AMIA News Center

Thomas E. Piemme, MD, one of the founding leaders of the American College of Informatics (ACMI) and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), passed away April 17, 2021, in Peoria, Ariz., near Phoenix. Tom taught at the University of Pittsburgh for some years before moving to Washington, D.C., in 1970

It is hard to believe we are nearing the end of April. Summer will be here before we know it! AMIA staff and member volunteers have been hard at work on initiatives and efforts to advance our strategic plan. We are pleased to formally announce the AMIA Health Informatics Certification

The work of AMIA members Daniel Fabbri, PhD, Cynthia Gadd, PhD, MBA, MS, and Adam Wright, PhD, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) have earned the distinct privilege of being named as holders of endowed directorships. Fabbri was given the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) Directorship in Informatics Innovation. Gadd

We hope you are well. As mentioned in a previous message, AMIA is forming a new community for physicians. We are formally announcing the Physicians in AMIA (PINA) community. This community is an evolution of the Clinical Informatics Community of Practice (CICOP) to address the needs of the physicians in

Nation’s health and bioinformatics experts establish policy agenda for ‘Adaptive CDS’ The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) released a Board-approved position paper in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association ( JAMIA), calling for new and flexible oversight mechanisms to ensure the safe, effective use of artificial intelligence (AI)

Happy 2021! I hope you all had a restful and rejuvenating holiday season. I would like to provide a brief update about what is happening at AMIA. We held a Board of Directors orientation meeting this month, welcoming several new members: Julia Adler-Milstein, William Brown, Susan Hull, Josette Jones, Eileen

AMIA calls on CMS to establish novel funding models for medical education in clinical informatics Members of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Clinical Informatics Program Directors (CIPD) published a Policy Statement in the November issue of Applied Clinical Informatics, calling for federal funding reforms to support the subspecialty of

The American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) have named six inaugural Distinguished Fellows who will be presented with their awards at ceremonies during the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2020 Virtual Annual Symposium. This new recognition program aims to recognize senior Fellows who have made significant and sustained contributions to

I hope you are well as we are gearing up for the Virtual Annual Symposium next month. I would like to provide a brief update about what is happening at AMIA since my last message in August. There are a few key items I would like to report to you

New Fellows recognized for excellence in the use of informatics in practice The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) announced the 2021 class of 154 Fellows of AMIA (FAMIA) in the FAMIA Applied Informatics Recognition Program – a program meant to recognize AMIA members who apply informatics skills and knowledge within