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 Selected corporate partners will host free special learning sessions over lunch at AMIA’s Joint Summits on Translational Science, March 19-23! On Thursday, March 22, from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m., Recombinant Data is pleased to welcome a distinguished panel of experts to discuss Clinical and Biospecimen Data Integration. Panelists include: Jack London, PhD, Director Shared Computing, Kimmel Cancer Center; Leanne Streja, DrPH, Sr. Programmer Analyst, City of Hope; and Srisairam Achuthan, PhD, MS, Sr. Scientific Programmer, City of Hope. The panel will be moderated by Michael Kamerick, Managing Director, Health Systems Solutions. This session will show how two institutions identify the availability of tissue samples and patient consent status based on data sets in clinical records using i2b2. Don’t miss this and the other lunch and learn sessions!
Register Online for the Joint Summits now!
To preview the 2012 Joint Summits program, please view the 2012 itinerary planner. For information about the Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, click here. We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco!
 Calling all authors and speakers! Papers, posters, panels, podium abstracts, state of the practice presentations, Working Group presymposia, tutorials, demonstrations, and partnerships in innovation presentations are due on Thursday, March 15. AMIA usually receives nearly 1,000 contributions from around the world, so fire up your keyboard and send along a manuscript or proposal to the signature informatics event. The AMIA 2012 Annual Symposium will be held Nov. 3-7. Full details and a submission template are located here.
 The School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota will offer a Nursing Informatics 10x10 course that provides a generic overview of nursing and health informatics, and a specific application of information and communication technologies in the clinical area. This 12th Interprofessional Health Informatics Distance Learning Course is part of the AMIA 10x10 Program. Its primary focus is on the analysis, modeling, standardization and development and deployment of the electronic health record and safe exchange of patient data. The course begins April 9, so reserve your spot today!
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10x10 with OHSU – course begins March 28
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10x10 with OHSU in conjunction with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics – course begins April 25
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10x10 with UIC and 10x10 with Nova Southeastern University opening soon! Both partner schools are slated to offer 10x10 courses in May.
AMIA is currently exhibiting at this year’s AMSA Annual Convention, March 8-10, at the Hyatt Regency Houston. Representatives from UT Houston’s Informatics program will be joining us to talk to some of AMSA’s more than 1,000 medical student attendees about AMIA’s programs and about the field of informatics. If you are attending this year, please be sure to stop by and see us at booth T13.
AMIA invites all members to review and provide input on the ONC’s recently released proposed rule on EHR certification, and CMS’ companion to the proposed rule on stage 2 of the meaningful use EHR incentive program. Once the proposed rules are published in the Federal Register (expected to occur around March 7), AMIA will have 60 days to submit comments.
If you are interested in participating and offering your feedback on one or both proposed rules, please contact Meryl Bloomrosen at meryl@amia.org before March 12. Please put “Meaningful Use Stage 2 Comments" in the subject line of your e-mail to Meryl. Back to top
FDA Releases Notice of Pilot Project: Electronic Submission of Nonclinical Study Data
The FDA announced an invitation to participate in a pilot evaluation program to test the electronic submission of nonclinical study data using the Standard for Exchange of Nonclinical Data (SEND). Participation in the pilot program is open to all sponsors. Submit either electronic or written requests for participation in this pilot program by May 29, 2012.
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The ONC Office of the Chief Privacy Officer (OCPO), and the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), invite the public to provide input on mobile devices' uses and the current and emerging privacy and security best practices regarding protecting and securing health information while using mobile devices. The public comment period will remain open until March 30.
The National Quality Forum’s eMeasure Learning Collaborative is conducting a free webinar titled “eMeasure Implementation: Implications in Small Practice Settings,” March 15, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. (EST). The webinar is open to the public and intended to provide information related to eMeasure implementation within small practices (e.g., physicians, private practices, and clinics).
The NIH’s web-based Genetic Testing Registry is designed to serve as a centralized public resource for clinicians, researchers and consumers to access information about the availability and scientific basis of numerous genetic tests.
 AMIA is at its best when its talented members come together for a common purpose. This occurred in May 2011 when nearly 300 public health informatics professionals converged in Orlando, Florida to discuss and articulate an informatics agenda for public health. The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association ( JAMIA) has published the summarized recommendations from the conference. The AMIA Board of Directors would like to thank AMIA members and other attendees who participated at PHI 2011, the Scientific Program and Advisory Committees who directed the conference, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation who supported the activity. The full text version of the paper is available on the JAMIA site.
JAMIA thanks its editorial board for helping to make the review process faster (the median time for the first decision on a manuscript is below 30 days). The nearly 70 percent increase in submissions in 2011, due in part to diversification of JAMIA contents, also represents the globalization of informatics. To enhance an already impressive set of experts, and to expand the set of institutions and nations represented in the editorial board, JAMIA welcomes the following new editorial board members:
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Michael Becich, MD, PhD (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
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Ricardo Bellazzi, PhD (University of Pavia, Italy)
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Ju Han Kim, MD, PhD (Seoul National University, Korea)
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Michio Kimura, MD, PhD (Hamamatsu University, Japan)
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Yu-Chuan (Jack) Li, MD, PhD (Taipei Medical University, Taiwan)
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Victor Maojo, PhD (Politechnic University of Madrid, Spain)
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Stuart Speedie, PhD (University of Minnesota, USA)
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Jeremy Wyatt, PhD (University of Warwick, UK)
In addition, Michael Chiang, MD (Oregon Health Sciences University, USA), was appointed Assistant Editor and will coordinate all activities related to the Student Editorial Board.
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10x10 with OHSU, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
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