Testimony, Comments, Letters, and other materials

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• AMIA Comments on Proposed ACO Rule – June 6, 2011
• AMIA Comments on NQF Quality Data Model – May 26, 2011
• AMIA Comments on ONC's Federal Health IT Strategic Plan - May 6, 2011
• Report from the AMIA 2009 Health Policy Meeting, "Anticipating and Addressing Unintended Consequences of Health IT and Policy" - Dec. 20, 2010

 Testimony and Public Comments

• AMIA Comments on eMeasures, submitted to National Quality Forum (NQF) - April 1, 2011
• AMIA Comments on NINR Draft Strategic Plan 2011 - Mar. 14, 2011
• AMIA Comments on Federal Health IT Standards Activities - Mar. 7, 2011
• AMIA Comments to ONC on Meaningful Use Stage 2 - Feb. 26, 2011
• AMIA comments to ONC on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Report - Jan. 19, 2011
• AMIA comments to ONC on Personal Health Records - Dec. 10, 2010
• AMIA Testifies before ONC's Privacy & Security Tiger Team, Dec. 9, 2010
• AMIA Submits Comments on Common Format,Device or Medical/Surgical Supply, including HIT Devices Nov. 23, 2010
• Comments regarding the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to modify the HIPAA Privacy, Security and Enforcement Rules under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Care Act (HITECH) Sept. 13, 2010
• AMIA Submits Comments to DEA on E-Prescribing Controlled Substances. May 29, 2010
• AMIA Comments on Proposed Establishment of Certification Programs for Health Information Technology. May 2010
• AMIA Comments on Health Information Technology: Initial Set of Standards, Implementation Specifications... March 2010
• AMIA Comments on Meaningful Use. March 2010
  • Annotated Table 2 with Specific Comments. March 2010
• AMIA Testimony to HIT Policy Committee on Patient Safety and HIT. February 2010
• AMIA NIWG Submits Comments to IOM/RWJF Meeting on the Future of Nursing Education. February 2010
• AMIA Comments on HIPAA Enforcement Interim Rule December 2009
• AMIA Comments on Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) December 2009
• AMIA Comments on Breach Notification October 2009
• AMIA Comments on EHR Certification and Meaningful Use to the HIT Policy Committee July, 2009. Press Release
• AMIA Comments on Breach Notification May 2009
• AMIA Comments on Meaningful Use. Press Release
• AMIA Comments on HIT Extension Program
• Letter to AMIA Members from Don Detmer Summarizing AMIA's Activities on HR1
• January 2009 Letter to President-elect Obama
• AMIA's Proposal for Training and Educating the Informatics Workforce
• AMIA President and CEO, Don Detmer Presents on National Public Radio December 2008
• AMIA President and CEO, Don Detmer, MD, MA Testifies Before Congress March 16, 2006
  Read the full text of the testimony (pdf)
  Review the complete Witness List & Prepared Testimony panel.
  Read the transcript of this hearing

AMIA Letters to Congress and the Administration

• May 2008 Letter to Senator Leahy Re: S. 1693, the "Wired for Health Care Quality Act."
• June 2008 Letter to Chairman Dingell and Ranking Member Barton Re: Health Information Technology Draft Legislation
• July 2008 Letter to Letter to Chairman Dingell and Ranking Member Barton Re: H.R 6357, the "Protecting Records, Optimizing Treatment, and Easing Communication through Healthcare Technology Act
• September 2008 Letter to Chairman Stark Re: Including provisions of HR 1467, the "10,000 Trained by 2010 Act," in HR 6898, the "Health-e Information Technology Act"

 Selected Articles

• White paper: Informatics, evidence-based care, and research; implications for national policy: a report of an American Medical Informatics Association health policy conference Meryl Bloomrosen, Don E Detmer JAMIA 2010;17:115-123 doi:10.1136/jamia.2009.001370
• How to successfully select and implement electronic health records (EHR) in small ambulatory practice settings
  Nancy M Lorenzi , Angelina Kouroubali , Don E Detmer and Meryl Bloomrosen BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009, Published: 23 February 2009
• Integrated Personal Health Records  Integrated Personal Health Records: Transformative Tools for Consumer-Centric Care Don Detmer, Meryl Bloomrosen, Brian Raymond and Paul Tang
  BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008, 8:45doi:10.1186/1472-6947-8-45
• Patient Safety and HIT The Informatics Opportunities at the Intersection of Patient Safety and Clinical Informatics Peter M. Kilbridge and David C. Classen J. Am. Med. Inform. Assoc. 2008;15(4):397-407
  Advancing the Framework: Use of Health Data-A Report of a Working Conference of the American Medical Informatics Association Meryl Bloomrosen and Don Detmer J. Am. Med. Inform. Assoc. 2008;15(6):715-722
• Establishing the Framework for Use of Health Data  Toward a National Framework for the Secondary Use of Health Data: An American Medical Informatics Association White Paper Charles Safran, Meryl Bloomrosen, W. Edward Hammond, Steven Labkoff, Suzanne Markel-Fox, Paul C. Tang, Don E. Detmer With input from the expert panel (see Appendix A) J. Am. Med. Inform. Assoc. 2007;14(1):1-9.

Reports

• Core Competencies for Health Information Management and Informatics. 2008
• Healthcare Terminologies and Classifications: Essential Keys to Interoperability. 2007
• AMIA-AHIMA Report: Joint Workforce Task Force 2008
• Building the Work Force for Health Information Transformation  2006
• Clinical Decision Support  Executive Summary 2006
• Roadmap for Clinical Decision Support. Full Report  2006
• AMIA President & CEO Co-Authors Report on Global Lessons for National IT Programs 2006
  More information on the report  Read the complete report (pdf) (81 pages) (Publication ID: 2006-10)

Position Papers

• Use of Population Data April 2009
• What is Informatics? April 2009
• Access to and Use of Health Data, April 2009
• Clinical Decision Support April 2009
• Building the Workforce April 2009
• Value of Personal Health Records- a joint statement with the American Health Information Management Association February, 2007
•  Health Information Confidentiality- a joint statement with the American Health Information Management Association September, 2006
• Summary Position on Adoption of ICD-10 (pdf)- a joint statement with the American Health Information Management Association

Topical Reports

• Milbank Report Released: Tensions and Paradoxes in Electronic Patient Record Research: A Systematic Literature Review Using the Meta-narrative Method Using the meta-narrative method and searching beyond the Medline-indexed literature, this review used "conflicting" findings to address higher-order questions about how researchers had differently conceptualized and studied the electronic patient record (EPR) and its implementation. See: http://www.milbank.org/quarterly/8704Feat.pdf
• HISPC Reports on State Law, Business Practices, and Policy Variations Conducted during 2009 as part of the Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration (HISPC), the following compendium of 5 reports detail variations in state law, business practices and policy related to privacy and security and the electronic exchange of health information. Additional information is available here.
• Report on State Medical Record Access Laws
• Report on State Law Requirements for Patient Permission to Disclose Health Information
• Releasing Clinical Laboratory Test Results: Report on Survey of State Laws
• Report on State Prescribing Laws: Implications for e-Prescribing
• Perspectives on Patient Matching: Approaches, Findings, and Challenges

Background Papers

• An Environmental Scan: Educating the Health Informatics Workforce in the Global South
• Determining Health Informatics Workforce Needs in Developing Economies
• Establishing Partnerships to Promote eHealth in Developing Countries: Lessons from Africa