The following awards were presented at the AMIA 2021 Annual Symposium in San Diego, CA.
Morris F. Collen Award for Excellence
- Randolph A. Miller, MD, FACMI, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Homer R. Warner Award
Testing of a Risk-Standardized Complication Rate Electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM) for Total Hip and/or Total Knee Arthroplasty
- Mica Curtin-Bowen, BA, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
- Troy Li, BS, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
- Avery Pullman, BS, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
- Alexandra Businger, MPH, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
- Stuart Lipsitz, ScD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Ania Syrowatka, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
- Michael Sainlaire, MS, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
- Tien Thai, BS, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
- Jay Lieberman, MD, Keck School of Medicine, The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- Aileen Davis, PhD, University of Toronto, Ontario, CA
- Bonnie Blanchfield, ScD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
- David W. Bates, MD, MSc, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Patricia C. Dykes, RN, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Diana Forsythe Award
Moving patients from emergency department to medical intensive care unit: Tracing barriers and root contributors
- J. Abraham, S. Burton, H.S. Gordon
International Journal of Medical Informatics International Journal of Medical Informatics, January 2020
Harriet Werley Award
Development of four electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) for use in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) following elective primary total hip and knee arthroplasty
- Patricia C. Dykes, RN, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Mica Curtin-Bowen, BA, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Troy Li, BS, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Avery Pullman, BS, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Alexandra Businger, MPH, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Stuart Lipsitz, ScD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Ania Syrowatka, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Michael Sainlaire, MS, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Tien Thai, BS, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
- David W. Bates, MD, MSc, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Student Paper Competition
Martin Epstein Award First Place
Chart Completion Time of Attending Physicians While Using Medical Scribes
- Sarah Florig, Oregon Health & Science University, Department of Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology
Second Place
NetworkSIR and EnvironmentalSIR: Effective, Open-Source Epidemic Modeling in the Absence of Data
- Madison Pickering, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, The University of Texas at Dallas
Third Place
State of the Art Causal Inference in the Presence of Extraneous Covariates: A Simulation Study
- Raluca Cobzaru, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distinguished Posters
An Open-Source Engine for Decision Support and Workflow Automation
- Aziz A. Boxwala, MD, PhD, Elimu Informatics, Inc., La Jolla, CA
- Mariano De Maio, Elimu Informatics, Inc., La Jolla, CA
- Hank Wallace, Elimu Informatics, Inc., La Jolla, CA
Building with CEDAR and Making Evidence More FAIR
- Peter Krautscheid, BS, Edwin A. Lomotan, MD
- Kathy Mikk, JD, MFA, Edwin A. Lomotan, MD
- Mario Teran, MD, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD
- Edwin A. Lomotan, MD, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD
COVID Deniers: Analyzing #Scamdemic and #Plandemic Tweets
- Heather D. Lanier, MPH, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
- Sameh N. Saleh, MD, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
- Christoph U. Lehmann, MD, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
- Richard J. Medford, MD, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
Comparing Language Model Vocabulary Coverage on Clinical Documents
- Bryan D. Steitz, PhD, Dept. of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
- Adam Wright, PhD, Dept. of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Machine Learning Implementation Results in Reduced Variable Cost of Acute Care Visits During Radiotherapy: SHIELD-RT Cost Analysis
- Divya Natesan MD, Duke University Medical Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Durham, NC
- Samantha M. Thomas MS, Duke University Medical Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Durham, NC
- Eric Eisenstein DBA,Duke University, University Medical Center, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Durham, NC
- Neville C. W. Eclov, PhD,
- Nicole H. Dalal MD, University of California, San Francisco, CA
- Sarah J. Stephens MD, Duke University Medical Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Durham, NC
- Mary Malicki MSN ACNP, Duke University Medical Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Durham, NC
- Stacey Shields ANP-BC, Duke University Medical Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Durham, NC
- Alyssa Cobb, RN BS, Duke University Medical Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Durham, NC
- Yvonne M. Mowery MD PhD, Duke University Medical Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Durham, NC
- Donna Niedzwiecki PhD, Duke University Medical Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Durham, NC
- Jessica D Tenenbaum PhD, Duke University Medical Center, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Durham, NC
- Manisha Palta MD, Duke University Medical Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Durham, NC
- Julian Hong MD MS, University of California, San Francisco, CA
The Enigma of Clinical Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) based Genetic Testing -Variant Annotation Tools: A Performance Evaluation Study
- Sachleen Tuteja, High School Junior, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Aurora, IL
- Sabah Kadri, PhD, Director of Computational Genomics, AbbVie, North Chicago, IL
- Kai Lee Yap, PhD, FACMG, Director of Molecular Diagnostics, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Utilizing Advanced Visualization Technology to Study Home Care Challenges
- Denise Goldsmith MPH, MS, RN, FAAN, National Institute of Nursing Research, Washington, DC
- Sara Flash, BS, National Institute of Nursing Research, Washington, DC
- Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, FAAN, National Institute of Nursing Research, Washington, DC
- Jim Holdnack, PhD, National Institute of Nursing Research, Washington, DC
FallWatch: A Novel Approach for Through-Wall Fall Detection in Real-Time for the Elderly Using Artificial Intelligence
- Aditya Chebrolu, Independence High School, Frisco Independent School District, Frisco, TX
Quantifying Spatial Tumor Heterogeneity Using Single-Cell Proteomics
- Adriano Martinelli, MS, IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland; 7ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
- Aditya Kashyap, PhD, IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland
- Anna Fomitcheva Khartchenko, PhD, IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland
- Govind Kaigala, PhD, IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland
- Maria Anna Rapsomaniki, PhD, IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland
AMIA/HL7 FHIR® Applications Competition
1st Place
Disease Manager
- Ken Kawamoto
2nd Place
Bringing FHIR to the Bedside: An EHR Connected Mobile Application to Bring Real-Time Clinical Data Coupled with a User-First Team Collaboration Platform to the Point of Care
- Subha Airan-Javia
3rd Place
Involving Patients Using FHIR
- Ajay Dharod
Distinguished Paper Awards
Controversial Trials First: Identifying Disagreement Between Clinical Guidelines and New Evidence
- Florian Borchert, Digital Health Center, Hasso Platter Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
- Laura Meister, Digital Health Center, Hasso Platter Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
- Thomas Langer, Dipl. Social Scientist, German Guideline Program in Oncology, German Cancer Society, Berlin, Germany
- Markus Follmann, MD, MPH, MSc, German Guideline Program in Oncology, German Cancer Society, Berlin, Germany
- Bert Arnrich, PhD, Digital Health Center, Hasso Platter Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
- Matthieu-P. Schapranow, PhD, Digital Health Center, Hasso Platter Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
Creation of a Mapped, Machine-Readable Taxonomy to Facilitate Extraction of Social Determinants of Health Data from Electronic Health Records
- Svati B. Patel, MHS MSc, Veradigm, Chicago, IL
- Nam T. Nguyen, MS, Veradigm, San Francisco, CA
A Comparison of Exhaustive and Non-lattice-based Methods for Auditing; Hierarchical Relations in Gene Ontology
- Rashmie Abeysinghe, PhD, Department of Neurology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
- Fengbo Zheng, PhD, School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Houston, TX
- Licong Cui, PhD, School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Houston, TX