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Capitalize on your AMIA membership by registering early for the 2011 Annual Symposium Oct. 22-26 at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC. The most attractive rates—designed for members—are only available until Aug. 4! This year’s program theme, "Improving Health: Informatics and IT Changing the World," is designed to provide attendees with the most advanced information and trends in science and policy associated with biomedical and health informatics. Because the Symposium offers a multitude of sessions, speakers, and events, attendees should consider using AMIA’s 2011 Online Itinerary Planner to avoid missing important meetings. Use the Planner to search by days, topics, authors, and session type. Then download your schedule to your online calendar. View more and register, click here.
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Physicians and nurses embarking on CMIO/CNIO leadership roles in healthcare delivery organizations shouldn’t miss AMIA’s upcoming CMIO Boot Camp. Scheduled Sept. 7–10, 2011, at the gracious Houstonian Hotel Club & Spa, in Houston, Boot Camp provides opportunity to engage with the field’s top leaders who will discuss best practices and share evidence.
CMIO Boot Camp aims to support CMIOs and CNIOs to achieve ‘meaningful EHR use’. Led this year by Program Co-chairs Gilad J. Kuperman, MD, PhD, FACMI of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University, and Paul Tang, MD, MS, of Palo Alto Medical Foundation, the Boot Camp course produces a learning experience, and includes:
- Interactive Case studies
- Small group Problem-solving exercise
- A Team project completed during the program.
New to the faculty this year are Richard Gibson, PhD, MBA, Providence Health and Services – Oregon Region, and M. Michael Shabot, MD, FACS, FCCM, FACMI, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Houston, Texas. For more about this must-attend CME activity for clinical practitioners, click here.
Registration is limited to 50 people. Hotel reservations received after 5 p.m. (CST) Wednesday, Aug. 17, or after the AMIA block is filled (whichever comes first) are subject to availability and prevailing rates. Got questions? E-mail lisa@amia.org
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While the 11th International Congress on Nursing Informatics isn’t until next year, important deadlines associated with paper submissions are quickly approaching. Individuals planning to attend the International Congress, scheduled June 23-27, 2012, in Montreal, Canada, are invited to submit papers, poster abstracts, or proposals by Aug. 31. First-time authors or non-native English speakers who wish to take advantage of editorial assistance for proposal submissions have until July 31 to apply for assistance. This triennial event is an exciting forum for nurses to generate and share information, knowledge and research; examine the impact of health IT on their profession; and gain insight into upcoming priorities and future directions in the expanding HIT-enabled environment they work in. Send this message to your organization’s team of nurses—get them excited about Nursing Informatics! Learn more at www.ni2012.org.
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Join Editor-in-Chief Lucila Ohno-Machado and guest author Yves A. Lussier, MD, Associate Director of Informatics at the University of Illinois, Chicago, when they meet online to discuss: "Protein-network modeling of prostate cancer: gene signatures reveals essential pathways in disease recurrence". Dr. Lussier’s article appears in Vol. 18, Issue 4 of JAMIA, AMIA’s peer-reviewed research journal that reports on what’s happening in informatics in biomedicine and health six times a year and daily online! The webinar is at 3 p.m. (EST) Thursday, Aug. 4. It is free, but you must register in advance. To register, click here.
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AMIA’s 10 X 10 course with KUMC provides a broad survey of health informatics focused on five themes: health informatics foundations; clinical decision support; human/organizational factors; public health informatics; and current issues in health informatics, including best practices. Participants will develop and demonstrate a practical, innovative small-group information technology (IT) project and present the project in a face-to-face session at the Annual Symposium. The University of Kansas 10x10 course's targeted audience is clinicians, public health practitioners and researchers, IT professionals, and others interested in the field of health informatics. Register now and become a part of KUMC’s third 10x10 offering.
Also available through the 10x10 program:
To view course descriptions, 10x10 course dates, or to register, please visit: www.amia.org/education/10x10-courses
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a new draft guidance titled "Mobile Medical Applications." The draft guidance is intended to inform manufacturers, distributors, and other entities about how the FDA intends to apply its regulatory authorities to select software applications intended for use on mobile platforms. Click here to read the Federal Register notice.
FDA also announced a public workshop on the adoption, implementation, and use of unique device identifiers (UDIs) in various health-related electronic data systems. The purpose of the workshop is to engage multiple stakeholders to obtain information and comments on issues confronting the effective and efficient incorporation of UDIs into appropriate data sets, to identify barriers and incentives to their adoption and use, and to understand the best solutions and practices to resolve open issues. The workshop is Sept. 12-13, 2011, in Bethesda, Md. Click here for more information.
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is looking for qualified individuals who wish to be considered for membership on the National Biodefense Science Board. Nominees are being accepted in the following categories: industry; academia, practicing healthcare professional, and organizations representing other appropriate stakeholders. Click here for more information.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced a new competition featuring a $50,000 prize to the first team that builds a personal health record (PHR) using the Blue Button download format, and arranges to install the PHR on the websites of 25,000 physicians across America. Sponsored by the VA Innovation Initiative (VAi2), the Blue Button Prize Competition is open to all U.S. organizations and individuals. Click here for more information.
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A National Research Council report recommends steps for the FDA and other agencies and professional associations to ensure that medical devices and health information technologies used in home health care are easy and safe, and that caregivers, whether formal or informal, are well-trained in their use. "Health Care Comes Home: The Human Factors," reviews the state of current knowledge and practice about many aspects of health care in residential settings and explores the short- and long-term effects of emerging trends and technologies. Click here to read the news release.
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is seeking public comments on draft standards for data collection on race, ethnicity, sex, primary language, and disability status, as required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA requires that data collection standards for these measures be used, to the extent practicable, in all national population health surveys. HHS will accept comments until Aug.1. Click here for complete details.
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is seeking public comments on draft standards for data collection on race, ethnicity, sex, primary language, and disability status, as required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA requires that data collection standards for these measures be used, to the extent practicable, in all national population health surveys. HHS will accept comments until Aug.1. Click here for complete details.
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The AMIA Board of Directors and the Nominating Committee have announced an outstanding group of nominees for the upcoming Board of Directors election. Every attempt has been made to provide a balance of representation from the informatics community. Click here to see the slate. According to Article 8 of the AMIA bylaws, AMIA’s voting members may add nominees to this slate by petition. Petitions must be received by the AMIA office no later than Aug. 25. If you have questions about this process, please contact Kristin Schelin, AMIA’s Director of Operations and Programs, Kristin@amia.org. Official election results will be announced during the State of the Association Meeting at the Annual Symposium on Oct. 25 in Washington, DC. On behalf of the Nominating Committee, AMIA thanks you for your thoughtful consideration of these and possible other nominees.
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NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore) Foundation held an Investiture Ceremony for Jonathan C. Silverstein, MD, MS, FACS, FACMI, who was invested into the Davis Family Chair of Informatics, an endowed chair gifted by William and Judith Davis. Dr. Silverstein is Vice President for Clinical Research Informatics at NorthShore in Evanston, Ill., where he heads the Center for Clinical and Research Informatics (CCRI).
"I deeply appreciate Bill and Judy Davis' generous gift," Dr. Silverstein said. "Bill Davis is a particularly appropriate benefactor for this because he understands the challenges we face very well, having brought R.R. Donnelley through the transition from the mechanical world to the digital world and leading NorthShore University HealthSystem with extraordinary success in EMR." William L. Davis is the retired chairman, president, and CEO of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company. He also serves on the Board of Directors of NorthShore University HealthSystem, previously serving as Chairman of the Board." To read more, click here.
NorthShore University HealthSystem, in Evanston, Ill., is also seeking to recruit six research faculty to build the Center for Clinical and Research Informatics. Dr. Jonathan C. Silverstein, vice president for Clinical Research Informatics at NorthShore in Evanston, Ill., said the organization may recruit all six new faculty members this year. For additional information on the positions, click here. Click here for more information on the organization.
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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Medical Informatics doctoral program selected AMIA member Shashank Agarwal as the first recipient of the UWM Biomedical and Health Informatics Dissertation Award. In his four years at UWM, Shashank has maintained a 4.0 GPA and has published 15 peer-reviewed papers, including journal articles in JAMIA, BMC Biomedical Informatics, Bioinformatics, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioninformatics, the Journal of Biomedical Informatics, and the Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration. His dissertation is entitled "Integrating Information Retrieval, Image Processing, Summarization, Natural Language Processing, and User Interfacing for Phenotype-Genotype Association. His degree is expected in Spring 2012. To read more, click here.
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Imagine how much bigger, stronger, more diverse, and more resourceful AMIA would be if every AMIA member recruited a new one to the Association. With so much activity in our professional world, with so much burgeoning science, and the expanding work force, a bigger and bolder AMIA should be a dream everyone can appreciate and work toward!
The primary goal of AMIA’s 2011 Member-Get-A-Member Drive is an expanded association with more potential collaborators and partners with whom to share vast stores of expertise.
This year, your Membership Committee asks you to personally be responsible for bringing in one new AMIA member. Help just one of the new trainees coming through one of the ONC-funded educational programs to find his/her way to AMIA. Any emerging professional would benefit greatly from AMIA membership, its high-value meetings, and its extraordinary network of experts and mentors!
Members who successfully recruit new members will be invited to participate in the Member-Get-A-Member recognition ceremony at the AMIA Annual Symposium in October. The top three recruiters will receive prizes for their efforts.
To refer a colleague, visit www.amia.org/tell-a-friend or send a prospective member the direct link to membership information: www.amia.org/join-amia Be sure to advise new members to include your name on their online application as the member that referred them.
Thank you for your dedication and for striving to make AMIA a bigger, more highly connected professional association for informatics leaders and professionals.
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Here are a few quick tips to help make your AMIA membership work for you.
1. Add a Working Group to your profile. Log-in on the AMIA.org home page and scroll to the bottom of the page where you will see your current working groups. Clicking the plus sign on the right will bring up AMIA’s 23 working groups. Add any to your profile and you are instantly included as a member: use the listserve to engage with like-minded WG members.
2. Log into JAMIA – If your AMIA membership includes access to JAMIA you can log-in by visiting http://jamia.bmj.com/. In the upper right hand corner, you will see a user name field and a password field. Your user name is your e-mail address associated with your AMIA membership. If this is the first time you are logging in, your default password is "password". Once you are logged in, you can change your password to something more secure.
3. Access the AMIA Membership Directory – Access AMIA’s membership directory by logging into AMIA.org and then clicking on Member Profile on the log-in box. Once on a new page, click "Member Directory" on the left-hand menu. Have questions about these or any other AMIA benefits? Contact Rob Rader, AMIA’s Director of Member Services at rob@amia.org
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July 31
Last day to apply for editorial assistance for NI 2012 submission process
Aug. 4
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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