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An Invitation to Present from the Scientific Program Committee Chair

It is an exciting time in biomedical and health informatics! The core innovations and technologies of our field are being adopted, the pace of innovation is accelerating, and Congress is recognizing and supporting this with policy and strategy. Informatics plays a pivotal role in the changing landscape of health care – and the range of beneficial effects grows but many challenges remain. Health information technology empowers individual patients to play an active role in their care, manage their personal health information and educate themselves about their health. HIT helps our public health specialists detect outbreaks, monitor and manage population health, and evaluate the quality and value of various health care options. It provides clinicians with real-time accurate information about their patients and enables them to provide the best evidence-based care. It enables biomedical researchers to make translational research a reality. And on the administrative side, it shows promise to reduce inefficiency and paperwork and offers hope to control the escalating costs of the health system.

Enabling these developments is a solid tradition in research and innovation. Many of the major contributions in biomedical and health informatics were first presented at an AMIA Annual Symposium and published in our proceedings. The symposium continues to flourish as the premier forum for education in clinical informatics, clinical research informatics, public health informatics, and translational bioinformatics. The symposium brings together an amazing network of informatics experts that span the spectrum of foundations and applications of informatics. AMIA 2008 will gather professionals from an array of occupational settings—academic institutions, community-based organizations, government and military, health systems and hospitals, industry, nonprofit organizations, and private practice which makes it the most exciting meeting in biomedical and health informatics each year.

The AMIA 2008 Annual Symposium will be held in Washington, DC, November 8-12, 2008. The Annual Symposium provides a wide range of formats for education and discussion. Papers and posters present peer-reviewed state-of-the-art scientific and technical work. The review process is designed to ensure that each submission is reviewed by individuals who are knowledgeable about its domain. Demonstrations and Partnerships in Innovation allow for comprehensive presentation of advanced systems, including new developments and innovative uses of commercial systems. Panels, invited keynote presentations, tutorials, and workshops bring together thought leaders for in-depth and active audience exchange about critical issues of the day. The spectrum of topics includes EHR and CPOE systems; nursing informatics; clinical decision support, outcomes, and patient safety; consumer informatics and PHRs; clinical workflow; terminology, ontologies and standards; data mining, natural language processing, and information extraction; public health informatics and biosurveillance; bioinformatics and genomics; pharmacoinformatics; clinical research informatics; education; application architecture and design; health information exchange and communications; public policy; and more.

On behalf of AMIA and the Scientific Program Committee, I invite you to participate. I hope you will submit your papers, posters, panels, demonstrations, workshops, Partnerships in Innovation, and American College of Medical Informatics senior member presentation proposals for publication and presentation at AMIA 2008.