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Track Color Key:
 Foundation of Informatics Track
 Applications of Informatics Track
 Dual Track
 No Track Assigned
Theme Key:
[1] = Application Architecture and Design
[2] = Clinical Decision Support, Outcomes, and Patient Safety
[3] = Clinical Research Informatics
[4] = Clinical Workflow
[5] = Consumer Informatics and PHRs
[6] = Data Integration and Exchange
[7] = Data Mining, NLP, and Information Extraction
[8] = Education
[9] = EHR and CPOE systems
[10] = National Policy
[11] = Public Health Informatics and Biosurveillance
[12] = Terminology and Standards

ACMI Events
Business Meetings, Committee Meetings, and Affiliate Events
Keynotes and Opening/Closing Sessions
Scientific Sessions
Special Events
Social Events
Corporate Roundtables
Tutorials
Workshops

Program Matrix - Keynotes, Opening & Closing Sessions
Sunday, November 11
1:00 pm-
3:00 pm
Opening Session and Keynote Address by Carolyn Clancy
(Sheraton Center)
Tuesday, November 13
9:00 am-
10:00 am
Keynote Address by Mike Leavitt
(Sheraton 4/5)
Wednesday, November 14
12:15 pm-
1:00 pm
Closing Session
(Sheraton 5)

Program Matrix - Social Events
Friday, November 09
6:00 pm-
8:00 pm
ANI Governing Directors Dinner
(Michigan A)
 
Saturday, November 10
4:30 pm-
6:00 pm
Nursing Informatics Symposium Reception - sponsored by Cisco
(Chicago 10)
 
7:00 pm-
9:30 pm
AMIA Leadership Dinner
(Smith & Wollensky - Chicago)
 
Sunday, November 11
5:00 pm-
7:00 pm
Welcome Reception
(Innovation & Information Center)
 
6:30 pm-
7:30 pm
ACMI Reception
(Chicago 9)
 
7:30 pm-
10:00 pm
ACMI Dinner
(Chicago 8)
 
Monday, November 12
6:30 pm-
7:30 pm
International Reception
(Sheraton 1)
 
7:00 pm-
8:00 pm
Nursing Informatics WG Reception
(Sheraton 3)
Student WG Reception
(Chicago 8)
Tuesday, November 13
8:00 pm-
9:30 pm
Chairman's Club Reception
(Chicago 8)
 
9:00 pm-
12:00 am
Dance Party
(Sheraton 1/2)
 

Program Matrix - Business Meetings, Committee Meetings, and Affiliate Events
Saturday, November 10
8:30 am-
4:30 pm
AMIA Board of Directors Meeting
(Arkansas)
     
5:30 pm-
7:00 pm
Primary Care Informatics WG Business Meeting
(Superior B)
     
Sunday, November 11
8:30 am-
10:00 am
AMIA 2008 Scientific Program Committee Meeting
(Parlor C)
     
10:30 am-
12:00 pm
2008 Spring Congress Scientific Program Committee Meeting
(Parlor C)
     
Monday, November 12
7:00 am-
8:15 am
CRIS Task Force Meeting
(Columbus B)
Awards Committee Meeting
(Columbus A)
Publications Committee Meeting
(Parlor C)
   
7:00 am-
8:30 am
VA Informatics Research Breakfast
(Sheraton 1)
CARING Breakfast
(Chicago 10)
    
8:30 am-
10:00 am
Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues WG Business Meeting
(Michigan A/B)
     
12:00 pm-
1:30 pm
Academic Forum Meeting
(Parlor C)
Ethics Committee Meeting
(Columbus B)
Meetings Committee Meeting
(Illinois Boardroom)
Membership Committee Meeting
(Columbus A)
  
5:00 pm-
6:30 pm
Evaluation WG Business Meeting
(Erie)
Education Committee Meeting
(Columbus B)
Public Policy Committee Meeting
(Parlor C)
Student WG Business Meeting
(Chicago 8)
  
5:00 pm-
9:00 pm
TATRC Invitational Meeting on Clinical Decision Support
(Mississippi)
     
5:30 pm-
7:00 pm
Dental WG Business Meeting
(Superior A/B)
Genomics WG Business Meeting
(Sheraton 4)
Knowledge in Motion WG Business Meeting
(Chicago 9)
Nursing Informatics WG Business Meeting
(Sheraton 2)
Natural Language Processing WG Business Meeting
(Sheraton 5)
Pharcoinformatics WG Business Meeting
(Chicago 10)
6:30 pm-
10:00 pm
JAMIA Editorial Board Meeting
(Michigan A/B)
     
7:30 pm-
10:00 pm
Clinical Research Informatics WG Business Meeting
(Sheraton 4)
Education WG Business Meeting
(Chicago 10)
Formal (Bio)Medical Knowledge Representation WG Business Meeting
(Erie)
Medical Imaging Systems WG Business Meeting
(Chicago 9)
People and Organizational Issues WG Business Meeting
(Superior A/B)
 
8:00 pm-
10:00 pm
Public Health Informatics WG Business Meeting and Reception
(Sheraton 5)
     
Tuesday, November 13
7:00 am-
8:15 am
ACMI Executive Committee Meeting
(Illinois Boardroom)
Finance Committee Meeting
(Columbus A)
International Affairs Committee Meeting
(Parlor C)
   
7:00 am-
8:30 am
CTSA National Informatics Steering Committee
(Sheraton 1)
     
11:00 am-
3:00 pm
AHIC 17th Meeting
(Chicago 6)
     
5:00 pm-
6:30 pm
2008 Summit on Translation Bioinformatics SPC Meeting
(Columbus A)
Working Group Steering Committee Meeting
(Parlor C)
    
5:15 pm-
7:00 pm
IAIMS Poster Session
(Innovation & Information Center)
Consumer Health Informatics WG Business Meeting
(Sheraton 1)
Knowledge Discover & Data Mining WG Business Meeting
(Chicago 9)
   
5:15 pm-
7:15 pm
Clinical Information Systems WG Business Meeting
(Sheraton 2)
TATRC Advanced Briefing for Informatics
(Chicago 10)
    
5:15 pm-
8:15 pm
Open Source WG Business Meeting
(Sheraton 3)
     
5:30 pm-
6:30 pm
ACMI Business Meeting
(Chicago 8)
     
7:30 pm-
9:30 pm
IAIMS Dinner
(Michigan A/B)
     

Program Matrix - Special Events
Saturday, November 10
8:30 am-
4:30 pm
Nursing Informatics Symposium
(Chicago 10)
 
Sunday, November 11
8:00 am-
12:00 pm
10x10 at OHSU Special Session
(Mayfair)
Student Paper Competition
(Ontario)
8:30 am-
12:00 pm
Primary Care Informatics WG Special Event
(Huron)
 
Monday, November 12
5:15 pm-
7:00 pm
Clinical Research Informatics WG Expo
(Innovation & Information Center)
 
Tuesday, November 13
12:30 pm-
1:30 pm
State of the Association Meeting
(Sheraton 5)
 

Program Matrix - Corporate Roundtables
Monday, November 12
7:00 am-
8:15 am
Corporate Roundtable - First Databank, Inc
(Parlor C)
Corporate Roundtable - GE Healthcare
(Erie)
5:00 pm-
6:30 pm
Corporate Roundtable - Lockheed Martin Government Healthcare Solutions
(Illinois Boardroom)
Corporate Roundtable - CAP SNOMED Terminology Solutions
(Columbus A)
Tuesday, November 13
7:00 am-
8:15 am
Corporate Roundtable - Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
(Michigan B)
Corporate Roundtable - Cisco Systems
(Michigan A)

Program Matrix - Tutorials
Saturday, November 10
8:30 am-
12:00 pm
T01 Learning in Virtual Worlds [8]
(Mississippi)
T02 Building Bayesian Decision Support Systems [2]
(Superior B)
T03 From Paper Assessment to Standardized, Semantically-Interoperable Health Care Instrument in 3 Hours [6]
(Huron)
T04 Peering through the Looking Glass: An Examination of Public Health for Informaticians [11]
(Ontario)
T05 Evaluating Health IT Projects: A Practical Approach [9]
(Erie)
T06 Practical Modeling Issues Representing Coded and Structured Patient Data in EHR Systems [12]
(Michigan B)
T07 Confidentiality and Privacy in the Context of RHIOs [6]
(Ohio)
   
8:30 am-
4:30 pm
T08 Introduction to Biomedical and Health Informatics [8]
(Superior A)
T09 Clinical Classifications and Biomedical Ontologies: Terminology Evolution, Principles, and Practicalities [12]
(Michigan A)
        
1:00 pm-
4:30 pm
T10 CTSA and Biomedical Informatics in Translational Research [3]
(Ontario)
T11 A Primer on HealthGrids [6]
(Mississippi)
T12 Unified Medical Language System - UMLS ® Overview [12]
(Huron)
T13 Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing in Healthcare [1]
(Ohio)
T14 HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) [12]
(Erie)
T15 Clinical Decision Support: A Practical Guide to Developing Your Program to Improve Outcomes [2]
(Michigan B)
T16 Transforming & Visualizing Clinical Data for Research [3]
(Superior B)
   
Sunday, November 11
8:30 am-
12:00 pm
T17 Discovering Knowledge: An Introduction to Data Mining Principles and Practice [7]
(Michigan B)
T18 Introduction to Translational Bioinformatics [11]
(Michigan A)
T19 Ontologies in Biomedicine [12]
(Superior A)
T20 Design & Conduct of Evaluation Studies in Biomedical Informatics [3]
(Mississippi)
T21 People and Organizational Issues in Clinical and Research Systems Implementation [4]
(Colorado)
T22 Electronic Health Records: How Might we Deliver the Benefits Rapidly and Inexpensively? [9]
(Ohio)
T23 Making Electronic Prescribing Work [9]
(Arkansas)
T24 Standards for Storing and Exchanging Clinical Data in Electronic Health Record Systems [12]
(Erie)
T25 Evidence-based Nursing Knowledge - Content and System Design [1]
(Missouri)
T26 Personal Health Records and E-health Portals [5]
(Superior B)

Program Matrix - Workshops
Saturday, November 10
7:00 pm-
9:30 pm
W01 Using Electronic Health Record Derived Clinical Data to Measure Patient-Specific Processes and Outcomes [2]
(Michigan A)
W02 Standards in Clinical Decision Support: Activities in Health Level Seven [12]
(Michigan B)
W03 Primary Care Informatics Working Group Workshop: Lessons learned, Challenges and Successes [5]
(Superior A)
W05 Writing for Publication in Biomedical Informatics [8]
(Huron)
W06 E Workshop: Eight Years of Experience of an International Partnership in Health Informatics Education [8]
(Missouri)
W07 Harmonizing Biomedical & Health Informatics Competencies and Curricula [8]
(Colorado)
W08 Podcasting 101: How to develop and publish a podcast on informatics [8]
(Arkansas)
W09 Toward Greater Collaboration and Focus in Building the Nursing Practice Information Infrastructure (2007) [4]
(Mississippi)
W10 Information Technology Enabling the Transformation of the Military Health System (MHS) From Paper to an Electronic Health Record: Challenges Faced, Lessons Learned and the On-Going Battle. [9]
(Ohio)
W11 Enabling Barcode Enabled Medication Administration to a Legacy System, Or How to Teach the Old HELP System New Tricks [1]
(Erie)
W12 Open Source Tools and Applications in Medical Informatics [1]
(Chicago 9)
W13 SNOMED CT Encoding of Clinical Documentation in EHRs in Support of Interoperability [12]
(Chicago 10)
W14 Implementing an EHR using Structured Terminology [12]
(Ontario)

Program Matrix - Scientific Sessions
Sunday, November 11
3:30 pm-
5:00 pm
S01 - Panel - Diverse Stakeholder Implications of Findings from a Three Year Multi-site Study of a Standardized HIT Supported Care Management System [2]
(Sheraton 3)
S02 - Panel - Challenges and Opportunities in Clinical Research Informatics [3]
(Sheraton 2)
S03 - Panel - Careers in Medical Informatics: Corporate Pathways [8]
(Chicago 8)
S04 - Panel - Privacy Issues in the Development and Operation of RHIOs [6]
(Sheraton 1)
S05 - Panel - Internal EHR Development: Strategic Advantage or The Last of the Dinosaurs [9]
(Chicago 9)
S06 - Papers - Decision Support: Deployment Experiences [2]
(Chicago 10)
S07 - Papers - Classification and Image Analysis [7]
(Ontario)
S08 - Papers - Communication and Workflow [4]
(Michigan A/B)
S09 - Papers - Biosurveillance Methods [11]
(Superior A/B)
S10 - Papers - Terminology Assessments [12]
(Erie)
 
Monday, November 12
8:30 am-
10:00 am
S11 - Invited Session - Informatics at the Core of a New Medical Campus [8]
(Sheraton 2)
S12 - Invited Session - Informatics Year in Review [8]
(Sheraton 4)
S13 - Invited Session - TIGER and Beyond: The Future of Nursing Informatics [4]
(Sheraton 5)
        
10:00 am-
2:00 pm
Poster Session I
(Innovation & Information Center)
          
10:30 am-
12:00 pm
S15 - Invited Session - Fulfilling National Quality Goals with HIT [10]
(Chicago 8)
S16 - Panel - Secondary Uses of Healthcare Data: Academia, Industry and Policy Perspectives [10]
(Sheraton 4)
S17 - Panel - Workflow - The Grand, and Grander, Challenge [4]
(Chicago 10)
S18 - Panel - Looking into the Future: National and State-based Perspectives on Health Information Exchange [11]
(Sheraton 3)
S19 - Papers - Reminder Adherence [2]
(Sheraton 2)
S20 - Papers - Clinical Research Informatics [3]
(Sheraton 5)
S21 - Papers - Collaborative Health Records [5]
(Sheraton 1)
S22 - Papers - Extracting Codes from Text [7]
(Erie)
S23 - Papers - Nursing Practice Patterns [4]
(Michigan A/B)
S24 - Partnerships in Innovation - Terminology and Tools for Collaboration [12]
(Superior A/B)
S25 - Late Breaking Session - News in Research
(Chicago 9)
1:45 pm-
3:15 pm
S26 - Invited Session - Office of the National Coordinator Town Hall [10]
(Sheraton 4)
S27 - Panel - Beyond the 2007 Scope and Standards for Nursing Informatics: Opportunities for Informatics Practice, Education and Research [8]
(Chicago 8)
S28 - Panel - Developing a Benefits, Performance and Payment Model for Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) in Community Hospitals [9]
(Chicago 9)
S29 - Panel - A Novel Framework for Real-time Automated Global Infectious Disease Surveillance using Unstructured Online Media Reports [11]
(Sheraton 5)
S30 - Papers - Outcomes and Adverse Events [2]
(Superior A/B)
S31 - Papers - Personal Health Records [5]
(Chicago 10)
S32 - Papers - Data mining - classification [7]
(Michigan A/B)
S33 - Papers - Integration and Impact [6]
(Sheraton 1)
S34 - Papers - Design for Usability [1]
(Sheraton 2)
S35 - Papers - Terminology and Ontology [12]
(Erie)
S36 - Late Breaking Session - About Microsoft® HealthVault
(Sheraton 3)
3:30 pm-
5:00 pm
S37 - Invited Session - Mobile Devices in Healthcare [1]
(Sheraton 5)
S38 - Panel - Realizing the benefits of Drug Information Systems in Canada [2]
(Chicago 8)
S39 - Panel - Knowledge Representation of Eligibility Criteria in Clinical Trials [3]
(Chicago 9)
S40 - Panel - Sorting Out the Patient’s ‘Information Jungle’: What Kinds of Information and Tools Should Be Included in a PHR? [5]
(Sheraton 4)
S41 - Panel - Dissecting Experiences of a Commercial Electronic Medical Record Vendor in Chicago [9]
(Chicago 10)
S42 - Papers - Data mining - clustering [7]
(Erie)
S43 - Papers - CPOE and Terminology [12]
(Michigan A/B)
S44 - Papers - Biosurveillance and Communications [11]
(Superior A/B)
S45 - Papers - Controlled Terminologies and Vocabularies [12]
(Sheraton 1)
S46 - Demonstrations - Clinical Decision Support [2]
(Sheraton 2)
S47 - Partnerships in Innovation - Health Information Exchange [6]
(Sheraton 3)
5:15 pm-
7:00 pm
Poster Session I (continued)
(Innovation & Information Center)
          
Tuesday, November 13
10:00 am-
2:00 pm
Poster Session II
(Innovation & Information Center)
          
10:30 am-
12:00 pm
S49 Invited Session - Evidence-Based Medicine: The evolution of "best evidence" information resources and pursuit of the Holy Grail of medical informatics [2]
(Sheraton 3)
S50 - Panel - Lost in Operations: The Role of Medical Informatics in the Enterprise [8]
(Chicago 9)
S51 - Panel - Building the Department of Defense’s Framework for Interoperability [6]
(Superior A/B)
S52 - Papers - Ontologies and data modeling [12]
(Michigan A/B)
S53 - Papers - Patient Safety [2]
(Sheraton 4)
S54 - Papers - Data/text mining [7]
(Sheraton 5)
S55 - Papers - CPOE [9]
(Chicago 10)
S56 - Papers - Architectural Components for Information Integration [6]
(Erie)
S57 - Papers - Information Integration Foundations: Terminologies and ontologies [12]
(Sheraton 1)
S58 - Demonstrations - E.H.R. Applications [9]
(Sheraton 2)
S59 - Late Breaking Session - News in Research and Policy
(Chicago 8)
1:45 pm-
3:15 pm
S60 - Invited Session - City-wide E.H.R.'s: Addressing Quality Care for the Underserved [2]
(Sheraton 4)
S61 - Panel - CPOE Vendor Perspectives on Improving Care with CPOE [9]
(Sheraton 5)
S62 - Panel - Public Health Informatics training: Report from the field on why, who, what, and how! [11]
(Superior A/B)
S63 - Panel - Connecting Health Information Technology Standards to the Point-of-Care: The IHE Method [12]
(Chicago 9)
S64 - Papers - Decision Support / Health Management [2]
(Chicago 8)
S65 - Papers - Consumer Health Informatics [5]
(Erie)
S66 - Papers - Information Integration to Discover New Knowledge [7]
(Chicago 10)
S67 - Papers - Education and Communication [8]
(Michigan A/B)
S68 - Papers - Information Networks [6]
(Sheraton 1)
S69 - Demonstrations - New E.H.R.'s [9]
(Sheraton 2)
S70 - ACMI Senior Member Presentations
(Sheraton 3)
3:30 pm-
5:00 pm
S71 - Invited Session - End-to-End Clinical Decision Support [2]
(Sheraton 4)
S72 - Panel - Home-based telehealth: The End User Perspective [5]
(Sheraton 5)
S73 - Panel - Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining of AHRQ/HCUP Administrative Data [7]
(Chicago 9)
S74 - Panel - Data Exchange in the Acute Care Setting [6]
(Chicago 10)
S75 - Panel - Electronic Health Records: Global Lessons [9]
(Chicago 8)
S76 - Papers - Literature Access / IR [7]
(Sheraton 1)
S77 - Papers - Data Quality, Relevance, and Usability [1]
(Superior A/B)
S78 - Papers - Data Exchange and Integration [6]
(Erie)
S79 - Demonstrations - Quality Reporting and Dashboards [1]
(Sheraton 2)
S80 - Late Breaking Session - A National Perspective on the Administration and Congress, Policy, and Informatics
(Michigan A/B)
S81 - Late Breaking Session - Town Hall: How Can AMIA Meet the Needs of Clinical Information Officers?
(Sheraton 3)
5:15 pm-
7:00 pm
Poster Session II (continued)
(Innovation & Information Center)
          
Wednesday, November 14
8:30 am-
10:00 am
S82 - Panel - EHR Certification: An International Perspective [10]
(Sheraton 4)
S83 - Panel - Unintended Consequences of Health Informatics Innovations [1]
(Sheraton 5)
S84 - Papers - Decision Support [2]
(Sheraton 2)
S85 - Papers - Patient Portals and Consumer Health [5]
(Sheraton 3)
S86 - Papers - Mining and Temporal Reasoning [7]
(Chicago 8)
S87 - Papers - Modeling and Simulation for Education [8]
(Chicago 9)
S88 - Papers - Process Efficiency [4]
(Chicago 10)
    
10:30 am-
12:00 pm
S89 - Invited Session - Informatics as a Subspecialty [8]
(Sheraton 4)
S90 - Panel - Impacting Quality and Safety via Telehealth [2]
(Sheraton 1)
S91 - Panel - Pharmacovigilance: Protecting Patient Safety by Monitoring and Detecting Signals of Drug-Related Adverse Events [3]
(Sheraton 5)
S92 - Panel - The cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG™) in Action: An Interoperable Infrastructure Linking Research and Care [6]
(Michigan A/B)
S93 - Papers - Natural Language Processing [7]
(Sheraton 3)
S94 - Papers - Visualization of Data and Knowledge [4]
(Chicago 8)
S95 - Papers - Security and Privacy [1]
(Chicago 9)
S96 - Papers - Real-life Ontologies [12]
(Chicago 10)
S97 - Demonstrations - Optimizing Care Processes [2]
(Sheraton 2)
S98 - Partnerships in Innovation - Innovations in Clinical Workflow [4]
(Superior A/B)
 

Program Matrix - American College of Medical Informatics Events
Sunday, November 11
6:30 pm-
7:30 pm
ACMI Reception
(Chicago 9)
7:30 pm-
10:00 pm
ACMI Dinner
(Chicago 8)
Tuesday, November 13
7:00 am-
8:15 am
ACMI Executive Committee Meeting
(Illinois Boardroom)
1:45 pm-
3:15 pm
S70 - ACMI Senior Member Presentations
(Sheraton 3)
5:30 pm-
6:30 pm
ACMI Business Meeting
(Chicago 8)