e-News May 5, 2011
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AMIA is the host for the 11th International Nursing Informatics Congress, NI2012: Advancing Global Health Through Informatics, to be held June 23-27, 2012, at the Hilton Montreal Bonaventure, Montreal, Canada. NI2012 is the official meeting of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Special Interest Group on Nursing Informatics. As an 'association of associations', IMIA acts as a bridging organization, bringing together the constituent organizations and their members. Every third year, IMIA chooses an organization to host the meeting. Next year, in its role as host, AMIA will convene many other societies in the Americas to participate.
Program Chair Patricia Abbott, PhD, RN, FACMI, Johns Hopkins University, has recruited an international group of individuals to serve on NI 2012’s Organizing Committee, Scientific Program Committee and Editorial Committee. To view the full list, click here. NI 2012 is designed for individuals interested in health and health informatics who serve in a variety of roles, such as:
To submit a paper, student paper, poster abstract, student poster abstract, or proposal for a panel, theater-style demonstration, pre-Congress workshop, or pre-Congress tutorial go to the NI2012 website. Complete the online submission form as instructed and attach your submission in compliance with directions provided in the Call for Participation. Authors seeking editorial assistance prior to the submission deadline should register their submission no later than July 31, 2011, using the online webform to indicate their need for editorial assistance. Submissions are open until Aug. 31, 2011. For more information, click here. AMIA's spring education event, PHI 2011, is taking place May 25-27, in Orlando, Fla. The meeting’s format is predicated upon organic collaboration in real-time, participation in thought leadership, and bringing about a consensus agenda for the future of public health informatics.
Breakout sessions at PHI 2011 will result in recommendations for integrating informatics into public health over the next 10 years. The recommendations and commentary that emerge from this meeting will be published in a special issue of JAMIA this fall. AMIA will also team up with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to offer a special pre-conference short course designed to describe the implications of Meaningful Use for public health professionals. Click here for more information about the pre-conference event on Meaningful Use. Click here to make your hotel reservation at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin. For more information, click here.
Dr. Jiajie Zhang, PhD, is the Dr. Doris L. Ross Professor and Associate Dean for Research at the School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He serves as the UTHSCH 10x10 course director. The course begins July 11, 2011, and is open for registration. Click here to register now and become one of the first to take part in this brand new 10x10 course! Also just announced: the University of Illinois–Chicago has extended its registration deadline to May 18. The course begins May 27, and space is still available. The UIC 10x10 course focuses on the knowledge and skills required by healthcare professionals when considering the purchase, implementation, and management of an electronic health record, UIC will continue this offering, updating content to reflect national activities of the past two years since ARRA was enacted. Click here to register. Other 10x10 courses:
Please visit www.amia.org/e-learning to read full course descriptions and register for any of the above 10x10 courses. On April 27, the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) convened dozens of representatives of consumer-facing organizations ranging from patient advocates to government agencies at the first meeting of the Consumer Consortium on eHealth. The Consortium is the first effort of its kind to organize a broad cross section of stakeholders to develop and coordinate a program to actively encourage individuals to become more engaged in their health and health care through the use of health information technology (IT). David Padgham, AMIA’s public policy analyst, represented AMIA at the inaugural meeting. For more information about the Consortium, click here. The Federal Government has launched the Partnership for Patients: Better Care, Lower Costs, a public–private partnership that will help improve the quality, safety, and affordability of health care for all Americans. AMIA is one of hundreds of organizations that have joined the partnership and pledged to take important steps toward a more dependable and affordable healthcare system. For more information, click here.
The National Institutes of Health has created a new working group to examine the future of the biomedical research workforce in the U.S. The group will recommend actions to the Advisory Committee to the Director to ensure a diverse and sustainable biomedical and behavioral research workforce. The working group will consider questions like: What is the right size of the workforce?; and What are the appropriate types of positions that should be supported to allow people to have successful careers and to continue to advance biomedical and behavioral sciences? For more information, click here.
The IOM will hold a workshop next week, May 9-10, to discuss the allied health workforce—those who provide a range of diagnostic, technical, therapeutic, and direct patient care and support services—and ways to improve the regulations and structures of allied healthcare delivery. In addition, presentations will explore possible solutions for improving access to health care services, particularly for underserved, rural, and other populations. For more information, click here. Hewlett-Packard recently pledged $25 million to help Lucile Packard Children's Hospital carry out a major expansion to double its size and conduct a joint research effort, using sophisticated computer analysis to improve treatment protocols and safety procedures by scientists at the hospital and at HP Labs. AMIA Board Member and ACMI Fellow Atul Butte, MD, PhD, is the director of the Children’s Hospital Center for Pediatric Bioinformatics, and he is working on the partnership with HP scientists. Dr. Butte said of HP “They have incredible expertise in data mining, so it's an absolutely great synergy for us to get the benefit of their expertise and methodologies." For more information about this partnership and the research funding, click here. ACMI Fellow William M. Tierney, MD, president and CEO of the Regenstrief Institute, and Associate Dean for Clinical Effectiveness Research at the Indiana University School of Medicine, received a 2011 Distinguished Investigator Award presented at the Clinical and Translational Research and Education Meeting in Washington, DC. Dr. Tierney received the National Award for Career Achievement and Contribution to Clinical and Translational Science. He is being honored for his "contributions to the field from clinical use into public benefit and policy." The award is presented to a senior investigator who has had "national impact by virtue of contributions to clinical and translational science." For more information, click here. May 10 May 11 May 18 May 23 May 25-27 June 2-5 June 6-7 June 6-8 June 7 June 17 June 27
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The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston recently joined the AMIA 10x10 program, bringing its first course, EMR, Human–Computer Interaction, Human Factors and Health IT Usability. The course is titled “Health Interface Design,” and is the first of its kind. AMIA-UTH 10x10 program provides a detailed overview of user interface design for health information systems, medical devices, consumer health websites, and other healthcare–related systems. Healthcare professionals will have the opportunity to learn the fundamental principles of human–computer interaction and human factors and learn how to apply them to real–world problems. The focus is on learning why and how user-friendly interfaces can greatly improve work productivity and enhance the quality of health care without radically changing the underlying technology.
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