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Join JAMIA Editor-in-Chief Lucila Ohno-Machado and guest author Gilad Kuperman, adjunct associate professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia University, director of interoperability informatics at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and AMIA chair-elect, for a webinar online at 3 p.m. (EST) on Thursday, Oct. 6, as they discuss Dr. Kuperman’s article, Health-information exchange: why are we doing it, and what are we doing? The article appears in Vol. 18, Issue 5 of JAMIA, the peer-reviewed research journal that reports on what’s happening in informatics in biomedicine and health six times a year and daily online.
While the webinar is free, advanced registration is required. To register and view archived presentations, visit the JAMIA Journal Club homepage by clicking here.
AMIA members and non-members are welcome to participate, and to earn CME credit.
An updated 10x10 course with the University of Minnesota School of Nursing begins Oct. 10. The popular course has been revamped to include new textbooks, updated topics and additional instructors.
The course covers a generic overview of nursing and health informatics, and the specific application of information and communication technologies in the clinical area. The primary focus is 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. It will cover electronic health record issues, related ethical, legislative, and political issues of informatics, and will explore global and future informatics issues. Register now to secure your spot!
Also available through the 10x10 program:
Click here to view 10x10-courses, descriptions and to register for any of the above offered classes.
If you’ve registered for the Annual Symposium—and that means lots of you!—don’t forget to reserve your room at the Washington Hilton before the room block closes and you’ll be forced to pay a higher room rate. If you haven’t yet registered, do all the logistics together and save time and money! This year’s meeting is bigger than last year’s, so rooms may be harder to book at the last minute.
In response to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) invitation to participate in a public workshop related to FDA’s Draft Guidance on mobile medical applications, AMIA advised the FDA on how it should approach oversight of clinical decision support systems. The critical factor, stated AMIA, in determining the risk classification of different types of software that provide clinical decision support (CDS) is whether the CDS is mediated by a human being or not. The FDA’s most rigorous attention, AMIA pointed out, should be given to applications that provide CDS in an automatic and autonomous fashion, and which intervene directly, based on patient care data. AMIA’s comments were delivered by Meryl Bloomrosen, vice president for public policy and government relations.
AMIA cautioned the FDA about the future blurring of lines between CDS information delivery channels and mechanisms, devices, and applications intended primarily for use by clinicians and other providers, contrasted with those intended for patients, consumers, and their care-givers. AMIA also questioned the singling out of "stand-alone" CDS delivered via "mobile medical devices" as being suitable for FDA oversight, more than other kinds of clinical software environments, such as desktop computers. AMIA’s news release text about the comments can be located by clicking here.
NIH’s National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Sept. 2 designed to stimulate research using Mobile Health (mHealth) tools to improve patient-provider communication and to help patients manage chronic diseases in underserved populations. For more information, click here to view the FOA titled “mHealth Tools to Promote Effective Patient-Provider Communication Adherence to Treatment and Self Management of Chronic Diseases in Underserved Populations”. Two additional companion FOAs were announced the same day. They include an opportunity under the Small Grant Program, which can be accessed by clicking here; and one under the Exploratory Developmental Research Grant Award Program, which can be accessed by clicking here.
AMIA members are invited to review and comment on two reports posted by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Effective Health Care (EHC) Program. The reports are available on the EHC Program web site until Oct. 6.
• Framework for Considering Study Designs for Future Research Needs (FRN). To view and comment, click here.• A Comprehensive Overview of the Methods and Reporting of Meta-analyses of Test Accuracy. To view and comment, click here.
AMIA members interested in submitting comments, should contact Meryl Bloomrosen at meryl@amia.org
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HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is seeking comments on proposed new rules to expand the rights of patients to access their health information through health information technology (HIT). Specifically, the new rules would allow patients to gain access to test results reports directly from labs.
Comments must be submitted by 6 p.m. (EST) Nov. 14. For more information, click here. AMIA members wishing to comment should contact Meryl Bloomrosen at meryl@amia.org
This OppNet Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages research grant applications that propose to increase understanding of the basic cognitive, affective, motivational, and social processes that underlie decision making across the lifespan. Follow this link to the complete the funding opportunity (RFA-MH-12-130). The earliest submission date is Dec. 18.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released an 80-page final version of its Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for 2011 through 2015. The agency issued the final plan after receiving about 240 public comments on the draft that was released in March.
AMIA Board Member Christoph Lehmann, MD, FAAP, FACMI, a medical informatics pioneer and neonatologist at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, was elected Vice President of Services for the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). Lehmann’s three-year term begins in 2012. To read more, click here.
At the 2011 IMIA General Assembly, Ed Hammond was made an IMIA Honorary Fellow in recognition of his being an ambassador for the field of health and medical informatics for over 40 years. In particular, through AMIA’s International Affairs Committee, Dr. Hammond worked internationally throughout the Asia-Pacific region, Eastern Europe, Latin America and Africa, spearheading numerous efforts to advance the field of health lnformatics. Dr. Hammond also worked to advance the development of electronic health records, health data standard and to integrate medical informatics into the domains of biomedical research and clinical care. To read more, click here.
Dr. Kevin Tabb, a past AMIA CMIO Boot Camp faculty member, has been named President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in Boston. He currently serves as CMO at Stanford Hospital & Clinics in Stanford, Calif. “I am extremely honored to be selected to lead Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at such a critical time,” Dr. Tabb said. “It is one of only a few institutions that truly combines the highest standards of clinical quality and a deep commitment to compassionate patient care with a track record for outstanding research and education.” To read more, click here.
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AMIA member Nigam H. Shah, MBBS, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, and his research team collaborated with Grass Roots Science to develop a prototype tool to enable diabetics to prevent wound problems and to help them cope when problems arise. The team has been named one of three semi-finalists in Sanofi-Aventis’ Data Design Diabetes Challenge. Dr. Nigam is also serving as AMIA’s Program Chair for the upcoming 2012 Summit on Translational Bioinformatics. For more information, click here.
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