Translational Bioinformatics March 18 - 20 and
Clinical Research Informatics March 20 - 22, 2013
TBI-CRI’s new guideline modifications allow authors to submit current work and preserve opportunities to publish. Top papers are given priority consideration for a special issue of JAMIA.
New in 2013
• More flexibility for author submissions -- classification by keyword
• Short versions of podium abstracts or papers are accepted, allowing for subsequent extension and submission to peer-reviewed journal
“We recognize the pressure researchers face to reserve one’s best work for submission to journal publications. We also recognize the value, both to the investigator and to the scientific community, in sharing one’s most exciting work sooner than later,” said Jessica D. Tenenbaum, PhD, Chair, 2013 TBI Summit Scientific Program Committee
"CRI Summit is venue for scientists and professionals to accomplish various goals: network, develop new collaborations, and identify potential avenues of research and development that will ultimately contribute to healthcare advancements,” said Elmer V. Bernstam, MD, MSE, Chair, 2013 CRI Summit Scientific Program Committee.
Types of Proposals
Paper Proposals Due: September 27
Panels, Posters, and Podium Abstract Proposals Due: October 11
“ ... just tell me how you want to build it and I will do it. You know I can invent anything."
Robert S. Ledley, DDS, FACMI, Inventor of whole-body CT scanner
AMIA and the field of informatics lost a pioneering contributor to our discipline when Bob Ledley passed away on July 24 at the age of 86. A founding fellow of ACMI, an early keynote speaker at the Annual Symposium, and a Morris F. Collen Award recipient in 1998, Bob and his colleague Lee B. Lusted wrote a seminal 1959 paper in Science that many people cite as the publication that launched the field Reasoning Foundations of Clinical Diagnosis. More …
"I am deeply saddened by the news, but my personal pleasures are the wonderful moments I had going downstairs to Bob's lab, adjacent to the medical library, and exchanging ideas about database things. I remember approaching him with a crazy idea and he said, "Naomi, just tell me how you want to build it and I will do it. You know I can invent anything." This was true. Bob could invent anything, as attested by his profound accomplishments," said Naomi C. Broering, MLS, MA, Dean of Libraries, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine.
King of the Mountain: Digging Data for a Healthier World
AMIA member, Atul Butte, MD, PhD, an Associate Professor and Chief of Systems Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, is profiled in the Summer 2012 edition of Stanford Medicine.
“I don’t think enough people study the measurements that have already been made,” said Dr. Butte. “Hiding within those mounds of data is knowledge that could change the life of a patient, or change the world. If I don’t analyze those data and show others how to do it, too, I fear that no one will.”
Check out: Medicine X, Academic Conference, Stanford University, September 28-30. Social media, mobile apps, design practices, and self-tracking technologies are reshaping healthcare and have the potential to transform the doctor-patient relationship. Preliminary schedule of the event. Topics include The Networked Patient, mHealth and Gamification, Design Thinking:
Chicago Informatics Week launches! AMIA Headlines Event
Mayor Rahm Emanuel declares October 30 - November 7, 2012 Informatics Week in Chicago. Informatics Week in Chicago is the first-ever city-wide celebration of its kind.
Co-chairs for Informatics Week are AMIA members, Justin Starren, MD, PhD, Chief of the Division of Health and Biomedical Informatics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Frank Naeymi-Rad, PhD, MBA, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Intelligent Medical Objects, the leading developer of medical terminology solutions for medical records systems. Sponsors include CAP-STS, Philips, Rush University Medical Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Chicago, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, American College of Surgeons and the Council of Medical Specialty Societies.
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AMIA co-sponsors National Academies of Practice Conference September 14-15
Patient-centered Care: Working together in an Interprofessional World Intercontinental Cleveland Hotel on the campus of the Cleveland Clinic.
The conference has a powerful program, with four nationally recognized plenary speakers and 20 breakout sessions.The National Academies of Practice (NAP) promotes excellence in practice of health care professionals and quality health care for all through interprofessional collaboration in service delivery, research, education and public policy advocacy.
Speakers include:
- AMIA member Connie Delaney, PhD, RN, School of Nursing Professor & Dean, Academic Health Center University of Minnesota, Director, Biomedical Health Informatics (BMHI); Associate Director, CTSI-BMI; Acting Director, Institute for Health Informatics
- Georges C. Benjamin, MD, Executive Director, American Public Health Association
- George E. Thibault, MD, President, The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
- Saralyn Mark, MD, President, SolaMed Solutions, LLC; Author, Stellar Medicine: A Journey Through the Universe of Women's Health
Workshop speaker: President and CEO, AMIA, Kevin Fickenscher, MD.Technology: The 30% Solution: Informatics as a Team Sport for Making Healthcare Better.
Report on Mobile Applications and Privacy
The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) and the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) released a publication titled "Best Practices for Mobile Application Developers”. FPF also released a guide to best practices for app developers. Earlier this year, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s Office of the Chief Privacy Officer, working with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, launched a Privacy & Security Mobile Device project.
Call for Student Volunteers Deadline: Friday, August 31
Registration Waived to AMIA 2012 Symposium
Registration fees are waived for volunteers who make the team! Free tutorials and free sessions.
AMIA is calling for current student members who would like to take part in the student volunteer program at the 2012 AMIA Annual Symposium, November 3-7. Apply now to be part of one of the biggest networking opportunities that AMIA has to offer! You can meet VIP's from the informatics world, mingle with other students from across the country, attend tutorials and sessions for free and learn how an AMIA meeting is run from behind-the-scenes.
All applicants will be notified of volunteer decisions on Tuesday, September 11, 2012.
Big Data Project: $25,000 Prize for The DREAM-Phil Bowen ALS Prediction Prize4Life Challenge
Prize4Life is a non-profit foundation that was founded in 2006 to promote research breakthroughs in the fatal neurodegenerative disease ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig’s Disease).
The challenge is a competition around a unique database of clinical trials data. The full database will house the largest open access clinical trial dataset ever built and will include over 7000 records of ALS patients from past clinical trials, spanning more than a year of data. Most ALS patients die very quickly (2-5 years from the time of diagnosis), but some patients, like Stephen Hawking, survive much longer.
Deadline is October 10, 2012. Challenge participants use the data to predict the future progression of disease for individual patients. Prize4Life is collaborating with IBM’s DREAM (Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods), with clinicians at Mass General and with the Department of Biostatistics at Mass General and are sponsored by Nature, The Economist and Popular Science.
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.
10x10 Virtual Course August Schedule
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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
Seventh Conference of Health Information Systems, November 28-30
Organized by the Department of Health Informatics at Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Topics include: • Security in Health Information Systems • Digital Agendas in Latin America • HL7 and its relationship with the National Digital Agendas • Education in Health Informatics • Clinical terminologies • Implementations of Health Information Systems • Open Source Tools in Clinical Information Systems • Tracking of drugs in hospitals • Mobile devices in Health care. AMIA members, Bill Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology at OHSU and Patricia Abbott, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing are among the highlighted speakers.
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AHRQ Handbook: on Interactive Preventive Health Records
A new handbook from AHRQ offers practical guidance on the implementation of interactive preventive health records (IPHRs). Based on the lessons learned from implementation using electronic health records (EHRs) from three different vendors at 14 different practices, “An Interactive Preventive Care Record: A Handbook for Using Patient-Centered Personal Health Records to Promote Prevention” provides practical steps for health care professionals to follow when integrating IPHRs as components of EHRs.
CDC Report: Public Health Surveillance and HIT
The report outlines the CDC's vision for public health surveillance in the 21st Century and notes that public health surveillance evolved to cover much more than infectious diseases, as have surveillance methods, spurred by advances in technology.
Joint Commission Guide: Using Scribes to Enter Data in EHRs
According to an online guide from the Joint Commission, scribes should sign and date all entries that they make into an electronic health record. A physician then should validate the entry by signing and dating it, as well as adding a time stamp if applicable. More information ...
IOM Report: Informatics Needs and Challenges in Cancer Research
To further examine informatics needs and challenges for 21st century biomedical research, the IOM’s National Cancer Policy Forum held a workshop in February 2012. The workshop was designed to raise awareness of the critical and urgent importance of the challenges, gaps and opportunities in informatics; to frame the issues surrounding the development of an integrated system of cancer informatics for acceleration of research; and to discuss solutions for transformation of the cancer informatics enterprise. The report summarizes the workshop.
NIST Guide: Pediatric EHRs
National Institute of Standards and Technology has released "A Human Factors Guide to Enhance EHR Usability of Critical User Interactions when Supporting Pediatric Patient Care" to address the lag of electronic health record adoption by pediatric care providers. NIST developed the guide because pediatric patients have unique characteristics that translate to higher complexity for providing care with paper-based charts and EHRs.
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Fresh Fickenscher Files Blog
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