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Informatics is helping children with congenital heart disease and diabetes receive easier access to medical care through the comfort of their homes. For Natalie Pageler, MD, chief medical information officer at Stanford Children’s Health, informatics is critical to successfully integrating data into electronic health records. Pageler’s team developed an app [...]

Informatics allows pathologists to utilize big data from digital imaging, while continuously managing the system’s workflow. For Joel Saltz, MD, PhD, FACMI, chair of biomedical informatics at Stony Brook Medicine, informatics is critical to successfully develop methods of using technology to enhance cancer treatments. Saltz’s team was tasked with developing [...]

As part of AMIA's ongoing COVID-19 Webinar Series, we take another look at how the Clinical Research Informatics community is contributing to better understanding the clinical nature of the coronavirus. Members of the Accrual to Clinical Trials (ACT) network will present an overview of the existing network, which is funded [...]

Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) is the automated generation and transmission of case reports from electronic health records (EHRs) to public health agency surveillance systems. The value of eCR is several fold, including more complete, accurate data in near real-time for case management, contact tracing, situational awareness and reporting, connecting with [...]

In this Special Emphasis Webinar of AMIA’s COVID-19 Webinar Series, we will hear from AMIA members and collaborators on how the COVID-19 pandemic has created new opportunities for telehealth to become a central component of care across inpatient and ambulatory settings. Presenters will discuss how: Indiana University Health initiated rapid [...]

As part of AMIA's ongoing COVID-19 Webinar Series exploring the role informatics experts are playing in the fight against the global pandemic, this session will discuss the use of informatics by public health agencies to assist in determining where best to allocate resources to maximize health efficiency and efficacy. Public [...]

In collaboration with AMIA's Nursing Informatics Working Group and the Alliance for Nursing Informatics, the AMIA COVID-19 Webinar Series continues with a presentation highlighting the contributions of nursing informatics. The lack of a national or global unified response to the COVID-19 pandemic presents health care professionals with the greatest challenge [...]

To address these and many other questions, the National Center for Data to Health (CD2H) and NCATS are leading the creation of a centralized, secure portal for hosting row-level COVID-19 clinical data - called the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C). This initiative is a partnership among NIH institutes, HHS, VA [...]