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 The initial goal of AMIA's 10x10 program was to train 10,000 health care professionals in health and biomedical informatics within 10 years of the program’s launch in 2005. Since then 2,059 students have registered for classes and 84 separate 10x10 courses have been offered. The 10x10 programs are designed for working professionals and participants can earn between 48 and 56 continuing education credits per course.
AMIA has developed stellar relationships with 10 partner schools. Oregon Health & Science University offered the first course in 2005. The newest partner is University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston which joined the program in July 2011. The 10x10 courses have a reputation for excellence and nine organizations have collaborated with AMIA to present special offerings. Partners have included the Mayo Clinic, California Healthcare Foundation and the American College of Emergency Physicians.
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The UIC College of Applied Health Sciences, Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, focuses its 10x10 course on examining how health information technology (HIT) can be used to support ... and inhibit ... patient safety. This 10x10 course will examine the informatics and information technology issues surrounding the implementation and use of HIT. Participants will gain an understanding of the sociotechnical aspects of information technology, including why implementation of the best software or hardware sometimes fails to meet expectations.
Virtual Course begins May 25, register now!
| May 7 |
10x10 with Nova Southeastern University |
| May 25 |
10x10 with University of Illinois Chicago |
| June 27 |
10x10 with OHSU in conjunction with ACEP |
| July 23 |
July 23 10x10 with University of Texas Health Science Center |
To view course descriptions or to register, please visit the 10x10 website. Back to top
Clinical and Public Health Informatics Terminologies and Standards I
Learn online. Earn CMEs. Interested in information exchange and ‘meaningful use’ of data in clinical and public health systems? Register today! Course begins May 14.
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 Join Editor-in-Chief Lucila Ohno-Machado and guest author Zeshan A. Rajput, MD, MS, Consultant with Accenture, online to discuss: “Evaluation of an Android-based mHealth for Population surveillance in developing countries.”
The webinar is free to attend: May 3 at 3:00 p.m. (EST), but you must register in advance. To register and view archived presentations on the JAMIA Journal Club homepage, click here.
Invite a friend! AMIA members and non-members are welcome to participate.
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On April 25, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Scientific Education and Professional Development Program Office (SEPDPO) and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Employment Training Administration (ETA) held a signing ceremony to designate the Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program (PHIFP) as a DOL/ETA Registered Apprenticeship. The event also set the foundation for a standard occupational code for the profession of public health informatician.
The signers were Dr. Denise Koo, MPH, Captain, U.S. Public Health Service, Director, SEPDPO; and John Ladd, Administrator, Office of Apprenticeship & Training Administration. Dr. William Hersh, Professor and Chair Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University offered remarks at the ceremony. Dr. Hersh is AMIA’s 2012 Scientific Program Chair and attending the live event to represent and speak on behalf of AMIA’s 4000 members.
“It is exciting to see this happening in public health informatics. It is important and well-deserved. I certainly hope to see this type of progress for other informatics disciplines. It is a big deal because showing up in labor statistics is important to human resource people and others who get a lot of their knowledge about employees from the Department of Labor statistics,” said Dr. Hersh after the event. Click here for more information.
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Meryl Bloomrosen, AMIA’s Vice President for Public Policy, represented AMIA at the inaugural meeting of the mHealth Public-Private Partnership hosted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The partnership is intended to develop a neutral space in which projects and activities that will enhance our understanding of mHealth and contribute to the foundations on which health, policy, regulatory, reimbursement and business decisions can be made. For more information contact Meryl@amia.org. More information about NIH’s public-private partnerships.
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The webinar "Continuity and Resiliency for Health IT Systems: Preparing for Unforeseen Events" will be presented Friday, April 27, 2:00 p.m. (EST) The topic covers how health information technology can help primary care and rural inpatient providers prepare for and overcome an unforeseen event. Click here to register.
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The conference will be held on Friday, May 18 at the FDA White Oak Campus in Silver Spring, Md. Agenda and speaker information are on the meeting website. For the latest information about the event, click here. Register by May 4. See the Federal Register Notice more information.
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The Health Data Initiative (HDI) Forum is a public-private collaboration that encourages innovators to utilize health data to develop applications that raise awareness of health system performance and spark community action to improve health. The 2012 Forum is the third annual event and will be held on June 5 and 6 in Washington, D.C. See www.hdiforum.org for more information.
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Immediate-Past AMIA Industry Advisory Council Chair, Dan Foltz, Director CSC Health Intelligence Division, provided his perspective to Healthcare Informatics on the recently released CSC white paper “Transforming Healthcare through Better Use of Data.” The interview transcript can be viewed hereand the white paper can be downloaded here.
According to Foltz, the white paper identifies a number of foundational practices and capabilities that leaders in patient care organizations can enhance through the better acquisition, governance and sharing of health data.
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The results of the NI-WG 2011 Survey of member engagement in standards related organizations will be presented and discussed. NI-WG values the contributions its membership brings to standards development. The survey was administered to determine the number of members involved in standards organizations and to a gain a better understanding of which standards organizations members were participating in. Findings of both the 2011 and 2008 standards studies will be compared.
- NI-WG Webinar: Report and Discussion on the Results of the 2011 NI-WG Standards Survey
- Friday, April 27
- 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (EST) Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now:
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.
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Join the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Project focused on secondary use of EHR data (SHARPn) for a meeting at the University of Minnesota Rochester Center campus on June 11-12. Sessions are on the following topics:
- Standards, Data Integration & Semantic Interoperability
- Natural Language Processing
- Phenotyping: clinical trial selection, clinical decision support, quality measurement
- Software Evaluation
Registration is free and breakfast and lunch will be provided. For more information visit here. Questions? Email rosmartin@deloitte.com
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The Health 2.0 Developer Challenge program is accepting submissions for the “EHR Accessibility Module Challenge.” Individuals with disabilities constitute 19 percent of the population 5 years and older, yet account for more than one quarter ($400 billion) of all health expenditures. Accessibility and usability in health IT are high priority issues for the disability community. The “EHR Accessibility Module Challenge” tasks multi-disciplinary teams with creating and testing a module or application that makes it easy for disabled consumers to access and interact with the health data stored in their EHRs.
Submissions are due on Monday, July 23. Prizes will total $85,000. For more details on the challenge and webinar, please visit the “EHR Accessibility Module Challenge” website. Webinar overview slides are also available on the site.
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Send AMIA e-News ideas to communications@amia.org to reach Krista Martin, Director of Marketing and Communications, for consideration in future editions of e-News. Did you win an award? Reach 1000 informatics-loving Twitter followers? We want to know!
(Note: submission does not guarantee publication.)
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