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AMIA’s goal is to improve the legislative and regulatory environment for health informatics research, practice and education through AMIA member expertise.  The primary pathway through which AMIA achieves this goal is by engaging Federal Agencies and Congress on public calls for input, such as Notices of Proposed Rulemakings (NPRMs) or Request for Information (RFIs).

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AMIA responses are arranged by Federal Agency and Congressional Committee.

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AMIA Comments on PCORI Draft Research Agenda

March 16, 2012

AMIA and the NIWG submitted comments in response to the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s (PCORI’s) request for comments about its draft National Priorities for Research and Research Agenda. PCORI was created to fund research that will give patients, caregivers, and clinicians more information to support health care decisions. AMIA thanked […]

AMIA Submits Comments to HHS on the Common Rule

October 25, 2011

This week AMIA submitted comments to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in response to the a request for comments regarding Human Subject Research Protections: Enhancing Protections for Research Subjects and Reducing Burden, Delay, and Ambiguity for Investigators (aka "the Common Rule").

Click below to read AMIA's comments.

AMIA Comments on NINR Draft Strategic Plan 2011

March 17, 2011

AMIA submitted comments recently to the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) in response to their request for public comments on the latest draft of the Institute's strategic plan. The association's comments were informed by AMIA's Nursing Informatics Working Group (NIWG), which promotes the advancement of nursing informatics within the […]

AMIA Testifies before ONC's Privacy & Security Tiger Team

December 9, 2010

AMIA’s testimony examines patient data matching before ONC’s Privacy & Security Tiger Team. AMIA's Brad Malin discusses some concerns of the accuracy in patient matching and the implications of misidentified data in patient care and biomedical research, which could lead to false match or false non-match.

AMIA Comments on HIPAA Enforcement Interim Rule

December 24, 2009

AMIA comments on the interim final rule, which amends the enforcement regulations promulgated under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to conform to the revisions made pursuant to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) for which the Secretary may impose a […]