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The AMIA Board of Directors appointed Kevin Fickenscher, MD, as President and Chief Executive Officer. Fickenscher replaces Ted Shortliffe, MD, PhD, a leading expert in the field of informatics, who announced his decision to step down from the position several months ago. "I am very excited to let you know that Kevin Fickenscher, MD, will be joining AMIA on 3/19/2012 and on 4/1/2012, following a 2-week transition, will officially take on the role of President and CEO,” said Gilad Kuperman, MD, PhD, Chairman of the AMIA Board of Directors.
“We are very fortunate to have someone of Kevin Fickenscher’s caliber and experience to join AMIA,” Kuperman said. “We are at a transformative stage in the development of the association, where leadership that combines the professional knowledge of informatics with strong business skills and an understanding of the diverse healthcare and scientific environment is critical. Kevin is a national and international healthcare thought leader with a proven track record in academic, healthcare delivery and corporate organizations.”
Joint Summits attendees can browse the program and create an itinerary from their mobile devices. The app is available as a native iOS (iPhone/iPad) and as a HTML5 Web app for all major mobile devices (iPhone/iPad, Android, Blackberry 7 and above). See more information.
 Manuscript, proposals and abstract submissions are due Thursday, March 15 (TODAY!) by 11:59 p.m. (EDT). The AMIA 2012 Annual Symposium will be held Nov. 3-7, in Chicago. Full details and a submission template are located on the AMIA 2012 website.
 The OHSU 10x10 course, which begins March 28, will provide introductory training to build the workforce that will enable clinically motivated use of IT to improve the quality, safety and cost-effectiveness of healthcare and public health. The goal of the virtual course is to provide a detailed overview of biomedical and health informatics to those who will work at the interface of healthcare and information technology (IT). It provides an understanding of the field from the vantage point of those who implement, lead and develop IT solutions for improving health, healthcare, public health and biomedical research.
Also, registration is open for the University of Minnesota School of Nursing 10x10 course, the only 10x10 that specializes in Nursing Informatics. Class begins April 9.
Other courses available from the 10x10 Program:
- 10x10 with OHSU in conjunction with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics – course begins April 25
- 10x10 with Nova Southeastern University – course begins May 7
To register or view course descriptions, visit the 10x10 course webpage.
The World Health Organization (WHO) released a call for eHealth Solutions for the Compendium series, which was initiated to encourage a dialogue among stakeholders and to stimulate further development and technology dissemination. The Compendium is designed to help developing countries become aware of appropriate health technologies and eHealth solutions in support of their environment. The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2012. Additional information can be obtained by clicking here.
NLM and NIBIB Workshop on "Natural Language Processing: State of the Art, Future, Directions and Applications for Enhancing Clinical Decision-Making"
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) is holding a workshop on “Natural Language Processing: State of the Art, Future Directions and Applications for Enhancing Clinical Decision-Making,” April 23-24, at Lister Hill Auditorium on the NIH main campus in Bethesda, MD. More information about the workshop, including an agenda and registration form, are available here.
The IOM Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education aims to apply an ongoing, multi-national, multi-disciplinary approach to exploring promising innovations in the health education. The Forum will provide an ongoing, innovative mechanism to cultivate new ideas through global, multi-disciplinary collaboratives, which represent formal partnerships between university-based health institutions. The four innovation collaboratives are located in Canada, India, South Africa, and Uganda.
The National Quality Forum (NQF) released its Health IT Knowledge Base to provide answers to some of the most common technical questions surrounding its health IT initiatives, including the Quality Data Model, the Measure Authoring Tool and eMeasures. The Knowledge Base specifically addresses questions that health IT stakeholders have posed to NQF on topics such as the structure and function of the Quality Data Model; features and functions of the Measure Authoring Tool; and standardization and implementation of eMeasures.
The Department of Veterans Affairs created, “Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent” (OSEHRA), a non-profit organization to accelerate EHR innovations, to develop open and accessible standards, and to establish a new model for federal software development and procurement. Seeded by an initial contribution of VA’s VistA EHR software, the community is actively engaged in advancing VistA-based EHRs, supporting joint EHR development between VA and DOD, plus promoting and supporting EHR software and related technology throughout the healthcare industry.
AHIMA Develops ICD-CM/PCS Implementation Toolkit
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) developed an ICD-10-CM/PCS Implementation Toolkit that provides tools and documents to help successfully implement ICD-10-CM/PCS.
 Privately-owned Linguamatics provides market-leading text mining solutions to empower knowledge discovery and decision support. Linguamatics is the world leader in deploying innovative natural language processing (NLP) based text mining technology for complex, high value problem solving. Linguamatics products and services are used by top commercial, academic and government organizations, including nine of the world’s Top-10 pharmaceutical companies. The Linguamatics approach enables organizations to maximize value from these resources by extracting, synthesizing and distilling this key information into meaningful high value knowledge, enabling them to gain competitive advantage through better and faster decision support. The company operates globally, with headquarters in Cambridge, UK, and US operations based in Boston, MA, USA. Visit: www.linguamatics.com
The “AMIA KR+S WG Webinar Series on Standard Biomedical Terminologies” begins Tuesday, March 20, with a session led by Dr. Daniel J. Vreeman, of the Regenstrief Institute. The session, titled LOINC: An Introduction to the Universal Catalog of Laboratory and Clinical Observations, is the first in a series of four webinars designed to help professional learn more about biomedical terminology standards, including ICD-10-CM, LOINC, RxNorm and SNOMED. The domain experts from the National Library of Medicine, the National Center for Health Statistics and the Regenstrief Institute will present principles, practicalities and recent developments of these terminologies, particularly in the context of meaningful use, certified EHRs, data exchange and so on. Below are the topics and speakers. Abstract, speaker profile, and instructions to webinar registration will be sent out soon.
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Date/time: 3/20/2012, Tuesday, 2-3 p.m. EDT Speaker: Dr. Daniel J. Vreeman, Regenstrief Institute Title: LOINC: An Introduction to the Universal Catalog of Laboratory and Clinical Observations Register here.
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Date/time: 3/26/2012, Monday, 2-3 p.m. EDT Speaker: Dr. Kin Wah Fung, NLM Title: SNOMED CT and its Use in the Electronic Health Record Register here.
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Date/time: 4/2/2012, Monday, 1-2 p.m. EDT Speaker: Dr. John Kilbourne, NLM Title: Making Use of RxNorm (Registration information to follow)
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Date/time: 4/17/2012, Tuesday, 3-4 p.m. EDT Speaker: Dr. David Berglund, CDC/OSELS/NCHS Title: An Overview of ICD-10-CM (Registration information to follow)
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