Annual Policy Meeting

AMIA's Annual Health Policy Meetings.

The 'by invitation only', multi-disciplinary working meeting engages public and private sector participants in a focused and thought provoking discussion. We explore a timely topic and weigh the various factors that impact the formulation of national policy and the role of informatics and we create a policy-focused report. Questions about AMIA's by policy meetings should be directed to Meryl Bloomrosen at meryl@amia.org.

2010 Health Policy Meeting

AMIA's 5th Annual Invitational Meeting focused on" The Future of Health IT: Innovation and Informatics.  The conference was held on September 1-2, 2010 in Reston, VA.  The meeting included several plenary sessions:  Health Care Reform, HITECH, and the View from 2015; Fraud and Failures; and Cybersecurity. General session speakers include: John Glaser, Siemens; Linda Connell, NASA; and William Barker, NIST. Breakout sessions focused on: Ensuring Resilience in Health Care and Health IT; Facing Ethical Legal and Social Challenges; and Sustaining Adoption and Innovation in Health IT.   Ted Shortliffe, AMIA CEO and President moderated a debate on the Stifling of Innovation. Debaters include: Don Detmer, John Halamka Randy Miller, and Don Rucker.

2009 Health Policy Meeting: Anticipating and Addressing Unintended Consequences of Health Information Technology and Policy.

AMIA's 4th Annual Invitational Health Policy Meeting  focused on "Anticipating and Addressing Unintended Consequences of Health Information Technology and Policy". The conference, held on September 9 and 10, 2009, in Reston, Virginia, drew diverse stakeholders from the public and private sectors who focused their discussions on anticipating unintended consequences of HIT and policy, as well as options for addressing them. Keynote presentations were made by David Blumenthal, MD, PhD, National HIT Coordinator, and Aneesha Chopra, MPP, Chief Technology Officer and Associate Director for Technology in the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy. Other plenary session speakers were Dr. Nancy Leveson, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Professor of Engineering Systems, MIT and Rodeina Davis, Vice President and CIO, BloodCenter of Wisconsin.

2008 Health Policy Meeting: Informatics, Knowledge, and Evidence Based Practice.

In September 2008, AMIA convened our 3rd annual working policy focused meeting. Participants from the public and private sector participated in a focused and thought provoking discussion on Informatics, Knowledge, and Evidence Based Practice.

2007 Health Policy Meeting: Advancing the National Framework for Reuse of Health Data.

Shortly after the 2006 Health Policy Meeting, AMIA formed three technical working groups to begin to implement the recommendations: Data Stewardship, Taxonomy, and De-identification and initiated plans to facilitate a second meeting on the topic. In June 2007, AMIA convened an expanded group of 100 participants and experts to further the development of the National Framework for Reuse of Health Data.

2006 Health Policy Meeting Establishing the Framework for the Secondary Use of Personal Health Information.

AMIA identified the topic of the Secondary Use of Personal Health Information as a critical issue for the continued widespread adoption of health information technology. In April, 2006, AMIA convened a blue ribbon panel of 36 experts and stakeholders to open a dialogue on the issues related to secondary use. Participants developed a robust framework for the infrastructure of policies, standards and best practices to facilitate the collection, storage, aggregation, linkage, and transmission of health data for secondary uses.