Working Group Webinar Library

This webinar provides an opportunity to hear from the editors at Nature portfolio journal (npj) Digital Medicine and Health Systems to understand their journals’ scopes specifically with respect to NLP research. Audience will have an opportunity to ask questions. Presenters

The Women in AMIA Career Advancement Subcommittee would like to invite you to an upcoming webinar, “Empower Your Worth: Mastering Salary Negotiation for Women.” Please join three senior female informatics leaders as they discuss best practices and techniques for salary negotiation, for internal promotions and for securing new opportunities.

Human language is complex and often equivocal. Unsurprisingly, even the most sophisticated natural language processing (NLP) algorithms inevitably make mistakes. The impact of these mistakes on the results of clinical research that uses NLP-generated data as one of the inputs is uncertain. In this talk, Alexander Turchin will discuss a recent study that has demonstrated that real world evidence analyses are resilient to a moderate error rate in NLP-generated data, supporting the use of NLP in clinical research. Presenter

This session will introduce you to the various opportunities for involvement in public policy through AMIA/NIWG. Our goal is to help those interested in policy understand the landscape of opportunities available and emphasize the crucial role your voices play in shaping public policy. The webinar will cover why nurses’ involvement is vital and how you can participate.

Clinician burnout, driven in part by the increasing burden of EHR documentation, is a significant threat to healthcare quality. This talk will introduce SPEER, a novel approach to automatically generating clinically useful hospital-course summaries from raw clinical notes.