AMIA Leaders Publish Informatics Paper in AAMC Journal

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. Stead, MD, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Other authors include medical educators John R. Searle, PhD, of IEEE, and Henry E. Fessler, MD, of Hewlett Packard, along with AMIA and ACMI member Jack W. Smith, MD, PhD, of UT Health Science Center, and AMIA President and CEO Edward H. Shortliffe, MD, PhD. To read the full article, click here.