Symposium Overview
Thank You for Making the Annual Symposium a Success!
AMIA 2008 was an astounding success, with more than 2000 attendees and over 65 exhibiting companies and Innovation & Information Center participants. This year's event brought together a network of subject-matter experts spaning the spectrum of foundations and applications in clinical care and research, public and community health, and translational informatics.
Program highlights included:
A Sunday keynote address, delivered by David Eddy, MD, PhD, a pioneering giant in the application of information technology to care, Medical Director and Founder of Archimedes. He offered attendees a glimpse of the results of modeling perfect prevention using 16 national primary and secondary prevention guidelines. Additional information about the Archimedes model is available online at: http://archimedesmodel.com/.
S01 A Perspective on the National Elections, the Administration and Congress, Health Policy, and Informatics was held Sunday, November 9. This interactive townhall discussion on health care in follow-up from the recent presidential elections featured David Blumenthal, President-elect Obama's health policy advisor. Blumenthal talked about the new administration's plans and ideas on the agenda, insurance, research, health IT, quality, and personalized medicine.
A complete session wrap-up summary, award winners, and photos are forthcoming. Click here to access a list of pre-registered attendees.
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Overview:
The AMIA 2008 Annual Symposium will be held in Washington, DC, November 8-12, 2008. The Annual Symposium provides a wide range of formats for education and discussion. Papers and posters present peer-reviewed state-of-the-art scientific and technical work. Demonstrations and Partnerships in Innovation allow for comprehensive presentation of advanced systems, including new developments and innovative uses of commercial systems. Panels, invited keynote presentations, tutorials, and workshops bring together thought leaders for in-depth and active audience exchange about critical issues of the day.
The symposium continues to flourish as the premier forum for education in clinical informatics, clinical research informatics, public health informatics, and translational bioinformatics. The symposium brings together an amazing network of informatics experts that span the spectrum of foundations and applications of informatics. AMIA 2008 will gather professionals from an array of occupational settings—academic institutions, community-based organizations, government and military, health systems and hospitals, industry, nonprofit organizations, and private practice which makes it the most exciting meeting in biomedical and health informatics each year.
Tracks:
Foundations of Informatics:
This track emphasizes conceptual advances relating to the structure, processing, management, and use of biomedical information. This track presents the results of innovative research on the scientific underpinnings of biomedical and health informatics - highlighting the fundamental advances that lead to new methods and, ultimately, to new applications in support of health care, biological research, and education.
Applications of Informatics:
This track emphasizes innovations in the design, technology, implementation, use and evaluation of information systems and knowledge resources across the full spectrum of health care - in acute, ambulatory, and chronic care settings, public health departments, libraries, educational centers, and homes. Contributions to this track emphasize applications that work in the real world to solve important problems.
Themes:
Clinical Decision Support, Outcomes, and Patient Safety
Clinical Research Informatics
Clinical Workflow and Human Factors
Consumer Informatics and PHRs
Data Integration and Exchange
Data Mining, NLP, and Information Extraction
Education
EHR and CPOE Systems
Policy and Ethical Issues
Public Health Informatics and Biosurveillance
Translational Bioinformatics
Terminology and Standards
