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Dear Ms. Tavenner,
On behalf of AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association), I am pleased to submit these comments in response to the above-referenced request...
Positions and Statements
AMIA seeks opportunities to advance appreciation for biomedical and health informatics, to enhance stakeholder understanding of the value of informatics, and to build and maintain strategic relationships with thought leaders, policy makers, and political leaders who have the ability to project biomedical and health informatics issues onto the national public policy agenda. The public policy positions and statements below are the primary vehicles through which AMIA’s policy views are articulated.
Positions
April 22, 2013
February 4, 2013
Re: ONC’s Request for Comments (RFC) about the Proposed Health IT Patient Safety Action and Surveillance Plan
Dear Dr. Mostashari:
On behalf of AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association), I am pleased to submit these comments in response to the above-...
January 14, 2013
September 21, 2012
Dear Ms. Roper,
On behalf of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), I am pleased to submit these comments in response to the above-referenced request for information (RFI). AMIA thanks the Department of Health and Human Services (the Department) and the Agency for Health...
Statements
March 15, 2013
Dear Dr.Dunn:
On behalf of AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association), I am pleased to submit these comments in response to the above-referenced request for
information. AMIA is the professional home for biomedical and health informatics
and is dedicated to the development...
November 29, 2011
Along with several other organizations, AMIA is participating in the Coalition for an Informed Patient Identity Integrity Solution. The Coalition is working to delete prohibiting language from the fiscal year 2012 Labor, HHS Appropriations bill, and to substitute language that would have HHS...
June 20, 2011
AMIA President and CEO Ted Shortliffe sent a letter today to ONC director Farzad Mostashari and the leadership of all Regional Extension Centers (RECs) regarding a recent AMIA Board position paper on vendor agreements. Click below...
December 9, 2010
AMIA’s testimony examines patient data matching before ONC’s Privacy & Security Tiger Team. AMIA's Brad Malin discusses some concerns of the accuracy in patient matching and the implications of misidentified data in patient care and biomedical research, which could lead to false match or...
July 16, 2009
AMIA comments on the HIT Policy Committee Certification/Adoption Workgroup Hearings concerning EHR Certification and Meaningful Use. AMIA strongly believes that EHR implementation success requires a mix of organizational, behavioral, cognitive, and social factors in addition to the technology...
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