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JAMIA, AMIA’s bimonthly journal on informatics in biomedicine and health, premiered the first of its FREE monthly webinars last week with nearly 150 participants from universities and organizations around the nation, as well as participants from Australia and Canada. The first Club article, presented by author George Hripcsak, was “Use of Electronic Clinical Documentation: Time Spent and Team Interactions.” As the webinar concluded, one satisfied student exclaimed, “This is such a great resource for getting the latest research out and in front of the eyes and into the minds of people who need to know it!!”
Mark your calendar for the next Journal Club webinar on Thurs., July 7, at 3 p.m. ET. Jyotishman Pathak, PhD, will present, “Mapping Clinical Phenotype Data Elements to Standardized Metadata Repositories and Controlled Terminologies: the eMERGE Network Experience.”
CME credit is available for this activity. For more information, click here.
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Space is filling up quickly for the June 29 course with Oregon Health & Science University in conjunction with the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). ACEP is the largest and most influential emergency medicine association in the world. Founded in 1968, ACEP promotes the highest quality of emergency care, represents more than 25,000 emergency medicine specialists, and serves as the leading advocate for emergency physicians, their patients and the public. This course is tailored to emergency physicians and other emergency personnel. It culminates in an in-person session at the 2011 Scientific Assembly of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Registrants may claim up to 56 CME credits for this course. For more information, click here.
Also available through the 10x10 program:
- 10x10 with Stanford University—Representations and Algorithms for Computational Molecular Biology—begins June 21.
- 10x10 with OHSU—Introduction to Biomedical and Health Informatics—course July 6.
- 10x10 with University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston—Healthcare Interface Design—begins July 11.
To view course descriptions and register for any of these courses, please visit www.amia.org/e-learning.
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AMIA submitted comments this week on the proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on the Medicare Shared Savings Program: Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). In his overview of AMIA’s comments, President and CEO Ted Shortliffe asserts that ACOs, have the potential for achieving needed health care delivery and system reforms-- especially as enabled by informatics and by tools such as health IT. However, Dr. Shortliffe also enumerated a number of AMIA's concerns with the proposed rule, including the high initial health IT investment, IT governance/integration, methods of data submission, and data sharing. To see the full text of AMIA’s comments click here.
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The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), led by former Senate Majority Leaders Tom Daschle and Bill Frist, has issued a new report making the case that health IT is essential to transforming the U.S. healthcare delivery system. The report, entitled "The Role of Health IT in Supporting Health Care Transformation: Building a Strong Foundation for America's Health Care System," outlines opportunities for leveraging health IT to support reforms and offers several recommendations to help accelerate progress on health IT implementation issues. For more information, click here.
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The National Institute of Health (NIH) is sponsoring an open innovation conference, “Crowdsourcing: The Art and Science of Open Innovation," which will award prizes to spur open innovation accelerating progress in biomedical research. The meeting will include examination of problems that can be solved through open innovation, communicating scientific problems across disciplines, and testing and evaluating the solutions. The meeting will occur July 18 at NIH's Natcher Conference Center in Bethesda, Md. For more information, click here.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently issued a proposed rule on electronic prescribing. The open comment period on the rule will close on July 25, 2011. Click here to read the proposal. For more information about the Electronic Prescribing Incentive Program, click here.
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The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has issued a request for applications (RFA) to support exceptionally innovative informatics research. The RFA solicits research proposals to construct an intelligent computer program that offers health advice to a person about a complex health problem. The deadline for applications is July 25. For more information, click here.
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The planning committee for the upcoming World Health Organization’s Bulletin has issued a call for papers on establishing an evidence base for e-health. The Bulletin is one of the world's leading public health peer-reviewed journals, focusing on developing countries. GHIP (AMIA’s Global Health Informatics Partnership) is on the committee for this publication. Papers are welcome from a wide variety of settings but are particularly interested in papers that document evidence of impact of informatics in low-resource settings. Deadline for submissions is Nov. 20, 2011. For more information, click here.
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ACMI Fellow Russ B. Altman, MD, PhD, professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, and colleagues discovered a dangerous side effect of a common drug combination through the use of translational bioinformatics research. By data mining, Dr. Altman found that the widely used combination of Paxil and Pravachol may cause unexpected increases in blood glucose levels. The researchers speculate that between 500,000 and 1 million people in this country may be affected. To read more, click here.
Dr. Altman is also the course director for the Stanford University 10x10 course, beginning June 21.
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As part of their Thought Leadership Series, Elsevier is holding a webinar titled, “The Role of Evidence-based Clinical Decision Support for Meaningful Care.” Speaker Diane Hanson, RN, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Elsevier CPM Resource Center, will discuss the current reality related to adoption of evidence-based practice, evidence-based clinical decision support technology tools, and will share a vision for "meaningful care" supported by evidence-based clinical decision support and health IT. The webinar will be held June 29, at 1 p.m. ET. To register, click here.
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AMIA’s office is moving to a new location and will be closed starting at 2 p.m. ET on Wednesday, June 8. The office will reopen Monday, June 13. If you need to contact AMIA during this time, please send an email to mail@amia.org. We will do our best to respond as quickly as possible, but there will be a delay during this period of relocation and reconnection. AMIA’s new address is: 4720 Montgomery Lane, Suite 500, Bethesda, MD 20814. Thank you for your patience.
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June 8-10
AMIA Office Closed. Will reopen on June 13.
June 9
Microsoft Health Solution Webinar
June 17
New York Academy of Sciences-Columbia University Technology Forum, New York City
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
July 7
JAMIA Journal Club Webinar, 3 p.m. ET
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. 1
JAMIA Journal Club Webinar, 3 p.m. ET
Sept. 7-10
CMIO Boot Camp, Houston
Oct. 6
JAMIA Journal Club Webinar, 3 p.m. ET
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
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