CNE/CME Information
- Original release date: August 25, 2021
- Reviewed September 2023 for continued relevancy.
- New expiration date: September 13, 2026
Target Audience
Practitioners in clinical fields, including, but not limited to, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and dentistry; and public health, health informatics, scientific research, and computer science professionals.
Learning Objectives
After participating in the AHIC Review Course, the learner should be better able to:
- Identify key health informatics concepts and skills and their relationship to health informatics practice.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the concepts and skills needed to enhance decision-making and processes within health care and public health organizations to achieve improved outcomes.
- Demonstrate knowledge of concepts and skills needed to ensure that health information systems meet the needs of health care and public health organizations, health care and public health professionals, and patients.
- Demonstrate knowledge of concepts and skills needed to ensure data quality and analyze health data to support the processes and performance of health care and public health organizations.
- Demonstrate knowledge of concepts and skills needed to lead development and implementation of health informatics plans, strategies, and policies that strengthen health care and public health organizations.
This Internet enduring material activity has been planned as a CME and nurse CE activity.
Estimated time to complete activity: 40 hours
Accreditation Statement
The American Medical Informatics Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit Designation Statement
The American Medical Informatics Association designates this enduring material for a maximum of 40 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Continuing Education for Nurses
American Medical Informatics Association is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Approved Contact Hours: 40 contact hours
Lead Nurse Planner (ANCC-criteria compliance): Juliana J. Brixey, PhD, MPH, MSN, RN
Nurse Planner (Content): Lynda R. Hardy, PhD, RN, FAAN
Juliana J. Brixey and Lynda R. Hardy disclose that they have not had relevant financial relationships with ACCME-/ ANCC- defined commercial interests over the 12 months preceding their planning of this activity.
Criteria for Successful Completion
Completion of this enduring material is demonstrated by participation in the lectures (video recordings and/or lecture scripts), engaging with practice test questions, and completion of the evaluation survey at the course’s conclusion. Credit claim and certificate download are available after submitting the evaluation. Participation in additional resources and course forum is optional.
Commercial Support
No commercial support was received for this activity.
Disclosure Policy
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, AMIA requires that everyone who is in a position to control the content of an educational activity disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest or other entity for 12 months prior to the educational activity.
Faculty and planners who refuse to disclose relevant financial relationships will be disqualified from participating in the CE activity. For an individual with no relevant financial relationship(s), course participants must be informed that no conflicts of interest or financial relationship(s) exist.
AMIA uses a number of methods to resolve potential conflicts of interest, including: planners’ review of disclosures using a COI resolution rating scale; limiting content of the presentation to that which has been reviewed by two or more peer reviewers; ensuring that all scientific research referred to conforms to generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, and analysis; undertaking review of the educational activity by a content reviewer to evaluate for potential bias, balance in presentation, evidence-based content or other indicators of integrity, and absence of bias; monitoring the educational activity to evaluate for commercial bias in the presentation; and/or reviewing participant feedback to evaluate for commercial bias in the activity.
Disclosures
Disclosures of relevant financial relationships of all planners of the AHIC Review Course
The following Planners and Course Instructors of the AHIC Review Course disclose that they have not for the 12 months before their involvement with the course had relevant financial relationships with ACCME- and ANCC- defined commercial interests:
Deborah Ariosto; Barbara Berkovich; Juliana Brixey; Zach Burningham; Jane Carrington; Alexis Carter; Prerna Dua; Christina Eldredge; Susan H. Fenton; Carmen Hall; Lynda R. Hardy; Patricia Hinton Walker; Christine A. Hudak; Saif Khairat; Fang Li; Frank Liao; Sina Madani; Robert Marshall; Lisa Masson; Tasneem Motiwala; Scott Nelson; Mina Ostovari; Emily Pfaff; Rakhal Reddy; Abiel Roche-Lima; Hojjat Salmasian; Prabhu RV Shankar; Mary H. Stanfill; Lois Walters-Threat; Mark Weisman.
The following Planners and Course Instructors of the AHIC Review Course disclose that they have had during the 12 months before their involvement with the course had the following relevant financial relationships with ACCME- and ANCC- defined commercial interests and with other entities. Note that AMIA has mitigated the risk for potential bias in the AHIC Review Course:
Name/Relationship: Disclosed entity
- Amar Das: Employee; Merck Research Laboratories
- Susan C. Hull: Employee; CareLoop
- Harm Scherpbier: Consultant: HealthShare Exchange
- David Liebovitz: Advisor: Optima4BP, Startup founder: Bedside Intelligence
The following AMIA staff involved with planning the AHIC Review Course disclose that they have not had for the 12 months before their involvement with the course relevant financial relationships with ACCME- and ANCC- defined commercial interests:
Pesha Rubinstein; Elaine Steen; Jeff Williamson.