JAMIA Journal Club
Join Editor-in-Chief Lucila Ohno-Machado for the monthly Journal Club webinar.
Topic: Online disease management of diabetes: Engaging and Motivating Patients Online With Enhanced Resources-Diabetes (EMPOWER-D), a randomized controlled trial
Date: December 6, 3:00 p.m. EST
Register today! (100 seats) members and non-members welcome
Listen to what Dr. Ohno-Machado has to say about submitting papers to JAMIA.
JAMIA Call for Papers
Special Focus Issue on Biomedical Imaging Informatics
Extended Deadline: Monday, December 3, 2012 -- submission details
Guest Editors: May D. Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University; Mia K. Markey, The University of Texas at Austin; William Hsu, University of California, Los Angeles.
Questions about the special issue: bmii@googlegroups.com General guidelines
AMIA Members make Modern Healthcare's Top 25 Informaticists List
Modern Healthcare has published its third annual list of the Top 25 Informaticists. Not surprisingly, AMIA members top the list. Twelve of the 25 are active AMIA members. (Note: the full article is accessible to MH print subscribers.)
Dr. Gregory Ator
Dr. William Hersh
Dr. Christopher Longhurst
Dr. Robert Murphy
Dr. Ken Ong
Dr. Julio Silva |
Dr. Richard Bankowitz
Dr. David Kaelber
Dr. David Milov
Dr. Matt Murray
Dr. Jonathan Perlin
Dr. Michael Zaroukian |
AMIA Seeks Member Input for ONC Stage 3 MU Request for Comments
The Health IT Policy Committee is seeking public comment on proposed recommendations for Stage 3 of the meaningful use program. Contact Meryl Bloomrosen, AMIA’s VP for Public Policy, to participate. The comment period will be open for 45 days following publication in the Federal Register. Draft is available.
Bookmark AMIA’s Public Policy Update amia.org/public-policy/public-policy-news
AMIA Collaborates with AcademyHealth:
National Health Policy Conference
AMIA is partnering with AcademyHealth to convene two special sessions at the National Health Policy Conference (NHPC), Washington, February, 4-5, 2013. AMIA is helping develop a plenary session entitled “Health Information Technology and National Health Policy Moving Forward” and a breakout session on EHR Usability. More information.
2012 Deloitte-AMIA Health Informatics Industry Maturity Report Released
Deloitte and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) have collaborated to begin to offer insight about the current status of health informatics in the U.S. health care industry via the Health Informatics Industry Maturity Survey. The primary objectives in conducting this initial survey were to understand how health informatics was valued in the industry and how confident organizations were in their ability to realize that value.
Healthcare Informatics article: Executive Interest in Informatics Seen Growing—But Not the Human and Financial Resources Needed
Ross Martin, MD, MHA, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting.
AMIA Participates in BPC Project on Health IT Safety
AMIA has been invited to participate in the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) collaborative effort on promoting safety, quality and innovation in health information technology. Dean Sittig is representing AMIA and participating in the BPC project. Meryl Bloomrosen, AMIA’s VP for Public Policy is providing staff support. AMIA expects to identify additional subject matter experts to provide input to the project. More information.
MEDINFO 2013, 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics
Copenhagen, Denmark, August 20 – 23, 2013
Call for Papers and Other Submissions: Paper, Student Paper, and Poster Submissions deadline December 10, 2012
All accepted papers are OPEN ACCESS immediately and indexed in PubMed/Medline
Questions and submission requirements: Dominik Aronsky, MD, PhD, dominik.aronsky@vanderbilt.edu OR Tze-Yun Leong, PhD, leongty@nus.edu.sg
Conference website Submissions Call for submissions PDF
Electronic Health Records and National Patient-Safety Goals
In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, newly elected AMIA board of directors member Dean F. Sittig and his co-author Hardeep Singh described how, “Electronic Health Records and National Patient-Safety Goals” could be used to generate new momentum for patient-safety initiatives in an EHR-enabled health system. See full article.
New Reports on Data Usage and Mobile
“Big Bad Data: Law, Public Health, and Biomedical Databases.” Sharona Hoffman and Andy Podgurski, Case Western Legal Studies Research paper
PEW Releases New Report on Mobile Phones. The recent report contains results from a nationwide survey of 3,014 adults living in the United States.
World Bank Releases Report: Information and Communications for Development 2012: Maximizing Mobile. The World Bank/infoDev flagship report, Information and Communications for Development 2012: Maximizing Mobile looks at how mobile applications are being used to promote development, with chapters on agriculture, health, financial services, government and entrepreneurship.
AMIA President: Learn to Surf Tsunami Waves Disrupting Healthcare
Healthcare Informatics reports on Kevin Fickenscher, MD, AMIA President and CEO's talk at the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMi) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Fickenscher Files Blog is Fresh this week. Check out Walmart Offers Medical Tourism and U.S. Set to Sponsor Health Insurance
xkcd Keeps it Light
Comic courtesy of xkcd. http://xkcd.com/927/
Last chance for end of year CME/CEs with OHSU 10x10 Virtual Courses
Introduction to Biomedical and Health Informatics
Beginning December 5, the OHSU 10x10 course is entirely online. Taught by the AMIA 2012 SPC Chair William Hersh, the OHSU course is one of AMIA’s most popular 10x10 courses.
Register now and earn up to up to 46.5 CME/CEs.
2013 Virtual Courses
- Jan. 7 Clinical Research Informatics: 10x10 with The Ohio State University, 48 CMEs
- Jan. 7 Pharmacogenomics: 10x10 with Stanford University
- Jan. 7 Nursing Informatics: 10x10 with University of Minnesota School of Nursing, 56.18 ANC credits or 67.4 MBN credits
- Jan. 28 Field of Health Informatics: 10x10 with Kansas University Medical Center, 45 CMEs
View full course descriptions and register for any of the courses. Have you told a colleague or friend about AMIA 10x10 opportunities.
Public Policy Updates
CMS finalizes rules affecting EHR incentive reporting, e-prescribing. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' issued their final 2013 payment rules for hospitals, physicians and others. CMS will accept comments on both rules through Dec. 31, 2012. Resource 1. Resource 2.
CMS Releases Stage 2 Meaningful Use Specification Sheets with Details on Each Measure CMS has added Stage 2 meaningful use specification sheets for both eligible professionals (EPs) and for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) to help them participate in Stage 2 of meaningful use in the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs. Resource.
CMS Releases Resources on Clinical Quality Measures. 2014 Clinical Quality Measures (CQMS) & eCQM Resources document.
ECRI Report lists 10 biggest perils tied to health information technology in 2013. The ECRI Institute has issued a report detailing its list of the 10 key health technology hazards for 2013.
HHS Posts Mobile Apps. HHS has aggregated its mobile applications into one resource.
Indian Health Services Launches PHR. IHS is building a first-generation personal health records (PHR) system to serve more than 2 million beneficiaries.
mhealth Partnership Forms to Advance Understanding of mHealth Privacy and Security Policies. mHealth Alliance, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Baker & McKenzie and Merck announce collaboration to analyze mHealth privacy and security policies in seven countries.
NIST Awards MU Standards and Interoperability Contract. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a contract to test standards and interoperability as part of meaningful use of electronic health records.
ONC Releases MU Reference Materials. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has released a pair of "quick reference grids" to compare Stage 2 meaningful use standards with its associated 2014 EHR certification criteria for Stage 1 and Stage 2 of the program
ONC Releases 2014 Draft Test Methods: Wave Seven. The ONC has released of the Wave 7 2014 Edition Draft Test Methods (test procedures, tools, and applicable test data and files).Comments and suggestions should be submitted to ONC.Certification@hhs.gov. All submissions should include "2014 Test Methods" in the subject line. Please be as specific as possible in your comment submission.
ONC launches HIT-FACA Workgroup Application Database. ONC has developed an online database system to allow anyone with an interest in contributing expertise in the numerous aspects of HIT to submit their information for future consideration for Health Information Technology Federal Advisory Committee (HIT-FACA) workgroup membership. ONC will use this resource to identify potential workgroup members. Federal Register notice.
AMIA in the News
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- Informatics Professor Follow @williamhersh
- HISTalk - “There have been lots of good tweets coming from attendees of the AMIA 2012 Annual Symposium. Lots of thoughtful ponderings on “real” interoperability and what data elements really need to be tracked across disparate care settings…” Follow @histalk
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Join the conversation @AMIAinformatics and @AMIApolicy. AMIA’s LinkedIn community has more than 4600 participants.
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Fresh Fickenscher Files Blog
AMIA President and CEO, Dr. Kevin Fickenscher, blogs bi-weekly on The Fickenscher Files. Foodies check out the Weekly Whisk. Follow Dr. Kevin @MDKev
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