AMIA and JAMIA in the News

WASHINGTON – The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) has now recognized clinical informatics as a subspecialty, according to the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).

AMIA officials announced the news Thursday following what they called “a multi-year initiative” to elevate clinical informatics to an ABMS subspecialty.

According to AMIA, the certification will be available to physicians who have primary specialty certification through ABMS.

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 classification of different types of software is whether the CDS is mediated by a human being or not.

Meryl Bloomrosen, AMIA's vice president for public policy and government relations, has offered those comments 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to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) invitation to participate in a public workshop related to FDA's Draft Guidance on mobile medical applications.

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 was co-sponsored by the American Board of Preventive Medicine and the American Board of Pathology.

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 commercial pharmacy chain in three different U.S. states over a four-week period in 2008. Of those prescriptions, 452 (nearly 12 percent) contained a total of 466 errors, of which about one-third were deemed to be potentially harmful...