AMIA e-News 12.06.12 - Homer Warner, Pioneer/ AMIA Policy Invitational/ New post-doc Awards

NOVEMBER 2012 VOL 4 ISSUE 34  

Dr. Warner founded and became the first chair in the University of Utah, Department of Biomedical Informatics in the School of Medicine which existed under various names since 1972. The family requests that remembrances are made through donations to the Homer Warner, MD, PhD, Graduate Assistantship in Biomedical Informatics. The scholarship provides a first year graduate assistantship to an incoming PhD-seeking student. The total value of the scholarship is approximately $55,000. (More details.)  Giving information. Online form. Donors please click on “add special instructions” and insert “Homer R. Warner Graduate Assistantship” in the field.

7th Annual AMIA Invitational Health Policy Meeting 2012

Since 2006, AMIA has convened an Invitational Health Policy Meeting to look at cutting edge issues in health care and health IT policy. The AMIA Annual Health Policy Conference, commences December 12-13 and focuses on Health Data Use, Stewardship and Governance: Gaps and Challenges. A paper highlighting recommendations from the meeting will be released in 2013.  (As of 12-6-12 the invitation roster is closed.) 
 
George Hripcsak, MD, is chair of the Meeting Steering Committee. Dr. Hripcsak is the Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University and the Director, Medical Informatics Services, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia. He also serves as Co-Chair, of the Meaningful Use Workgroup, HIT Policy Committee of the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology (ONC). 
 
The AMIA Policy Committee members have actively worked to support the meeting and bring together 100 public and private sector participants for the multi-disciplinary, working meeting.
 

Volunteers serving as meeting facilitators and recorders:
Breakout Session Facilitators: Brian Dixon, Margo Edmunds, Linda Kloss
Breakout Session Recorders: Courtney Hebert, Megan Martin, Devi Mehta, Caryn Roth, Jill DeGraff Thorpe, Freda Temple, Laura Wiley 

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Hotel Rooms Open for Joint Summits on Translational Science TBI-CRI

The conference is March 18-22, San Francisco. The room rate is $214 plus tax per night single/double.  Call Parc 55 Reservations at 1-800-697-3103 between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. PST, Monday through Friday. Please refer to AMIA-American Medical Informatics Association to receive the group rate. Reservations received after February 23, 2013, or after the AMIA block is filled (whichever comes first) are subject to availability and prevailing rates. Hotel information   Reserve today: Click to reserve your room online

Reminder: 2012 membership expires December 31.  Renew Today!

OHSU 10x10 Course still has room – Earn up to 46.5 CME/CEs

Last chance to register for the final OHSU 10x10 virtual course, to be held in 2012! The Introduction to Biomedical and Health Informatics course began December 5 and space is still available. Earn up to 46.5 CME’s and gain knowledge about healthcare and informatics.
 
January Virtual Courses

• Jan. 7   Ohio State University – Clinical Research Informatics virtual 10x10 course
• Jan. 7   Stanford University – Pharmacogenomics virtual 10x10 course
• Jan. 7   University of Minnesota School of Nursing – Nursing Informatics virtual 10x10 course
• Jan. 28 Kansas University Medical Center – Field of Health Informatics virtual 10x10 course

View full course descriptions and register for courses.
 

National Institutes of Health Videocast:
December 6 and 7

Topic -- NIH recommendations related to data and informatics. Agenda
Videocast site for Thursday
Videocast site for Friday

Correction: Top 25 Clinical Informaticist List

The 11.21.12 issue of AMIA e-news highlighted Modern Healthcare’s third annual list of the Top 25 Clinical Informaticists. Two AMIA members were incorrectly identified on the list.
 
Dr. Christopher Longhurst is a chief medical information officer at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto, Calif., and a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. 
 
Dr. Robert Murphy is chief medical informatics officer of Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Houston.

2013 ACMI Winter Symposium:
What should informatics do to address the healthcare crisis?

February 7-10, San Juan, Puerto Rico
 
The 2013 Winter Symposium of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) meeting is titled "What should informatics do to address the healthcare crisis?" and intended to take a critical look at how informatics can become more effective at helping tackle the significant problems facing the healthcare system today.

AMIA member input requested – The symposium is open to ACMI fellows and the body is seeking input and suggestions from AMIA members.

• What critical issues should be discussed?
• Where is informatics falling short in its potential to positively affect healthcare?

Please e-mail Titus Schleyer, DMD, PhD, program chair, with suggestions titus@pitt.edu
 

Call for Applications: 2013 Macy Faculty Scholars Program $100,000

The Macy Faculty Scholars program is designed to support early- to mid-career faculty in medicine and nursing who are dedicated to improving the education of health professionals. Up to five faculty are selected each year to pursue educational change at their home institutions—innovations that better prepare health professions graduates to succeed and meet our nation’s health care needs. 

Scholars receive salary support of $100,000 per year for two years and at least 50 percent protected time for two years to pursue their educational projects. Macy Faculty Scholars information

Regenstrief-Merck Scholar’s Award in
Pharmacoepidemiology and Informatics

New post-doctoral training opportunity

The Regenstrief-Merck Scholar’s Award in Pharmacoepidemiology and Informatics offers two visiting scholar positions to provide post-doctoral training at the intersection of pharmacoepidemiology and biomedical informatics at the institute. Individuals who have earned an MD., PhD., Pharm.D. or equivalent doctoral degree are eligible for the Scholar’s Award.  
 
The competitive two-year awards commence as early as summer 2013. Information and application materials. Email the Regenstrief Institute’s Office of Training Programs at riiaward@regenstrief.org.

mHealth Alliance Partnership Board Names Karl Brown Chairman

The mHealth Alliance named Karl Brown, Associate Director at the Rockefeller Foundation, the new Chairman of the Partnership Board, effective February 1, 2013.  He succeeds outgoing Chairman (chairman emeritus) Tom Wheeler. The mHealth Alliance is a global catalyst for unlocking the potential of mobile technologies to support health information and service delivery, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries.

MEDINFO 2013: Call for Reviewers December 10 deadline

The IMIA MEDINFO 2013 conference, August 20-23, Copenhagen, invites interested informatics colleagues to apply and register as reviewers. To register reviewers need to log in or create an account on the MEDINFO web-based manuscript management site.
Details (PDF) about the review process. Questions? Contact SPC Co-chairs Dominik Aronsky and Tze-Yun Leong, spc@medinfo2013.dk
 

Call for Papers:  MedINFO pre-conference deadline February 1

Context Sensitive Health Informatics

Submit a paper for the pre-MedINFO conference, Context Sensitive Health Informatics, Herlev Hospital in Copenhagen, August 17 -18, cshi2013.org.  This conference addresses sociotechnical and human factors HIT.  Accepted papers will be published in the IOS Press series "Studies in Health technology and Informatics" and indexed in PubMed.

AMIA 2012 Symposium Audio Recordings and Multimedia

Act now before prices go up January 1, 2013

Intelliquest capture of 100+ Sessions in Choice of Formats. Non-member attendees can purchase recordings.

• Online Access: $175
• Multimedia DVD-ROM with Online Access: $199
• Online content may be streamed or downloaded. iPad/Smartphone compatible.
• Username and password will be emailed. Unlimited lifetime access.

Order Online: Bookmark Intelliquest Media 
Order by Fax: Download PDF order form

AMIA 2012 Symposium CME/CEs

Credits are available for AMIA 2012. Attendance earns 27.75 credits. Tutorial and Pre-symposia-only attendees earn 3, 6 and/or 9 credits. Click here for instructions.
 
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Public Policy Updates

CMS, ONC Revise Final Rules for Meaningful Use 2
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT once again have issued changes to the final rules implementing Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use incentive program.  PDF download. Large file, not recommended for mobile viewing.

Calendar

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February 7-10             ACMI Winter Symposium, San Juan, Puerto Rico
March 18-22               Summits on Translational Science TBI and CRI, San Francisco. 
                                      Hotel room block is now open!