AMIA, along with 75+ medical, scientific, and patient advocacy organizations, sent a letter to Congressional leadership on September 19, 2025, urging swift passage of appropriations funding NIH at $48.7 billion for fiscal year 2026. We expressed alarm over the administration's proposed 40% NIH budget cuts and disruptive policy changes, including […]
AMIA's letter to NIH supporting Option 4 for limiting publication costs in federally funded research. Option 4 would cap publication spending at 0.8% of direct costs or $20,000, whichever is greater. We argue this approach balances fiscal responsibility with research flexibility, particularly important for medical informatics research requiring multi-faceted dissemination […]
Washington, D.C. – It is the position of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) that U.S. health system leaders are accountable for assuring equitable access to care and preventive services grounded in scientific evidence.
AMIA stands firmly with the scientific community in upholding the established gold standard for science, a […]
AMIA has submitted our response to CMS’s Health Tech Ecosystem Initiative, underscoring the vital role of informatics in shaping the future of health care. We highlighted our decades of leadership advancing standards like FHIR and TEFCA, training the clinical informatics workforce, and driving innovation. In our comments, we stressed protecting […]