Presentation submissions are no longer being accepted for 2022.
We invite you to contribute your best work for presentation at the AMIA 2022 Annual Symposium – the leading symposium for the science and practice of health and biomedical informatics. The AMIA 2022 Annual Symposium, held November 5-9, 2022, in Washington, D.C., showcases submissions from scientists, clinicians, trainees, educators, policy makers, administrators, industry professionals, and technologists from around the world.
The Annual Symposium will build on more than 45 years of sharing research and insights for leveraging health information and cutting-edge technologies to improve human health. Scientific evidence is the language of trust in healthcare, and this year’s theme is Informatics: Building the Evidence Base. During recent times of great uncertainty, disruption, and change, it has never been more important to leverage health data and informatics tools, such as analytics, artificial intelligence, and health information technologies, for scientific discovery, evidence generation, information management, and care delivery. We encourage rigorous scientific studies that generate high quality evidence to build trust, reproducible methods and public data to foster transparency, and special attention to research ethics, privacy, and security to demonstrate scientific integrity.
The AMIA 2022 Annual Symposium will consider the traditional poster, podium abstract, regular paper, student paper, panel, systems demonstration, and workshop submissions that share the latest innovations from the informatics community. We invite informaticians to challenge assumptions and engage in respectful, healthy dialogue, which is necessary for scientific advancement, through the new informatics debate format for submissions. To support a diverse and inclusive environment, we will be offering program committee members, authors, reviewers, and moderators inclusive language guidelines and training. All submissions accepted for presentation at the AMIA 2022 Annual Symposium will be subject to review and agreement with the AMIA Inclusive Language Guidelines. The guidelines will be released in February. Finally, we will prepare for and make every attempt to accommodate virtual participation when necessary, and authors should indicate if there is a known need for virtual presentation on submission.
Please submit your work by Wednesday, March 9, 2022. We look forward to seeing you in the Fall!
Gretchen Purcell Jackson, MD, PhD, Chair
William Brown, III, PhD, DrPH, MA, Vice Chair
Pei-Yun (Sabrina) Hsueh, PhD, Vice Chair
Hojjat Salmasian, MD, MPH, PhD, Vice Chair
Maxim Topaz, PhD, RN, Vice Chair
Rong Xu, PhD, Vice Chair
Important Submission Information
The submitting author will receive the decision notification from AMIA regarding the submission and, if accepted, will have to resubmit. Once a submission is on the person’s record, it cannot be transferred to another individual. If you do not think that you will be with the same organization through June 2022, it may be better if someone else creates the actual submission.
By submitting to the AMIA 2022 Annual Symposium, all presenters agree that if their submission is accepted, they will register either for the full conference at the designated author registration rate or for the day they are presenting at the daily registration rate. *Panel and workshop submitters – please make your participants aware of this policy.
Complete the online submission form as instructed and attach your submission formatted in compliance with the directions provided. Please review instructions and requirements for each of the major parts of a submission.
In recognition of AMIA’s commitment to diversity, individuals submitting panel and workshop proposals are encouraged to ensure that participating members represent a diversity of gender, race, ethnicity, as well as career level and thematic expertise relevant to the topic of the workshop. Inclusion of students in workshops is especially encouraged. Diversity will be a consideration by the SPC when evaluating proposals.
New: Inclusive Language
In December of 2021, the AMIA Board of Directors approved a set of inclusive language recommendations proposed by the AMIA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee. The recommendations focus around educating and empowering authors, reviewers, and moderators to take responsibility for using inclusive language in AMIA scholarship. The first set of recommendations will be implemented the AMIA 2022 Scientific Program Committee (SPC) focused on peer-review and the delivery of conference content including:
- Authors receive an Inclusive Language Style Guidelines (ILSG) and education resources.
- Authors informed and educated about how inclusive language will be incorporated in the peer-review process.
- SPC members and reviewers trained on how to provide feedback to authors when inclusive language revisions are merited.
- Conference audience member empowerment to assure full compliance with AMIA ILSG from peer-review through the delivery of conference content.
The SPC is pleased to begin implementation of the initial recommendations during the AMIA 2022 Annual Symposium. Using language that respects the autonomy, dignity, and experiences of marginalized communities is an important first step towards fostering an inclusive culture within AMIA. We hope these changes to peer-review and the delivery of conference content encourages researchers to participate from a more diverse range of backgrounds knowing their scholarship is welcomed and respected. In turn, these efforts support scholarship from marginalized and historically excluded backgrounds to contribute ideas, understanding, and foster inclusivity should enrich AMIA and its members. AMIA and the AMIA 2022 Annual Symposium SPC expects the implementation of these recommendations to lead to teachable moments where authors, reviewers, and leadership can reflect and learn about the historical and sociocultural context of language used (for better or worse) in the sciences.
Target Audience
The target audience for this knowledge-based live activity includes physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, and other clinicians; health information technology professionals; computer scientists and systems developers; policy makers; public health professionals; biomedical engineers and bioinformaticians; healthcare industry professionals; consultants and vendor representatives; medical librarians; academic researchers and scientists; and other individuals involved in the collection and dissemination of health information.
Learning Objectives
Each submission at the AMIA 2022 Annual Symposium, regardless of the type, will require one learning objective as part of the ScholarOne submission.
AMIA is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education to physicians. AMIA also provides Nursing Continuing Education (CE) credits. As an accredited provider, AMIA must design our activities to inspire change. That change may be a difference in knowledge/competence, performance, or inpatient outcomes. Educational design in this environment includes creating “outcomes-based learning objectives.” Creators of content should ask themselves, “What do I want the learner to be able to do, or to do better, after participating in my session?”
To write a good learning objective (LO), define the desired outcome of your presentation. Perform a needs assessment: what knowledge gap is your presentation going to fill? Then write the LO to address the gap you just identified.
After participating in this session, the learner should be better able to:
- Understand the current issues in drug-allergy alerting systems, including high alert rate and low alert sensitivity, and be able to discuss and recommend several approaches to reducing drug-allergy alert burden in the electronic health records systems.
- Learn challenges and possible solutions in creating and maintaining data elements for electronic health record systems across different clinical settings.
- Learn the quality of clinical documents generated by speech recognition technology and understand errors in dictated clinical documents at different processing stages and their potential impact in patient care.
- Formulate an approach to adoption of health information technology for the small physician group practice. (From the AMA)
After participating in this session, the learner should be better able to:
- Define the healthcare protocol for the treatment and prevention of Stage III and IV pressure ulcers and apply to your own practice [Too many verbs; can break it into: 1) Define the healthcare protocol for the treatment of Stage III and IV pressure ulcers; 2) Define the healthcare protocol for the prevention of Stage III and IV pressure ulcers; and 3) Apply this knowledge to their own practice.] (From the Colorado Foundation for Medical Care)
- Explain and discuss current initiatives and effective modalities to prevent incidence of complications such as infection or wrong-sided block. [This is a teaching objective. A learning objective on the same topic would be: “Prevent incidence of complications such as infection or wrong-sided block using current initiatives and effective modalities.”] (From Winthrop University Hospital)
- Become familiar with common eye problems. [The outcome is not measurable, there is no action the learner can take, and there is no context regarding the patient’s condition. Better LO: Screen for eye conditions commonly associated with type 2 diabetes.] (From the AAFP)
Additional resource: Guide to Writing Objectives for Continuing Medical Education, from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Presentation Types
The AMIA 2022 Annual Symposium will consider eight types of submissions. Read the general requirements for each type below:
Papers from all areas of biomedical informatics will be considered, with particular emphasis on those that align with the content themes for the AMIA 2022 Annual Symposium. Authors of accepted papers will have 18 minutes to present their work at the symposium including any question and answer period.
Pre-print Policy: Papers must not be in press or under consideration for presentation or publication elsewhere. However, authors retain the right to make a pre-print version of the paper available on recognized preprint servers (e.g., bioRxiv, medRxiv, PeerJ preprints, etc.) or personal/employer websites prior to acceptance for publication
Papers must be formatted to be 5-10 pages (including all tables, figures, references, and acknowledgements (U.S. Letter; 8.5 x 11 inch) in length and include:
- The names, academic degree(s), affiliations, and locations (city, state, and country, if international) of all authors;
- An abstract of 125-150 words summarizing the submission, which should also be entered into a text box in Step 2 of the online submission form;
- Optional illustrations (figures or tables);
- References.
Students are invited to submit papers that describe complete or nearly complete research or development efforts in informatics that was primarily carried out by the student. All designated student papers follow paper format requirements and will first be reviewed through the standard review process, along with all other submitted papers. Student papers that are accepted will be presented in a regular paper session and included in the Annual Symposium Proceedings.
Papers can only be submitted as a student paper or a regular paper, not both.
In addition, all accepted student papers will be referred to the Student Paper Advisory Committee (SPAC) for consideration for the Student Paper Competition. Eight student papers will be selected by the SPAC as finalists for the award competition and these eight papers will be presented at a special session. The eight finalist papers will be presented twice during the symposium. It is up to the submitting student to ensure that their paper is correctly identified as a student paper proposal.
Individuals, who as of March 1, 2022, are enrolled in a degree granting program or in an academic program, such as a medical residency or a post-doctoral fellowship, are eligible to enter a paper into the Student Paper Competition. Work performed as part of a large, collaborative effort is acceptable; however, the student paper will be judged on the student’s specific contributions to the project, which must be clearly delineated. Only individual students, not groups, may submit papers for consideration in the Student Paper Competition. Preparation of a manuscript must be entirely the work of the student, and single authorship is strongly encouraged. Co-authorship is usually limited to the student’s primary advisor. Entries from international students are encouraged. Papers submitted for consideration in the Student Paper Competition must adhere to the same requirements as described in the Papers category and, in addition, student authors must provide:
- The name and address of the training program;
- Clear identification of the primary advisor of the student submitting the paper;
- All co-authors and a description of that particular author's contribution to the work;
- An attestation of the student's contribution to the manuscript with respect to the following items: (a) The text of the manuscript itself; (b) The data collected for any analysis; (c) The actual data analysis; (d) The review of the literature; (e) If a system was developed, the role of the student in the coding/development of the system; and (f) The evaluation of the results and the formation of the conclusion;
- The student will be asked to upload a PDF of the attestation letter signed by their primary advisor confirming items a-f above.
The podium abstract format allows for the presentation of cutting-edge unpublished research that the author wishes to reserve publication rights for future consideration or outstanding work previously published in a peer-reviewed journal. Priority will be given to previously unpublished work. Authors of accepted podium abstracts will have up to 18 minutes to present their work at the symposium including any questions and discussion.
Abstracts will not be indexed in MEDLINE, enabling authors to submit their best work that is destined for future journal publication. Contributions may also consist of abstracts based on work published in peer-reviewed journals in the last year (i.e., publication after March 2021); however, works published as proceedings for other conferences will not be accepted. Citation of the previous work is required.
Submissions must be submitted as a two-page (including all tables, figures, references, and acknowledgements) (U.S. Letter; 8.5 x 11 inch) document and include:
- The names, academic degree(s), affiliations, and locations (city, state, and country, if international) of all authors;
- A structured abstract must be submitted that includes the following sections:
- Introduction – A short background and objective(s) of the study;
- Methods – Design, setting (if appropriate), patients or participants (if appropriate), interventions (if appropriate), and main outcome measurement;
- Results – Key findings;
- Discussion – Key Conclusions with direct reference to the foundational advancement or biomedical application of the work;
- Optional illustrations (figures or tables);
- References.
All podium abstract submissions must have a brief (50-75 words) abstract. The abstract paragraph does NOT have to be part of the document but must be entered on the submission website in the Abstract box on the online submission form.
Posters are the preferred format for presenting preliminary research or results of small-scale studies, illustrating and discussing innovative systems and services, describing experimental and in-practice projects and programs, reporting experiences with educational programs, and other dimensions of biomedical and health informatics. The poster sessions have been an increasingly vibrant and popular component of the symposium, offering direct access to the authors in a way not possible through podium presentations. Each accepted poster is displayed during one of the 90-minute poster sessions at the symposium. At least one author must be present at the poster session.
Posters must reflect new work, and not reflect work that is in press or previously published elsewhere.
Your uploaded poster manuscript file must be submitted as a one-page (including all tables, figures, references, and acknowledgements) (U.S. Letter; 8.5 x 11 inch) document and include:
- The names, academic degree(s), affiliations, and locations (city, state, and country, if international) of all authors;
- A description of the problem addressed and specific purposes of the system, service, or project; or, in the case of original research, an overview of the methodology, evaluation results, and conclusions;
- Optional illustrations (figures or tables), which must fit in the one-page limit;
- References, if applicable.
All poster submissions must have a brief (50-75 words) abstract. The abstract paragraph does NOT have to be part of the document but must be entered on the submission website in the Abstract box on the online submission form. (Please DO NOT copy and paste the entire one-page document into that box).
Panel sessions are designed to present an integrated set of perspectives or experience on a current topic in clinical research informatics. Panel topics may be on a specific aspect of theory, application, policy, trends, or experience pertaining to any aspect of clinical research informatics, or may provide interdisciplinary viewpoints that cut across traditional themes. Panel submissions and final presentations should demonstrate collective reflection and integration of the content presented by each of the panelists, or offer engaged forms of dialogue and interaction between panelists and audience. Scholarly debate among presenters is encouraged, as are panels that incorporate science, practice, and policy themes to improve the conduct of clinical and translational research. Panels should be limited to four participants and a moderator, and should be timed to allow one-third to one-half of the session for audience participation. Panel sessions are 90-minutes. An individual may be the primary organizer of only one panel and may not participate on more than two panels total.
The uploaded panel manuscript file must not exceed a maximum of three pages (including all tables, figures, references, and acknowledgements) (U.S. Letter; 8.5 x 11 inch) and include:
- The names, academic degree(s), affiliations, and locations (city, state, and country, if international) of the panel organizer and all participants;
- An abstract of 125 -150 words, describing the panel and its learning objectives, which should also be entered into a text box at the beginning of the online form to be used in the online program;
- A general description of the panel and the issue(s) that will be examined and a brief description of each panelist's presentation;
- An explanation why the topic of this panel is timely, urgent, needed, or attention grabbing is required with a discussion of anticipated audience;
- A list of discussion questions to enhance audience participation;
- A statement from the panel organizer that all participants have agreed to take part on the panel.
Systems demonstrations illustrate one or more aspects of a leading-edge system that is in use, under development, or at a testing or prototype stage. Each demonstration is 30 minutes long, including any questions and discussion.
Your uploaded systems demonstration manuscript file must be submitted as a one-page (including all tables, figures, references, and acknowledgements) (U.S. Letter; 8.5 x 11 inch) document and must include:
- The names, academic degree(s), affiliations, and locations (city, state, and country, if
- An abstract of 50-75 words summarizing the proposal, which will also be entered into a text box at the beginning of the online form to be used in the online program;
- A description of the specific purposes of the system, service, or project; the problems in health care practice, biomedicine, or research in informatics that it is designed to address; and the purpose or features of the system, service, or project that make it
- A statement of the degree to which the system or service has been deployed, as of the date of submitting the proposal.
The abstract paragraph does NOT have to be part of the document but must be entered on the submission website in the Abstract box on the online submission form. (Please DO NOT copy and paste the entire one-page document into that box).
Half-day (3-hour) and full-day (6-hour) workshops are dedicated to in-depth treatment and collaborative discussion of special topics and interests of relevance to the broad biomedical informatics community.
These workshops are divided into two categories:
- Instructional Workshops, focusing on knowledge base and competency development by presenters.
- Collaborative Workshops, intended to support the creation and ongoing activities of communities-of-practice within AMIA.
Instructional workshops should have no more than five presenters while the collaborative workshops should have no more than seven presenters.
Instructional Workshops
Instructional Workshops are limited to three hours in length and should include a combination of didactic and interactive content delivery, as well as participant interaction. Such workshops should be designed to address the needs and interests of individuals at all levels of experience relative to the selected topic area(s) and be led by individuals with appropriate subject matter expertise. The SPC encourages proposals that will bring together individuals with similar or different roles in developing, implementing, or using informatics in practice, management, education, research, or policy. Further, the SPC seeks a balance between workshops that address essential core informatics theory and principles, with those that address practical applications, current issues, and emerging trends and developments in informatics, aligned with overall meeting themes.
Collaborative Workshops
Collaborative Workshops may be either three or six hours in length, and are intended to encourage participation and collaboration using mechanisms such as discussion forums (e.g., shorter didactic presentations or panels followed by group discussions), research forums (e.g., presentations and discussions related to scientific advancements in a targeted areas of informatics innovation and practice), or a challenge/competition (e.g., individual or group submissions addressing a specific topic or scientific/technical challenge).
Submission Details
Individuals submitting either type of workshop proposal are encouraged to coordinate their activities and submissions with one or more AMIA Working Groups (WGs) as a means of raising the profile of WGs and their constituents at the Annual Symposium.
The SPC may ask individuals proposing thematically similar workshops in an independent manner to integrate their submissions prior to acceptance.
Individuals proposing workshops should be available to present on Saturday, November 5, or Sunday, November 6, and should confirm their availability on each of those days.
Workshop proposals must not exceed a maximum of four pages (U.S. Letter; 8.5 x 11 inch) in length and include the following information:
- A descriptive title for the workshop;
- An indication of the workshop type (i.e., instructional or collaborative) and suggested length for collaborative workshop proposals (3 or 6 hours);
- The names, academic degree(s), affiliations, and locations (city, state/province, and country, if international) of all workshop faculty;
- A summary of 250 to 300 words that describes the content of the workshop;
- An outline of topics to be covered and description of interactive components of the workshop;
- Specific educational objectives or outcomes that participants can expect to achieve
- A description of who should attend (e.g., clinicians, educators, leaders in healthcare or other organizations, researchers, policy makers, IT professionals);
- A description of prerequisites knowledge that participant should have, if any
- Indicate if the workshop instructional level is introductory, intermediate, or advance or a
- Experience of the workshop instructors/leaders in in the targeted content areas;
- If applicable, an indication of WG affiliations for the workshop (including the names of the individuals within each WG providing a formal endorsement of the submission);
- A list of conferences where this workshop has been previously presented, including past AMIA meetings.
Annual Symposium Workshop Review Process
Workshop proposals (Instructional and Collaborative) for the AMIA Annual Symposium are reviewed by a combination of the Education Committee and the Working Group Steering Committee (WGSC). It is the Scientific Program Committee (SPC) view that the Education Committee is best suited to provide meaningful assessment of Instructional Workshops. Similarly, as Collaborative Workshops historically originated from AMIA Working Groups, we view the WGSC as best suited to review Collaborative Workshop proposals. The Education Committee Chair will act as an SPC member assigning Instructional Workshop proposals to Education Committee members for review. The WGSC chair will act as an SPC member assigning Collaborative Workshop proposals to WGSC members for review. After review, the two committee chairs will evaluate the combined Workshop proposals to identify the highest ranked proposals while ensuring a mix of Instructional and Collaborative Workshops. They will propose a draft set of recommendations and a program of accepted Workshops to the SPC. The next step of the process is a discussion between the SPC Leadership, Education Committee Chair, and WGSC Chair to understand the results of the Workshop review. The final decision for all workshops rests with the SPC Chair in consultation with the four SPC Vice Chairs for the Annual Symposium. All proposals, regardless of Working Group affiliation, will be reviewed and ranked in this manner.
The SPC’s goal is to have the highest quality content for the Annual Symposium Workshops. We also recognize the value of Working Group sponsored/affiliated proposals and wish to support their work at the Annual Symposium. Accordingly, for proposals that are equally ranked and in accordance with prior review practice, preference will be given to the Working Group affiliated submission. The SPC requests that Working Group’s closely monitor “official” contributions to support the SPC’s goal of receiving the highest quality contributions. This step is particularly important since there is a finite amount of programmatic space. Immediately following the submission deadline, the AMIA staff will coordinate with the Working Groups Chair to review and approve WG-designated contributions to confirm the submission as an “official” contribution.
All submissions must conform to the format and presentation requirements described herein. Specific file formatting requirements as well as an example template are given below in the submission instructions section. Each submission should have up to three associated keywords to help in the selection of well-matched reviewers as well as organization of meeting sessions.
Important: Deviation from the prescribed format, especially the number of pages and modifications of template margins or font sizes, may result in rejection of the submission without review. Except for podium abstracts, submitted work must be original and not previously published.
Programmatic Themes
The AMIA 2022 Annual Symposium will be primarily organized around the six major areas of biomedical informatics, which reflect the spectrum of biomedical research and practice, from molecules to populations. Authors will be required to select one major thematic area of emphasis for their submission:
Keywords
The field of research and practice in biomedical informatics is as broad as the field of biomedicine and health care. Therefore, to facilitate the overall review process as well as support clustering of accepted submissions into meaningful sets, authors will be required to provide at least one, and up to three, keywords from the list below and up to five additional keywords that they feel best characterizes their work.
- Administrative Systems
- Advanced Disease
- Aging in Place
- Artificial Intelligence
- Behavioral Change
- Bioinformatics
- Biomarkers
- Biosurveillance
- Cancer Genetics
- Cancer Prevention
- Causal Inference
- Chronic Care Management
- Clinical Decision Support
- Clinical Guidelines
- Change Management
- Computational Biology
- Controlled Terminologies, Ontologies, and Vocabularies
- COVID-19
- Critical Care
- Curriculum Development
- Data Mining
- Data Analytics
- Data Science
- Data Sharing
- Deep Learning
- Delivering Health Information and Knowledge to the Public
- Diagnostic Systems
- Disease Models
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Documentation Burden
- Drug Discoveries, Repurposing, and Side-effect
- Education and Training
- Educational Collaboration
- Evaluation
- Ethics
- Fairness and elimination of bias
- Global Health
- Healthcare Quality
- Human-computer Interaction
- Imaging Informatics
- Informatics Implementation
- Informatics Science
- Information Retrieval
- Information Visualization
- Internet of Things
- Interoperability and Health Information Exchange
- Knowledge Representation and Information Modeling
- Legal, Ethical, Social and Regulatory Issues
- Machine Learning
- Internal Medicine or Medical Subspecialty
- Mobile Health
- Multimedia and Image Processing and Analysis
- Natural Language Processing
- Nursing
- Omics (genomics, metabolomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, etc.) and Integrative Analyses
- Participatory Approach/Science
- Patient / Person Generated Health Data (patient reported outcomes)
- Patient Engagement/Participation
- Patient Safety
- Patient Satisfaction/Experiences/Preferences
- Pediatrics
- Personal Health Informatics
- Pharmacogenetics
- Phenomics and Phenome-wide Association Studies
- Population Health
- Precision Medicine
- Privacy and Security
- Qualitative Methods
- Racial disparities
- Real-World Data Value/Cost of Care
- Real-World Evidence Generation
- Reproducibility
- Self-care/Management/Monitoring
- Sequence Analysis
- Simulation of Complex Systems
- Social Media and Connected Health
- Standards
- Surveys and Needs Analysis
- Surgery
- Systems Biology
- Teaching Innovation
- Telemedicine
- Terminology Systems
- Tracking and Self-management Systems
- Transitions of Care
- Usability
- Ubiquitous Computing and Sensors
- User-centered Design Methods
- Workflow
Tracks
The AMIA 2022 Annual Symposium submissions will be categorized as either: (1) foundational contributions to informatics methods (“Foundations”); (2) reports on the application of informatics in the context of health (“Applications”); or (3) discussions of policy topics influenced or impacted by informatics (“Policy”). Reflecting the often cross-cutting implications of informatics innovations, submissions may be categorized into multiple tracks simultaneously.
From the time that authors begin to prepare their papers, abstracts, or proposals, they should consider whether their principal results and insights would more aptly be presented as a foundational, applied, policy, or some combination therein.
Authors are in the best position to make a final decision about track at the time they wish to classify their contribution. Note that all track assignments by authors will be reviewed by the SPC and subject to reclassification in selected cases.
The Foundations track focuses on the conceptual and methodological advances that underpin the spectrum of biomedical informatics innovation. Contributions in this track should include work that presents progress in the generating, structuring, processing, managing, and analysis of biomedical and health information. Overall priority areas include the description and demonstration of methodologies that show promise in advancing the understanding and support of research and education in biological, clinical, and public health contexts.
The Applications track focuses on innovations in the design, technology, implementation, use, and evaluation of information systems and knowledge resources across the full spectrum of healthcare - in acute, ambulatory, and chronic care settings, public health departments, libraries, educational centers, and homes. Contributions to this track should emphasize applications that work in the real world to solve problems that impact or characterize health and well-being.
The Policy track focuses on informatics-relevant policies, policy recommendations, and policy evaluations, as well as the dependencies between informatics innovations and informatics policy. Priority will be given to those submissions that discuss informatics topics that may have either been influenced by policy decisions (e.g., Meaningful Use) or that may impact policy (e.g., 21st Century Cures). Contributions in this track should clearly identify policy implications and the role played by innovative informatics methodology.
Industry Submissions
Industry-authored and industry-client collaborative papers, abstracts, panels, demonstrations, and posters are welcome for submission as described above. No special submission designation is required. All industry submissions will be considered according to the standard review process. Industry submissions should not market and promote a specific product or company.
Scope and Breadth of the Annual Symposium
Thoughtful classification of your submission helps to ensure that each submission is reviewed by persons knowledgeable about its content. In addition, it helps greatly in structuring the meeting sessions, allowing better grouping of papers and presentations by area of interest. We recognize that no classification system is perfect and ask you to use your best judgment in making the determination for which themes and keywords best reflect your submission’s content.
File Format Requirements
Your uploaded PDF file must be in compliance with the requirements listed under each Category of Submission. Papers, podium abstracts, panels, posters, and systems demonstrations will appear in the AMIA 2022 Annual Symposium Proceedings. Adherence to the following requirements throughout all categories of submission ensures a consistency that facilitates the review process and proceedings.
Download the Sample template [Word]
Please note: Submissions that do not meet the formatting requirements may be rejected without review.
The Submission is:
- A PDF file.
- A single column formatted document.
- Adherent with the page length restrictions stated in the category descriptions. Please note that the page limit includes all tables, figures, references, and acknowledgements.
- Formatted for U.S. Letter (8.5 x 11 inch) paper size with one-inch margins left, right, top, and bottom.
And, the text within the Submission is formatted as follows:
- Title is 14-point bold, centered, title case (using initial capitals for each word in the title other than articles and prepositions);
- Below the title, are the names, credentials, institutions and locations of the author(s) or panelists, exactly as they are to appear in the online and print programs and the Proceedings, using 12-point Times New Roman typeface, single column, bold, centered, upper and lower case using appropriate capitals;
- The main text of the submission is single-spaced in 10-point Times New Roman typeface, justified, one-column format;
- Individual pages are not numbered;
- All caps, bold, italics, or underline are only used for emphasis;
- No track changes from word processing software.
The format of credentials and other author information appearing in the online and printed materials is subject to revision by the AMIA office. It is the responsibility of the submitting author of each proposal to provide full and accurate information about all authors named.
Please note that all information in the Online Program, the Pocket Guide, the Mobile Event App, and the Proceedings Table of Contents – presentation title, author names, author affiliations, and the order in which the authors are listed – comes directly from the online form authors fill out in ScholarOne. Therefore, please enter everything exactly the way you would like it to appear. AMIA is not responsible for the information listed incorrectly or for any omissions in this step. Any complaints from your co-authors about the way they are listed or why they are not listed will be directed to you.
Reference Format
References must be included in the PDF document. Links to web pages will not be accepted.
Bibliography and references must follow the Vancouver Style. Cite all references in the text, tables, or figure legends, using the following reference format: in the text, use eight-point superscript to indicate reference numbers; ten-point numbers in square brackets is an acceptable, although not preferred, alternative.
Under a centered heading “References” at the end of the submission, provide a list of references cited, in order of occurrence in the manuscript, and with titles using initial capital only. References must fit within the allotted page(s) for the respective submission categories. List all authors of any cited work when there are six or fewer authors; for more than six, list only the first three followed by “et al.”