Annual Invitational Health Policy Meetings
Each year AMIA convenes an Invitational Health Policy Meeting to look at cutting-edge issues in health care and health IT policy.
Annual Invitational Health Policy Meetings
Since 2006, AMIA has convened an Invitational Health Policy Meeting to look at the cutting edge issues in health care and health IT policy. The overarching objective of the meeting is to identify potential future issues, especially those related to the convergence of health IT, clinical technologies, devices, innovations, and communications capabilities; identify areas for further study and research; and develop objective reports synthesizing conference outcomes to inform policymakers about the issues discussed and potential next steps.
Anticipated outcomes and/or work products from the meetings include the following: a summary report with recommendations; a short-range action/research plan (2-3 years) that could be pursued by the participants and other stakeholders in order to address the issues; and/or one or more manuscripts for submission to JAMIA or elsewhere. Typically, these meetings occur in the 3rd or 4th quarter of the year.
2012 Health Policy Meeting
AMIA’s 7th Annual Health Policy Conference will focus on Health Data Use, Stewardship and Governance: Ongoing Gaps and Challenges. This conference will be held in December 2012. The goal of AMIA’s 2012 Health Policy Meeting is to further a national understanding of data use, re-use, stewardship and governance that meets challenges posed by technology-enabled sources of health data, and reflects current health informatics evidence and practices. In light of recent studies discussing the reliability of electronic health record (EHR) data as the basis for mandated reports and research, the meeting will develop and advance a data management model that recognizes healthcare data as an organizational, enterprise-wide asset and resource. The meeting will build on the prior work of AMIA, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and others, especially in light of rapid changes being brought about by patient-centered medicine, performance and outcome measurement, and the growing adoption and use of EHRs. See more information.
2011 Health Policy Meeting
AMIA’s 6th Annual Health Policy Conference focused on The Future State Of Clinical Data Capture and Documentation with its challenges and opportunities. Because of the importance of high quality clinical documentation and data in supporting patient care, and given current initiatives encouraging the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), it is crucial to understand how documentation and data capture processes and policies may be affected by “going electronic.” Meeting participants articulated a vision for the “ideal” state of technology-enabled data capture and documentation. Discussions focused on a set of proposed principles, developed by the Conference Steering Committee, to guide the future evolution of high quality data capture and documentation.
Meeting discussions considered the premise that while there are many legitimate uses of clinical data and documentation, priority needs to be given to capturing data and maintaining documentation that support patient care and enhance its safety, quality, effectiveness, and efficiency. Participants discussed the shortcomings of current approaches that impede efficient data capture and presentation; that fall short of accurately representing clinicians’ thinking; and that fail to accommodate clinical workflow.
2010 Health Policy Meeting
AMIA's 5th Annual Invitational Meeting focused on" The Future of Health IT: Innovation and Informatics. The conference was held on September 1-2, 2010 in Reston, VA. The meeting included several plenary sessions: Health Care Reform, HITECH, and the View from 2015; Fraud and Failures; and Cybersecurity. General session speakers include: John Glaser, Siemens; Linda Connell, NASA; and William Barker, NIST. Breakout sessions focused on: Ensuring Resilience in Health Care and Health IT; Facing Ethical Legal and Social Challenges; and Sustaining Adoption and Innovation in Health IT. Ted Shortliffe, AMIA CEO and President moderated a debate on the Stifling of Innovation. Debaters include: Don Detmer, John Halamka Randy Miller, and Don Rucker.
2009 Health Policy Meeting
AMIA's 4th Annual Invitational Health Policy Meeting focused on "Anticipating and Addressing Unintended Consequences of Health Information Technology and Policy". The conference, held on September 9 and 10, 2009, in Reston, Virginia, drew diverse stakeholders from the public and private sectors who focused their discussions on anticipating unintended consequences of HIT and policy, as well as options for addressing them. Keynote presentations were made by David Blumenthal, MD, PhD, National HIT Coordinator, and Aneesha Chopra, MPP, Chief Technology Officer and Associate Director for Technology in the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy. Other plenary session speakers were Dr. Nancy Leveson, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Professor of Engineering Systems, MIT and Rodeina Davis, Vice President and CIO, BloodCenter of Wisconsin.
2008 Health Policy Meeting
In September 2008, AMIA convened our 3rd annual working policy focused meeting. Participants from the public and private sector participated in a focused and thought provoking discussion on Informatics, Knowledge, and Evidence Based Practice.
2007 Health Policy Meeting
Shortly after the 2006 Health Policy Meeting, AMIA formed three technical working groups to begin to implement the recommendations: Data Stewardship, Taxonomy, and De-identification and initiated plans to facilitate a second meeting on the topic. In June 2007, AMIA convened an expanded group of 100 participants and experts to further the development of the National Framework for Reuse of Health Data.
2006 Health Policy Meeting
AMIA identified the topic of the Secondary Use of Personal Health Information as a critical issue for the continued widespread adoption of health information technology. In April, 2006, AMIA convened a blue ribbon panel of 36 experts and stakeholders to open a dialogue on the issues related to secondary use. Participants developed a robust framework for the infrastructure of policies, standards and best practices to facilitate the collection, storage, aggregation, linkage, and transmission of health data for secondary uses.
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