IDAMAP’99 Workshop (W2)
Saturday, November 6
5:00 pm–10:30 pm
Virginia C, Lobby Level

AMIA is pleased to be home this year to this workshop that focuses on issues, methods, and developments in Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP). By focusing on activities that foster the development, adaptation, and use of intelligent data analysis techniques in biomedical tasks, the ultimate goal of the people working on IDAMAP is the successful integration and employment of these methods in modern hospital information systems in health care and elsewhere. This workshop will feature papers that show their successful application.

ASTM Committee E31 Meeting
Sunday, November 7
8:00 am–5:00 pm
Delaware A, Lobby Level

Established in 1970, ASTM Committee E31 on Health Care Informatics develops standards related to the architecture, content, storage, security, confidentiality, functionality, and communication of information used within health care and health care decision making, including patient-specific information and knowledge.

IAIMS Consortium
Board Breakfast
(Open to IAIMS Consortium Board members only)
Monday, November 8
7:00 am–8:15 am
Eisenhower, First Level

CARING Luncheon
Tuesday, November 9
12:00 noon–1:45 pm
Marriott Balcony A, First Level

In keeping with tradition, the Capital Area Roundtable on Informatics in Nursing (CARING) will host a luncheon at AMIA’99. The luncheon speaker, Russell Jones, Commercial Practice Director for Information Security at SAIC, will speak on information security issues affecting health care. Attendance at the luncheon is open to all conference participants. The luncheon cost is $30; please remember to check the appropriate box on the AMIA’99 registration form. You must be registered for AMIA’99 to attend. For further information contact Marina Douglas, 703-578-7066 or e-mail douglasma@cmpx.saic.com.

IMIA/AMIA Workshop on International Perspectives of Health and Medical Informatics Education
Monday, November 8
7:00 pm–9:00 pm
Delaware A/B, Lobby Level

There is a growing tendency for countries all over the world to harmonize their financial and economic markets as well as their health care systems. Many national health care systems and medical research areas are forced to deal with global problems that call for creative solutions on an international scale. For these reasons the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) encourages and recommends international activities in educating health and medical informatics specialists. In this workshop, international experts in the field of health and medical informatics will discuss the possibilities and limits of establishing international education such as

• exchange of students and teachers,
• sharing of courseware,
• establishing of joint international courses and programs,
• establishing collaborative international research.

IMIA Working Group 1 Annual Meeting
Tuesday, November 9
4:00 pm–6:00 pm
Delaware A/B, Lobby Level

The theme of this 1999 Annual Meeting of the IMIA Working Group 1 is “Health and Medical Informatics Education.”

IMIA-NI/SIG Workshop on International Nursing Concepts Representation: Standards and Classifications (W14)
Tuesday, November 9
4:30 pm–7:00 pm
Wilson A, First Level

The Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA-NI/SIG) will conduct this workshop on nursing concept representation. Workshop leaders will focus on nursing terminologies, classifications, and vocabulary activities in their respective countries and the relationship of their work to multinational efforts. They will address coding and classification systems for nursing diagnoses or phenomena, nursing actions or interventions, and nursing outcomes. The workshop will address the future need for nursing to utilize a standardized coding and classification system. This session will set the goals for nursing in the 21st century. Workshop leaders include Evelyn Hovenga, PhD, Chair, IMIA-NI/SIG: Pacific Rim Classification, Virginia K. Saba, EdD, RN, Vice Chair, IMIA-NI/SIG:WHO: Family of Diseases, Debrah Konicek, RN, SNOMED International, Carol Bickford, MS, RN, American Nurses Association (ANA) Classifications, and Heimar Marin, RN, PhD, International Classification of Nursing Practice (ICNP).

IMIA Board Meeting
Wednesday, November 10
3:00 pm–5:00 pm
Truman, First Level

Thursday, November 11
9:00 am–12:00 noon
Ethan Allen Room

IMIA General Assembly
Thursday, November 11
2:00 pm–5:00 pm
Nathan Hale Room

Friday, November 12
9:00 am–5:00 pm
Marriott Balcony D

IMIA Reception
Thursday, November 11
5:30 pm–7:00 pm
Ethan Allen Room

National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Programs Showcase
Tuesday, November 9
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Virginia A/B

The NLM currently sponsors twelve training programs in medical informatics. This showcase will feature each of the training program directors to provide information about their program and answer any questions that symposium attendees may have. Literature about each program will also be available.

Participating Universities