CE Overview
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Attendees of the AMIA 2008 Annual Symposium may earn valuable continuing education credits by participating in scientific sessions, tutorials, and workshops.
Physician Continuing Education
AMIA is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. AMIA designates this continuing medical education for up to 27.75 hours of Category 1 credit toward the American Medical Association (AMA) Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he or she actually spends in the educational activity.
Nursing Contact Hours
Nursing contact hours will be provided by the University of Maryland School of Nursing's Office of Professional Development. In order to earn contact hours, please sign in at the registration desk each day to receive contact hours for this conference. Please complete the evaluation provided after you attend each session. Before you leave the conference, drop the evaluation form off at the registration desk. The total number of hours for tutorials, workshops and the symposium is 27.75.
The University of Maryland School of Nursing's Office of Professional Development and Continuing Education is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's (ANCC) Commission on Accreditation.
Continuing Education Accreditation for Pharmacists
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. The programs identified with an ACPE Program Number are cosponsored by ASHP and will provide continuing pharmacy education credit for the number of hours indicated. Pharmacists may earn up to 16.5 contact hours (1.65 CEUs) at the AMIA 2008 Annual Symposium and should request CE only for the sessions they attended. To receive continuing pharmacy education credit, please identify the sessions that you plan to attend. You will be asked to record the hours and return the completed form to the staff monitor at the AMIA Registration Desk. An official ASHP Statement of Continuing Pharmacy Education will be mailed to you within six to eight weeks after the Symposium.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
S02 - Broad-based Initiatives for Clinical Decision Support - 204-999-08-886-L04-P - 1.5 hours
Monday, November 10, 2008
S11 - National Health IT Agenda: The Next Generation - 204-999-08-887-L04-P - 1.5 hours
S19 - Adverse Drug Events - 204-999-08-888-L04-P - 1.5 hours
S25 - Informatics as a Health Profession and AMIA as Its Home - 204-999-08-889-L04-P - 1.5 hours
S37 - Web 2.0 and Clinical Decision Support - 204-999-08-890-L04-P - 1.5 hours
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
S48 - Designing Technology for Safer Patient Care - 204-999-08-891-L04-P - 1.5 hours
S52 - New Perspectives from the Health Information Community - 204-999-08-892-L04-P - 1.5 hours
S71 - Shared Resources - 204-999-08-893-L04-P - 1.5 hours
S76 - The Digital Patient Record Certification - 204-999-08-894-L04-P - 1.5 hours
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
S85 - Towards a Rigorous Evidence Base for Health Informatics - 204-999-08-895-L04-P - 1.5 hours
S100 - Tools and Systems for Infection Control - 204-999-08-896-L04-P - 1.5 hours
Learning Objectives
The objectives of the AMIA 2008 Annual Symposium are:
· To demonstrate and discuss issues related to the development, application, and evaluation of information technologies in medicine and health care.
· To provide a comprehensive portfolio of presentations that detail work, progress, and challenges in theoretical and applied information systems development.
· To improve the knowledge and skill of attendees with respect to using, developing, and managing information technologies as they relate to medicine and health care.
· To present research and applied methodologies and results in the broad field of medical informatics.
· To promote information exchange among attendees.
Disclosure
Before the program, all faculty will disclose the existence of any financial interest and/or other relationships they may have with the manufacturer or manufacturers of any commercial product or products to be discussed during their presentation. This includes any honoraria/expenses, grants, consultant role, speaker’s bureau membership, stock ownership, or any other special relationship. AMIA includes a disclosure list with the on-site registration materials.
