Clinical Informatics Board Review Course Launches
More than 75 physicians registered for the inaugural Clinical Informatics Board Review Course, April 12-14. Course Director, William (Bill) Hersh, MD and faculty members, Bimal Desai, MD, MBI; Tom Payne, MD; Diane Montella, MD, and course consultant Ben Munger, PhD, welcomed attendees to the intensive review. The Board exam is in October 2013 and is open to physicians in all 24 specialties. The cross section of physicians represented primary board certifications in allergy and immunology, anesthesiology, emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology, pathology, pediatrics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, preventative medicine, surgery, and thoracic surgery. Sixteen percent of the attendees were women.
Don E. Detmer, MD, MA, and Edward H. Shortliffe, MD, PhD, AMIA past presidents and CEOs were present, and both were instrumental in creating and guiding the clinical informatics subspecialty and the review course into existence. Course feedback forms are being tabulated, but immediate response from attendees was overwhelmingly positive.
"The inaugural offering of the course was extremely successful. The attendees were highly engaged and enthusiastic, and were pleased to be getting an overview of the field that would help those of them planning to take the certification exam be well-prepared for it. We are looking forward to the next offerings of the course as well," said Dr. Hersh.
(left photo) Helga Rippen, MD, (Westat) chats with Don Detmer. (right photo) Lisa Masson, MD, (Cedars Sinai) joins Kevin Fickenscher, MD, (AMIA) and faculty member, Tom Payne at a break.
June, August and September live courses are open for registration!
June 7– 9 Philadelphia
August 9 – 11 Portland
September 9 – 11 Rosemont, IL (Chicagoland)
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New 10x10 Virtual Course Standards and Terminologies Opens May 13
Earn up to 50 CMEs
Use of standards are critical for interoperability and are required for the meaningful use of data, both for their primary use (e.g. in the clinical setting) as well as their secondary use for quality monitoring, public health reporting, decision support, and research and analysis. It is important for persons involved in the design, development and use of systems to understand the role, use and benefits of standards for terminology, messaging, and information modeling. The course will introduce informatics students, clinicians, and public health practitioners to fundamental principles about standards and terminology and their importance for the exchange and meaningful use of health information.
Course Director: Catherine Staes, BSN, MPH, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine at University of Utah. Lectures are provided by experts in the field including Stanley M. Huff, MD, one of the founders of LOINC.
May and June Courses
10x10 with OHSU in conjunction with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics – May 8th
10x10 with Nova Southeastern University – Survey of Biomedical Informatics – May 13th
10x10 with UIC – Patient Safety and HIT – June 7th
Register for courses.
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AMIA Member News
Send member news for consideration in AMIA e-news to Krista Martin, Director of Marketing, krista@amia.org. We want to know about your accomplishments, publications, books, awards and professional kudos and career milestones.
Megan Martin joins AMIA as Public Policy intern
AMIA member Megan Martin, BSN, RN is an intern supporting the AMIA 2012 Policy meeting and 2013 Hill Day activities. Megan is a Masters student in Nursing at the University of Illinois Chicago, concentrating in Nursing Administration and Health Informatics. Megan works for Advocate Medical Group as a Clinical Coordinator.
JAMA Series on Genomic Revolution Rocking Healthcare
AMIA members Justin Starren, Chris Chute and Isaac Kohane have published articles on genomics in JAMA. Both articles are based on work from the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network. AMIA members are leaders of many of the eMERGE participant organizations. The primary goal of eMERGE is to develop, disseminate, and apply approaches to research that combine DNA biorepositories with electronic medical record (EMR) systems for large-scale, high-throughput genetic research.
"Crossing the Omic Chasm: A Time for Omic Ancillary Systems" focuses on the possible architectures that could be used to integrate data from “omic” ancillary systems with data from electronic health record systems. Authors are Justin Starren, MD, PhD; Marc S. Williams, MD; Erwin P. Bottinger, MD.
“Genomic Medicine, Health Information Technology, and Patient Care” focuses on the informatics issues that need to be addressed to realize the full benefits of genomics in health care, for example, developing a standard naming convention for genetic variants, developing an accessible database of linkages between genetic variants and diseases, and developing a repository of genetics-related rules that could be integrated into electronic health records systems.
Authors are Christopher G. Chute, MD, DrPH and Isaac S. Kohane, MD, PhD.
Featured Discount Publications for AMIA Members
AMIA regular and student members receive an amazing benefit each year from a number of publishers when they purchase select journals and other subscriptions through AMIA. Prices for these publications are deeply discounted off the published rates. All publication discounts available to members can be found here www.amia.org/member-discount-publications. Two featured journals include:
Computers in Biology and Medicine
Publishers Price: $530.00
AMIA Member Price: $105.00
Computers in Biology and Medicine is a medium of international communication of the revolutionary advances being made in the application of the computer to the fields of bioscience and medicine. The Journal encourages the exchange of important research, instruction, ideas and information on all aspects of the rapidly expanding area of computer usage in these fields. More …
Computers, Informatics, Nursing
Publishers Price: $116
AMIA Member Price: $49.95
Computers, Informatics, Nursing covers the application of computer technology to contemporary nursing practice, explaining the "how-to" and "why" at each step of the way. From the computer novice to experienced user, CIN offers a complete package that delivers realistic solutions. More …
Call for Papers: Workshop on Hospital Readmission Prediction
and Clinical Risk Management
Held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics 2013 (ICHI 2013)
Call for papers submission date: May 15, 2013
NCMS and ONC Listening Session: Billing and Coding with EHRs
Date: May 3 Time: 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. EDT
Speaker: AHA Chairman Benjamin Chu, MD, regional president for Southern California of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals and others
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology will host a May 3 “listening session” on billing and coding with electronic health records. Topics for the session include the impact of EHRs on clinical care, health care provider efficiency and coding, and coding challenges and opportunities.
Registration.
AMIA seeks nominees for CMSS ACGME Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) Evaluation Committee
Nominations for the CLER committee are sought for members with experience in an academic teaching environment that supports graduate medical education AND experience in one of the following areas.
- Fatigue Management and Mitigation
- Health Services Research
- Nursing
Send nomination recommendations and CV (including self-nominations) to
drkevin@amia.org. Kevin M. Fickenscher, MD, President and CEO of AMIA will submit nominations to CMSS on behalf of the organization
no later than April 24.
Public Policy Updates
Republican Senators Release HIT white paper Senators John Thune (R-S.D.), Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), and Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) released a white paper, “
REBOOT: Re-examining the Strategies Needed to Successfully Adopt Health IT,” outlining concerns with current federal health information technology (health IT) policy, including increased health care costs, lack of momentum toward interoperability, potential waste and abuse, patient privacy, and long-term sustainability.
FY 2014 President's Budget for HHS The Department of Health and Human Services has unveiled its
proposed budget for the 2014 fiscal year. The proposed 2014 budget for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology includes $1 million from a new tax on health information technology vendors.
More.
PCORI to Host Roundtable on Comparative Effectiveness Research On April 23, PCORI will host a
roundtable discussion on how to create a national data infrastructure to support high-quality patient-centered CER. A webcast is available.
IOM Releases Discussion Paper on Continuous Learning and Clinical Data The paper asserts that patients and the public are the most effective advocates for resetting expectations that their data be used to advance knowledge and support continuous learning. See:
Making the Case for Continuous Learning from Routinely Collected Data, which emerges from the work of the
Clinical Effectiveness Research Innovation Collaborative OIG to Amend Safe Harbor The Office of Inspector General has proposed
three significant changes to safe harbor regulations pertaining to electronic health record services. These amendments include updating the provision under which EHR software is considered interoperable, eliminating the electronic prescribing requirement from safe harbor and extending the sunset provision date.
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June 7 -9 Clinical Informatics Board Review Course, Philadelphia, PA
August 9 - 11 Clinical Informatics Board Review Course, Portland, OR
September 9 - 11 Clinical Informatics Board Review Course, Rosemont, IL (Chicagoland area)
November 16 - 20 AMIA 2013 Annual Symposium, Washington, D.C.
Jan. 30 - Feb. 1, 2014 iHealth 2014 Conference, Orlando
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