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AMIA's spring education event, PHI 2011: Setting the Next Informatics Agenda for Public Health, is a national meet-up on public health to organically collaborate in real time, participate in thought-leadership, and help bring about a consensus agenda for the future of public health informatics. This conference is somewhat different from many other health-related meetings: its successful outcome is completely dependent upon the leadership, innovation, dedication, knowledge, and vision of those who attend.
PHI 2011's meeting agenda is predicated on breakout sessions that will occur in key areas of public health:
- Ethics
- Technical frameworks
- Professional training and workforce development
- Research and evaluation
- Sustainability
After two-and-a-half days of focused discussions led by invited experts, reports from the above-noted group sessions will result in a fully developed national agenda for public health informatics.
More detailed information about the agenda, keynote speakers, and registration is online at http://phi2011.amia.org.
Six organizations have joined as AMIA's Collaborative Partners for this timely and catalytic event: American College of Preventive Medicine, Association of Public Health Laboratories, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, National Association for Public Health Information Technology, Public Health Informatics Institute, and Public Health Data Standards Consortium.
RTI International is supporting AMIA as a corporate sponsor of the meeting.
PHI 2011 is scheduled for May 25–27, at the Swan and Dolphin Hotel, in Orlando. Early registration ends April 7. To register, click here.
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 San Francisco--A student at University of Pittsburgh, Wei Wei, received the first Marco Ramoni Distinguished Paper Award for Translational Bioinformatics last week. The winning paper will be recommended for journal publication with other top contributions from the Joint Summits.
The award was established to honor and memorialize Marco Ramoni, PhD, an AMIA member since 2001, who was a superb informatics professional, and who advanced the biomedical informatics field throughout his extraordinary career.
The generosity of scores of individual donors and a matching corporate gift from Microsoft made this year's award possible. Individuals who would like to support the Marco Ramoni Distinguished Award for 2012 can contribute online by clicking here.
Corporate members interested in supporting this scholarship award should contact Jonathan Grau, jonathan@amia.org.
Other notes that wrap up this year's Joint Summits:
- Program attendance grew 30 percent from last year; more evidence that this meeting is the go-to event for translational scientists.
- Next year the Joint Summits Program Chairs are Nigam Shah for the TBI Summit, and Michael Kahn for the CRI Summit.
- Post meeting resources, including slide presentations of the most popular sessions are available online here.
- Claim your CME or CE credit online here.
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Today is the day: March 17, 2011. Until 11:59 EDT, AMIA will accept proposals for the Annual Symposium on Biomedical and Health Informatics, Oct. 22-26, 2011. The meeting will take place at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC. Detailed information about the tracks, categories of submission, student papers, posters, panels, workshops and more is online at www.amia.org/amia2011/proposals.
Should you require technical help online, select the orange "Get Help Now" link in the top right corner of the AMIA 2011 submission site.
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The University of Minnesota School of Nursing (UMN) 10x10 course begins on April 11. The course examines the implications of informatics for practice, including nursing, public health and healthcare in general. It discusses EHR issues; relates ethical, legislative and political issues of informatics; and explores global and future informatics issues. Students who complete the course can claim up to 56.18 ANCC credits and/or 67.4 Minnesota Board of Nursing (MBN) credits. The course is taught by Bonnie Westra, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor and also Co-Director of the Center for Nursing, Minimum Data Set Knowledge Discovery.
Other available 10x10 courses include:
- 10x10 with Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in conjunction with the American Dietetic Association—begins April 13
- 10x10 with University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC)—begins May 27; registration deadline is May 6
- 10x10 with Nova Southeastern University—begins May 16
- 10x10 with Stanford University—begins June 21
- 10x10 with OHSU in conjunction with the American College of Emergency Physicians—begins June 29
- 10x10 with OHSU—begins April 27
Please visit www.amia.org/e-learning to view course descriptions and to register for any of the courses listed above.
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AMIA is pleased to announce that Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island has agreed to serve as Honorary Co-Host for the AMIA 2011 Capitol Hill Day on April 14. Register by March 18 to hold your spot among AMIA members who will converge on Capitol Hill next month to engage their elected Representatives and Senators—and their staff—in substantive conversation about the future of informatics in biomedicine and health, and to provide updates and help on any related issues of interest to those who toil in our country's legislative body. The registration deadline for AMIA's 2011 Hill Day is approaching fast. Click here to register now!
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AMIA submitted comments recently to the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) in response to their request for public comments on the latest draft of the Institute's strategic plan. AMIA's comments were informed by AMIA's Nursing Informatics Working Group (NIWG), which promotes the advancement of nursing informatics within the larger interdisciplinary context of health informatics. Among other things, AMIA is pleased to see that NINR has recognized the increasingly important role that technology and informatics tools are playing in nursing research, education, and practice by including goals related to these areas at multiple points in the plan. AMIA's full comments are available here, while NINR's Draft Strategic Plan is available here.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued a final rule to reclassify Medical Device Data Systems (MDDSs). MDDS devices are intended to transfer, store, convert (from one format to another according to preset specifications), or display medical device data. MDDSs perform all intended functions without controlling or altering the function of any connected medical devices. An MDDS is not intended to be used in connection with active patient monitoring. The FDA's final rule, which becomes effective on April 18, 2011, reclassifies MDDSs from class III (premarket approval) into class I (general controls). Click here to view the final rule in the Federal Register.
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announced the availability of a new beta version of the Common Format for Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) for public review and comment. The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 provides for the formation of Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs), which collect, aggregate, and analyze confidential information regarding the quality and safety of healthcare delivery. AHRQ coordinates the development of a set of common definitions and reporting formats that allow healthcare providers to voluntarily collect and submit standardized information regarding patient safety events. Click here for more information.
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The National Quality Forum recently announced a call for nominations for a Steering Committee for Healthcare Disparities and Cultural Competency Consensus Standards. The two-phase project will endorse measures specifically addressing cultural competency and disparities across settings and populations, and identify disparities-sensitive measure sets and gaps within the NQF portfolio of endorsed standards. All nominations must be submitted online via the NQF website by tomorrow, Friday, March 18, at 6:00 pm EDT. Click here for more information.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently made available the 2011 version of the International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM). ICD-10-CM is the United States' modification of the World Health Organization's ICD-10. The term 'clinical' is used to emphasize the modification's intent: to serve as a useful tool in the area of classification of morbidity data for indexing of medical records, medical care review, and ambulatory and other medical care programs, as well as for basic health statistics. Click here for more information.
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 William Tierney, MD, FACMI, has been chosen as the 2011 Morris F. Collen Award recipient. The award recipient is selected by the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) each year to honor an individual whose personal commitment and dedication to biomedical informatics has made a lasting impression on the field. Later this year, just prior to the award's presentation at AMIA's Annual Symposium, news of the award will be formally announced to external media and the public.
Dr. Tierney is president and CEO of Regenstrief Institute, Inc., and Chancellor's Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Clinical Effectiveness Research at Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Tierney, a longstanding member of AMIA, was elected an ACMI Fellow in 1988.
The Collen Award is named after informatics pioneer Morris F. Collen, MD, a founding physician of Kaiser Permanente. This year, the prestigious award will be presented at the opening session of AMIA's 35th Annual Symposium on Biomedical and Health Informatics, Oct. 22-26, 2011, at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC. Be there to hear about Dr. Tierney's achievements and why he was selected for this high honor.
For more information about past Collen Award winners, click here.
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The Student Working Group is one of the most active, fastest growing groups within AMIA. To attract students and new interest to the group, The Student Working Group is hosting an Informatics Meet-up in Atlanta on April 2. Go for 'Networking and professional updates—all in one fun Saturday!' The meet-up will feature talks from Muzna Mirza, MD; Richard A. Olson, MD; AMIA Board Member Eta S. Berner, EdD; and PHI 2011 Program Chair Barbara L. Massoudi, MPH, PhD. Topics will include the Situation Awareness as the Basis for User-Centered Design and AMIA's PHI 2011 meeting on public health informatics. If you are in the area, be sure to stop by Saturday, April 2, 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Manuel's Tavern, "The Back Bar Room," 602 N. Highland Avenue Northeast in Atlanta. The meet-up organizers are Muzna Mirza, Rich Olson, and Steve Luxenberg.
Click here to RSVP for the event. If you have ideas for adding value to the event, please send the organizers your comments when you RSVP.
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Are you a leader of an academic informatics training program and not yet a member of AMIA's Academic Forum? Learn more about the benefits of the Forum, AMIA's membership unit dedicated to serving the needs of post-baccalaureate biomedical and health informatics training programs. On Tuesday, March 22, 2011, AMIA will host an audio conference for Forum members to finalize a formal set of policies and procedures, brainstorm topics for the 5th Annual Conference scheduled for Monday, June 27, 2011, in Rockville, Maryland, and hear about AMIA's advocacy efforts for informatics training program on Capitol Hill.
If you are interested in learning more about the Academic Forum, please contact Lisa Anderson at lisa@amia.org and visit here.
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Mar. 17
Submissions deadline for AMIA Annual Symposium 2011
Mar. 22
Academic Forum Audio Conference, lisa@amia.org
April 2
Student Working Group Meet-up, Atlanta
Apr. 14
Capitol Hill Day
Apr. 20
IEEE International Symposium Submissions deadline
May 6
Deadline to Register for UIC 10x10
May 25-27
PHI 2011: Setting the Next Informatics Agenda for Public Health, Orlando, Fl.
June 27-30
24th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Bristol, UK
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
Oct. 22-26
AMIA's 35th Annual Symposium on Biomedical and Health Informatics, Washington, DC
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