An ad hoc committee will organize a 2-day public workshop in Washington, D.C. Through this workshop, the committee will convene experts representing a selection of government, academia and other researchers, the private sector, and public health and health care stakeholders and organizations currently involved with, or who have an interest in the concept of, building a national capability to monitor and assess public health emergency medical countermeasure (MCM) use after dispensing/administration during public health emergencies. The workshop will focus on the topics of Electronic Health Record (EHR) capabilities, the role of big data (i.e. large, complex, and unstructured datasets often precluded from conventional approaches to analysis that could be used for identifying patterns and associations), clinical trials networks, and concepts of operations for threat response and the utility of each to actively monitor and assess MCM use during actual or potential public health emergency responses.
The workshop will address the following objectives:
• Discuss the roles and efforts (both current and future) of the federal government and of relevant stakeholders with an interest in building and maintaining a national public health emergency MCM active monitoring and assessment capability;
• Discuss federal monitoring and assessment efforts (completed and ongoing) and opportunities for future work in areas including:
o Electronic Health Record (EHR) Capabilities
o The Role of Big Data
o Clinical Trial Networks
o Concept of Operations for Threat Response
• Help inform the development of MCM active monitoring and assessment strategic plans for public health emergencies.
The committee will develop the agenda for workshop sessions, select and invite speakers and discussants, and moderate the discussions. A proceedings of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.