AMIA 10x10
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Training Health Care Professionals to Serve as Local Informatics Leaders and Champions
"Because we are serious about transforming our system of health care to be safe, efficient, timely, patient-centered, equitable, and effective, we must invest not only in technology, but also in the education and training of individuals to ensure our workforce is poised to meet this challenge. One of the factors most important to the success of health care information technology projects is the engagement and participation of clinicians. There must be a cadre of health care professionals (physicians, nurses, and others) who have knowledge and skills beyond their clinical training. Virtually every hospital, clinic, physician office, or other health care provider organization will in some way utilize information technology solutions in the coming years and will need health care professionals versed in informatics to assist with the implementation, use, and success of these systems."
Don E. Detmer, MD, MA
AMIA President & CEO
AMIA 10x10 Goal
AMIA believes that strengthening the breadth and depth of the biomedical and health informatics workforce is a critical component in the transformation of the American health care system. AMIA is committed to the education and training of a new generation of clinical, public health, research, and translational bioinformatics informaticians to lead the transformation of the American health care system through the deployment and use of advanced clinical computing systems of care by the end of the decade. AMIA's 10x10 program aims to realize the goal of training 10,000 health care professionals in applied health and medical informatics by the year 2010. This training will be conducted in a wide range of settings across the United States by AMIA in collaboration with key academic partners in the biomedical and health informatics education community. The AMIA membership includes thought leaders who are the most qualified to pursue this effort through their many current and future informatics training programs. These programs have a tradition of turning out the leading thinkers, dating back more than thirty years, many of whom are now at the forefront of the health information and communication technology (HICT) revolution.
AMIA 10x10 Program
AMIA's 10x10 utilizes curricular content from existing informatics training programs and other AMIA educational initiatives with a special emphasis toward those programs with a proven track record in distance learning. The content provides a framework but also covers plenty of detail, especially in areas such as electronic and personal health records, health information exchange, standards and terminology, and health care quality and error prevention.
Currently AMIA's 10x10 courses cover the following topics in the field of informatics:
- Clinical or health informatics
- Clinical research informatics
- Translational bioinformatics
- Nursing informatics
- Public Health informatics
AMIA’s 10x10 involves participants developing solutions to problems in real-world settings, ideally their own, guided by established informatics principles. Participants will be exposed to a set of concepts that upon completion will enable them to serve as champions in their local hospitals, outpatient offices and clinics, and other health care settings to use relevant informatics views in their health information technology projects.
Intensive in-person sessions will be located around the country, typically aligned with AMIA meetings (Summit, Spring Congress, or Annual), sometimes co-located at the institutions of higher education, or offered as satellite meetings to various professional informatics, medical, nursing or meetings of other health professional groups. These sessions will provide additional lectures, panel discussions, project work, and an opportunity for students to interact in-person with faculty who are leading educators in the field of biomedical and health informatics.
CDC Partnership for Public Health Informatics. AMIA is able to provide a limited number of scholarships under our arrangement with the CDC. For qualified public health workers, acceptance into the program is contingent on agreeing to a number of administrative requirements including:
- Through this scholarship CDC covers the costs of tuition and AMIA tutorials for eligible selected applicants.
- Participants are responsible for providing matching funds to cover certain out of pocket costs, such as books, supplies, and travel to required face-to-face meetings.
- The out of pocket cost for the applicant will vary but generally include: travel to and from the in-person session, AMIA meeting registration fees if the participant wishes to stay for the length of the AMIA meeting (outside of the free in-person session), hotel accommodations while staying in the city where the in-person session is held, food costs, transportation costs, and the purchase of any textbook or materials required for the course.
- Since this is a scholarship CDC will ask AMIA to report participant names and validate attendance and 10x10 course completion.
- Information about participant acceptance in the 10x10 program will be shared with the individual who nominated you for the course as well as the individual who penned your letter of recommendation.
- If you find that you are unable to complete the course or need to withdraw at any point you are required to notify AMIA's contact (Susanne Vellucci) and your nominator immediately.
For additional information, please contact Susanne Vellucci at susanne@amia.org.
