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Hewlett-Packard recently pledged $25 million to help Lucile Packard Children's Hospital carry out a major expansion to double its size and conduct a joint research effort, using sophisticated computer analysis to improve treatment protocols and safety procedures by scientists at the hospital and at HP Labs. AMIA Board Member and ACMI Fellow Atul Butte, MD, PhD, is the director of the Children’s Hospital Center for Pediatric Bioinformatics, and he is working on the partnership with HP scientists. Dr.

A group of AMIA leaders published a paper titled, Biomedical Informatics: Changing What Physicians Need to Know and How They Learn in the April edition of Academic Medicine, the peer-reviewed journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. The paper discusses the explosive growth of biomedical complexity and calls for a shift in the paradigm of medical decision-making—from a focus on the power of an individual brain to the collective power of brain systems. The lead author is AMIA and ACMI leader William W.