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With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, AMIA is offering financial aid to PHI attendees who are full-time public health professionals and require assistance in order to attend the upcoming conference, which is expected to deliver a consensus on the next informatics agenda for public health. If you work full-time in the field of public health and would like to attend the conference but need financial support in order to do so, go online and use the nomination form to submit a request for a sponsored grant for yourself. You may also nominate someone else who meets the eligibility criteria. AMIA will distribute 50 stipends of $1,000 each to attendees who meet the grant criteria and who register for the meeting. Grants will be awarded to the first 50 applicants who are eligible, as defined on the website.
A day before PHI 2011 opens, on May 24, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and AMIA are teaming up to offer pre-conference Basic Training on the implications of meaningful use (MU) for the public health professional. The all-day training program will cover the following topics:
- The regulatory and temporal timeframe of meaningful use
- Standardization required for meaningful use implementation
- CDC’s Public Health Information Network (PHIN), including its resources
- Meaningful use adoption by public health and how it will be monitored
Still not sure if PHI 2011 is for you? Browse the program by using the new and improved Itinerary Planner. Click here to access this planning tool.
PHI 2011 is scheduled to take place May 25-27, 2011, in Orlando, Florida. Click here for more information. To follow PHI 2011 activity on Twitter, use #PHI2011 @AMIAInformatix.
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AMIA members have asked for a better way to access JAMIA online and the AMIA staff have listened. Starting today, members can access full content of JAMIA online by logging onto the JAMIA website directly.
This change enables you to gain access to JAMIA directly using the subscription that you receive as part of your AMIA membership. The goal is to make your access to JAMIA content as seamless as possible, so that when you access JAMIA articles through third party websites such as PubMed, you will not have to double back to myamia.org to log in. You will still be able to access JAMIA online through the “My Information” page of Myamia.org. We are simply offering an additional way for you to access JAMIA content without having to be brought back through Myamia.org.
To log in to your profile, visit the JAMIA website. In the upper right-hand corner, enter the following information:
User name: your e-mail address (the one at which you received this email)
Password: currently set to password (you can change this later)
We highly recommend that you change your password to something more secure by clicking on Update my details on the right-hand side of the screen after you have logged in for the first time.
We trust that you enjoy your online access to JAMIA and encourage you to consider submitting your own research using JAMIA’s online submission system. You may also register for JAMIA’s e-mail alerts, so you know when new content is available online. All articles are now published online ahead of print.
If you have any questions about this change, please contact mail@amia.org.
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Last year, University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) offered a compelling online 10 X 10 course that focused on the enactment of ARRA. Due to that course’s popular success, UIC will update the course to reflect national activities of the last two years. Registered students taking the course will work with peers and faculty from many healthcare disciplines. UIC remains committed to the unique focus on understanding the sociotechnical aspects of computing, including understanding why implementation of the best software or hardware sometimes fails to meet expectations. The registration deadline is May 6. Course begins May 27.
Deadlines are quickly approaching for several other courses:
- 10x10 with OHSU
—course begins April 27
- 10x10 with Nova Southeastern University—course begins May 16
- 10x10 with Stanford University—course begins June 21
- 10x10 with OHSU in conjunction with the American College of Emergency Physicians—course begins June 29
- 10x10 with University of Minnesota School of Nursing—course begins July 21
Please visit www.amia.org/e-learning to view course descriptions and to register for any of these courses.
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After hosting three well-attended courses with AMIA’s 10x10 program, University of Utah will offer two summer courses in informatics, independent of AMIA’s 10 X 10 program:
Clinical and Public Health Informatics Terminologies and Standards
June 20 – July 22, 2011
This introductory course will focus on vocabularies and standards commonly used in clinical and public health systems, particularly those required for information exchange and ‘meaningful use’ of data.
Clinical Information Extraction
May 16 – June 22, 2011
This course provides an introduction to the automatic extraction of information from clinical text.
Note: These courses are offered through University of Utah independent of AMIA's 10 X 10 course programming.
For more information and to register, visit www.continue.utah.edu.
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 Last week, several dozen AMIA members traveled to Capitol Hill to meet with a few Members of Congress and more than 30 legislative aides to discuss the roles of health information technology and informatics in quality healthcare delivery and how to accelerate their broad adoption in the healthcare sector. The group was greeted by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), who supports expansion of biomedical and health informatics. To view photos from Capitol Hill day, click here.
Later in the day, Senator Whitehouse attended a second informatics event, sponsored by PHI 2011 sponsor, RTI International, at the  National Press Club. The senator opened the program, called “Patients as Partners in Care: Engaging Patients through Health IT.” Many AMIA members attended the event, which featured speakers from ONC, HealthCentral.com, RTI International and Bon Secours Health System, and which highlighted the critical role of consumer health informatics in health care, and illuminated examples of how CHI is implemented well or poorly.
If you live in or visit the DC area, see the remaining sessions in RTI’s “Emerging Issues in Science and Society” series, at www.rti.org/policyforums. Each program is held at the National Press Club.
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AMIA is the U.S. convener and project coordinator for the ARGOS eHealth Consortium, a project funded by the European Commission with the overall goal of contributing to the formation of a "Transatlantic Observatory for Meeting Global Health Policy Challenges Through ICT-Enabled Solutions." The project seeks to develop and promote common methods for responding to global e-health challenges in the EU and the U.S., and the observatory will promote mutual understanding and learning among EU and U.S. policy researchers and policymakers on health IT challenges with a global dimension. AMIA is helping to plan the project's final face-to-face meeting in Budapest, Hungary, on May 11, 2011. Following this meeting, AMIA will contribute to the final policy papers and help finalize project recommendations to support coordinated actions on e-Health policies in the EU and the U.S. For more information about the meeting and the project, click here.
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Earlier this week, attestation for the Medicare EHR Incentive Program began, meaning that eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs) can attest through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) web-based attestation system and be on their way to receiving Medicare EHR incentive payments. For complete information from CMS, click here.
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The comment period for the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan: 2011 – 2015 has been extended to Friday, May 6, 2011. Developed in coordination with other federal partners, the plan outlines ONC's strategy for realizing Congress and the Administration's HIT agenda. ONC encourages and welcomes all comments from the public regarding the plan. For complete details, click here.
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On May 10-11, 2011, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) is hosting a public workshop to gather perspectives on the implementation of two recently released IOM reports on setting standards for the development of systematic reviews of comparative effectiveness research and clinical practice guidelines. In advance of the workshop, IOM is inviting interested parties to respond to a series of questions on plans for implementation of the standards. For more information, click here.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) issued an invitation to the public to join the HIT Policy Committee Certification/Adoption Workgroup for a hearing today, Thursday, April 21, 2011, at the Renaissance Washington DC Dupont Circle Hotel. The meeting includes five panel presentations regarding the usability of electronic health records, as well as a public comment period at the end. Individuals are also welcome to participate via teleconference or the Web. For more information, click here.
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A new council of scientific experts will begin meeting to advise the Center for Scientific Review (CSR) at the National Institutes of Health on the peer review of NIH grant applications in scientific review groups at CSR. The CSR Advisory Council replaces the NIH Peer Review Advisory Committee and will focus on enhancing CSR's operations. The group will meet twice a year, and will also provide input concerning CSR's policies and practices related to the receipt and referral of NIH grant applications to CSR review groups. CSR Advisory Council meetings will be open to the public, and the first meeting will be held on May 2, 2011, on the NIH campus in the Natcher Building, 45 Center Drive, Room E1/E2, in Bethesda, Md. For more information, click here.
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The Effective Health Care Program, through its DEcIDE Research Network, is sponsoring a third invitational symposium, Methods for Developing and Analyzing Clinically Rich Data for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research. The two-day symposium and workshop will be held on June 6 and 7, 2011, at the AHRQ Conference Center in Rockville, Maryland. The symposium is a follow-up to the 2006 and 2009 AHRQ conferences on Methods in Comparative Effectiveness and Safety Research. The 2011 conference will focus on original research and the methodological insight or advances that arise from the conduct of the research. For more information about the meeting and webcast, click here.
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In the rapidly evolving field of health information technology, researchers and institutions must share information and learn from experiences to avoid costly mistakes and assure patient safety. To keep its members up to date, AMIA has arranged for discounted subscriptions to a new journal: Applied Clinical Informatics (ACI) is a multidisciplinary publication that spans the fields of clinical medicine, informatics theory, and information technology, as applied to real-world problems. ACI focuses on tasks of visionary design, logistics of system deployment, and translation of lessons learned into practical solutions. ACI provides rapid and rigorous scientific review of manuscripts that address the pragmatic aspects of informatics application design, development, and deployment. In addition, ACI is the official e-journal of IMIA and AMDIS, and is under the editorial direction of AMIA member Chris Lehmann. The AMIA member price for this online journal is $33 for an annual subscription, a 10% discount off the published rate. Visit www.myamia.org to order.
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The Elsevier "Apps for Science" challenge is an international competition challenging software developers to create applications that work with the content on SciVerse, ScienceDirect, and SciVerse Scopus, in combination with other third party content and data. This is an opportunity to create a customized app and share it with the global research community. The app could help researchers, medical professionals, and students better navigate scientific content. A cash prize is available. For more information, click here.
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The Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM), along with AMIA, the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM), the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR), Translational Behavioral Medicine (TBM), and the American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM), are holding a media briefing on Behavioral Informatics for Health at the National Press Club. A live webcast also will be held on April 26, 2011, 12:45 p.m.–2:30 p.m ET. Several senior AMIA members will be speaking on the agenda, including, David Ahern, PhD; M. Chris Gibbons, MD; Helga Rippen, MD, PhD; W. Ed Hammond, PhD; and Edward H. Shortliffe, MD, PhD.
Two expert panels will address efforts to speed the adoption and effective use of HIT to improve the quality of care and medical information available to consumers seeking to better navigate the healthcare system. Two articles and other related issues addressed in the inaugural issue of Translational Behavioral Medicine ("Information Technology and Evidence Implementation") and the American Journal of Preventive Medicine supplement ("Cyberinfrastructure for Consumer Health”) will be the focus of the briefing. For live streaming video and the agenda, visit http://www.BehavioralInformatics.org.
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April 26
Behavioral Informatics for Health National Press Club Media Briefing, Washington, DC
April 27
OHSU 10x10, reg deadline
May 2
Center for Scientific Review Advisory Council Public Meeting, Bethesda, Md.
May 6
UIC 10x10, reg. deadline
May 10
Nova Southeastern Univ. 10x10, reg. deadline
May 11
ARGOS eHealth Consortium meeting, Budapest, Hungary
May 25-27
PHI 2011: Setting the Next Informatics Agenda for Public Health, Orlando, Fl.
June 2-5
Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) Annual Meeting, Leesburg, Va.
June 6-7
2011 NIH Annual Conference, Bethesda, Md.
June 6-8
2011 International Biomedical Informatics Forum at Peking University, Beijing, China
June 27
Annual Academic Forum Meeting, Rockville, Md.
June 27-30
24th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Bristol, UK
June 29
OHSU with ACEP 10x10, reg. deadline
July 1
Stanford Univ. 10x10, reg. deadline
Aug. 26-27
5th International Symposium on Human Factors Engineering in Health Informatics, Trondheim, Norway
Aug. 28-31
23rd Medical Informatics Europe Conference, Oslo, Norway
Sept. 7-10
CMIO Boot Camp, Houston
Oct. 22-26
AMIA's 35th Annual Symposium on Biomedical and Health Informatics, Washington, DC
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