The Department of Biomedical Informatics was well represented at AMIA this year. Please join us in congratulating and recognizing the following for their awards, elections and participation in the AMIA 2013 Annual Symposium. AWARDS Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovations in Informatics: Stanley Huff, MD, FACMI Distinctive Poster Award for the poster “Remote Prenatal Care for Low-Risk Pregnant Women” by BM Welch, K Kawamoto, M Varner, E Clark Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award: Nancy Staggers, PhD, RN, FAAN Travel Awards: Rashmi Mishra, Megha Kalsy, Mingyuan Zhang PAPER PRESENTATIONS Automatically Extracting Clinically Useful Sentences from UpToDate to Support Clinicians’ Information Needs. R Mishra, G Del Fiol, H Kilicoglu, S Jonnalagadda, M Fiszman Inefficiencies and Vulnerabilities of Telephone Based Communication Between U.S. Poison Control Centers and Emergency Departments. Clinical Toxicology, 51(5):435-43, MR Cummins, B Crouch, P Gesteland, A Wyckoff, T Allen, A Muthukutty, Palmer, J Peelay, K Repko Electronic End-of-Life Care Registry: the Utah ePOLST Initiative. J Duncan, P Taillac, B Nangle, M Henry J Houston, S Talebreza, L Finch, CP Brunker, D Rajeev, HJ Smith, C North Electronic Information Exchange Between Emergency Departments and Poison Control Centers: A Delphi study. MR Cummins, BI Crouch, P Gesteland, N Staggers, A Wyckoff, & BG Wong (2012). Clinical Toxicology, 50(6), 503-13. Automatically Extracting Clinically Useful Sentences from UpToDate to Support Clinicians’ Information Needs. R Mishra, G Del Fiol, H Kilicoglu, S Jonnalagadda, M Fiszman, Understanding Adoption of a Personal Health Record in Rural Health Care Clinics: Revealing Barriers and Facilitators of Adoption Including Attributions about Potential Patient Portal Users and Self-Reported Characteristics of Early Adopting Users. JM Butler, M Carter, C Hayden, B Gibson, C Weir, L Snow, J Morales, A Smith, G Bateman, AV Gundlapalli, M Samore, Integrating Information Objects and Annotations in the Notional DoD-VA iEHR User Experience: Results from a randomized controlled trial on efficiency and accuracy of problem assessment and intervention specification. JR Nebeker, CR Weir, JL Hellewell, M Leecaster, F Drews, R Barrus, D Bolton, G Penmetsa, AE Underwood Support for Contextual Control in Primary Care: A Qualitative Analysis. C. Weir, FA Drews, J Butler, RJ Barrus, ML Jones, JR Nebeker Enabling Cross-platform Clinical Decision Support through Web-based Decision Support in Commercial Electronic Health Record Systems: Proposal and Evaluation of Initial Prototype Implementations. M Zhang, F Velasco, R Musser, K Kawamoto Recall of Computer-illustrated Patient Instructions: An Evaluation of the GLYPH System. Q Zeng, S Perri, B. Hill, D Bui, C Nakamura. FURTHeR: An Infrastructure for Clinical, Translational, and Comparative Effectiveness Research. R Gouripeddi, JC Facelli, R Bradshaw, D Schultz, B LaSalle, P Warner, R Butcher, R Madsen, P Mo qDIET Toward an Automated, Self-sustaining Knowledge Base to Facilitate Linking Point-of-sale Grocery Items to Nutritional Content. V Chidambaram, P Brewster, K Jordan, J Hurdle The Proactive of Clinical Decisions Support: Applying Standards and Technology to Deliver Knowledge-driven Interventions. R Jenders, G Del Fiol, H Starsberg, K Kawamoto Using Natural Language Processing on the Free Text of Clinical Documents to Screen for Evidence of Homelessness Among US Veterans. A Gundlapalli, M Carter, MN Palmer, T Ginter, A Redd, S Pickard, S Shen, B South, G Divita, SL DuVall, T Nguyen, L D’Avolio, M Samore The Role of Medical Informatics in Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs. RS Evans, J Olson, E Stenehjem, W Redding, E Thorell, S Howe, X Wu, J Lloyd A Proposed Clinical Decision Support Architecture for the Whole Genome Sequence. B Welch, S Loya, K Kawamoto Effects of Electronic Health Records Systems on the Exam-room Communication Skills of Resident Physicians. T Taft, F Sakaguchi, R Dunlea, K Barsch, J Nebeker, C Miline, L Lenert Adding Search Engine Functionality to Infobutton Manager Platform. J Long, N Hulse, C Tao, G Del Fiol Semi-automated Ontology Development System for Medically Unexplained Syndromes in the US Veterans Population. S Meystre, K Doing-Harris, N Boonsirisumpun, Y Livnat, K Potter The Importance of Interoperability and Generalist-specialist Communication to Patients. R Dunlea, L Lenert The Practice of Clinical Decision Support: Applying Standards and Technology to Deliver Knowledge-Driven Interventions, RA Jenders, G Del Fiol, HR Strasberg, K Kawamoto Combining Infobuttons and Semantic Web Rules for Identifying Patters and Delivering Highly-Personalized Education Materials, N Hulse, J Long, C Tao Panel: Health eDecisions: a Public-Private Partnership to Enable Standards-Based Clinical Decision Support at Scale. K Kawamoto, T Hongsermeier, AA Boxwala, VC Lee, J Reider POSTER PRESENTATIONS Automated Mapping of NPDS Data Elements to the UMLS Metathesaurus (abstract). M Cummins, K Doing-Harris, J Passman, B Mateos Evaluation and Comparison of Two Computerized IV Insulin-Treatment Protocols Using Patient Data from the ICU. A Wong, U Pielmeier, P Haug, AH Morris Data Adjudication Architecture for Health Information Exchange (HIE): a Case of Adjudicating and Storing Hemoglobin A1C Values. PR Kharkar, DK Mann, SN Thornton Sharing Qualitative Matching Parameters among Master Patient Indices. SN Thornton, JM Westburg, GE Russ, LJ Westburg, DK Mann, DN Rasumssen Preliminary Themes related to the Stakeholder Engagement for Automated Data Acquisition for Heart Failure. M Kalsy, N Kelly, JH Garvin Multi-Layered Annotation of Template Elements in VA Clinical Text. S Shen, RB Forbush, G Divita, D Finch, QT Zeng Personalized Shared Decision Making Model Support via Summary Statistics and Patient Stories. J Proulx, BD Hill, QT Zeng Pediatric Acute Appendicitis Treatment Devices Automatic Extraction from Diagnostic Imaging Reports in a Multi-Institutional Clinical Repository. SM Meystre , R Gouripeddi, A Trivedi, S Rangel Analyzing Data Entry Patterns with a Consumer-Facing Family Health History Tool: An Empirical Study. J Lee, N Hulse, P Ranade Kharkar, GM Wood, P Haug, SM Huff Health eDecisions (HeD): a Public-Private Partnership to Develop and Validate Standards to Enable Clinical Decision Support at Scale.
K Kawamoto, T Hongsermeier, AA Boxwala; B Rhodes, AA Morton, J Parker, CJ Nanjo, VC Lee, BK Minton, D Sottara, HR Strasberg, S Claypool, JA Scherer, MD Pfeffer, DE Shields, KW Boone, P Haug, TM Kuhn, MC Vida, A Langhans, C Mangir, E Pupo, RF Lario, DS Shevlin, J Reider Improving Discharge Instructions: Perspectives from Providers and Patients. B Hill, Q Zeng, SI Perri, S Kapsandoy, J Kuang Frame Engine: A CDS Bridging Architecture. B Bray Using Primitive Role Relationships in SNOMED to Enhance Concept Searching by Limiting Semantic Variability in FURTHeR. R Butcher, R Gouripeddi, RK Madsen, JC Facelli Enabling Cross-Platform Clinical Decision Support through Web-Based Decision Support in Commercial Electronic Health Record Systems: Proposal and Evaluation of Initial Prototype Implementations. M Zhang Transforming Health eDecisions Knowledge Artifacts into Vendor-Specific Knowledge Formats: a Strategy for Sharing Knowledge Artifacts at Scale. R Lario, K Kawamoto Toward Interoperable Standards for Late Life Care Preferences. J Clutter, L Lenert Poster was Nominated: On the Fly Linkage of Records Containing Protected Health Information (PHI) Within the FURTHeR Framework. PB Warner, P Mo, D Schultz, R Gouripeddi, JC Facelli A Research Pipeline of Information Extraction for Visualization of Narrative Clinical Reports on a Timeline. Pre-symposium workshop VAHC 2013. J Shi Measuring the Impact of EHRs on Clinician’s Cognitive Processes. FH Sakaguchi, CR Weir, LA Lenert Going FURTHeR with Three Federated Query Types. R Bradshaw, D Schultz, JC Facelli, RK Madsen, R Gouripeddi, R Butcher, B LaSalle The JSON Data Store (JDS): A Modern, Schema-less, CDR Based on MUMPS. K Meldrum, B Bray Automated Concept and Relationship Extraction for Ontology Development. KM Doing-Harris, N Boonsirisumpun, K Potter, Y Livnat, S. Meystre Using KaOS Ontologies to Model Policy Requirements for a Statewide Master Person Index. J Duncan, K Eilbeck, C. Staes, S Narus, S Clyde Knowledge Driven Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria Refinement within the FURTHeR Framework. RK Madsen, RL Bradshaw, D Schultz, R Butcher, R Gouripeddi, JA Mitchell, JC Facelli Federating caTissue with FURTHeR. R Mo, RK Madsen, RL Bradshaw, D Schultz, R Butcher, B LaSalle, R Gouripeddi, JC Facelli Creating a Secure, Easily Accessible Environment for PHI Data Exports within FURTHeR utilizing REDCap. D Schultz, B LaSalle, S He, R Gouripeddi, R Butcher, JC Facelli Creating a Reference Standard of Acronym and Abbreviation Annotations for the ShARe/CLEF eHealth Challenge 2013. DL Mowery, BR South, J Leng, LM Murtola, R Danielsson-Ojala, S Salantera, W Chapman Remote Prenatal Care for Low-Risk Pregnant Women. B Welch, K Kawamoto, M Varner, E Clark An Interactive Clinical Decision Support Tool for Heparin-induced Thrombocytopenia Management. M Zhang, DS McAllister, SA Johnson, M Wheeler, PW Proctor, BE Bray, VG Desmukh RECOGNITIONS Jeff Duncan was recognized for his 2 years of service on the Student Editorial Board of JAMIA. Rashmi was one of eight finalists for her paper. Automatically Extracting Clinically Useful Sentences from UpToDate to Support Clinicians’ Information Needs. R Mishra, G Del Fiol, H Kilicoglu, S Jonnalagadda, M Fiszman Gang Luo was on the AMIA 2013 Scientific Program Committee Student Design Challenge Committee – Jonathan Nebeker Jennifer Garvin was faculty for the VA AMIA 10x10 Standards Module S94: Laura Heermann-Langford – Session Chair for Podium Presentations - EHRs TUTORIALS T01 - Architectural Principles Applied to Integrated Clinical Systems, Stan Huff, Kathryn Kuttler, Joe Hales, and Laura Heermann-Langford T07: Practical Modeling Issues: Representing Coded and Structured Patient Data in EHR Systems, Stan Huff T10: Introduction to Biomedical Informatics, Joe Hales Innovations in Standards & Standards Development Panel, Stan Huff participated WG01: Natural Language Processing Working Group Doctoral Consortium and Workshop on Open Source NLP Systems, Stephane Meystre participated WG05: Medical Informatics and Decision Support in Intensive Care, Peter Haug and K Kuttler participated S01: Towards Patient Engagement: Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Record Systems and the HL7 Infobutton Standard Panel, Guilherme Del Fiol and Nathan Hulse participated S27: Training the Informatics Research Workforce, Part 1: Program Fundamentals, J. Hurdle, R. Kukafka, W. Hersch, C. Gadd, A. McCray PP4: President’s Picks – Innovations in Standards and Standards Development: What you Might have Missed in 2013, and will Need to Know Next Year. Stan Huff participated. --------------------------- Late Abstracts: Use of RxNorm and NDF-RT to Normalize and Characterize Participant-reported Medications in a Research Repository: Obstacles and Achievements, J Tenenbaum, C. Blach, G. Del Fiol, C Dundee, J. Frund, M. Smerek, A. Walden, R. Richesson.
ELECTIONS
Dr. Wendy Chapman was elected as an AMIA Board Director. Her official term of office is January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2016.