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AMIA Submits Comments on Meaningful Use and Certification Criteria
AMIA submitted comments in response to the notices of proposed rule-making (NPRMs) for Stage 2 of meaningful use and updated certification criteria. Many medical and professional organizations have submitted comments, stirring up commentary on the Internet. Read AMIA’s position statement.
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AMIA Seeks Member Input to New Requests for Comments
AMIA is planning to submit comments in response to two forthcoming Requests for Information (RFI) from the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology (ONC). RFI topics:
- HIE/trust and privacy/security governance.
- Health Information Technology and Patient Safety Plan
Contact Meryl Bloomrosen, AMIA’s Vice President for Public Policy if you are interested in helping prepare AMIA’s responses to one or both RFIs. Please send an email to Meryl at Meryl@amia.org. In the subject line indicate the RFI(s) in which you are interested.
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No Matter Where -- a Film by Dr. Kevin Johnson
 AMIA member, Dr. Kevin Johnson, Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has introduced a four-minute documentary trailer as a preview for a feature length film suitable for the Discovery Channel about the patient and “on the ground” perspective of implementing health information exchange. Dr. Johnson is seeking $200,000+ in funding for the effort.
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Patricia Dykes, Regional Finalist for Nursing Excellence Award
 AMIA member, Patricia Dykes, RN, DNSc, MA, Senior Nurse Scientist and Research Program Director, Brigham and Woman’s Hospital, is one of five finalists from the New England Region for the Nurse.com/Nursing Spectrum 2012 Nursing Excellence Award for Advancing and Leading the Profession. Dykes’ passion is using informatics tools to establish links between the work of nurses and positive patient outcomes. She has published more than 70 peer-reviewed manuscripts and more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, proceedings and presentations.
Submitted by AMIA member and Nursing Informatics Working Group Chair, Rosemary Kennedy , PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN. She is also Vice President, Health Information Technology, National Quality Forum.
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 The AMIA Board of Directors attended their first meeting hosted at AMIA’s new headquarters office on May 3 in Bethesda, Md. Members addressed a packed agenda which included an overview by new President and CEO Dr. Kevin Fickenscher on the future goals and direction of AMIA. Dr. Fickenscher joined AMIA on March 19. AMIA continues to attract more new members to what is inarguably one of the best interdisciplinary, research and data-driven informatics professional organizations in the field. While other organizations can provide depth in an individual discipline, AMIA excels at bringing together the strength of many voices across the spectrum of health and healthcare related professions. AMIA members have always understood that informatics does not equal HIT. The power to improve quality, reduce cost and offer better care lies in the informatics and analytics of healthcare data.
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 We’re making the AMIA twitter feed more searchable -- @AMIAinformatix is now @AMIAinformatics. If you are following already, don’t change a thing, your feed will update automatically. New followers join the conversation @AMIAinformatics.
 Key Ring is a smart phone app that allows you to store all of your reward programs on your phone. Key Ring is available on iPhone, Android, Windows and BlackBerry platforms. To add your AMIA membership ID# to your Key Ring app:
 Download Key Ring app to your smart phone. (from your apps store or scan the QR code)- From the Key Ring menu, click the “Add Card” button and select “No Barcode”.
- You can then click the “Select Program” option and select “AMIA Membership”.
- Enter your Membership ID# {cst_id} and click the “Create Card” button.
You’re done! Your AMIA membership ID number is one of your key ring programs so you can easily reference your AMIA membership. Visit www.keyringapp.com or download the app from your apps store.
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 The Clinical Informatics in Intensive Care Working Group (ICI-WG) brings together the expertise of clinicians, researchers, engineers, programmers and business personnel toward one goal, achieving improvement in outcomes for critically ill and injured patients with help of medical informatics. The specific objectives of the “Clinical Informatics in Intensive Care” AMIA Working group are here. ICI-WG is led by Vitaly Herasevich, MD, PhD, Chair.
Active AMIA members who are also members of the WG may post. To ensure that you are a member of a particular WG, please login at www.amia.org/myprofile. Visit the online community for this group at communities.amia.org. To send a message to this group, use ICI-WG@lists.amia.org
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 The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston’s introduces its second 10x10 course “Healthcare Interface Design.” The online course focuses on EMR, human-computer interaction, human factors and Health IT usability. Students will master the fundamental principles and methods in health interface design and learn how to evaluate the usability of existing systems.
Student Profile: “Healthcare Interface Design” is intended for health IT professionals, CIOs, CMIOs, system developers and programmers, researchers and informaticians, physicians, nurses, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and other healthcare professionals. Course begins July 23, register now!
Upcoming 10x10 Virtual Courses. Plan now and advance your career!
May 25 10x10 with University of Illinois Chicago
June 27 10x10 with Oregon Health and Science University in conjunction with ACEP
July 23 10x10 with University of Texas Health Science Center
July 25 10x10 with Oregon Health and Sciences University
To view course descriptions or to register, please visit the 10x10 website.
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 NI2012, the premier nursing informatics conference held in Montreal, June 23-27, is a rare opportunity for nurses, midwives, community health workers and scientists to participate in a program built around the world’s most knowledgeable and highly-trained informatics professionals. Some sessions simultaneously interpreted in Spanish. Register today and browse the complete session detail.
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Last chance! Survey closes May 18. The purpose of the 2012 Deloitte-AMIA Health Informatics Industry Maturity survey is to gain a better understanding of the maturity of health informatics in the life sciences, provider and payer sectors of the healthcare industry. The results of this survey will provide the health and biomedical informatics community with insights such as:
- Health informatics visioning and strategy norms within industry sectors
- Health informatics operations and capabilities within industry sectors
- Needed and planned health informatics capabilities within industry sectors
- The use of EHR systems and data for research and other secondary purposes
- Penetration of common practices in standards, policies, and information management
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Join the conversation @AMIAinformatics and @AMIApolicy. AMIA’s LinkedIn community has more than 4000 participants.
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AHRQ released a report entitled” Enabling Health Care Decision-making through Clinical Decision Support and Knowledge Management.” Several AMIA members served as technical experts and reviewers for this effort. View the report.
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On May 22 NIST and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) will host a workshop on designing EHRs with a user-centered approach. Developers, designers, product managers and human factors professionals at electronic health record vendors will learn how to enhance the usability of their systems by experiencing and examining innovative design processes. AMIA’s Usability Task Force has been tapped to help facilitate some of the breakout sessions. More information.
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The CMS Innovation Center has announced the first set of awardees for the Health Care Innovation Awards. These organizations will implement projects in communities across the nation that aim to deliver better health, improved care and lower costs to people enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
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New AMIA President and CEO, Dr. Kevin Fickenscher, blogs bi-weekly on 
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