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The 2014 Nursing Knowledge: Big Data & Science for Transforming Health Care Conference brought together more than 70 stakeholders from nursing practice, education, information technology, professional nursing, and informatics and standards organizations. The goal: Advance a national plan for capturing nursing information for big data research aimed at identifying effective care interventions and improving patient outcomes.

In this presentation, the authors discuss and compare two innovative models of interprofessional education, training and service delivery:  The CHANNELS Project of the University of New England in Portland, Maine and the the Bridging the Disparities Gap project of the University of Missouri - Kansas City of Kansas City, Missouri.

The presentation was part of the Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Summit, sponsored by the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation and the Maine AHEC Network, held May 28th at the University of New England.

Using the example of one multiprofessional team (Feeding Team) we demonstrate how the ICF can be used to identify core competencies, show overlaps and help to integrate roles.

This presentation was originally given at the EIPEN 4th European Conference on Interprofessional Practice & Education. Quality of life in health and social care. An interprofessional matter held September 11-13, 2013 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Dr. Barbara Brandt delivered the Dedication of the DeWitt C. Baldwin Institute of Interprofessional Education on May 15th, 2014.  The full text of that speech is presented here.