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AMIA Webinar Education Center is the one-stop place on amia.org to find current webinars on Hot Topics, Public Policy, Working Group sponsored topics and JAMIA Journal Club. Webinars are a complimentary benefit for AMIA members and $50 per webinar for non-members. This year marks the first year AMIA has offered webinar education opportunities to non-members for a fee. AMIA members are welcome to share announcement information with colleagues and friends. Membership status will be checked prior to the release of active registration links. For more information on AMIA Webinar Education Center contact Susanne Vellucci, Education Program Manager susanne@amia.org.
Featured Webinar
 Topic: Usability, Patient Safety and EHRs
Date: Thursday, March 14 Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. EST
Speaker: Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, Asst. Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, Chief Informatics Officer for Vanderbilt University Health System
Theresa Cullen, MD, MS, featured event Speaker at HIMSS13
 Dr. Cullen is an AMIA member and the Director, Health Informatics, Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Office of Informatics. She leads VHA's Health Informatics areas including Human Factors, Knowledge Based Systems, Standards and Interoperability, VA's Personal Health Record and Barcode programs. Prior to joining VA in 2012, Dr. Cullen was the Director of Health and Human Services Domain Information Technology Program Management Office at HHS.
CDISC Standards Webinar
 Topic: Learning Health System – Essential Standards to Enable Learning (ESTEL) Webinar
Date: Thursday, 14 March Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EST
Register for this webinar and find out how data standards are the foundation for an LHS. A key goal of a Learning Health System (LHS) is to significantly shorten the time by which clinical research results inform clinical care decisions to improve the lives of patients.
Featured speaker: AMIA member Charles Friedman, Ph.D., is the Director of the Health Informatics Program at the University of Michigan (previously a leader within the HHS/Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT). Other speakers include Rebecca Kush, PhD., Founder, current President and CEO of CDISC; and Josh C. Rubin, Executive Director of the Joseph H. Kanter Family Foundation and Health Legacy Partnership
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AMIA Endorses CHOP Informatics Symposium
Healthcare Informatics Gets Personal
Focus On Patient Engagement & Personalized Medicine
Session presenters include nationally known informatics experts who will provide symposium participants with an inside look at the latest trends on patient engagement and personalized medicine. This year's program also includes paper presentations from some of today's emerging voices in the field. CME/CE eligible.
Keynote speakers include AMIA members: Judy Murphy, RN, FACMI, FHIMSS, FAAN, Deputy National Coordinator for Programs & Policy, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Department of Health & Human Services; and Daniel R. Masys, MD, FACMI, Affiliate Professor of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington School of Medicine
Register today!
ABPM opens application process for Clinical Informatics Board Exam
The American Board of Preventive Medicine will offer the certification exam in October 2013. Application to sit for the exam opens March 1 - June 1.
AMIA’s Clinical Informatics Board Review Course is designed for American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Board certified physicians who seek certification in Clinical Informatics. It provides a high-level review of the Core Content of Clinical Informatics on which the exam will be based and helps participants develop a learning map that highlights where physicians need to spend additional preparation time.
Date: April 12– 14, 2013
Place: Hyatt Regency, Bethesda, MD
Space is limited to first 75 enrollees. Registration open now.
Registration for June, August and September courses will be open by April 1.
Call for Papers: Special Issue on
Big Data in Healthcare and Biomedical Research
 JAMIA Special Issue
The purpose of this special focus issue is to publish the most innovative approaches and solutions (through Research and Applications articles, Brief Communications, and Case Reports), and place them in context of the work that has been previously published. Please direct any questions regarding the special issue or submissions to JAMIA, Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Lucila Ohno-Machado, machado@ucsd.edu
May 31, 2013 Manuscript submission deadline
July 31 (expected) Initial decisions sent to authors
August 31 (expected) Revised manuscript submission deadline
September 30 (expected) Final decisions sent to authors
Topics of Interest (not limited)
- Scalable systems for data integration across sites
- Large scale standards-based representation and modeling of data and algorithms
- Information retrieval that combines the biomedical literature and patient data sources
- Collaborative filtering
- Adaptive learning
- Distributed multiparty computation and large scale distributed data annotation
- High performance computing and parallel processing
- Novel inferential statistics and machine learning algorithms
- Evaluation strategies
- Ethical, social, and legal considerations
- Analyses of big data from EHRs, genomes, proteomes, images, social media, patient reports, etc.
JAMIA in the News
New York Times - Unreported Side Effects of Drugs Are Found Using Internet Search Data, Study Finds
2013 Joint Summits on Translational Science, March 18-22, San Francisco
Advanced Rate Deadline is March 7. Members Save $100
PDF versions of the TBI and CRI program books are now available online.
AMIA 10x10 Courses
 10x10 with University of Alabama Birmingham – The Role of IT in Healthcare Delivery
Course begins March 12th, register now to save your virtual “seat” in this sought after e-learning course!
Claim up to 48 CME’s with this course which focuses on the role of information technology in healthcare delivery including its role in improving the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare delivery. It will discuss the historical antecedents of the present use of IT, as well as the current and likely future uses of healthcare IT. Taught by course director Eta Berner, EdD., Professor and Director of the Center for Health Informatics for Patient Safety/Quality in the Department of Health Services Administration at UAB.
Also available through the 10x10 virtual course program:
University of Minnesota School of Nursing (UMN) – Interprofessional Health Informatics – begins April 1, 2013
Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) – Introduction to Biomedical and Health Informatics – begins April 3, 2013
View course descriptions and to register for any of the above courses.
ONC Interoperability RFI
HHS 2013 agenda includes Emphasis on Interoperability and New RFI
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Farzad Mostashari, M.D., announced HHS’s plan to accelerate health information exchange (HIE) and build a seamless and secure flow of information essential to transforming the health care system. One of five stated goals:
- Increase the emphasis on interoperability: HHS will increase its emphasis on ensuring electronic exchange across providers. It will start that effort by issuing a request for information (RFI) seeking public input about a variety of policies that will strengthen the business case for electronic exchange across providers to ensure patients’ health information will follow them seamlessly and securely wherever they access care.
The goals build on the significant progress HHS and it’s partners have already made on expanding health information technology use. EHR adoption have tripled since 2010, increasing to 44 percent in 2012 and computerized physician order entry has more than doubled (increased 168 percent) since 2008.
“The 2014 standards for electronic health records create the technical capacity for providers to be able to share information with each and with the patient,” said Dr. Mostashari. “Through the RFI, we are interested in hearing about policies that could provide an even greater business case for such information sharing.” Comments are due April 21.
Public Policy Updates
AMIA Supports Public Health Finding and Research - AMIA is one of the signatories on the Coalition for Health Funding’s annual “Function 550” letter, which seeks an ongoing strong investment in discretionary public health and research programs. .
NSF-NIH Interagency Initiative: Smart and Connected Health - The Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have identified Smart and Connected Health as a program focus. In particular, the present initiative covers the need to development the next generation of health and healthcare research through advances in the understanding of and applications in information science, technology, behavior, cognition, sensors, robotics, bioimaging, and engineering.
NIH Launches Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Initiative - The NIH has launched a new effort to address how best to manage and utilize the large amounts of biomedical data that new technologies can generate and seeks information and relevant materials that will help inform their internal discussions.
IOM Launches New Roundtable on Population Health Improvement - The Institute of Medicine has established the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement.The new roundtable will provide opportunities for experts on education, urban planning, medicine, public health, social sciences, and other fields to interact and share their knowledge and perspectives with the goal of catalyzing joint action.
NeHC and ONC Announce National HIE Governance Forum - The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) invite eligible organizations to participate in the new National HIE Governance Forum.
Report: Making Sense of Sensors: How New Technologies Can Change Patient Care - The California Healthcare Foundation released a report discussing how sensors have the potential to change the way patient health issues are tracked and monitored outside of the hospital.
NIST RFI on Cybersecurity - Under Executive Order 13636, NIST is tasked to develop a framework for reducing cyber risks to critical infrastructure (the “Cybersecurity Framework”). NIST is conducting a comprehensive review to develop the framework. The framework will consist of standards, methodologies, procedures, and processes that align policy, business, and technological approaches to address cyber risks. This RFI requests information to help identify, refine, and guide the many interrelated considerations, challenges, and efforts needed to develop the Framework. Deadline for comments is April 8, 2013.
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