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 AMIA has received numerous questions since the American Board of Medical Subspecialties (ABMS) approved the clinical informatics medical subspecialty in September 2011. Physicians are curious about the examination requirements and how to prepare for the test; informatics training programs wish to learn more about developing a fellowship program in clinical informatics; and professionals who are not eligible for the clinical informatics medical subspecialty have questions about their certification options. AMIA, in coordination with the American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM), the sponsor of the subspecialty examination, has released a set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) as a resource to provide information about these exciting developments in the field of informatics. Read more here. Back to top
 Biomedical informatics trainees interested in serving on the JAMIA Student Editorial Board (SEB) are invited to submit application materials. JAMIA will select six SEB members who will be expected to serve a one-year term, which may be renewed for a second term by mutual agreement. SEB members will be assigned up to six manuscripts per year to review. Students will receive feedback about their reviews from the journal editors, and will be invited to attend annual Editorial Board meetings. Application materials may be found on the AMIA web site, and must be submitted by March 5, 2012. Click here for more information.
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 AMIA’s Joint Summits on Translational Science announced an impressive line-up of keynote speakers who represent the spectrum of translational science at this year’s event, March 19-23, in San Francisco. The keynoters are:
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Trey Ideker, PhD, Division Chief of Medical Genetics at University of California San Diego School of Medicine. Keynotes Monday, March 19
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Howard J. Jacob, PhD, Warren P. Knowles Chair of Genetics, Director, Human and Molecular Genetics Center, Professor, Departments of Physiology and Pediatrics Vice Chair of Research in Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin. Keynotes Tuesday, March 20
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Robert M. Califf, MD,Vice Chancellor for Clinical Research, Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Duke University’s Translational Medicine Institute. Keynotes Wednesday, March 21
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Russ Altman, MD, PhD, Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics, and Medicine (and Computer Science, by courtesy), Chairman, Department of Bioengineering Director, Biomedical Informatics Training Program Stanford University. Keynotes Wednesday, March 21.
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Peter Embi, MD, MS, Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics Chief Research Information Officer, The Ohio State University Medical Center. Keynotes Friday, March 23.
GROUP REGISTRATION SPECIAL! AMIA is pleased to make available a special offer to institutions that routinely send large groups of attendees to the Summits. This offer applies to the registration for the TBI Summit, the CRI Summit, or both. For every 10 registrations from a single institution, one complimentary registration will be issued by AMIA. A query of the attendee roster from the 2011 Joint Summits demonstrates there are several institutions that qualify, so we encourage informatics training programs and institutions to organize their group. Contact Dasha Cohen at dasha@amia.org for more information.
Click here to register now! Advanced registration deadline is Feb. 23. To preview the 2012 Joint Summits program, visit the CRI Itinerary Planner, and the TBI Itinerary Planner. For hotel information, click here to see details and rates for the Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco. We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco!
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 Biomedical Informatics leaders from around the world are preparing for the 11th International Congress on Nursing Informatics (NI2012), June 23-27, in Montreal. If you haven’t already marked your calendar for this important Congress, please do so now. The Congress Preview is accessible online. For more information, visit the NI2012 website. The conference Twitter hashtag is #imiani2012. 
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 If you need to brush up on the basics of informatics, there’s still time to register for the virtual 10x10 course with Kansas University. The course began Jan. 30, but additional registrants are being accepted. Learn more here. Also, if you missed out on the opportunity to register for the University of Utah 10x10 course that focuses on informatics in public health, consider registering now. The virtual course began Feb. 1, but you can learn more about it and register by clicking here.
Meanwhile, registration is open for The University of Alabama Birmingham’s popular 10x10 introductory course on the role of information and communication technologies (IT) in healthcare delivery. This web-based course, which begins March 1, provides an overview on the topic of IT in healthcare delivery and its role in improving the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare delivery. Students will be able to discuss the historical antecedents of the present use of IT, as well as the current and likely future uses of healthcare IT. Register Now!
Also available through the 10x10 program:
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10x10 with OHSU – course begins March 28
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10x10 with University of MN School of Nursing – course begins April 9
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10x10 with OHSU in conjunction with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics – course begins April 25
To register or view course descriptions for any of the above courses, click here.
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AMIA plans to submit comments in response to two requests: 1) The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s (PCORI) draft of the National Priorities for Research and Research Agenda. Learn more here); and 2) the deliberations of the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director Working Group on Data and Informatics. Learn more here. AMIA asks members to provide input by Feb. 24. Members are encouraged to communicate their input via AMIA’s WG, ACMI’s Public Policy Liaisons and AMIA’s Public Policy Committee. Please contact Meryl Bloomrosen, AMIA’s VP for Public Policy and Government Relations, at Meryl@amia.org, if you have any questions.
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The National Cancer Policy Forum will hold a public workshop Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 27-28, at the Keck Center of The National Academies in reference to informatics in cancer research. Through invited presentations and discussions among participants, the workshop will explore the range of challenges and opportunities inherent in linking and sharing exponentially growing amounts of big data from basic discovery research, translational research, product development, clinical trials and comparative effectiveness cancer research. Illustrative use cases and models will be examined.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights launched a Privacy & Security Mobile Device Project to help consumers understand health information obtained while using mobile devices. Information about other mHealth activities can be found online.
The National Quality Forum (NQF) revised its list of serious reportable adverse events to include events that could occur in four settings: hospitals, outpatient/office-based surgery centers, ambulatory practice settings/office-based practices, and long-term care/skilled nursing facilities.
Student teams wishing to participate in the Institute of Medicine-National Academy of Engineering’s health app challenge have until Feb. 10 to register. Student teams are challenged to develop effective, innovative apps for the nation’s pressing health issues.
A National Academies report on CMS’ plans to modernize its IT capabilities may be accessed online by clicking here. The report, titled “Strategies and Priorities for Information Technology at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,” was developed by a committee chaired by AMIA President and CEO Ted Shortliffe. Several other AMIA members served on the committee, which has made recommendations on how CMS’ business processes, practices and information systems can best be developed to meet today's and tomorrow's demands.
For up-to-date information about IMIA, its members and its activities, check out the association’s new website, IMIA News, at http://news.imia.info. The site contains the most frequently updated news related to IMIA, as well as material from the wider biomedical and health informatics communities globally.
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AMIA has officially launched the new online communities platform for our Working Groups. This change will give you much more flexibility and choice in how you interact with your fellow members and provide a rich environment for member-based communication. The web-based Socious platform offers more than the simple "lists" that you’re used to. It provides state-of-the-art management of communities and discussions. To access the new communities, click here and login using your AMIA login information.
We will be completely migrating all archived content and shutting down the old listservs at the end of February. I hope you will take an opportunity to review the current list of working groups on your profile in the AMIA database. You should have already received an e-mail from the old listserv of the working groups that you belong to advising you of the change.
If you have any questions about this new member benefit, please contact AMIA’s director of member services, Rob Rader at rob@amia.org.
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March 19-23
AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science
March 28
10x10 with OHSU
April 9
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