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AMIA President and CEO Ted Shortliffe has announced AMIA’s receipt of full accreditation to provide continuing medical education. As an accredited provider, AMIA is recognized by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education activities to physicians and other healthcare professionals. The accreditation decision was based on AMIA’s ability to demonstrate compliance at Level 2, giving AMIA the privilege of a four-year term and the ability to offer continuing medical education credits to medical professionals nationally. “This is fantastic news,” Dr. Shortliffe said. “Please join me in congratulating Mirena Lilley, Jeff Williamson, and all the staff who made this happen.” More about AMIA’s Continuing Education Credit program is online at http://www.amia.org/education/continuing-education-credit
The AMIA 2011 Symposium Interactive Advance Program and Tutorials are now available online. Use them to help plan your Symposium schedule. Then register to attend and take advantage of the lowest-available membership rates which expire at midnight on Aug. 4! The Advance Program can be viewed by clicking here http://www.amia.org/amia2011. The tutorials are listed here: http://www.amia.org/amia2011/tutorials. You can use the interactive Advance Program to see all sessions in chronological order, or use the Itinerary Planner to search for sessions by topics or keywords: While you’re making your plans, book your room at the Washington Hilton, the Symposium venue: http://www.amia.org/amia2011/hotel. The Washington Hilton is located at 1919 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington DC, a short trip from Washington Reagan National airport on the red line, at the Dupont Circle stop.
AMIA’s CMIO Boot Camp is a one-of-a-kind program designed especially for CMIOs and CNIOs. This intensive program addresses the numerous challenges clinicians face in selecting and implementing EHR systems. Scheduled Sept. 7–10, 2011, in Houston, the CMIO Boot Camp provides all the briefing material, best practices, experiential knowledge, and expertise to support clinical leaders as they prepare to lead health-delivery organizations to meaningful use of electronic health records.
Check out the faculty for this educational event: a top-tier list of leaders from nationally known institutions you have come across in JAMIA, AMIA Proceedings, and in other professional journals, and whom you have come to know as informatics leaders within AMIA.
The CMIO Boot Camp includes interactive case studies, small group problem-solving exercises, and a team project completed during the program. Registration is limited to 50 people.
The Houstonian Hotel Club and Spa is a gracious property perfect for an immersion course such as the CMIO Boot Camp. It is comfortable and somewhat secluded, and offers a great environment in which to disconnect from your daily tensions and learn. Reservations received after 5 p.m. (CST) Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011, are subject to availability and prevailing rates. CME is offered! To register, click here. If you need additional information, e-mail lisa@amia.org
The University of Minnesota School of Nursing is offering a 10x10 course that will provide a generic overview of nursing and health informatics, and a specific application of information and communication technologies in the clinical area. The primary focus is on the analysis, modeling, standardization and development, and deployment of the electronic health record and safe exchange of patient data. The course examines the implications of informatics for practice, including nursing, public health and healthcare in general. Topics will include issues on electronic health records; ethical, legislative and political informatics; and global and future informatics issues.
The course runs October 10, 2011, through January 9, 2012, and for the first time includes an in-person session at the AMIA Annual Symposium in October. Also available through the 10x10 program: • 10x10 with UAB – course begins Aug. 25, 2011 • 10x10 with Kansas University – course begins Aug. 29, 2011 Coming soon, registration will open for a November OHSU 10x10 course. To register for any of the above courses, or to read full 10x10 course descriptions, click here.
AMIA expressed its concerns to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) about a proposed rule that would modify the HIPAA Privacy Rules for accounting of disclosures. AMIA expressed extensive concerns about the proposed rule, drawing particular attention to the requirement to generate an "access report" that would indicate which individuals have accessed an individual’s personal health information. Furthermore, AMIA noted the inconsistent application and definitions of the term "access" within the proposed rule and questioned how it might be applied during patient care activities when large numbers of individuals meet to discuss a case, such as grand rounds and tumor boards.
AMIA asserted that there is no way to fully anticipate the potential organizational and financial burdens that this requirement will have on providers. AMIA also noted that implementing the proposed rule will require significant organizational resources—both technical and human-- and encouraged HHS to withdraw the access report provision of the proposed rule.
In the comments, AMIA president and CEO Ted Shortliffe wrote that while "recognizing that [HHS] has the authority to make significant changes to the HIPAA rules, AMIA believes that the assumptions made by HHS in delineating a new right to an access report are fundamentally incorrect." Click here to read AMIA's full comments and here to read the original request for comment.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) encourages Information and health technology professionals to attend a 2011 Public Health Informatics conference Aug. 21-24, 2011, at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Atlanta. Sponsored by the CDC and the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), the conference is designed to join the public health and health informatics communities to invest in the future of public health informatics and every discipline it may touch.
The 2011 conference features workgroups/ancillary meetings, informatics workshops/tutorials, and many opportunities for networking with health sector colleagues from the tribal, local, state, national and international levels. You can also provide input to CDC on how to implement current and future initiatives in the context of the larger Public Health and National Health Information Technology agendas. Attendees will have the opportunity to interact with CDC decision-makers, learn of new plans from CMS and provide input into shaping Meaningful Use guidelines. For more information, click here: www.cdc.gov/phiconference. You can also review the session agenda and register for tutorials and ancillary meetings. The registration fees are $750.00 for the entire conference or $225.00 for one day.
Also at the conference this year, the CDC will hold a Vendor Town Hall from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 22, 2011. The event gives vendors the chance to learn about the government’s informatics priorities and to interact with high-level CDC employees.
The objectives of the meeting are: 1) to better understand opportunities and obstacles related to public health participation; 2) for the CDC to hear suggestions from the vendor community on public health information exchanges as they relate to the CMS incentive program; and 3) for the CDC leadership to hear from industry and partners on ways to accelerate adoption. For additional information contact Marty Cicchinelli at Mlc7@cdc.gov
The Office of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in coordination with the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is issuing this advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) to request comment on how current regulations for protecting human subjects who participate in research might be modernized and revised to be more effective. This ANPRM seeks comment on how to better protect human subjects who are involved in research, while facilitating valuable research and reducing burden, delay and ambiguity for investigators. Click here for more information about the request.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is developing an online registry to hold genetic testing data with the overarching goal of advancing the public health research in the genetic basis of health and disease. Laboratory tests for more than 2,000 genetic conditions are available; however, there is no centralized public resource that provides information about the availability and scientific basis of these tests. Recognizing the importance of making this information easily accessible to health care providers, patients, consumers, and others, NIH is developing a voluntary registry of genetic tests. The Genetic Testing Registry will provide a centralized, online location for test developers, manufacturers and researchers to submit detailed information about genetic tests. Click here for more information.
The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, along with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Harvard Medical School’s Department of Population Medicine, and the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers has issued request for proposals (RFP) to develop the MDPHnet System, a scalable, transportable, open source, distributed-data, and distributed-analysis system that will allow public health agencies to use patient and encounter-level data residing in practice-based EHRs without requiring the transfer of protected health information. Click here for details.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a new effort to help develop scientific and engineering discoveries into useful technologies, products and processes. The NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program, a public-private partnership, will connect NSF-funded scientific research with the technological, entrepreneurial and business communities to help create a stronger national ecosystem for innovation that couples scientific discovery with technology development and societal needs. NSF plans to hold a webinar on the first Tuesday of every month at 2 p.m., (EST), to answer questions about I-Corps. Click here for more information.
The establishment of the AMIA Regional Informatics Action Working Group (RIA WG) was recently authorized by the AMIA Board of Directors and is currently seeking ‘charter’ members. The mission of the RIA WG is "to coordinate and develop communications and relevant activities among AMIA members involved in some capacity with state or regional informatics activities." The WG will represent AMIA regionally, track and share information about regional legislative and policy activities, and work to coordinate AMIA's strong national presence with state and local activities.
RIA WG Chair Neil Sarkar and Vice Chair Larry Ozeran encourage AMIA members with existing relationships with their elected officials, or who wish to develop relationships with elected legislators and other individuals involved in development of regional policy to join the RIA WG. “It is the goal of this working group to have at least one RIA WG member from each state or region,” said Neil Sarkar, “to ensure broad input to AMIA about what is happening in the trenches across our nation, and thus provide balanced regional advocacy on behalf of AMIA members that is coordinated with national initiatives.”
The Regional Informatics Action WG rose out of the need to coordinate national and regional activities. In the wake of the broad national wave of federal informatics policy changes over the last few years, much of the coming change will continue to occur at the state and regional levels. Learn more about the RIA Working Group click here.
To join the RIA WG—or any AMIA WG—log into AMIA.org , click on “Member Profile” on the log-in box, then scroll down the “My Information” page you have landed on and click on the Working Group “plus” icon. A drop-down menu will appear. Click on Regional Informatics Action to join and you will immediately see the addition to your Member Profile. Alternatively, you can select “Working Groups” under “Programs” in the top nav bar, and then click on. “Join a Working Group” in the left-hand column. Log in and choose RIA WG from the list of Working Groups to join.
AMIA student members who would like to participate in the Annual Symposium student volunteer program need to apply by Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. The Symposium offers students valuable networking and educational opportunities. Not only will you meet VIPs from the informatics world, but you will also have the chance to mingle with other students, attend tutorials and sessions for free, and get a behind-the-scenes look at how an AMIA meeting runs. To apply, click here. All applicants will be notified of volunteer decisions on Monday, August 29, 2011.
A free, online version of Stanford University’s “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence” is being offered this Sept. 26, 2011 through Dec. 16, 2011. While the class is being offered online, it is also taught at Stanford University, where it continues to be a popular intro-level class on AI. Instructors Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig will offer the online students identical materials, assignments, and exams, and the same grading criteria. Both instructors will be available for online discussions.
Sebastian Thrun is a Research Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, a Google Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the German Academy of Sciences. Thrun is best known for his research in robotics and machine learning.
Peter Norvig is Director of Research at Google Inc. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery.
A high speed internet connection is recommended as most of the course content will be video based. Access to a copy of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ is also suggested. For additional information, click here.
Listen to AMIA president and CEO Ted Shortliffe talk to recent UT Houston graduates about where to find jobs. Click here for the YouTube link.
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JAMIA Journal Club Webinar, 3 p.m. ET
Aug. 4
AMIA 2011 Early Registration deadline
Aug. 19
Joint Summits Paper Proposals 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
Aug. 31
submission deadline for NI 2012
Sept. 1
JAMIA Journal Club Webinar, 3 p.m. ET
Sept. 7-10
CMIO Boot Camp, Houston
Sept. 15
Abstracts Deadline for the American Telemedicine Association Meeting and Exposition
Oct. 6
AMIA 2011 Advance Registration deadline
Oct. 6
JAMIA Journal Club Webinar, 3 p.m. ET
Oct. 21
Joint Summits Panels, Poster, Podium Abstract Proposals deadline
Oct. 22-26
AMIA's 35th Annual Symposium on Biomedical and Health Informatics, Washington, DC
Nov. 3
JAMIA Journal Club Webinar, 3 p.m. ET
Dec. 6
JAMIA Journal Club Webinar, 3 p.m. ET
Dec. 16
Joint Summits Journal Submissions deadline
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