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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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Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA)

July 7, 2014

AMIA Comments on Proposed Risk-Based Regulatory Framework and Strategy for Health Information Technology Report

On behalf of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), I am pleased to submit these comments in response to the above-referenced request. AMIA is the professional home for biomedical and health informatics and is dedicated to […]

AMIA Comments in Response to RFI

September 21, 2012

Dear Ms. Roper,

On behalf of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), I am pleased to submit these comments in response to the above-referenced request for information (RFI). AMIA thanks the Department of Health and Human Services (the Department) and the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) for […]

AHRQ Request for Information

July 20, 2012

The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (Patient Safety Act), Public Law 109–41,42 U.S.C. 299b–21–b–26, provides for the formation of Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs), which collect, aggregate, and analyze confidential information regarding the quality and safety of health care delivery. The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Final Rule […]

ANI Submits Comments to NQF about Quality Data Model

July 16, 2012

The Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI) submit ted a letter of support for the comments developed by the AMIA Nursing Informatics (NI) Working Group (NIWG) to the National Quality Forum (NQF) on the Quality Data Model (QDM).

Quality Measurement Enabled by Health IT: Overview, Possibilities, and Challenges

July 10, 2012

Quality measurement is a critical element of the strategy to improve the quality of care delivered in the U.S. health care system. Until recently, quality measurement relied almost exclusively on the use of electronic claims data, manual chart abstraction, and patient surveys. However, there has been enormous, recent growth in […]

AMIA participates in Coalition for an Informed Patient Identity Integrity Solution

November 29, 2011

Along with several other organizations, AMIA is participating in the Coalition for an Informed Patient Identity Integrity Solution. The Coalition is working to delete prohibiting language from the fiscal year 2012 Labor, HHS Appropriations bill, and to substitute language that would have HHS conduct a study of the health information […]