AMIA Working Group Free Webinars July 17 & 18
AMIA Working Groups host up to 30 free webinars yearly. Next week, it’s a Webinar Double Play featuring AMIA member, Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc, Corporate Director, Partners Healthcare, Clinical Informatics Research and Development on Clinical Decision Support. Mary Relling, PharmD, Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at St. Jude Children's Hospital will provide an overview of St. Jude's implementation of clinical pharmacogenomics and the integration of genetic data into EMR.
Clinical Decision Support-WG Webinar
Dr. Blackford Middleton
Wednesday, July 18, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. EST
Reserve your Webinar seat now! 100 seats available
Genomics-WG Webinar: Preemptive clinical implementation of pharmacogenomics
Dr. Mary Relling
Tuesday, July 17, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EST
Reserve your Webinar seat now! 100 seats available
nVoq and Voice-enabled Physician Order Entry
AMIA member,
Derek Plansky, Senior Director, Industry Solutions, nVoq, an AMIA Corporate Partner, spotlights
voice-enabled physician order entry: use case for speech recognition in a July 5 blogpost.
AMIA Career Center Resume Bank
Members can post resumes free on the
Career Center.
Just login, select “Career Center” and complete the online resume form. All members are eligible for job posting discounts.
Non-members $250 per posting. AMIA members $150 per posting. Jobs automatically post to the Official AMIA Group on LinkedIn.
FDA Safety and Innovation Act of 2012 and Mobile Medical Applications
The
FDA Safety and Innovation Act (aka FDA User Fee Agreement) was signed in to law, July 9. Section 618 of the compromise bill, addresses the regulatory structure for HIT. The legislation calls upon the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to post on their web sites, within 18 months, a strategy and recommendations for an “appropriate, risk based regulatory framework” for health IT, including mobile medical applications, that promotes innovation, protects patient safety, and avoids regulatory duplication.
Medical Device User Fee Amendment Fact Sheet: MDUFA represents a commitment between the U.S. medical device industry and the FDA to increase the efficiency of regulatory processes in order to reduce the time it takes to bring safe and effective medical devices to the U.S. market.
Don E. Detmer becomes Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing
The Academy salutes
Don E. Detmer, MD, MA, FACMI, Professor of Medical Education, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia as a strong advocate for nursing informatics and the importance of the leadership role of nurses in the formation of informatics policies, systems and models. The award will be presented at the Academy’s annual meeting this fall.Dr. Detmer is a past President and CEO of AMIA. He is also the
Medical Director of the Division of Advocacy and Health Policy, American College of Surgeons.
JAMIA Journal Club Free Webinar
Save the Date: August 2, 3:00 p.m. EST.
Free registration! AMIA members and non-members are welcome to participate.
Join Editor-in-Chief Lucila Ohno-Machado,
Edward (Ted) Shortliffe, MD, PhD, and
Casimir Kulikowski, PhD, for a discussion.
Topic:
Definition of Biomedical Informatics and Specification of Core Competencies for Graduate Education in the Discipline
10x10 Virtual Course Human Factors and Health IT Usability
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston’s contribution to the AMIA 10x10 is an online course that focuses on EMR, human-computer interaction, human factors and Health IT usability. This virtual course allows the student to master the fundamental principles and methods in health interface design, learn how to evaluate the usability of existing systems, and also learn how to design new systems with built-in good usability by applying related theories, principles, methodologies and techniques.
The AMIA-UTH 10x10 course is intended for Health IT professionals, CIO’s, CMIO’s, system developers and programmers, researchers and informaticians, physicians, nurses, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and other healthcare professionals.
Course begins July 23. Register now!
10x10 Virtual Course Schedule July – August
REGISTER TODAY … earn valuable CMEs
July 23 Healthcare Interface Design – University of Texas Health Science Center
(CMEs currently not available)
July 25 Introduction to Biomedical and Health Informatics – OHSU
56 Category 1 AMA PRA credits available
August 20 Survey of Biomedical Informatics – Nova Southeastern University
48 CME credits available
August 23 Information Technology in Healthcare Delivery – U. of Ala. Birmingham
48 CME/ANCC credits available
August 27 Survey Course of the Field of Health Informatics – Kansas University
45 AMA Category 1 CME credits available
$40,000 Young Leaders Awards RWJF Call for Nominations: due July 16
“I’m sure there are many young informaticians who are demonstrating great leadership and I wouldn’t want them to miss out on the opportunity,“ said AMIA member,
Stephen J. Downs, Chief Technology and Information Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).
RWJF is marking its
40th year anniversary with the establishment of the Young Leader Awards: Recognizing Leadership for a Healthier America. Up to 10 awards will be given to young leaders, 40 and under, who offer great promise for leading the way to improved health and health care for all Americans. Each winner will receive an individual award of $40,000.
RWJF is accepting third party-only nominations through a Call for Nomination process. Nominations due July 16.
More information on criteria and nomination requirements.
Call for Papers: International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-Healthcare (IJRQEH)
Special Issue on E-health in Long Term Care and Community Based Settings
Submission Date: October 1, 2012
Guest Editors
AMIA member, James G. Anderson, PhD, Department of Medical Sociology, Purdue University
Kathleen Abrahamson, PhD, RN, Department of Public Health, Western Kentucky University
Call for Papers: Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Special Issue on Advances in Computer Simulation of Clinical Processes.
Submission Date: September 21, 2012
Lead Guest Editor
James G. Anderson, PhD, Professor of Medical Sociology, Purdue University
Accountable Care Organizations Rise to 154:
CMS announces 89 new Medicare ACOs
As of July 1, 89 new
Medicare accountable care organizations started to serve Medicare beneficiaries in 40 states and Washington, D.C. The list includes 32 ACOs in the Pioneer ACO model from the CMS Innovation Center and six physician group practice transition demonstration organizations.
ACO list courtesy Modern Healthcare.
NIST Opens Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCOE)
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has opened a cybersecurity center of excellence to bring together experts from different sectors to create, test and implement cybersecurity solutions and promote their adoption. The
National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCOE) will be a hub where NIST researchers work with users and vendors from government, industry and academia on holistic cybersecurity approaches.
CDC Seeks Comments on Work-Related Data in EHRs
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention is seeking comments to help it determine whether and how
patients' work-related information should be captured EHR. AMIA members who are interested in contributing to an AMIA response, contact Meryl Bloomrosen, AMIA’s VP for Public Policy at
Meryl@amia.org. For more information read the
2011 IOM report.
Kaiser Brief Provides a Guide to the SCOTUS ACA Decision
A new policy brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation explains the key issues in the Supreme Court’s recent ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act.
NIH Common Fund Launches New Programs
The NIH Common Fund research products are expected to catalyze disease-specific research supported by the NIH Institutes and Centers.
New programs announcement.
Extra Cellular RNA communication and
Undiagnosed Diseases
HFES Call for Proposals
Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care: Advancing the Cause
March 11-13, 2013 Baltimore, Maryland
invites submissions of health-care ergonomics and human factors research, case history, methods, application guidelines, best practices, or user requirements for lecture and poster.
Call for Proposals deadline September 10, 2012.
NQF Quality Model call for Public Comment
The National Quality Forum has announced its call for
public comment on the NQF Quality Model. QDM Update and QDM Style Guide PDFs are downloadable. Closing date July 16.
Request for Comments: AMIA Strategic Assessment Quantitative Survey
AMIA has retained AMMR, a strategic consulting partner to assist the AMIA leadership and the Strategic Planning and Assessment Team. Gilad Kuperman, MD, PhD, AMIA Board Chair sent a special message request to all active AMIA members and a select group of nonmembers to request participation in the survey.
Please check your email for Gil's message and complete the online survey.
If you are unable to complete the online survey, please consider the short web comments option below.
Send responses to the AMMR consultant facilitation team.
Deadline: August 10, 2012
Question 1: What are the key one or two trends that you see affecting AMIA or the informatics field over the next 3-5 years?
Question 2: What do you see as the one or two key issues that AMIA must address in the future if we are to be successful in assisting our members succeed?
AMIA co-sponsors HISB 2012: Analyzing Big Data for Healthcare and Biomedical Sciences
2nd Annual IEEE Healthcare Informatics, Imaging and Systems Biology Conference
University of California, San Diego, September 27 - 28, 2012
Call for Papers
Paper and abstract submission: July 24, 2012 The best papers will appear in
JAMIA or
JBCB (Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology)
General Chair: Lucila Ohno-Machado, UC San Diego;
Steering Committee Co-Chairs: Xue-Wen Chen, University of Kansas; Tanveer Syeda Mahmood, IBM;
Scientific Program Committee
AMIA co-sponsors CAMDA 2012: Challenges of Big Data
11th Annual Conference on the Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis
Long Beach, California, July 13 - 14
AMIA member,
Simon Lin, MD, Director of Biomedical Informatics, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation will co-chair the conference with David P. Kreil, PhD, WWTF Chair of Bioinformatics, Boku University, Vienna, Austria and Joaquín Dopazo, PhD, scientific director of CIPF, Valencia, Spain.
The 2012 CAMDA conference will highlight the crossroads between medical informatics, translational bioinformatics and computational biology. Details of two keynotes, Dr. Olga Troyanskaya of Princeton University and Dr. Weida Tong of FDA, and ten talks are available at
www.camda.info.
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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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