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The chair of AMIA’s Consumer Health Informatics Working Group, Lindsey B. Hoggle, MS, Managing Partner at Health Project Partners, LLC, was invited to write a guest post for Informatics for Consumer Health blog that appears on the National Cancer Institute website at NIH. Informatics for Consumer Health focuses on the coordination of health information, technology, and health care delivery that empowers providers to manage care and increases the ability of consumers to gain mastery over their own health. This initiative is led by a collaboration of Federal agencies, including Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Library of Medicine (NLM), and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). Lindsey discusses consumer health informatics as the mirror image of public health informatics and how these two areas work “in concert” with one another. This conversation will continue at PHI 2011 in Orlando, Fla. on May 25-27.
PHI 2011 is approaching fast. Advance deadline for this meeting is TODAY, May 12. Online registration will close on Friday, May 13, but onsite registration will be available on a walk-in basis. For more information, click here.
Visit NCI/NIH blog and join the discussion!
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The Nova Southeastern University (NSU) course begins May 16 and slots are still open for a spot in this sought after “Survey of Biomedical Informatics” course. This online interactive course provides an introduction to the discipline of biomedical informatics. This course will introduce the student to the use of computers for processing, organizing, retrieving, and utilizing biomedical information at the molecular, biological system, clinical and healthcare organization levels. The NSU 10x10 course is targeted at individuals with varied backgrounds including medical, nursing, pharmacy, administration, other allied sciences, information technology, and computer science. It will also provide a stepping stone for those wishing to further their education and career development in the field of biomedical informatics.
Also available for registration:
- 10x10 with University of Illinois Chicago—registration deadline extended to May 18, course begins May 27.
- 10x10 with Stanford University—registration available through July 1, course begins June 21.
- 10x10 with OHSU in conjunction with the American College of Emergency Physicians—registration deadline and course begins June 29.
- 10x10 with University of Minnesota School of Nursing—registration deadline and course begins July 11.
- 10x10 with University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston—AMIA’s newest 10x10 registration deadline is July 10, course begins July 11.
Please visit www.amia.org/e-learning to view course descriptions and register.
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Recently, Ted Shortliffe, MD, PhD, AMIA president and CEO, gave the keynote address for Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (CICATS) Biomedical Informatics Seminar Series. Because the field of biomedical informatics has been seen as an increasingly important component of translational research, University of Connecticut has had a growing focus on this area of science.
“Informatics is so interdisciplinary that it is inherently integrative,” said Dr. Shortliffe. “Institutions that have taken informatics seriously and promoted it and nurtured it have often found that the resulting academic unit has become a kind of glue that begins to have folks from different parts of the university talking to one another and collaborating in ways that they had not done before.”
For more information about the Seminar Series, click here.
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AMIA has weighed in on the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan in response to the Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC) call for comments on the overarching strategy for realizing health IT goals set forth by the U.S. Congress and the Administration. AMIA states in its comments to ONC that several elements of the Strategic Plan are laudable, including the creation of standards, certification of systems, and the incorporation of these issues into medical education. However, AMIA also expressed some concerns. To read AMIA's full comments, click here.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to hold an educational teleconference on May 19, to offer care providers more information about how to meet the requirements for Stage 1 of ‘Meaningful Use’ and how to verify it in the agency’s attestation module. Among other things, the call will cover the definition of ‘Meaningful Use’, the requirements for Stage 1, and how to attest to having met the requirements. CMS officials will also answer questions from the call-in audience. For more information, click here.
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The Consumer Partnership for eHealth, a non-partisan group of consumer, labor and patient organizations, recently released the report, "Consumer Platform for Health IT," offering a vision for a patient-centered health care system in which improved access to timely electronic information can help consumers to participate in their health care. The report contains recommendations for expanding consumers' role in the development and implementation of health IT standards and programs. For more information, click here.
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On June 7, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will convene a workshop in Gaithersburg, Md., entitled "Measuring, Evaluating and Improving the Usability of Electronic Health Records." The event is meant to be an open forum for stakeholders to discuss and provide technical feedback toward the development of EHR usability evaluation methods. For registration information, click here.
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The Nominating Committee of AMIA is currently soliciting nominations for Board Secretary, Treasurer and four Directors. Please let AMIA staff liaison Kristin Schelin know who among your colleagues is ready and willing to serve the profession at the Association leadership level.
All regular AMIA members in good standing are eligible for election to the Board. AMIA is looking for individuals with a commitment to AMIA and its initiatives, demonstrated leadership skills, and a willingness to volunteer the time and effort to serve the Association, its members, and the profession.
Members are encouraged to self-nominate or advance names of eligible candidates for these positions by June 7 to the AMIA office via email to kristin@amia.org. All information submitted will be handled confidentially.
Nominators should supply a paragraph about their nominee’s background and why the nominator feels the person is qualified and would be a good addition to the AMIA Board.
Included with the nomination should be:
- The nominees’ name and email address
- Position for which that the person is being nominated (secretary, treasurer or director)
- Length of AMIA membership
- Involvement history with association committees or working groups
- Other activities with AMIA
The Nominating Committee will present the final slate to the AMIA Board in August and to the membership as a whole in September. After the slate of nominees is announced, candidate biographical information and instructions on voting will be posted on the AMIA website. All candidates will be required to complete a conflict of interest form that follows AMIA’s Conflict of Interest Policy. The online election process will occur early in the fall.
For additional information, click here.
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JAMIA, the Journal for the American Medical Informatics Association, is the top-ranked journal reporting on informatics in biomedical and health informatics, features new scientific research—in print and online—on healthcare’s hottest HIT-related topics, written by prominent experts working in health and biomedicine. You can now follow the journal on Twitter. You can get the latest information on the Editor's Choice articles and other breaking news in the world of informatics. To follow JAMIA on Twitter, click here. You can also “like” JAMIA on Facebook, click here.
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May 18
UIC 10x10, reg. deadline
May 23
IOM Learning Health System Release, Washington, DC
May 25-27
PHI 2011: Setting the Next Informatics Agenda for Public Health, Orlando, Fl.
June 2-5
Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) Annual Meeting, Leesburg, Va.
June 6-7
2011 NIH Annual Conference, Bethesda, Md.
June 6-8
2011 International Biomedical Informatics Forum at Peking University, Beijing, China
June 7
NIST Workshop, Bethesda, Md
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 11
University of Minnesota School of Nursing 10x10, reg. deadline
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. 7-10
CMIO Boot Camp, Houston
Oct. 22-26
AMIA's 35th Annual Symposium on Biomedical and Health Informatics, Washington, DC
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