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The news items below highlight U.S. federal activity in support of informatics areas that AMIA advocates. They are aggregated for the benefit of AMIA members and others interested in informatics policy.

Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering (BIGDATA)

April 2, 2012

The Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering (BIGDATA) solicitation aims to advance the core scientific and technological means of managing, analyzing,...
NSF-NIH Joint Solicitation

April 2, 2012

Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering (BIGDATA). For this solicitation ($25M) see: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12499/nsf12499.htm
NIST Releases Guidance for Measuring, Evaluating Usability of HIT Systems

March 29, 2012

The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) published guidance on defining and assessing usability for health IT systems. For a copy of the report, click here .
1000 Genomes Project data available on Amazon Cloud

March 29, 2012

The National Institutes of Health and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of the world's largest set of data on human genetic variation — produced by the international 1000...
FDA Public Hearing: Using Innovative Technologies and Other Conditions of Safe Use To Expand Which Drug Products Can Be Considered Nonprescription

March 21, 2012

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) is holding a public hearing to obtain public input on a new paradigm they are considering. Under this paradigm, the Agency would approve...
Delay of ICD 10 Implementation

February 16, 2012

As part of President Obama's commitment to reducing regulatory burden, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen G. Sebelius today announced that HHS will initiate a process to postpone the date...
EHR Accessibility Module Challenge

February 16, 2012

ONC is challenging multidisciplinary teams of developers create and test an application that makes it easy for disabled consumers to access and interact with the health data stored in their EHRs....
NIST and EHR Usability

February 14, 2012

NIST is soliciting interest in supplying electronic health record (EHR) systems for use by NIST in research to develop a framework for assessing the usability of health information technology (HIT)...
Electronic Health Record Accessibility Module Challenge

February 12, 2012

Submission Deadline: July 23, 2012
Registration Open for the 12th Annual OBSSR Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials

January 11, 2012

The NIH’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research will hold its 12th Annual Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials July 15-27 in Warrenton, Va. The session will...

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