AMIA Meetings and Events

AMIA Annual Symposium

Held each fall, the AMIA Annual Symposium is the world’s most comprehensive annual meeting on biomedical and health informatics. 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, 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. Each year, the meeting brings together over 2,000 professionals and students from an array of occupational settings—academic institutions, community-based organizations, government agencies and the military, health care facilities, industry, international health, private practice and research facilities. More information can be found by clicking here. 

AMIA the Joint Summits on Translational Science

AMIA the Joint Summits on Translational Science is a set of two joined conferences held in the same venue with each focused exclusively on translational bioinformatics and clinical research informatics.  The AMIA Summit meeting on Translational Bioinformatics (TBI Summit) will immediately precede the AMIA Summit meeting on Clinical Research Informatics (CRI Summit)  providing a venue in which to bring together the finest minds in bioinformatics and clinical research informatics from academia, industry, government and non-profit sectors, along with those interested in the full translational science spectrum. By joining these meetings, AMIA synergizes work occuring at the intersections of the strategy outlined by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in stimulating advanced translational research (T1 & T2). The Summitt adds value to both the clinical research informatics and bioinformatics communities and accelerates outreach to the larger healthcare community.

Summit on Translational Bioinformatics (TBI)

The AMIA TBI Summit is an indispensable gathering for translational bioinformatics research and development worldwide. With the completion of human and model organism genomes, and the increasing utilization of biomedical computational methods, translational bioinformatics is evolving rapidly into a complex multidisciplinary field encompassing nearly all areas of biological, biomedical, and clinical research. Biomolecular and clinical informatics, statistical genetics and genomic medicine, are poised to jointly play an increasing role in accelerating the translation of knowledge discovery from genome scale studies to effective treatment and tailored disease management and health care. The Summit covers specific and tractable needs of translational bioinformatics, and more importantly, identifies challenges facing this emerging research field by showcasing the synergies between the clinical informatics and bioinformatics communities. More information can be found by clicking here.

Summit on Clinical Research Informatics (CRI)

The emergence of the AMIA CRI Summit has been fueled by the rapid pace of biomedical advances and the resultant need to more efficiently and effectively conduct clinical research and translate research findings into practice to improve the health of our communities. The need for effective information management is critical to the addressing the many challenges facing clinical research, and there has been a corresponding and rapid evolution of the biomedical informatics methods and tools specifically designed to address clinical research information management requirements.   The CRI Summit will be a venue for CRI scientists and professionals to share their work, develop new collaborations, and identify potential avenues of research and development that will ultimately advance discovery-driven healthcare. AMIA believe that the CRI community will benefit from a meeting devoted to issues of relevance to this new domain, and this has led to our decision to launch the first annual CRI Summit in 2010.  More information can be found by clicking here.

AMIA CMIO Boot Camp: Achieving Meaningful EHR Use

The AMIA CMIO Boot Camp is a comprehensive and engaging experience for physicians in CMIO leadership roles. This four day program provides CMIO's or those aspiring to the role with essential knowledge and tools to lead the charge. The content of the AMIA CMIO Boot Camp focuses on critical success factors for successful EHR implementation within health care organizations and will leave attendees with the skills to define and measure the benefits of EHRs.

The Boot Camp is an experiential learning experience, incorporating interactive classroom elements into each topic of study. The faculty employs multiple teaching methodologies—presentations, case study, group exercise, and team projects—to engage the participants and apply the material directly to the physician world.  CME is available for this program.  Visit the AMIA CMIO Boot Camp site to learn more.

Other AMIA Meetings

AMIA hosts several other meetings during the year for focused groups within the organization.  AMIA's College, the American College of Medical Informatics is a college of elected fellows from the United States and abroad who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics. ACMI fellows meet each winter to discuss pressing issues of informatics. More information can be found by clicking here.

The Academic Forum is a membership unit within AMIA dedicated to serving the needs of post-baccalaureate biomedical and health informatics training programs. The Academic Forum was conceived by recognized leaders to establish a professional home for academic informatics within AMIA. Forum members meet each year to discuss a topical interest chosen by the members. More information can be found by clicking here.

AMIA's Annual Health Policy Conference is a by invitation only, multi-disciplinary stakeholder working meeting where AMIA engages public and private sector participants in a focused and thought provoking discussion. We identify a timely public policy topic and weigh the various ethical, political, technical, and social factors that impact the formulation of national policy and the role of informatics.  A report of the outcome of the meeting with policy recommendations is created as is our practice for these meetings.  We discuss how AMIA and other stakeholders can play a major role in setting direction for the future.  The majority of the meeting is spent discussing strategy and policy implications as well as technical issues and challenges. More information can be found by clicking here.