e-News May 26, 2011

May 26, 2011

May 2011 VOL 3 ISSUE 21


AMIA Education/Events Massoudi Opens PHI 2011 in Orlando JAMIA Journal Club Kicks Off June 2 Registration Opens for 10 X 10 for Emergency Physicians	Policy & Government Affairs AMIA Comments on NQF Quality Data Model Pew Internet & American Life Project Issues Report about Health Information TPI Paper: Little Risk of Re-Identification through Health Data Deadline Extended for Papers for Upcoming NIH “mHealth” Workshop Calendar	Member News Reminder: Easier Access to JAMIA

Massoudi Opens PHI 2011 in Orlando

Yasnoff Program Chair Barbara L. Massoudi opened the PHI 2011 meeting in Orlando, welcoming participants from numerous public health agencies, consultants, and students to the consensus-building conference for a national public health informatics agenda for public health. Dr. Massoudi introduced opening plenary speaker, Bill Yasnoff, MD, MPH. Dr. Yasnoff gave a talk that emphasized what PHI implementation would look like in a perfect world: Lake Wobegon, for example. He began with a brief discourse on what PHI includes: population health, prevention, intervention along the entire causal chain and health within the context of government.

Dr. Yasnoff’s remarks were well summarized and punctuated by Tweets from his audience:

“Public health informatics has grown tremendously in last decade, not just at CDC but at all levels.”
“PHI career track is now a reality.”
“Emphasis on ‘systematic’ sharing of informatics data.”
“Integration between public health and health information infrastructure integration is a continuing challenge.”
“Key PHI/HII challenge is a longitudinal, person-based integrated data respository.”
“Need outpatient clinical data but the business case for outpatient ER adoption is weak, need good financial incentives.”
“PHI can reintegrate public health with health care by building health record banks.”
“You have to start with a plan that looks flawless. If you have a flaw on day one, you’re in big trouble.”

Following the plenary session, breakout sessions in five tracks will be held. Afternoon sessions include a number of spotlighted “Partnerships in Innovation,” live presentations of case study examples that highlight best practices, challenges, obstacles and solutions to PHI implementation.

PHI 2011 recommendations will be published in a fall edition of JAMIA.

Continue to follow the meeting on Twitter, #PHI2011.

For more information, click here.

JAMIA Journal Club Kicks Off June 2

JAMIA Editor-in-Chief Lucila Ohno-Machado is launching a new Journal Club to bring informatics research and information to students and mid-career professionals who may otherwise not have access to JAMIA. Starting June 2, a new Journal Club will meet, with online and phone-in components. Participants will gain insights from notable JAMIA authors, beginning with George Hripcsak, chairman of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. Participation is cost-free and eligible for CME credit, too! For more information and to register, click here.

Registration Opens for 10 X 10 for Emergency Physicians

The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), AMIA, and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) are offering an online informatics course developed especially for emergency physicians and other emergency personnel. An in-person session of the course also will take place at the ACEP Scientific Assembly in San Francisco, Oct. 15-18, 2011. The deadline to register is June 29, 2011. To register for this course, click here.

Also available for registration through the 10x10 program:

Stanford University—course begins June 21.
OHSU—course begins July 6.
University of Minnesota School of Nursing—course begins July 11.
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston—course begins July 11.

Please visit www.amia.org/e-learning to register and view course descriptions.

AMIA Comments on NQF Quality Data Model

Today, AMIA and its Nursing Informatics Working Group provided input to the National Quality Forum (NQF) during an open comment period to solicit input on NQF's Quality Data Model (QDM). The QDM provides a way to describe clinical concepts in a standardized format so that those monitoring clinical performance and outcomes can communicate necessary information clearly. In its comments, AMIA recognized the importance of having an information model that clearly defines concepts used in quality measures and care delivery to enable automation of structured data capture in health information technology. However, AMIA also suggested that the QDM needs to support both clinical and administrative concepts associated with performance measurement and improvement. For more information and to find AMIA's full comments, click here.

Pew Internet & American Life Project Issues Report about Health Information

The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and The California HealthCare Foundation, recently released a report entitled, "The Social Life of Health Information, 2011." This report is based on a national telephone survey of 3,001 adults conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International between Aug. 9 and Sept. 13, 2010. Among other things, the survey showed that doctors, nurses, and other health professionals continue to be the first choice for most people with health concerns. The survey also showed that online resources, including advice from peers, are a significant source of health information in the U.S. For example, the survey found 80% of internet users (which translates to 59% of all adults) have looked online for information about any of 15 health topics, such as a specific disease or treatment. For more information, click here.

TPI Paper: Little Risk of Re-Identification through Health Data

According to a recent paper published by the Technology Policy Institute (TPI), properly anonymized health data pose little risk of patient identification. The paper discusses privacy issues surrounding the case of Sorrell v. IMS Health, which is currently before the Supreme Court. The case challenges a Vermont law limiting the dissemination and use of anonymized prescription data for the purposes of marketing to physicians. To read the full paper, click here.

Deadline Extended for Papers for Upcoming NIH “mHealth” Workshop

The deadline for paper submissions for an upcoming workshop focusing on mobile health (mHealth) intervention research or analysis has been extended to June 1. The workshop is a collaborative project between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, McKesson Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at the National Institutes of Health. The white papers are being solicited on alternative research designs to the traditional Randomized Control Trial that could be applied to mHealth intervention research or in analysis of rich longitudinal data sets that could be applied to analyzing the data obtained from mHealth applications. For more information, click here.

Reminder: Easier Access to JAMIA

Members can now directly access full content of JAMIA online by logging onto the JAMIA website. The goal is to make your access to JAMIA content as seamless as possible, so that when you access JAMIA articles through third party websites such as PubMed, you will not need to go back to AMIA.org to log in. Access to JAMIA will also be available through the “My Information” page of MyAMIA.org. This change simply offers an additional way for members to access JAMIA content easier.

To log in to your profile, visit the JAMIA website. In the upper right-hand corner, enter the following information:

User name: your email address (the one at which you received this email)
Password: currently set to password (you can change this later)

If you have any questions about this change, please contact mail@amia.org.

Calendar

May 25-27
PHI 2011: Setting the Next Informatics Agenda for Public Health, Orlando, Fl.

June 2
JAMIA Journal Club Webinar, 3 p.m. ET

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.