AMIA, the home for informatics professionals, announced that its Board of Directors will be appointing Kevin Fickenscher, MD as President and Chief Executive Officer.
The 35th Annual Symposium on Biomedical and Health Informatics opened this week with keynote speaker Dr. Francis S. Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, addressing a crowd of more than two thousand professionals who are engaged in translational bioinformatics, clinical research informatics, clinical informatics, public health informatics, and consumer health informatics.
Informatics professionals are the leading edge of nursing.
The Morris F. Collen Award is presented annually to an individual who has demonstrated personal commitment and dedication to informatics in health and biomedicine. Pioneer Morris F. Collen, MD, realized the importance of EHRs long ago and was responsible for implementing them in Kaiser Permanente.
Clinical Informatics, one of five domains practiced in biomedical and health informatics, has become a board-certified medical subspecialty after a vote this week by the American Board of Medical Specialities.
AMIA advises the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about the agency's proposed regulation of clinical decision support via mobile medical applications.
Media registration is open for reporters who cover the hot new field in health care: informatics. AMIA Annual Symposium, Oct. 22-26, 2011, Washington, DC. The advance program for AMIA’s 35th Annual Symposium on Biomedical and Health Informatics previews a robust educational and scientific event of 15 themed tracks of content indluding natural language processing, security and privacy, data mining, consumer health and PHRs, policy and ethical issues, clinical education and global ehealth, to name a few.
EU-U.S. cooperation identifies common methods for health information and communication technologies.
AMIA and Philips Healthcare will co-host a free Webinar focusing on the role and usefulness of clinical decision support systems titled, "Decision Support and the Soul of a (Nearly Perfect) Machine."
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Health Equity Summit, convened by the Institute for the Advancement of Multicultural and Minority Medicine (IAMMM), opens today as the long-awaited Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is unveiled and opens to the public on the National Mall. Both events rivet public attention on human rights: the Summit focusing tightly on the health status of minorities and populations in low-resource countries and achieving health equity at the lowest cost.
www.JAMIA.org--AMIA’s peer-reviewed journal on informatics in biomedicine and health opens the door to translational science, highlighting several perspectives and five research articles on translational bioinformatics (TBI)
AMIA, the association for informatics professionals in biomedicine and health care, expressed its concerns to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) about a proposed rule that would modify the HIPAA Privacy Rules for accounting of disclosures. AMIA expressed extensive concerns about the proposed rule, drawing particular attention to the requirement to generate an “access report” that would indicate which individuals have accessed an individual’s personal health information.
AMIA, the association of leading informatics professionals, is experiencing a growth spurt: more professionals emerging into the field, a new website, new offices.
AMIA co-convenes meeting that succeeds in forging common U.S.-EU approach to health information technology.
AMIA, the association for informatics professionals, submits its comments to Dept of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology on the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, emphasizing concerns and items to be strengthened.
New content in JAMIA provides snapshot overview of new research in informatics and how it effects consumer health, care providers, social media, clinical research, public health and other areas related to health, health care, and healthcare delivery.
Specialized Health Professionals who Understand the Benefits of Health Information Technology and How to Use It Meaningfully visit elected officials to help them grasp the critical value of supporting HIT and informatics in healthcare.
Healthcare leaders consider HIT’s potential in promoting greater health equity and patient-entered care vs. its potential to unintentionally increase existing disparities in health and health care.
The Joint Summits on Translational Science open today with hundreds of biomedical scientists and leaders who are interested in transforming biomedical research discoveries into clinical treatments and health promotion. AMIA, the association for informatics professionals, convenes the week-long Summits on TBI and CRI.
Research findings on evaluation of clinical systems, patients and personal health records, and how clinicians use electronic health records.
AMIA, the association for informatics professionals, has sent its comments on achieving meaningful use of electronic health records to DHHS ONC (Meaningful Use Stage 2). AMIA emphasizes investing in people and providing end-users with cognitive support.
The Jan-Feb 2011 issue of JAMIA, the scientific journal on informatics in health and biomedicine, introduces a new Editor-in-Chief, new content, new open-access policy and accelerated submission/publication for authors.
Global Health Informatics Partnership (GHIP) has actively gained the support and participation of numerous international health-related organizations as it seeds and grows a collaborative learning community focused on the creation of a collaborative network and clearinghouse of information for global health informatics.
AMIA’s Annual Symposium provides the most comprehensive informatics program for work force that connects health data, technology, and patients, Nov. 13-17, 2010, Washington, DC
Six nurse informaticians, all leaders in the emerging nursing informatics profession, are to be inducted into the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) as Fellows, Saturday evening, Nov. 13, 2010, at the AAN Annual Meeting and Conference. As nurses are feeling the impact of information technology on clinical practice, education, administrative, and research duties, nurse informaticians are looking ahead to how information science will affect workflow priorities and the future direction of nursing, including emerging demand for more trained nurse informaticians.
AMIA takes position on HIT vendor contracts: An original and progressive report on health information technology (HIT) vendors, their customers and patients, to be published online Nov. 11, 2010, makes ground-breaking recommendations for new practices that target the reduction or elimination of tensions that currently mar relationships between many HIT vendors and their customers, specifically with regard to indemnity and error management of HIT systems.
AMIA, the association for informatics professionals, has been selected to serve as a partner for one year in the National Priorities Partnership (NPP), beginning Sept. 21, 2010. The NPP works to target ways to eliminate harm, waste, and disparities in health care delivery.
In comments sent to Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) called out 10 specific challenges to proposed modifications to HIPAA Privacy and Enforcement Rules. AMIA’s comments, sent on behalf of its membership of 4,000 informatics professionals, detail key issues of concern related to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on HIPAA modifications, along with suggestions for models of change.
A JAMA article recommends Biomedical Informatics in the education of physicians.
A new online publication, targeted to health professionals working in the global informatics community, has been launched by AMIA, the professional association for informatics professionals. The Standards Standard provides a single online destination for healthcare information, communications, and technology experts who require a reliable periodic update on the activities and initiatives of the world's major biomedical and healthcare standards- setting organizations.
Scientific research published in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) reports on a study of genetic variants that influence human susceptibility to peripheral arterial disease (PAD), made possible by leveraging electronic medical records (EMRs
AMIA, the U.S.-based association for informatics professionals, has launched a non-profit, wholly owned subsidiary organization called the Global Health Informatics Partnership (GHIP) to serve as an international center for collaborative initiatives on health informatics.
Numerous grants funded by the U.S. economic stimulus program (ARRA) Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, to advance the use of health information technology (HIT) and to ready a professional informatics work force, have been awarded to leading members of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).
UCSD Professor to take reins of leading informatics journal.
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