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Friday, September 6, 2024 Start Time (MDT) End Time (MDT) Session Name Faculty 7:00 am 8:00 am Registration 8:00 am 8:15 am Welcome & Course Overview Hersh 8:15 am 8:45 am 1A: History and Current State of Informatics Hersh 8:45 am 9:30 am 1B: Ethical, Legal, and Financial Issues in [...]

Content Development and Presentation Faculty William Hersh is Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon, USA. Dr. Hersh is a leader and innovator in biomedical informatics both in education and [...]

Statement of Purpose In the past decade, health care has radically changed from a paper-based system to one that relies on technology to support all facets of health care delivery. This transformation has given rise to practitioners who need a skill set that goes beyond the clinical specialty in order [...]

AMIA was instrumental in the creation of the clinical informatics subspecialty (CIS), supports current and future CIS diplomates, and is actively working to advance the CIS. In May 2019, AMIA released the results of the first CIS practice analysis which include a data-driven description of CIS practice, published in the [...]

Informatics brings together large data sets, which provides enormous opportunities to improve people’s health. For Michael F. Chiang, MD, MA, professor of Ophthalmology and Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology at OHSU, informatics allows him to gather large data sets in ophthalmology through patients’ electronic health records to be a part [...]

Informatics is helping children with congenital heart disease and diabetes receive easier access to medical care through the comfort of their homes. For Natalie Pageler, MD, chief medical information officer at Stanford Children’s Health, informatics is critical to successfully integrating data into electronic health records. Pageler’s team developed an app [...]

Informatics allows pathologists to utilize big data from digital imaging, while continuously managing the system’s workflow. For Joel Saltz, MD, PhD, FACMI, chair of biomedical informatics at Stony Brook Medicine, informatics is critical to successfully develop methods of using technology to enhance cancer treatments. Saltz’s team was tasked with developing [...]