Continuing Medical Education Accreditation

Attendees of the AMIA 2000 Annual Spring Congress may earn valuable continuing medical education (CME) credits by participating. AMIA is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. AMIA designates this continuing medical education activity for up to 16 hours in Category 1 credit toward the American Medical Association (AMA) Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he or she actually spends in the educational activity. Credit from other appropriate medical specialty organizations is being sought. AMIA includes evaluation forms for CME at registration. Attendees may drop completed forms in a specially marked box at the AMIA registration area or mail them to the AMIA office.

OBJECTIVES
The objectives of the symposium are: (1) to demonstrate and discuss issues related to the development, application, and evaluation of information technologies in medicine and health care; (2) to provide a comprehensive portfolio of presentations that detail work, progress, and challenges in theoretical and applied information systems development; (3) to improve the knowledge and skill of attendees with respect to using, developing, and managing information technologies as they relate to medicine and health care; (4) to present research and applied methodologies and results in the broad field of medical informatics; and (5) to promote information exchange among attendees.