Faces of AMIA
Catherine K. Craven, MLS, MA
I’ve met so many amazing people through AMIA, and many of them have been doing this for 20, 25, 30 years and have all the knowledge in the world.
Read moreMarch 19-23, 2012
Joint Summits on Translational Science
AMIA presents two essential back-to-back meetings for TBI and CRI scientists working throughout the spectrum of translational science.
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Visit the special online issue of JAMIA that features some of the best work in patient-centered systems, patient safety and clinical research informatics.
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Steve Labkoff, MD, FACP
It is my hope that I can impact how healthcare records can be used to find a variety of innovative insights to further medicine development.
view moreJune 23-27, 2012 Montreal, Canada
NI2012: 11th International Congress on Nursing Informatics
view moreThe Science of Informatics
What is Informatics?
Biomedical informatics (BMI) is the interdisciplinary, scientific field that studies and pursues the effective uses of biomedical data, information, and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem solving and decision making, motivated by efforts to improve human health.
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85% of AMIA members have 7 years or more of post baccalaureate education
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JAMIA, the most innovative research journal published in Health and Biomedicine today, delivers the latest research and information about health care’s hot new field in a series of free webinars! Topic for February 2, 2012: "Integrated morphologic analysis for the identification and characterization of disease subtypes" Join Editor-in-Chief Lucila Ohno-Machado and guest authors Lee Cooper, PhD and Joel Saltz, MD, PhD, from the Center for Comprehensive Informatics, Emory University, for the next webinar in the series, February 2nd at 3:00 p.m. EST. Get insights directly from highly esteemed authors on the most relevant topics in informatics, as published in JAMIA. Get up-close-and-personal with informatics experts to...
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Introduction to Biomedical and Health Informatics The Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE) at Oregon Health & Science University will be offering another Biomedical Informatics Distance Learning Course as part of the AMIA 10x10 Program. The OHSU offering of 10x10 was the original offering in the program and has had the largest enrollment. The 10x10 program was started when former AMIA President Dr. Charles Safran asserted that the United States needs one physician and one nurse trained in medical informatics in each of the 6,000 hospitals in the United States. Dr. William Hersh of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) operationalized this definition by working with AMIA to launch the 10x10 program that aims to train 10,000 health...
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Public Health Informatics Distance Learning Course The Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah will be offering its Public Health Informatics Distance Learning Course as part of the AMIA 10x10 program. The University of Utah's contribution to the AMIA 10x10 is an introductory survey course of the field of public health informatics. This web-based interactive course provides an introduction to the field of public health informatics. The goal of this course is to introduce informatics and public health students/practitioners to informatics principles and their application to public health problems. Students will develop basic analysis and lifelong learning skills to engage in the evolving field of public health informatics. The AMIA-Utah 10x10 course is targeted at...
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Survey Course of The Field of Health Informatics The University of Kansas School of Nursing and the Center for Health Informatics is offering the course, Introduction to Health Informatics, as part of the AMIA 10x10 Program. The University of Kansas's contribution to the AMIA 10x10 is a survey course of the field of health informatics. This web-based interactive course provides a broad survey of health informatics focused on five themes: health informatics foundations; clinical decision support; human/organizational factors; public health informatics and current issues in health informatics including best practices. Participants will develop and demonstrate a practical, innovative small-group information technology (IT) project and present that project in a face-to-face session at...
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Health Informatics Distance Learning Course The Health Informatics Program in the Department of Health Services Administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) offers a Health Informatics Distance Learning Course through the AMIA 10x10 Program. The UAB 10x10 course will begin on March 1, 2012. Registration is now open! Director Dr. Eta S. Berner, Professor in the Health Informatics Program in the Department of Health Services Administration in the School of Health Professions at the University of Alabama at Birmingham(UAB), will serve as the Director of the UAB 10x10 offering. Dr. Berner has been at UAB since 1986, and has served in her current position since 1997, conducting research and teaching in the Masters Program in Health Informatics. She is...
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Feb 9 - Feb 12Del Mar California
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Mar 19 - Mar 23San Francisco California
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