Working Group Leaders Visit AMIA HQ
Martha Adams, MD, Chair of the Working Group Steering Committee facilitated a gathering of 24
working group leaders who visited the AMIA HQ office in Bethesda, Md., on May 23, for an orientation meeting. Gilad Kuperman, MD, AMIA Chairman, Board of Directors addressed the group. Part of the discussion included strategic planning, recruiting leadership, innovative projects related to AMIA's strategic plan, working group participation, and collaboration between working groups.
Front Row (L to R) Eric Pan, CDS-WG; Jason Mitchell, PCI-WG; Vojtech Huser, WGSC;Terry Seaton, PI-WG; Jos Aarts, POI-WG; Nawanan Theera-Ampornpunt, ST-WG; Umberto Tachinardi, CRI-WG. Back Row (L to R) Larry Ozeran, RIA-WG; Robert Freimuth, GEN-WG; Rahul Kashyap, ICI-WG; Rob Rader, AMIA Dir. of Member Services; Martha Adams, Chair-WGSC; Lindsey Hoggle, CHI-WG; Janise Richards, GHI-WG; Juliana Brixey, ED-WG; Yang Gong, WGSC; Amit Acharya, DI-WG; Thankam Thyvalikakath, DI-WG; Carolyn Petersen, ELSI-WG; Genevieve Melton-Meaux, WGSC; Patricia Dykes, NI-WG.
Poikonen Podcast: AMIA Joint Summits TBI and CRI
John Poikonen's Podcast on AMIA 2012 Joint Summits on Translational Science features AMIA member
Jessica Tenenbaum, PhD, Associate Director for Bioinformatics, Duke Translational Medicine Institute Biomedical Informatics Core and Yohan Lee, PhD, senior consultant clinical trials bioinformatics and pharmacoinformatics. Now on
iTunes and
RxInformatics.com
2012 European Summit on Trustworthy Reuse of Health Data
Don Detmer, MD, past President and CEO of AMIA, was a keynote speaker at the
2012 European Summit on Trustworthy Reuse of Health Data, Brussels, Belgium, May 14–15.
Dr. Detmer spoke on National Policy for Reuse of Person-specific Health Data: A perspective from the United States. The proceedings were co-chaired by
Steven E. Labkoff, MD, Head, Strategic Programs, Research & Development Information at AstraZeneca; and AMIA Finance and Investment Committee Chair, and
Charles Safran, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and past President and Chairman of AMIA.
The format of the event, and future activity, is based in similar work lead by AMIA in the USA, which resulted in a data stewardship framework that was later vetted at the National Committee for Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), a Health and Human Services (HHS) advisory committee. The invitation only event for 100+ attendees was hosted by
IMIA, the International Medical Informatics Association.
More information on presentations. Related AMIA whitepaper.
Toward a National Framework of the Secondary Use of Health Data
Informatics Programs Thriving and Increased Hiring Expected
The
6th Annual Academic Forum was held May 24 at the Westin Hotel in Minneapolis.The 48 attendees represented 33 programs and three interested organizations. An informal survey found that participants were enrolling approximately 3,000 students in total and were intending on hiring almost 60 new faculty in the coming year for the programs represented at the meeting. AMIA CEO and President, Dr. Kevin Fickenscher attended the meeting to listen, learn and share his philosophy about leading the organization. The group had passionate discussions about what is and what is not informatics sparked by the reports from the
Advanced Interprofessional Informatics Certification task force and the subspecialty program accreditation preparation task force and other presentations.
“We had superb presentations and discussions about working with private industry partners, how we relate to other health professions schools, the national landscape and the factors that will influence our programs in the near future. We have a superb report on descriptive statistics of your program revealing, once again, their diversity,” said AMIA Academic Forum Chair,
Stuart M. Speedie, PhD. Professor Speedie is a Fellow, Director of Graduate Studies and Co-Director, Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota.
University of Minnesota School of Nursing 10x10 Course
Bonnie L. Westra,
PhD, RN, FAAN is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Nursing Informatics and serves as the Director of the University of
Minnesota School of Nursing 10x10 offering. Dr. Westra is a member of the AMIA Board of Directors and the
AMIA Nursing Informatics Working Group, as well as co-chair of the Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI). She sits on the Minnesota eHealth Advisory Committee and co-chaired the Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records. Her
research focuses on standardized terminologies and secondary analysis of EHR data with an emphasis on improving the health of older adults in the community.
The
UMN School of Nursing 10x10 course focuses on the analysis, modeling, standardization and development and deployment of the electronic health record and safe exchange of patient data. The course examines the implications of informatics for practice, including nursing, public health and healthcare in general.
Register Now! Course begins July 9
Also offered through the 10x10 program
Department of Homeland Security Issues Report on HIT Security
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center has issued a report, entitled,
"Attack Surface: Healthcare and Public Health Sector".
Dr. Michael Shabot Represents AMIA at CMS’s National Priorities Partnership and Partnership for Patients
Last year AMIA was selected to represent the biomedical informatics community on the
National Priorities Partnership (NPP), a multi-stakeholder group created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to provide annual input to the Department of Health and Human Services on the development of a National Quality Strategy. The
NPP is a collaborative effort of more than 50 major national organizations, bringing together public and private-sector stakeholder groups in a collaborative forum to help achieve the aims of better care, more affordable care and healthy people and communities. Two major goals have already been established: (1) Improving maternity care and (2) reducing readmissions.
The
Partnership for Patients (PfP), formally announced in April 2011, is a public-private partnership aimed at improving health care quality under the Affordable Care Act. This Partnership brings together hospitals, stakeholder leaders, patient advocates and state and federal governments in a shared effort to make hospital care safer, more reliable and less costly. Hospital Engagement Networks (HENS) were created to engage hospitals into the Partnership and so far over 4,100 hospitals are participating.To reach the goals of this initiative, HHS requested that NQF convene the NPP for periodic meetings to identify opportunities for public-private sector collaboration to advance the aims of the Partnership.
Dr. M. Michael Shabot is AMIA’s representative to PfP and Meryl Bloomrosen, AMIA’s Vice President for Policy, provides lead staff support. He will periodically share information about these activities and may seek AMIA member input to assure AMIA’s ongoing and active participation in these two initiatives. We especially want to hear from members with expertise and “on the ground” experience in patient safety and quality of care efforts. In the short term we seek information, research and case studies about: improving maternal quality of care and reducing readmissions.
More information ...
Vinton G. Cerf elected president, ACM
The ACM -- Association for Computing Machines --
announced the election of Vinton G. Cerf as president for a two-year term beginning July 1. Cerf, who is Chief Internet Evangelist, Google Inc., said his vision as president is to take advantage of the global networking infrastructure to invite open dialog with ACM's worldwide membership.
ACM membership exceeds 100,000 computing professionals and students.
JAMIA Journal Club Free Webinar June 7
Join Editor-in-Chief Lucila Ohno-Machado and guest author Jeffrey L. Schnipper, MD, MPH, with Partners Healthcare System, online to discuss: “Effects of an online personal health record on medication accuracy and safety: a cluster-randomized trial.”
Save the Date: June 7 at 3:00 p.m. EST. Free registration!
To register and view archived presentations on the JAMIA Journal Club homepage, click here, AMIA members and non-members alike are welcome to participate!
Call for Papers: MEDINFO 2013
World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics: Conducting medical informatics by Converging technologies, Conveying sciences and Connecting people
Copenhagen, Denmark, August 20 – 23, 2013. Paper, Student Paper, and Poster Submissions: December 10, 2012. Acceptance Notifications: March 30, 2013
Call for Papers: Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Special Issue topic:
Biomedical Information through the Implementation of Social Media Environments. Deadline: October 1, 2012
Fresh Fickenscher Files Blog
AMIA President and CEO, Dr. Kevin Fickenscher, blogs bi-weekly on
The Fickenscher Files.
This week’s round-up:
HIEs that Work, Consumer-Directed Health Plans,
Obesity and GOP healthcare plans, Foodies check out the “
Weekly Whisk.”
Follow Dr. Kevin @MDKev
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Join the conversation @AMIAinformatics and @AMIApolicy. AMIA’s LinkedIn community has more than 4300 participants.
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Calendar
June 7
JAMIA Journal Club Webinar
June 18
AMIA 2012 registration opens! AMIA 2012, November 3-7, Chicago
June 23-27
NI2012 in Montreal
June 27
10x10 with OHSU and American College of Emergency Physicians
July 23
10x10 with University of Texas Health Science Center
Save the Date
March 18-22, 2013 Summits on Translational Science CRI and TBI, San Francisco
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