Resort information, directions, and an area map can by visiting the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa web site: www.wildhorsepassresort.com

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We are pleased to present fellows with an exciting opportunity. The Officer of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) has asked AMIA to coordinate a meeting that will occur a few months prior to our symposium. That meeting will be a follow up on the White Paper on Decision Support for e-prescribing. The aim is to identify key issues and to develop a framework for next steps in the implementation of clinical decision support strategies.

Because the issue of Knowledge Management (KM) is likely to be a central part of that framework, and is also important in wide range of other areas, we are focusing the 2006 College Symposium on Knowledge Management. Knowledge management in its broadest sense will be needed to support the decisions of individual clinicians, as well as national efforts in public health and disaster recovery (e.g., Katrina aftermath). We will have the opportunity to contribute conceptually in this important area. Themes are likely to include:

• Accelerating New Knowledge Development – How to accelerate the transfer of knowledge from bench to bedside.
• Knowledge Management – Process and procedure for knowledge acquisition, consensus development, validation, localization, curation, life-cycle management.
• Implementing knowledge-based clinical systems – process and procedure for using external knowledge sources in clinical information systems.
• Knowledge Representation and Execution – how to standardize knowledge representation, and create general purpose application programming interfaces to knowledge resources (local and national).
• Knowledge Management Policies and Procedures – creating sharable knowledge resources, policies for managing risk, culpability and tort, governance issues for a national knowledge resource.

Because this area is a priority for the National Coordinator, this symposium comes at a perfect time to address these issues.

The Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa is a 500-room property designed to be an authentic representation of Gila River Indian Community's heritage and culture. It is located 11 miles from the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and 15 miles from downtown Phoenix. The resort is a AAA Four Diamond is located in the Sonoran Desert on an expanse of rugged Arizona landscape where the ancient vistas, mountains and roaming wild horses remain untouched. A unique blend of two cultures (the Pima and the Maricopa); the resort offers the quiet serenity created by Native American tribes who found haven here. This destination resort includes two 18-hole Troon-managed golf courses, the Aji Spa, a 17,500 square foot spa with 17 treatment rooms, the Koli Equestrian Center for riding lessons, trail rides and outdoor events, and is also equipped with tennis courts and jogging trails. The resort offers four pools with cascading waterfalls and a 111-foot waterslide modeling the ancient Casa Grande Ruins.