MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'amia'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:50:04 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5181957&cid=t_135914_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FNeilVerselsHealthcareItBlog%2F%7E3%2F_VlWsGVP6dk%2F Normally this time of year, I’m making plans to attend the many fall conferences in health IT and related industries. This year, my decisions are harder. You see, it seems like everyone decided to schedule their events during the last week of October: AMIA 2011, Oct. 23-26, Washington MGMA Annual Conference, Oct. 23-26, Las Vegas TEDMED 2011 Oct. 25-28, San Diego CHIME11 Fall CIO Forum, Oct. 26-28, Austin, Texas Just for kicks, I’m scheduled to participate in the Institute for Health Technology Transformation’s Health IT Summit, Nov. 2-3 in Beverly Hills, Calif. All are worthwhile, and all will be great places to find relevant stories for this blog and my various media clients. It probably makes most sense to go west, hitting MGMA and TEDMED, then spending the weekend in ... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5181957 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:47:10 +0100 5181957 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4560389&cid=t_135914_113_f&fid=34631&url=http%3A%2F%2Fehealth.johnwsharp.com%2F2011%2F03%2F07%2Famerican-medical-informatics-association-clinical-research-informatics-summit%2F Heading to San Francisco for this AMIA meeting. Looking forward to the opportunity to present from the podium and poster session. Topics include: Development and Sustainability of an EHR-based Chronic Kidney Disease Registry REDCap – Characterizing the Rapid Adoption at a large Academic Health Center Design of a Registry Management Tool for EMR Data Research Recruitment in Anesthesia Using EMR Data There will be many opportunities for networking. Hope to come home with lots of ideas. Hash tag is #TBICRI11 (Source: eHealth) eHealth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4560389 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 03:01:07 +0100 4560389 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4560208&cid=t_135914_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F03%2Faustralian-ed-ehr-study-putting-lie-to.html In conclusion, the anecdotalist refrain of "your evidence is anecdotal" [therefore of little or no value] when used repetitively against competent observers is the refrain of eggheads, fools and gonifs.In healthcare, the end result is "your patient's dead."As at my Mar. 2011 post "Hospital: "While We're the Bee's Knees in IT, We Aren't Perfect And We Are Always Willing To Look In The [Smashed Up, Rear-View] Mirror", my "anecdotal mother" is sadly an example.As for myself, I am a Markopolist (see my Sept. 2010 post "Health IT: On Anecdotalism and Totalitarianism").-- SS (Source: Health Care Renewal) Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4560208 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:55:00 +0100 4560208 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4294757&cid=t_135914_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FNeilVerselsHealthcareItBlog%2F%7E3%2FIJQgo8egb80%2Famia-scuttlebutt.html I'm on my way home from the AMIA annual conference, which actually doesn't end until tomorrow. I've got just a couple of short items to share. First of all, I was not the only person to notice that ONC's Chuck Friedman was wearing a tie with elephants on it. He said it's from Thailand, a place that actually has elephants, and in no way is meant to be a political statement. In fact, he said he had to get ethics clearance from HHS to wear it to work.Also, I heard legendary medical informaticist Clem McDonald ask a session moderator if recorded sessions would be available for purchase on DVD. Someone like Clem McDonald shouldn't have to pay for that. Just saying. (Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog) Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4294757 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:58:00 +0100 4294757 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4159185&cid=t_135914_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F11%2Freport-of-amia-special-task-force-on.html The views on healthcare IT safety, ethics, management practices, etc. appearing on the Healthcare Renewal blog and on my once-controversial academic health IT website "Contemporary Issues in Medical Informatics: Common Examples of Healthcare Information Technology Difficulties" (started in 1999) are now becoming mainstream.As I wrote recently at this link:I was somewhat taken aback by the appearance of the article by Karsh et al. entitled "Health information technology: fallacies and sober realities" (covered at Healthcare Renewal here) in the Oct. 2010 Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).I was taken aback since the article rains heavily on the academic memes of healthcare IT as a benign and deterministic solution to healthcare's ills, and of health IT-related a... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4159185 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:24:00 +0100 4159185 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4142733&cid=t_135914_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F11%2Fon-amias-jan-2009-letter-to-office-of.html I was somewhat taken aback by the appearance of the article by Karsh et al. entitled "Health information technology: fallacies and sober realities" (covered at Healthcare Renewal here) in the Nov. 2010 Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).I was taken aback since the article rains heavily on the academic memes of healthcare IT as a benign and deterministic solution to healthcare's ills, and of health IT-related adverse outcomes being mere "anecdotes."(It is ironic that my own mother recently fell victim to healthcare IT's supposed beneficence. It is accurate to say she was nearly killed via health IT-related cognitive disruptions and the resultant utter failure of medication reconciliation, and remains severely impaired nearly six months later.)My blog posting on ... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4142733 Sat, 06 Nov 2010 14:01:00 +0100 4142733 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3063334&cid=t_135914_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fbellagio-follow-up-in-health-affairs.html There's been a lot of work done in the field of global e-health since the Rockefeller Foundation's series of conferences in Bellagio, Italy, in June and July 2008. I had the distinct honor of attending for the third of four weeks, which focused on electronic health records and on mobile healthcare, two subjects that even more up my alley now then they were a year and a half ago.I've had intermittent contact with some of the participants in those conferences since then, most recently at the AMIA annual symposium last month, and I've tried to report on progress from those meetings toward applying information technology to addressing health issues in developing countries. A wider audience will get a chance to read more about some of the projects in an upcoming issue of Health Affairs.From wha... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3063334 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:02:00 +0100 3063334 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2719785&cid=t_135914_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2009%2F08%2F18%2Fupcoming-healthcare-it-conferences%2F Neil Versel posted a list of upcoming Healthcare IT conferences (a few aren’t just IT, but IT will be a large part of it) in the sidebar of his blog. Check out his list: Medical Device Connectivity (Sept., Boston) Medicine 2.0 (Sept. 17-18, Toronto) AHIMA (Oct. 3-8, D-FW) Health 2.0 (Oct. 6-7, SF) MGMA (Oct. 11-14, Denver) Connected Health Symposium (Oct., Boston) CHIME09 (Oct., Indian Wells, Calif.) E-Patient Connections (Oct., Phila.) NIH mHealth Summit (Oct. 29-30, DC) Inst. for Health Tech Transformation (Nov., LA) AMIA (Nov. 14-18, SF) That’s a lot of conferences. Were there any that we missed? That just goes through the end of the year. How do people stay up with all these conferences? I still haven’t made it to HIMSS, but am planning to go to Atlanta in March. I&#8... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2719785 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:56:01 +0100 2719785 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2086801&cid=t_135914_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F01%2Fmodest-feedback.html A couple of months ago, I posted, "A modest proposal," my observations about a session on clinical decision support from the American Medical Informatics Association annual meeting. In it, I argued that medical informatics needed a rock star of sorts to help humanize the issue of clinical decision support and communicate the benefits of such technology to the general public.I got three comments on that post—actually pretty high for this blog—as well as several e-mails. One correspondent said we need more than a rock star, we need the whole band. I passed that comment on to Dr. Bill Bria, CMIO of Shriners Hospitals for Children, who was part of the panel at the AMIA meeting, who told me that he once led an all-physician rock band called the Straight Caths. It still may take the Rolling ... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2086801 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:25:00 +0100 2086801 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2021293&cid=t_135914_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F12%2Fgates-foundation-to-fund-global.html The American Medical Informatics Association will announce Monday that it has received a $1.2 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to promote health informatics and biomedical education and training worldwide, particularly in developing countries.This will be the first project of a new program called 20/20, in which the International Medical Informatics Association and its regional affiliates, including AMIA, will attempt to train 20,000 informatics professionals globally by 2020. This is an outgrowth of the AMIA 10x10 program to train 10,000 people in informatics in the U.S. by 2010. IMIA and its partners will discuss details of 20/20 this week at the Wellcome Trust in London.AMIA will use the Gates Foundation money to develop "scaleable" approaches to e-health educati... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2021293 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:40:00 +0100 2021293 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1960479&cid=t_135914_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F11%2Fmodest-proposal.html Medical informatics needs a rock star. Not a David Brailer-esque figure who could excite people in the technology sphere, but perhaps a Don Berwick type who can reach every level and constituency of healthcare, and even capture the imagination of the general public.I had this thought yesterday during a highly engaging session at the American Medical Informatics Association's annual symposium in Washington, a session with the mouthful of a title, "Harnessing Mass Collaboration to Synthesize and Disseminate Successful CDS Implementation Practices." In English, that means panelists were discussing the forthcoming "Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: An Implementer’s Guide" and related feedback mechanisms, including a wiki.During the session, panelists discussed the difficulti... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1960479 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:47:00 +0100 1960479 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1024187&cid=t_135914_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F11%2Fscoop-amias-10x10-going-global.html CHICAGO—This is just a quick post to draw your attention to a story posted on Digital Healthcare & Productivity this morning: The American Medical Informatics Association is expanding its 10x10 program internationally, with the goal of training 20,000 informatics professionals outside the U.S. by 2020. AMIA chief Dr. Don Detmer will make the announcement during his annual "state of the association" speech at 12:30 pm CST today. But you heard it here (or at DHCP) first.Also coming in today's DHCP newsletter is news from today's American Health Information Community here in Chicago that the Federal Communications Commission will award $400 million in grants over the next three years to connect small and rural healthcare facilities in 42 states and three territories. (Source: Neil Versel's ... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1024187 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:44:00 +0100 1024187 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1015702&cid=t_135914_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F11%2Fnew-gig.html Ladies and Gentlereaders, I am proud to announce that I have a new gig. I am writing a monthly supplement to the weekly Part B News called Physician Office Technology Report. It's published by Decision Health of Rockville, Md.The title pretty much speaks for itself, and the audience is primarily physician practice managers, similar to my last full-time job at a publication that shall remain nameless because I don't want them to have the publicity. So yeah, there was a good reason why I was in Philadelphia last week for the Medical Group Management Association's annual conference and yet another reason why my blogging has been rather spotty of late.The first issue of the Part B News Physician Office Technology Report came out this week. Look for it the first week of each month. Speaking of ... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1015702 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:24:00 +0100 1015702 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=815068&cid=t_135914_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F08%2Fgoogles-health-plans-and-more-on-cmios.html BRISBANE, Australia—I'm at the other end of the world this week for the 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics, otherwise known as MedInfo, so things have been a bit nutso, what with the travel, the change of 15 time zones and the acclimation to a rainy winter in a region that's had drought conditions for several years, at least until I arrived Sunday.That said, I have a couple of things to share that I carried with me for some 9,000 miles. Yeah, so what if I carried them on a tiny USB drive? I still brought them to Australia.First off, thanks to Fred Trotter and Dr. Scott Shreeve for cluing me in to a sneak peek at Google Health, allegedly code named "Weaver." See this post at Google Blogoscoped, complete with screen shots. Happy scoping.Secondly, a story I wrote for Digita... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=815068 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:10:32 +0100 815068 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=768852&cid=t_135914_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F07%2Fjust-short-of-begging.html I'm teetering on the brink of attending MedInfo next month, the triennial meeting of the International Medical Informatics Association, which is represented in the United States by the American Medical Informatics Association. I went to the 2004 edition in San Francisco and came out of it with six months of story ideas. This time, the only problem for me is that MedInfo is in Brisbane, Australia, August 20-24.So, rather than begging for cash (which I'm certainly not above doing), I'm willing to work for it. Therefore, I am publicly offering my services, for a fee, of course, for any publication interested in coverage of MedInfo and other conferences in Australia going on in August. These are:First World Conference on Pathology Informatics, Aug. 16-17 in BrisbaneFirst World Nursing Informat... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=768852 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:14:00 +0100 768852