We report back on the first year of the Women in AMIA Leadership Program. A guide to all Women in AMIA Events at the 2020 AMIA Virtual Fall Conference. Women in AMIA Experience Webinar with Australasian Institute of Digital Health.
A conversation with AMIA Doctoral Dissertation Award Winners.
In comments submitted to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), AMIA recommended that the agency subject username/password information to its Health Breach Notification (HBN) Rule and expand its purview to provide warning to health apps that provide inadequate transparency into its data use, reuse, and exchange. AMIA further urged FTC to address […]
AMIA and ACMI have released the following letter recommending the July 10, 2020, memo, “COVID-19 Guidance for Hospital Reporting and FAQ,” be rescinded, and hospitals continue reporting COVID-19 capacity and utilization data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN).
In response to a Senate HELP Committee white paper on preparing for the next pandemic, AMIA made several suggestions on ways Congress can improve the nation’s data-driven public health surveillance ecosystem. AMIA urged Congress to address limited connectivity between health care systems and public health systems for better surveillance and […]
In comments filed with CMS last week, AMIA wrote that while it supports proposals to provide hospitals with flexibilities in how they comply with the Promoting Interoperability Program, it also strongly urges CMS to consider how it can leverage this and other programs to help mitigate and recover from the […]