Vision

The Academic Strategic Leadership Council is a body within the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) created to assure that a leadership base develops within the academic health sciences.

Improvement in health and health care through informatics requires change in practice and community ecosystems. People's roles, processes and infrastructure all change together. What care is needed and how it is provided will change. What people need to know and how it is learned will change. What research is needed and how it is carried out will change. As the providers of unique services, the next generation of practitioner and research findings, academic health science institutions are logical incubators for these changes. The Academic Strategic Leadership Council seeks to catalyze thinking within academic health science institutions about how to lead these changes. If successful, academic health science institutions will evolve into environments that develop and demonstrate informatics enabled improvements in public health, care delivery, biomedical research and health professions education

As information technology becomes a more integral part of American health care, it is vital that voices be heard advocating for the best use of that technology. While the private sector can be counted on to produce high quality, profitable offerings, it is the task of the academic community to explain the context of those products, to advocate for differences in direction, and to provide objective evidence of effectiveness. The Academic Strategic Leadership Council will facilitate participation by the academic community in these activities.

Mission

The essential mission of the Academic Strategic Leadership Council is to act as a catalyst of change to enable academic health science institutions to lead the way to improvements in health and health care through biomedical/health informatics. This leadership will be reflected in work force development, research, demonstration of effectiveness and policy.

Goals & Objectives

• Goal 1: Create a leadership base for biomedical/health informatics within the academic health sciences
  
• Goal 2: Partner with key academic health science leadership communities for learning and action
  
• Goal 3: Align interests between the leaders of Academic Health Sciences Institutions and leaders of academic programs in biomedical/health informatics