SEPTEMBER 2012 VOL 4 ISSUE 30        "It’s a way of combining a love of and gift for computing with the desire to benefit or contribute beneficially to society." Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, the newest Face of AMIA, is the Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics at University of Washington and Head of the Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI). With 30 years of experience in the field, he began his career as a software consultant on biomedical applications in the early 80s. JAMIA Online First published Deriving rules and assertions from pharmacogenomics knowledge resources in support of patient drug metabolism efficacy predictions in April 2012. This paper is also the subject of the JAMIA Journal Club September 6 webinar. New! Meaningful Use Stage 2 Webinar  The final rules for Meaningful Use Stage 2 and the Standards and Certification Criteria were released. This webinar is part of a new AMIA Public Policy Webinar Series for AMIA members. Contact Meryl Bloomrosen, AMIA VP Public Policy and Government Relations for more information on the series. meryl@amia.org
Date: Thursday, September 20, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EDT
Presenter: Speakers will include staff from CMS and/or ONC.
Register today! (100 seats) Do not delay, this is a high demand topic. This webinar is provided as an AMIA member benefit. The CDS Collaborative for Performance Improvement Webinar  Hosted by AMIA Clinical Decision Support Working Group. AMIA Working Groups host up to 30 free webinars yearly. Date: Friday, September 14, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. PDT, (10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. EDT)
Presenter: Jerry Osheroff, MD, FACP, FACMI
Register today! (100 seats) This webinar is provided as an AMIA member benefit. Care Quality Measurement in an Electronic Landscape Webinar Hosted by AMIA Nursing Informatics Working Group. AMIA Working Groups host up to 30 free webinars yearly.
Date: Tuesday, September 18, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. EDT
Presenters: Beth Franklin, MS, RN, Senior Director, Health IT; Rosemary Kennedy, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, Vice President, Health Information Technology; and Juliet Rubini, RN-BC, MSN, MSIS, Senior Project Manager, all of the National Quality Forum Register today! (100 seats) This webinar is provided as an AMIA member benefit.
AMIA Members: Request for Comment Contributions Needed As a member benefit, AMIA members and thought leaders have the opportunity to contribute to AMIA’s official comments when input is requested formally and informally from federal entities. AMIA members interested in providing input to AMIA’s responses, please contact Meryl Bloomrosen, VP Public Policy and Government Relations, meryl@amia.org.
Topics  The Public Health Surveillance and Informatics Program Office (PHSIPO) (proposed) Draft FY13 - FY16 Strategic Plan. Brian Dixon, MPA, PH.D, a member of AMIA’s Public Policy Committee, and Assistant Professor at Indiana University School of Informatics is leading AMIA’s effort to develop draft comments. FDA Releases a Proposed Rule for Medical Device Tracking System. The proposed rule requires that most medical devices distributed in the United States carry a unique device identifier, or UDI and the FDA is creating a database that will include a standard set of basic identifying elements for each UDI. FDA Regulatory New Drug Review: Solutions for Study Data Exchange Standards. FDA solicits input from industry, technology vendors, and other members of the public regarding the advantages and disadvantages of current and emerging open, consensus-based standards for the exchange of regulated study data.
The AMIA 2012 Symposium Schedule is Online  The Itinerary Planner allows you to customize your experience quickly, save your itinerary for later updates and print it in several formats. Bookmark this URL amia.org/amia2012-itinerary-planner Advance Registration Deadline is October 4. Registration Rates
Academic Research Center: Wireless, Computing and Medical Applications  NYU and NYU-Poly have created NYU WIRELESS is an interdisciplinary research center that is equipped to develop circuits and systems for business sectors.There are 24 faculty and 100 graduate and undergraduate students participating in the new center. Faculty/Staff 2012 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics  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 World Economic Forum Announces 23 Most Innovative Startups  The World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers program recognizes companies, normally in a start-up phase, from around the world that are involved in the design, development and deployment of new technologies. Pushing New Frontiers 2013 Report. White House Announces Innovation Fellows U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park announced the first class of Presidential Innovation Fellows who have agreed to spend six months in Washington to work on five high-impact projects aimed at supporting entrepreneurs, small businesses and the economy. One of the Fellows, Henry Wei, MD, Clinical Instructor in Medicine, Weill Cornell Department of Medicine is a practicing physician and informatics expert. OHSU/National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research Supported Informatics FellowshipNIH Creates Emergency Care Office NIH has created a new Office of Emergency Care Research (OCER) to help improve health outcomes of patients who require emergency care. The office is a focal point for basic, clinical and translational emergency care research and training across NIH. FAIR Health Offers Researchers Medical and Dental Claims Data FAIR Health launched the FAIR Health Research Support Program to provide academic researchers access to the FAIR Health National Private Insurance Claims Database. The database currently includes more than 14 billion billed claims for medical and dental procedures. Commonwealth Fund Issues Report on EHRs and Quality of Care The Commonwealth Fund has released a report that reviewed nine hospitals that recently implemented a comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) system. BMJ Group Converts Unlocked Service to Open Access; Affects JAMIA Beginning September 2012, the terminology for the BMJ Group’s open access service will change from “Unlocked” to “Open Access”. This optional service allows authors to make articles freely available online, immediately on publication, for a fee. The term “Open Access” has become established as the industry standard and is understood by authors and research funders.
Unlocked articles submitted before September 2012 will continue to be subject to the Creative Commons ‘Attribution Non Commercial 2.0’ license. Open Access articles submitted after this date will be subject to the Creative Commons ‘Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported’ license, which specifically prohibits commercial use of these articles. All readers of the articles are able to use them in accordance with the terms of these licenses.
Authors participating in the Open Access service are able to place the full final version of their article in the depositories of their choice. BMJ Journals will continue to deposit all Open Access articles in PubMed Central immediately on publication. The article will be flagged as Open Access on the table of contents and article content box – BMJ Group is in the process of establishing new logos and text to replace the current Unlocked flags. All websites, emails and documents that mention the Unlocked service will be updated.
If authors do not wish to pay the Open Access fee, the article will be published in the usual way and remain behind access controls. Permitted use by an author of their article published in any BMJ journal, whether it is published Open Access or not, is covered by the terms and conditions of that journal’s exclusive license agreement. ICD-10 Delayed for One Year; Unique Plan Identifier Established The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have officially delayed the timeline for healthcare organizations to convert to the ICD-10 coding system to Oct. 1, 2014. HHS news release. Full details. PCORI Workshops in Washington, D.C. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) will host three workshops to engage patients and other health care stakeholders as meaningful and active partners in its efforts to build a patient-centered research community and refine its research agenda. Call for Papers: MEDINFO 2013 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics
Copenhagen, Denmark, August 20 – 23, 2013
Paper, Student Paper, and Poster Submissions: December 10, 2012
Acceptance Notifications: March 30, 2013
Questions and submission requirements: Dominik Aronsky, MD, PhD, dominik.aronsky@vanderbilt.edu (AMIA board member) OR Tze-Yun Leong, PhD, leongty@nus.edu.sg 10x10 Virtual Course September Schedule REGISTER TODAY … earn valuable CMEs
September 4 The Role of Informatics in Heatthcare Delivery – U. of Ala. Birmingham
48 CME/ANCC credits available. Course Description. Call for Proposals: AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science March 18-22, 2013, San Francisco The Scientific Program Committee (SPC) solicits papers on the state-of-the-art in translational bioinformatics and clinical research informatics. All proposals must be submitted through the AMIA submission sites in accordance with the following deadlines:
• Paper Proposals Due: September 27, 2012
• Panels, Posters, and Podium Abstract Proposal Due: October 11, 2012 Please review the Types of Proposals guidlines prior to submission.
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