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 AMIA’s signature workforce training program, 10x10, continues the organization's effort to provide high-quality, accessible training opportunities to members and non-members advancing their informatics education. As of May 2012 a total of 32,991 CMEs have been granted since the 10x10 program began in 2005. Close to 90 percent of 10x10 courses offer CMEs.
Upcoming 10x10 Courses. Plan now and advance your career!
To view course descriptions or to register, please visit the 10x10 website.
 Nova Southeastern University is offering the 10x10 course Survey of Biomedical Informatics beginning May 7. Dr. Lou is the founding program director of the Master's of Science Biomedical Informatics (MSBI) program at NSU, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. She is a Professor of Public Health and Professor of Internal Medicine at NSU. She serves as the NSU 10x10 course director -- a neurologist captivated by technology.
Dr. Lou received her education and training from FuDan University in China and McMaster University in Canada and joined NSU in 1998. She has been teaching in the areas of evidence-based practice, quantitative research methods, genetics and public health informatics.
Virtual Course begins May 7.
Clinical and Public Health Informatics Terminologies and Standards I
Learn online. Earn CMEs. Interested in information exchange and ‘meaningful use’ of data in clinical and public health systems? Register today! Course begins May 14.
 On May 2, members of AMIA’s Public Policy Committee, AMIA’s Board of Directors (BoD) and AMIA staff convened on Capitol Hill for AMIA’s Annual Hill Day. The event is an opportunity to build and sustain relationships on behalf of the informatics community by conducting visits with members of Congress and their staff. This year’s Annual Hill Day visit had heightened visibility with the BoD’s presence in the AMIA headquarters offices in Bethesda, Md.
“Having attended past AMIA Hill days, 2012 was the most effective AMIA effort to date. Staffers were educated and enthusiastic about the potential value of health information technology and AMIA's leadership role,” said Dr. Chris Lehmann, Associate Professor in Pediatrics and Health Information Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University and Director for Clinical Information Technology for the Children’s Medical Center.
AMIA had the opportunity to interact with panelists from several Congressional committees and Federal agencies and discussed a variety of topics including: meaningful use, usability, state level health information exchange, mobile health and regulation of clinical software.
"Participation in Hill Day was a great opportunity to realize how much expertise AMIA has through its members to share with Congress. Visits to congressional staff members was enlightening and just plain fun," said Bonnie Westra, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing.
The first panel featured congressional staff members: Nick Bath, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee – Majority; Karen Fisher, Senate Finance Committee – Majority; and Kristin Welsh, Senate Finance Committee – Minority.
The second panel featured agency representatives: Audie Atienza, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute; Lana Lowry, health IT usability expert, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Bakul Patel, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration; Lee Stevens, State HIE Policy and Scott Weinstein, Office of the Chief Privacy Officer, both of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
AMIA met with Congressional staff from 16 offices representing 11 states and the District of Columbia. Meetings with congressional staff members focused on four primary issues: ongoing funding for informatics research, training, innovation, and development; impact of health IT and informatics on patient safety and quality of care; health IT and informatics workforce training needs and shortages; and the assurance of EHR implementation best practices. More photos on amia.org.
 On April 25, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Scientific Education and Professional Development Program Office (SEPDPO) and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Employment Training Administration (ETA) held a signing ceremony to designate the Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program (PHIFP) as a DOL/ETA Registered Apprenticeship. The event also set the foundation for a standard occupational code for the profession of public health informatician.
Dr. William Hersh, Professor and Chair Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University offered remarks at the ceremony. Dr. Hersh is AMIA’s 2012 Scientific Program Chair and attending the live event to represent and speak on behalf of AMIA’s 4000 members.
Note: Early communications from the CDC indicated the signing ceremony would acknowledge the full designation of ‘public health informatician’ as a standard occupational code. The CDC does expects the actual code designation to follow the registered apprenticeship and the exact date it will be enacted has not been determined. More information here.
 AMIA is at the table (literally) at this important event. Dr. Foldy and Dr. Hersh are all AMIA members. (L to R): Dr. William Hersh, Professor and Chair Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, OHSU and AMIA 2012 Scientific Program Chair; Dr. Seth Foldy, MPH, Senior Advisor for Public Health Practice, CDC; Dr. David Callahan, Captain, U.S. Public Health Service, CDC; Joseph Jenkins, Education and Outreach Team Leader, Office of Apprenticeship ETA; John Ladd, Administrator of the Office of Apprenticeship, DOL; and Dr. Denise Koo, MD, MPH, Captain, U.S. Public Health Service, Director, SEDPO, CDC.
 Co-signers John Ladd, Administrator of the Office of Apprenticeship, DOL and Dr. Denise Koo, MPH, Captain, U.S. Public Health Service, Director, SEDPO, CDC.
NSF and NIH will be hosting a webinar on May 8 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) for people interested in applying for the NSF-NIH BIGDATA initiative entitled “Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science and Engineering (BIGDATA).” The webinar will describe the goals and focus of the BIGDATA solicitation, help investigators understand its scope and answer questions potential Principal Investigators (PIs) may have.
AHRQ has released a request for public comment about its intent to create a central point of collection for information about patient registries, the Registry of Patient Registries (RoPR) helps to make information regarding quality, appropriateness and effectiveness of health services (and patient registries in particular) more readily available and centralized. The primary goal of this project is to engage stakeholders in the design and development of a RoPR database system that is compatible with ClinicalTrials.gov.
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO), a congressional watchdog agency, conducted a review of the first year of the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health records meaningful use incentive programs. View the report, “First Year of CMS’s Incentive Programs Shows Opportunities to Improve Processes to Verify Providers Met Requirements”
AMIA member, Hua Fan-Minogue, was a member of the Stanford University team that captured the $20,000 top-prize, at the recent Innovate 4 Healthcare IT Challenge hosted by the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS) at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. "NeoStream," was developed by graduate students in the Biomedical Informatics Department in the Stanford University School of Medicine. The online platform was designed to improve outcomes for sick babies by better engaging parents.
The collegiate competition is based on radically improving healthcare through new processes that are enabled by innovative information technology applications and supported by a sustainable market strategy.
Submission by Atul Butte, MD, PhD, AMIA member; Associate Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine; and Director, Center for Pediatric Bioinformatics, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.
 The Clinical Informatics in Intensive Care Working Group 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. Explore the specific objectives of the “Clinical Informatics in Intensive Care” AMIA Working Group. ICI-WG is led by Vitaly Herasevich, MD, PhD, Chair
You must be an active AMIA member and a member of the WG in order to 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
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
The aggregated, anonymous survey results will be published by AMIA and Deloitte and will be made publicly available on their respective websites. To learn more about participation in the survey, click here.
AMIA Members receive preferred pricing for nine highly acclaimed, scientific journals. Discounted publication subscription rates is one of the most valued AMIA member benefits. Check out the discounts for all publications.
A sample of the great deals available:
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Publishers Price: $530 AMIA Member Price:$95 72 percent discount!
Computers in Biology and Medicine
Publishers Price: $310 AMIA Member Price:$95 69.5 percent discount!
Computers, Informatics, Nursing
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and “Consulo Indicium” a round up on EHR, new venture Caradigm and CMS’ Quality Care Finder. Foodies check out the “Weekly Whisk.”
Send AMIA e-News ideas to communications@amia.org to reach Krista Martin, Director of Marketing and Communications, for consideration in future editions of e-News. Did you win an award? Reach 1000 informatics-loving Twitter followers? We want to know!
(Note: submission does not guarantee publication.)
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NI2012 in Montreal
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10x10 with OHSU and American College of Emergency Physicians
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