Everyone whose work has been accepted for presentation at the AMIA 1999 Annual Symposium is eligible for awards. The Awards Committee is also considering two additional awards that they hope to announce at AMIA’99.

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. These awards will be given at the Closing Session.

Three other awards will be presented during the Closing Session:

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.

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

A Comparison of Nursing and Medical Diagnosis in Evaluating Hospital Outcomes: An Empirical Test of the Nursing Minimum Data Set

J. Welton, MSN, RN, and E. Halloran, RN, PhD

The TextBase Project: Implementation of a Base Level Message Supporting Electronic Patient Record Transfer in English General Practice

N.S. Booth, MA, MBBS, MRCGP, N.L. Jain, DSc, and R. Sugden, MBCS

Intelligent Split Menus for Data Entry: A Simulation Study in General Practice Medicine

J. Warren, PhD, and P. Bolton, MBBS

Representing Genomic Knowledge in the UMLS Semantic Network

H. Yu, MD, C. Friedman, PhD, A. Rhzetsky, PhD, and P. Kra, PhD

Decision Support for Clinical Trial Eligibility Determination in Breast Cancer

L. Ohno-Machado, MD, MHA, PhD, S.J. Wang, MD, PhD, P. Mar, and A.A. Boxwala, MBBS, PhD

Barriers to the Clinical Implementation of Compositionality

L. McKnight, MD , P.L. Elkin, MD, P.V. Ogren, and C.G. Chute, MD, DrPH

Integrating Case Based and Rule Based Reasoning in a Decision Support System: Evaluation with Simulated Patients

S. Montani and R. Bellazzi

Data Quality and the Electronic Medical Record: A Role for Direct Parental Data Entry

S. Porter, MD, and K.D. Mandl, MD, MPH

Semantic-based Concept Differential Retrieval and Equivalence Detection in Clinical Terms Version 3

P.J.B. Brown, MBBS, MD, MRCGP, and C. Price, MPhil

The Risks of Multimedia Methods: Effects of Actor’s Race and Gender on Ratings of the Desirableness of Health States

L.A. Lenert, MD, MS, C. Unfred, and R. Mahmoud, MD

Design Features of On-line Anatomy Information Resources: A Comparison with the Digital Anatomist

S. Kim, J.F. Brinkley, MD, PhD, and C. Rosse, MD, DSc

Assurance: The Power Behind PCASSO Security

D. Baker, PhD, D.R. Masys, MD, R.L. Jones, and R.M. Barnhart

Extracting Noun Phrases for all of MEDLINE

N. Bennett, MS, H. Qin, K. Powell, and B. Schatz

Creating and Indexing Teaching Files from Free-text Patient Reports

D.B. Johnson, MS, W. Chu, PhD, J. Dionisio, PhD, R. Taira, PhD, and H. Kangarloo, MD

The PRODIGY Project: The Interactive Development of the Release One Model

I. Purves, MD, MBBS, MRCGP, N.S. Booth, MA, MBBS, MRCGP, and M. Sowerby, B. Sugden, MBCS

Evaluation of a Proposed Model for Representing a Drug Terminology

J.J. Cimino, MD, T. McNamara,MD, MPH, T. Meredith, RPh, C. Broverman, PhD, K. Eckert, MPM, RPh, M. Moore, MD, and D. Tyree, PharmD

Using the Web to Reduce Postoperative Pain Following Ambulatory Surgery

D.M. Goldsmith, MS, RN, and C. Safran, MD, MS

Neuronal Database Integration: The Senselab EAV Data Model

L. Marenco, MD, P. Nadkarni, MD, E. Skoufos, PhD, G. Shepherd, MD, DPhil, and P. Miller, MD, PhD

Implementation and Evaluation of a Virtual Learning Center for Distributed Education

K. Caton, RN, PhD, W. Hersh, MD, and J.B. Williams, MA

Initial Experiences with Building a Health Care Infrastructure Based on Java and Object-oriented Database Technology

J. Dionisio, PhD, U. Sinha, PhD, B. Dai, MS, D.B. Johnson, MS, and R.K. Taira, PhD

Modeling Empiric Antiobiotic Therapy: Evaluation of QID Contact

H. Warner, Jr., MS, L. Reimer, MD, D. Suvinier, MD, and L. Li, MS

Semi-automatic Scene Generation Using the Digital Anatomist Foundational Model

B.A. Wong, C. Rosse, MD, DSc, and J.F. Brinkley, MD, PhD

Multiresolution Browsing of Pathology Imaging Using Wavelets

J. Ze Wang, MS, MSCS, J. Nguyen, MS, K.K. Lo, MS, C. Law, MS, and D. Regula, MD

Nominations for the Werley Award*

*Note: The following lists primary authors only.

Evaluation of a Type Definition for Representing Nursing Activities within a Concept-based Terminologic System

S. Bakken, RN, DNSc

Education of Health Professionals Using Telehealth Technology

B.L. Chang, DNSc

Development of a Self-Assessment Method for Patients to Evaluate Information on the Internet

J. Jones, RNC, MSN

Using the Web to Reduce Postoperative Pain Following Ambulatory Surgery

D.M. Goldsmith, MS, RN

Examining the Symptom Experience of Hospitalized Patients Using a Pen-based Computer

C.A. Reilly, PhD, RN

A Comparison of Nursing and Medical Diagnosis in Evaluating Hospital Outcomes: An Empirical Test of the Nursing Minimum Data Set

J. Welton, MSN, RN