AMIA 2000 Annual Symposium

AMIA 2000 Program

AMIA 2000: Annual Symposium
Converging Information, Technology and Health Care

Awards

Everyone whose work has been accepted for presentation at the AMIA 2000 Annual Symposium is eligible for awards.

Two New Awards Debuted at AMIA 2000!

Diana Forsythe Award

Honors either a peer-reviewed AMIA paper published in the Proceedings of the Annual Symposium or a peer-reviewed article in JAMIA that best exemplifies the spirit and scholarship of Diana Forsythe's work at the intersection of informatics and social sciences with a $500 prize.

Nursing Informatics Working Group Award

Honors a student who demonstrates excellence in nursing informatics and who has the potential to contribute significantly to the discipline of nursing and health informatics.

These awards will be given at the Closing Session:

Best Paper, Best Poster Award

The AMIA Awards Committee will give $500 awards for the Best Theoretical Paper and the Best Paper on an Application from those presented at the symposium as well as to the Best Poster.

The Harriet H. Werley Award

A prize of $500 will be presented to the paper, with a nurse as the first author, making the greatest contribution to advancing the field of nursing informatics.

The Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence

The American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) will present the Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence to a senior individual whose personal commitment and dedication to the profession has made a lasting impression on the field of medical informatics.

Charles Safran, MD, will present the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence to Jean-Raoul Scherrer, MD, PhD.

The Homer R. Warner Award

Reed M. Gardner, PhD, will present the Homer R. Warner Award, named for Homer R. Warner, MD, PhD, a pioneer in the field of informatics and the founder of the Department of Medical Informatics at the University of Utah. The prize of $1,000 is awarded for the paper that best describes approaches to improving computerized information acquisition, knowledge data acquisition and management, and experimental results documenting the value of these approaches.

Nominations for Best Paper Awards

ActiveGuidelines: Integrating Web-based Guidelines with Computer-based Patient Records: P.C. Tang, MD, and C.Y. Young, PhD, Epic Research Institute, Mountain View, CA.
Boosting Naive Bayesian Learning on a Large Subset of MEDLINE: W. Wilbur, MD PhD, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Using Medical Language Processing to Support Real-time Evaluation of Pneumonia Guidelines: M. Fiszman, MD, University of Utah, and P.J. Haug, LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT.
Enrolling Patients Into Clinical Trials Faster Using Real-time Recuiting: A.J. Butte, MD, D.A . Weinstein, and I.S. Kohane, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.
The New Peer Review: I.S. Kohane, MD, PhD, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, and R.B. Altman, Stanford Univeristy Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA.
Glucoweb: A Case Study of Secure, Remote Biomonitoring and Communication: D.J. Nigrin, MD, MS, and I.S. Kohane, MD, PhD, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.
A Study of Communication in the Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit and its Implications for Automated Briefing: K. McKeown, PhD, D. Jordan, MD, S. Feiner, PhD, J. Shaw, E. Chen, S. Ahmad, MD, Colulmbia University, New York, NY, A. Kushniruk, PhD, and V. Patel, PhD, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Nominations for the Werley Award

Comparing the User Acceptance of a Computer System in Two Pediatric Offices: A Qualitative Study: D.A. Travers, RN, MSN, S.M. Downs, MD, MS, and T.D. Tipps, BS, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
Describing Patent Problems & Nursing Treatment Patterns Using Nursing Minimum Data Sets (NMDS & NMMDS) & UHDDS Repositories: C.J. Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, D. Reed, PhD, University of Iowa, Iowa City, and M. Clarke, Genesis Medical Center, Davenport, IA.
Clinicians' Use of a Palm-top Based System to Elicit Information about Patient Preferences at the Bedside: A Feasible Technique to Improve Patient Outcomes: C. Ruland, RN, PhD, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
An Evaluation of ICNP Intervention Axes as Terminology Model Components: S. Bakken, RN, DNSc, J. Parker, RN, MS, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, D. Konicek, RN, BSN, College of American Pathologists, Northfield, IL, and K.E. Campbell, MD, PhD, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA.
Building Knowledge in a Complex Preterm Birth Problem Domain: L. Goodwin, PhD, Duke University, Durham, S.G. Maher, MS, businessmodel.com, Chapel Hill, NC, L. Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD, S. Dreiseitl, PhD, S. Vinterbo, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, M. Iannacchione, BSN, W. E. Hammond, PhD, Duke University, Durham, and P. Crockett, PhD, businessmodel.com, Chapel Hill, NC.

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