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Welcome to the AMIA 2007 Annual Symposium!

Jonathan M. Teich, MD, PhD
Chair, AMIA 2007 Scientific Program Committee
Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Elsevier
Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women�s Hospital
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Our field continues to grow rapidly in scientific breadth, popular interest, and importance to the public; health information technology is in the news daily. From the greatly increased government focus on health quality and transparency, to the rapid advance of the science and application of genomics, to a renewed emphasis on patient decision-making, to the continued growth of regional health information networks, to the Institute of Medicine's reports on crises in emergency medicine and medication safety, to concerns about avian flu and other global epidemics, to announcements about personal health records from Microsoft and Wal-Mart, there is a sharp increase in attention toward large-scale health issues that could be substantially improved by innovative informatics applications, built on a foundation of robust informatics science. In many cases, leading-edge work that was first published at past AMIA Annual Symposia is at the core of the most important approaches to these issues.

We are particularly proud to present the outstanding scientific and educational program at AMIA 2007, headlined by two premier keynote presentations, on Sunday by Dr. Carolyn Clancy, director of AHRQ, and on Tuesday morning by Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt. The symposium highlights include 10 invited in-depth educational sessions by leading authorities in the field, as well as 26 pre-conference tutorials, including 12 new offerings. The Scientific Program Committee (SPC) and the many peer subject-matter experts that volunteer as reviewers selected 172 papers for presentation, in a very difficult process, from a total of 379 excellent submitted manuscripts. To round out the AMIA 2007 educational program, you will find over 320 posters, 29 expert panels, 14 workshops, 10 demonstrations, 6 Partnerships in Innovation presentations, 2 ACMI senior member presentations, and a number of "late-breaking" sessions showcasing new issues and advances that arose after the regular submission deadline. Many workshops and panels are sponsored by the dedicated members from AMIA's Working Groups.

Along with their vital tasks of assigning reviewers and making acceptance recommendations on submitted papers, panels, and workshops, this year's SPC also participated in introducing several new features to enhance the program. All of the program content has been assigned to one of twelve different themes, based on audience interests, and where possible, the sessions for each theme have been distributed throughout the meeting, as topic tracks. Whatever your primary interests, from data mining to consumer health records, you should have an easier time seeing and hearing more about them. There have also been innovations added to make it easier to navigate the poster sessions, to make the program guide available on pocket computers (as of this writing), and to improve the experience for first- and second-time AMIA attendees. Please extend your appreciation to the SPC members, whose names are listed in the Program and in the Proceedings, and to the members of the Poster Committee as well.

These scientific and technical efforts are impressive, but perhaps even more remarkable are the enormous efforts and talents of the AMIA staff, who every year organize, plan, build, and support this meeting in literally hundreds of ways, both visible and hidden. First and foremost from the Scientific Program standpoint, our appreciation goes out to Jeff Williamson, vice president of education, who has once again masterfully guided the program chairs and the SPC operations, from our beginnings well over a year ago. Dasha Cohen, Karen Greenwood, Tia Abner, and Jeff Luke have given many hours of their remarkable planning and management abilities to make this symposium a premier event. Thanks are also due to Mary Evans and Susanne Vellucci who have played a big role in member services, handling many of the questions about the meeting and AMIA membership. And of course, Don Detmer's leadership as AMIA CEO is clearly evident in the growing strength and attractiveness of the meeting, as well as in the many AMIA-led scientific and policy initiatives whose progress is presented here.

Finally, acknowledgement is due to the members of AMIA themselves, and in particular to all of the contributors and participants who keep this meeting on the leading edge of informatics research and development. Without a doubt, the work that is published in this year's Proceedings and presented at this meeting will form the basis for many of the information-driven health care improvements of the near future. It will be fun to watch those changes take shape.

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