AMIA in the News: 2011
Sep 15, 2011
WASHINGTON – The American Medical Informatics Association argues that when it comes to oversight of clinical decision support systems, the most critical factor in determining the risk...
Aug 29, 2011
Newswise — AMIA and Philips Healthcare will co-host a free Webinar focusing on the role and usefulness of clinical decision support (CDS) systems titled, “Decision Support and the Soul of...
Aug 1, 2011
On July 27, a committee of the American Board of Medical Specialties proposed that clinical informatics be board certified as a subspecialty of medicine, InformationWeek reports.
The recommendation...
Jul 8, 2011
Medical informatics, which has long fallen into a gray area between information technology and medicine, may soon be recognized as a full-fledged medical subspecialty. If this recognition occurs, it...
U.S News & World Report
Jun 30, 2011
Outpatient electronic prescribing systems make the same common mistakes that occur in manual systems, a new study finds.
Researchers examined 3,850 computer-generated prescriptions received by a...
Jun 23, 2011
Recent research published in the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association suggested that factors related to technology design have strong effects on acceptance, even one year after an...
May 23, 2011
Medical data mining proves helpful for predicting adverse drug events, according to a study in the May edition of Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Prescription drugs can be...
May 17, 2011
It's no secret that small physician practices are less likely than larger practices and hospitals to adopt and use electronic health record systems.The federal government's meaningful use incentive...
May 16, 2011
AMIA co-convenes meeting that succeeds in forging common US.-EU approach to HIT. The final meeting in a series held by the ARGOS eHealth Consortium, a project funded by the European Commission (EC)...
May 16, 2011
Data mining of the medical literature could help uncover drug side effects before they cause serious harm to patients, a new study suggests. Researchers from Santa Monica, Calif., think tank Rand...
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