and information policy. His current interests include interfaces that support information seeking and information retrieval; usability of personal health records; multimedia browsing strategies; digital libraries; information architecture; personal identity in cyberspace; and evaluation of interactive media, especially for learning and teaching.
President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology website:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/pcast
Marchionini photo: http://urxserve.ur.unc.edu/netpub/server.np?find&catalog=catalog&template=detail.np&field=itemid&op=matches&value=5768&site=Luminosity
School of Information and Library Science contact: Wanda Monroe, (919) 843-8337, wmonroe@email.unc.edu