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Sarah Anne Collins, RN, PhD

It was striking to me how much the systems around me could impact the patient
care that I was able to deliver ...

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Faces of AMIA

Kin Wah Fung, MD, MS, MA

We can make healthcare better and safer through the use of very smart systems and give clinicians advice and decision support.

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AMIA 2013 Annual Symposium

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What is Informatics?

Biomedical informatics (BMI) is the interdisciplinary, scientific field that studies and pursues the effective uses of biomedical data, information, and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem solving and decision making, motivated by efforts to improve human health.

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Featured Programs

  • Standards & Terminologies Distance Learning Course

    This course begins on May 13, 2013.

    This course is targeted at individuals who will work in the emerging field of population/public health informatics, in either a clinical or public health setting.

  • Biomedical and Health Informatics for Emergency Physicians

    The course begins on June 26, 2013.

    This offering is tailored to emergency physicians and other emergency personnel and its content is geared to Emergency Medicine. It culminates in an in-person session at the 2013 Scientific Assembly of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

  • Patient Safety and Health Information Technology

    This course begins on June 7, 2013.

    This course will examine the informatics and information technology issues surrounding the implementation and use of HIT that have contributed to this robust discussion over the past decade.

  • Interprofessional Health Informatics Course

    The course begins on July 8, 2013.

    This course is directed to both a generic overview of nursing and health informatics and the specific application of information and communication technologies in the clinical area.

  • Healthcare Interface Design Distance Learning Course

    The course begins on July 8, 2013.

    This on-line interactive course will allow the student to master the fundamental principles and methods in health interface design, learn how to evaluate the usability of existing systems, and also learn how to design new systems with built-in good usability by applying related theories, principles, methodologies and techniques.