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AMIA in the News: 2012

Elizabeth Gardner

Apr 30, 2012

Announced in March as the new president of AMIA (formerly the American Medical Informatics Association), he is taking over a post usually held by a high-level academic researcher. While Fickensher...

AMIA and Philips to host Webinar on Decision Support for Mechanical Ventilation

Apr 5, 2012

AMIA and Philips Healthcare are hosting their third free CDS webinar event entitled: “Decision Support for Mechanical Ventilation,” at 1 pm (EDT), Wednesday, April 18, presented by Dr....

Deloitte-AMIA Announce Industry Maturity Survey

Mar 22, 2012

AMIA is pleased to announce the launch of The 2012 Deloitte-AMIA Health Informatics Industry Maturity Survey. The purpose of this survey is to gain a better understanding of the maturity of health...

New AMIA Chief Focuses on Real-World Medicine

Neil Versel

Mar 20, 2012

AMIA, formerly known as the American Medical Informatics Association, has gone outside its traditional realm of academia in choosing a new president and CEO. The Bethesda, Md.-based organization...

Fixing Electronic Data Capture

David Yeager

Mar 12, 2012

Most healthcare industry experts agree that EHRs can be vehicles for gathering immense amounts of data. For healthcare as a whole, that’s good. For clinical care providers themselves, maybe not...

User Unfriendly

Feb 1, 2012

As long as there have been electronic health records, clinicians have complained that they're difficult to use. These cries have often been dismissed as resistance to modern technology-ironic...

Innovations in Nursing Informatics

Jan 9, 2012

Once considered an "emerging" specialty, nursing informatics is today one of the most dynamic domains within the discipline of nursing. At the crossroads of technology and patient care...