A Focus on Lessons Learned
The second edition of HIT or Miss: Lessons Learned from Health Information Technology Implementations, combines the 17 case studies, from the first edition which highlighted specific failures in health information technology projects, with 17 new cases—including examples of hospitals and practices pursuing Meaningful Use objectives. The causes of failure in the cases originate from leadership missteps, technical problems, planning mistakes, failure to engage clinicians effectively, and other errors that can be avoided. Author Jonathan Leviss, MD, is an AMIA member and the Chief Medical Officer, Rhode Island Quality Institute.
HIT or Miss presents a model to discuss HIT failures in a safe and protected manner, providing an opportunity to focus on the lessons offered by a failed initiative as opposed to worrying about potential retribution for exposing a project as having failed. Access expert insight into key obstacles that must be overcome to leverage IT and modernize and transform healthcare, including a forward by Ross Koppel.
Save the Date: Don E. Detmer Webinar April 16
Topic: A Proposal for National Policy Supporting Secure Access to Person-specific Health Data for Quality Life-giving Research
Date: Tuesday, April 16 Time: 2100 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. EDT
Speaker: Don E. Detmer, MD, MA, FACS, FACMI, Professor Emeritus and Professor of Medical Education in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia and Visiting Professor at CHIME, University College of London Video: Morris F. Collen Award 2010 JAMIA article
Free for AMIA members. $50 for non-members
AMIA Online Communities MemberConnect Webinar
Date: Wednesday, March 20 Time: 1:00 p.m – 2:00 p.m. EDT
Speaker: Rob Rader, AMIA Director of Member Services
Get more from your AMIA membership experience. Learn how to better navigate AMIA Online Communities tool. The session covers working group features, widgets, file posting, directory contacts, 'following' and 'liking' items and beyond-the-basics search.
Register now! https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/483324790
Informatics Pioneer, Larry Weed, Speak Out
Lawrence Weed, MD, FACMI, 89, spoke at the HIMSS annual conference in New Orleans last week. An Informatics Pioneer, Dr. Weed introduced the Problem Oriented Medical Information System (PROMIS) in the 1960's and he still has a lot to about informatics and medical records. He was inducted as an ACMI Fellow in 1984. Informatics Week article by Neil Versel covered the session.
Webinar: March 26
Topic: Information on a Funding Opportunity Announcement for the NIH “Strengthening the Biomedical Research Workforce” program
Date: Tuesday, March 26 Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. EDT
The NIH Common Fund’s Strengthening the Biomedical Research Workforce program announces a new Funding Opportunity Announcement (RFA-RM-12-022) to solicit applications for the Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) awards that will support the development of novel graduate and postdoctoral training activities intended to expose trainees to diverse career options. Awards can be for up to $250,000 per year direct costs for 5 years plus full indirect costs; stipend support is not allowable. More info.
Register today. Please submit questions in advance to: Workforce_Award@mail.nih.gov
2012 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics
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As an AMIA member, the 2012 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics and the archives through 2006 are available free of charge. Since its inception in 1992 the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics is one of the most visible and valuable products that the International Medical Informatics Association provides to the health and biomedical informatics community at large..
Bookmark: 2012 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics
Happtique Mobile publishes standards for Health App Certification Program
Happtique, an mHealth solutions company, announced the publication of the final Standards it will use to certify apps under the Happtique Health App Certification Program (HACP). The HACP will help healthcare providers and consumers easily identify medical, health, and fitness apps that deliver credible content, contain safeguards for user data, and function as described.
Information required for download of certification.
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CommonWell Health Alliance Formed
Several health care information technology (HIT) companies Cerner, McKesson, Allscripts, athenahealth, Greenway Medical Technologies® and RelayHealth announced the launch of the CommonWell Health Alliance™, planned to be an independent not-for-profit organization that will support universal, trusted access to health care data through seamless interoperability. www.commonwellalliance.org
Proposed Policy Targets Dual Use Research of Concern
Dual use research of concern (DURC) is life sciences research that has the potential to provide knowledge, information, products, or technologies that can be misused so as to pose a threat to public health and safety. “United States Government Policy for Institutional Oversight of Life Sciences Dual Use Research of Concern Draft" Comments from the public are invited.
AMIA Endorses CHOP Informatics Symposium
Healthcare Informatics Gets Personal
Focus On Patient Engagement & Personalized Medicine
Session presenters include nationally known informatics experts who will provide symposium participants with an inside look at the latest trends on patient engagement and personalized medicine. This year's program also includes paper presentations from some of today's emerging voices in the field. CME/CE eligible.
Keynote speakers include AMIA members: Judy Murphy, RN, FACMI, FHIMSS, FAAN, Deputy National Coordinator for Programs & Policy, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Department of Health & Human Services; and Daniel R. Masys, MD, FACMI, Affiliate Professor of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington School of Medicine Register today!
AMIA hosts Clinical Informatics Board Certification
Info/Q&A Session at CHOP
Date; Friday April 26, 2013
Time: 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
The Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel, Liberty Ballroom D. Free with registration to 6th Annual Healthcare Informatics Symposium
Speaker: Jeffrey J. Williamson, M.Ed., AMIA Vice President of Education and Academic Affairs
ABPM Clinical Informatics Board Exam Application Fee Schedule
The American Board of Preventive Medicine will offer the certification exam in October 2013. Application to sit for the exam opens March 1 - June 1.
AMIA’s Clinical Informatics Board Review Course is designed for American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Board certified physicians who seek certification in Clinical Informatics. It provides a high-level review of the Core Content of Clinical Informatics on which the exam will be based and helps participants develop a learning map that highlights where physicians need to spend additional preparation time.
Date: April 12– 14, 2013
Place: Hyatt Regency, Bethesda, MD
Space is limited to first 75 enrollees. Registration open now.
Registration for June, August and September live courses will be open by April 1!
Nursing and Informatics: AMIA 10x10 Course
University of Minnesota School of Nursing (UMN) – Interprofessional Health Informatics – begins April 1, 2013
Beginning April 1st, the UMN 10x10 course is a course directed to both a generic overview of nursing and health informatics and the specific application of information and communication technologies in the clinical area. The primary focus is on the analysis, modeling, standardization and development and deployment of the electronic health record and safe exchange of patient data. The course examines the implications of informatics for practice, including nursing, public health, and healthcare in general. It will discuss electronic health record issues, relate ethical, legislative and political issues of informatics, and explore global and future informatics issues.
The course is taught by Bonnie L. Westra, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI. She is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Nursing Informatics.
View course descriptions and to register for all 10x10 courses.
Public Policy Updates
New AHRQ Report on Patient Safety Strategies
Making Health Care Safer II, an Updated Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Patient Safety Practices encourages the adoption of 22 patient safety strategies that are proven to be effective.
National Commission on Physician Payment Reform Recommends Elimination of Fee for Service
The National Commission on Physician Payment Reform released a report detailing sweeping recommendations aimed at reining in health spending and improving quality of care by eliminating the fee-for-service model by the end of the decade.
HHS Seeks Innovative Solutions
The “HHSentrepreneurs” program is based on the HHS Innovation Fellows Program launched in 2012. HHSentrepreneurs provides a framework to attract outside talent in areas including open innovation, agile development, and lean methodologies to accelerate innovation within HHS.
FTC Calling for Better Mobile Privacy
The FTC published the report “Mobile Privacy Disclosures: Building Trust through Transparency” with recommendations for critical players in the mobile marketplace.
Children's EHR Format Announced
NIST published the report “Human Factors Guide to Enhance EHR Usability of Critical User Interactions when Supporting Pediatric Patient Care.”
FOA to Reduce Health Disparities
NIH issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) (RFA-EB-13-002) seeking SBIR grant applications to develop medical technologies aimed at reducing disparities in achieving healthcare access and health outcomes.
Commonwealth Fund Accepting LOIs
The Patient-Centered Coordinated Care Program, an initiative of the New York City-based Commonwealth Fund is accepting Letters of Inquiry (LOI) for projects designed to improve the quality of primary healthcare in the U.S.
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