Bill Tierney to Deliver Closing Keynote at Annual Symposium
 Plan your Symposium schedule to remain onsite to hear closing remarks delivered by 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. Dr. Tierney, an international leader in medical informatics and health services research, has received more than $40 million in grants and contracts from federal agencies and research foundations while serving as principal investigator and has published more than 270 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is also the Chief of Medicine at Wishard Health Service, where he practices as a hospital-based general internist.
Says Dr. Tierney: “I have a story to tell about the partnership between an academic biomedical informatics research organization – Regenstrief Institute – and its clinical and research partners that has been mutually beneficial--especially to the vulnerable patients we serve. It has affected my life both professionally and personally.”
Dr. Tierney will be recognized on Sunday, Oct. 23 at the Opening Session of AMIA’s 35th Annual Symposium as the 2011 recipient of the Morris F. Collen Award. Earlier this year, he was honored with the 2011 Distinguished Investigator Award at the Clinical and Translational Research and Education Meeting.
Dr. Tierney will keynote on Wednesday, Oct. 26, at 12:15 pm. For more information about the Symposium, click here.
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Tutorials Offer Focused Educational Opportunities Pre-Symposium
Do you need a quick overview, or tutorial assistance to come up to speed in Natural Language Processing, Data Mining, Personal Health Records, Medical Homes, Health Informatics Exchange, or any of two dozen topics related to Informatics?
Delve into a topic that interests you, or that you choose to learn on a ‘need-to-know’ basis. The full list of Tutorials, offered on Oct. 22-23—some half-day, some all-day—is comprehensive, and there are still spaces available in many selections: Click here for more information. Take your pick, register online and avoid waiting in line onsite! If you’re taking a one-day or half-day tutorial, maximize your time and pick up another topic! You’ll be glad you made the investment!
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10x10 with OHSU Offers Instruction on Training an IT-Savvy Workforce
Take part in Oregon Health & Science University's 10x10 course that provides an introduction to building a workforce trained to use IT to improve healthcare! Course participants will gain a broad understanding of the field from the vantage point of those who implement, lead and develop IT solutions for improving health, health care, public health and biomedical research. This course provides up-to-date details on current events in the field, including "meaningful use" of electronic health records specified in the HITECH Act of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The course begins Nov. 30 and concludes with an in-person session at the AMIA 2012 Joint Summits on Translational Science in March 2012.
Also available through the 10x10 program:
- Limited space is still available for the 10x10 course with University of Minnesota School of Nursing. The course began Oct. 10;
- 10x10 with The Ohio State University – A clinical research informatics-based 10x10 course – begins Jan. 6, 2012.
For additional information, or to register for any 10x10 course, click here.
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NQF Measure Applications Partnership Issues Two New Reports
The National Quality Forum's (NQF's) Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) this week released its first two reports to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Both reports point to specific opportunities for more coordinated approaches to making health care safer and enhancing clinician performance. One report focuses on an ideal coordination strategy for HHS on aligning performance measurement and other approaches for addressing hospital-acquired conditions and readmissions; the other report focuses on an ideal coordination strategy for HHS on federal clinical performance measurement, with recommendations that would simultaneously accelerate improvement and a more cohesive system of care delivery. Click here for more information.
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IOM Reports on Citizen Engagement in Transforming Clinical Trials
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recently released a new report titled, "Patients Charting the Course: Citizen Engagement and the Learning Health System," that underscores the importance of communication strategies that engage individual perspectives, needs, preferences, understanding and support necessary to mobilize change. The report is a result of IOM's Learning Health System series of workshops. IOM's Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care hosted the workshop to assess prospects for improving health and lowering costs by advancing patient involvement in the elements of a learning health system.
Click here for more information and to read the report.
Meanwhile, the IOM will host a workshop Nov. 7-8 to provide a framework and vision for a transformed clinical trials enterprise in the United States. The workshop will consider opportunities and needs for integrating an efficient and effective clinical trials enterprise into the health care system of 2020, among other topics.
Click here for complete information.
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CDC and Academy Health Announce Health Policy Fellowship
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), and Academy Health recently began accepting applications for their 2012 Health Policy Fellowship. The goal of the fellowship is to foster collaboration between NCHS staff and visiting scholars, while enabling scholars to conduct new and innovative analyses and to participate in developmental and health policy activities related to the design and content of future NCHS surveys. The deadline for proposal submission is Jan. 9, 2012. Click here for more information.
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Care Innovations Summit Comes to DC in January
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation is co-hosting the first ever "Care Innovations Summit" on Jan. 26, 2012, in Washington, DC, in collaboration with the Office of the National Coordinator on HIT. The summit will bring together leading innovators from inside and outside the health care industry to encourage knowledge sharing, matchmaking and engagement to drive transformation of the U.S. health care system. For more information, click here.
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CAP STS Sponsors Symposium Welcome Reception
CAP STS, the professional services division of the College of American Pathologists, will sponsor AMIA’s Welcome Reception on Sunday, Oct. 23, from 5-7 p.m. CAP STS, which offers deep expertise in clinical terminologies and standards and health information management, provides clients solutions related to challenging health IT issues such as “meaningful use” requirements, laboratory interoperability, ICD-10 transformation and codes cross-mapping.
“We are excited for this opportunity to showcase our capabilities in managing meaningful data in the EHR to enhance clinical decision support to the leaders of health informatics,” said Chip Perkins, managing director, CAP STS. “We’re especially looking forward to discussing our recent engagements in the research and public health space, and our work in advancing data interoperability in the laboratory.” Visit CAP STS at Booth 116. For more information, e-mail capsts@cap.org
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BAH to Host Reception on Government's Role in Medical Innovation
A panel of government and private sector experts will discuss the federal government’s role in medical innovation at an upcoming event hosted by Booz Allen Hamilton, an AMIA Corporate Member. The reception, featuring a panel discussion, takes place Tuesday, Oct. 18 from 6-9 p.m. at the Willard Hotel, Washington, DC.
Attendees will include leaders from key payer, provider, and life science companies in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors, as well as key policy-makers and staff from government agencies. Engaging discussion will take place on the role and impact of government policy, public/private partnerships, health service delivery and payment reforms on medical innovation and patient access, including dialog about research investment, product pipelines, development timelines and requirements for evidence of value.
A panel of experts will launch the discussion:
- Kavita Patel, MD, Brookings managing director for Clinical Transformation and Delivery (former policy director, White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement);
- Chris Austin, MD, scientific director, NIH Center on Translational Therapeutics;
- Lisa Latts, MD, vice president, Public Health Policy, Wellpoint;
- Bob DuBois, MD, PhD, chief scientific officer, National Pharmaceutical Council;
- ShaAvhree Buckman, MD, PhD, director of the Office of Translational Sciences, FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
To register, click here or contact Briana Marshall at (703) 902-4920 (office), or (802) 299-9854 (mobile).
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“We are excited to announce an outstanding group of honorees this year,” said Karen Greenwood, AMIA’s executive vice president. The 2011 honorees are:
- The American Board of Preventive Medicine for successfully advancing the subspecialty of clinical informatics;
- Peter J. Embi and Philip R.O. Payne for successfully advancing clinical research informatics activities in AMIA;
- Barbara L. Massoudi and William A. Yasnoff for successfully advancing public health informatics activities in AMIA. Congratulations to these leaders, with warm thanks for their substantive contributions to advancing informatics in health and biomedicine. See a list of past Leadership Award recipients by clicking here.
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Help Wanted: Informatics Student to Support Development of AMIA Website
AMIA seeks an informatics student interested in volunteering time and expertise to help develop content and functionality for the ACMI portion of its website. AMIA would like support in the development of individual pages for all Fellows to create a “snapshot” of that individual at the time he or she was elected to fellowship. To accelerate this effort, AMIA requires an informatics student to work closely with its webmaster. The project will enable the volunteer to learn more about AMIA and ACMI fellows-- leaders in the field. This student’s work will also interface with efforts underway by the ACMI History Committee to recreate data for Fellows elected in the years before photos and summaries of each new Fellow were published in JAMIA. In exchange for his or her efforts, the student volunteer will be given a complimentary registration for the 2012 AMIA Annual Symposium in Chicago.
Responsibilities to include:
- Migrating data from archive databases into the new ACMI Fellows database
- Uploading contents from JAMIA website with some HTML/CSS knowledge
- Organizing and uploading ACMI Fellows’ images using Photoshop
Drupal or other content management system experience is a plus.
Expressions of interest should be sent to miyoung@amia.org with “ACMI database volunteer” in the subject line. Please include a cover note explaining one’s interest and experience as well as a brief CV. It would be helpful if all applications were received by Oct. 30.
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IMIA also announced an open call for contributions to a special theme issue of the Bulletin on, “Establishing an evidence base for e-health.” The deadline for contributions is Nov. 20. IMIA requests that members and friends, especially those in low and middle income countries, consider contributing to the call. For more information, click here.
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Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, recently celebrated the official opening of the Health Informatics Institute offices and research space in the Bioscience and Technology Convergence Centre. The not-for-profit research institute is focused on Applied Health Informatics research that improves the efficiency and effectiveness of the health record system. For more information, click here.
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Oct. 22-26
AMIA's 35th Annual Symposium on Biomedical and Health Informatics, Washington, DC
Dec. 16
Joint Summits Journal Submissions deadline
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