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| American Medical Informatics Assn. Spring Congress 2007 [Orlando, FL - May 2007]
American Medical Informatics Association [AMIA] Spring Congress 2007 May 22 - 24, 2007 Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Orlando, FL Attendees will include: - Biomedical and health informatics researchers and faculty
- Computer scientists and system developers
- Government officials and policy makers
- Health information and knowledge management professionals
- HIT industry professionals and consultants
- Physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, and other clinicians
- Public health informaticians/practitioners, consumer advocates, and disease management specialists
- Standards developers
The objectives of the 2007 AMIA Spring Congress are:- To demonstrate and discuss issues related to the development, application, and evaluation of information technologies personal and public health care and research with respect to thematic tracks focusing on Clinical Decision Support, Nursing Informatics, Personal Health Records, Public Health Informatics, and Translational Research Informatics.
- To provide plenary, semi-plenary, and track presentations that detail work, progress, and challenges related to the thematic tracks.
- To improve the knowledge and skill of attendees with respect to Clinical Decision Support, Nursing Informatics, Personal Health Records, Public Health Informatics, and Translational Research Informatics as they relate to personal and public health care and research.
- To present research and applied methodologies and results through a poster session highlighting the thematic tracks.
- To promote information exchange among attendees.
Track learning objectives Clinical Decision Support- To learn a framework for developing, deploying and assessing clinical decision support.
- To acquire techniques for implementing specific clinical decision support interventions.
- To appreciate how clinical decision support may be deployed to enhance patient safety and disease management.
- To review and gain an understanding of key lessons learned by clinical decision support implementers.
Nursing Informatics- Identify the maximal role of nursing informatics for supporting nurses as patient advocates, care-coordinators and communicators
- Describe the uses of informatics to improve nursing clinical and operational outcomes
- Describe best practice and future directions for using informatics to integrate evidence into practice
Personal Health Records- Describe two to three research efforts underway for innovations in personal health records
- Identify issues and challenges in implementing personal health records
- Describe consumer views of personal health records as revealed in surveys and personal testimony
Public Health Informatics- Identify areas of interaction among personal health records, health information exchanges, and public health
- Articulate challenges and opportunities in global health informatics
- Evaluate low-tech informatics solutions for public-health problems
- Compare informatics-supported methods of disease or event surveillance
Translational Research Informatics- To present the latest progress on using informatics approaches to improve translational biomedical research
- To provide a platform to share information among the nation-wide initiatives on translational research informatics, such as CTSA, caBIG, NCBC, etc.
- To identify the current challenges of translational research informatics and to define the future directions
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