Colleen Cuddy, Chair-elect, has arranged for the Medical Informatics Section to sponsor two programs and co-sponsor a third at the 2009 MLA Annual Meeting in Hawaii.
With Top Tech Trends III: Technology Fusion, co-sponsored by the Educational Media and Technologies Section, this popular program returns on Monday, May 18 at 10:30 AM for its third year, with technology trend spotters in health sciences libraries offering their latest insights, opinions, and criticisms on where technology is leading us next.
In a related effort, Eric Schnell continues to maintain a Facebook group for MLA Technology Trends <http://usc.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2464357736> to support a collaborative exchange among those interested in the field; the group currently has 195 members. Being an Informationist, or, Why Are You Working in the Library, is a contributed papers session being co-sponsored by the Molecular Biology and Genomics SIG on Sunday, May 17 at 11 AM; four contributed papers have been chosen to represent the breadth of the informationist role in the context of medical libraries.
The Educational Media and Technologies Section is the sponsor of a contributed papers session on Resources for Disaster and Remote Access Regions, being co-sponsored by the MIS and two other sections. This program is about providing information resources in times of disaster and identifying innovative approaches to information delivery in remote geographic regions.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
2009 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics - March 15-17, 2009
Upcoming Conference Announcement:
For full information about this conference, please visit the official conference website:
http://summit2009.amia.org/
The 2009 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics, will be held March 15-17, 2009, in San Francisco, California, at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco. Conducted in close partnership with the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), this meeting will be an indispensible gathering for translational bioinformatics research and development worldwide.
Registration: AMIA invites registrants to take advantage of the advance registration discount rates. The deadline for advance registration is March 2, 2009 (11:59 pm ET).
Program Information: Use the Searchable Program (under the "Program" tab above) to find detailed information on sessions, presenters and posters. See below for session topic tracks.
For full information about this conference, please visit the official conference website:
http://summit2009.amia.org/
The 2009 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics, will be held March 15-17, 2009, in San Francisco, California, at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco. Conducted in close partnership with the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), this meeting will be an indispensible gathering for translational bioinformatics research and development worldwide.
Registration: AMIA invites registrants to take advantage of the advance registration discount rates. The deadline for advance registration is March 2, 2009 (11:59 pm ET).
Program Information: Use the Searchable Program (under the "Program" tab above) to find detailed information on sessions, presenters and posters. See below for session topic tracks.
- Track 1: Informatics Methods for the Analysis of Molecular and Clinical Measurements
- Track 2: Computational Approaches to Finding Molecular Mechanisms and Therapies for Disease
- Track 3: Relating and Representing Phenotypes and Disease
- Track 4: Dissecting Disease Through the Study of Organisms, Evolution, and Taxonomy
- Track 5: Informatics Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Enable Integrative Translational Research
- Track 6: Informatics Methods in Genetics Discoveries and Clinical Practice
Apply for a Sewell "Librarian Learning Partnership"
From the Sewell Fund website:
The goal of The Grace and Harold Sewell Memorial Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is to increase librarians’ identification with medical and health care professionals. Medicine for the 21st Century underlines the key role of information resources in raising the quality of health care.(1) Librarians experienced in managing knowledge and teaching informatics can supply quality information by becoming ongoing members of the health care team. Immersion in the health care environment is necessary for librarians to understand how health care professionals solve problems individually and through consensus.
Learning Partnerships: Toward New Information Perspectives "Wonderful program. There are not enough such immersion opportunities for librarians."
– Neil Rambo, UW Health Sciences Libraries, 9/22/06
The Grace and Harold Sewell Memorial Fund plans to fund two, paid, 12-month, Learning Partnerships placing experienced librarians/informationists within leading health care and/or research organizations for the purpose of both partners gaining a greater understanding of how best information sciences can be effectively applied in each environment.
We are currently soliciting applications for librarians/informationists for our 2009/2010 Learning Partnerships. Host organizations will present a learning environment, a series of activities, and access to organizational leaders which will allow the librarian/informationist to more fully understand the nature of the organization’s work, its decision-making processes, the clients served and the health care issues addressed. The librarian/informationist will participate in team settings designed to utilize their skills and knowledge in non-traditional ways. Immersion is the goal and expanded knowledge the anticipated result for both partners. To read about past Learning Partnerships, click here.
Key 2009/2010 Learning Partnership Dates:
Librarian Applications Available: February 2009
Librarian Applications Due: April 15, 2009
2009/2010 Recipients Announced: Early June 2009
The goal of The Grace and Harold Sewell Memorial Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is to increase librarians’ identification with medical and health care professionals. Medicine for the 21st Century underlines the key role of information resources in raising the quality of health care.(1) Librarians experienced in managing knowledge and teaching informatics can supply quality information by becoming ongoing members of the health care team. Immersion in the health care environment is necessary for librarians to understand how health care professionals solve problems individually and through consensus.
Learning Partnerships: Toward New Information Perspectives "Wonderful program. There are not enough such immersion opportunities for librarians."
– Neil Rambo, UW Health Sciences Libraries, 9/22/06
The Grace and Harold Sewell Memorial Fund plans to fund two, paid, 12-month, Learning Partnerships placing experienced librarians/informationists within leading health care and/or research organizations for the purpose of both partners gaining a greater understanding of how best information sciences can be effectively applied in each environment.
We are currently soliciting applications for librarians/informationists for our 2009/2010 Learning Partnerships. Host organizations will present a learning environment, a series of activities, and access to organizational leaders which will allow the librarian/informationist to more fully understand the nature of the organization’s work, its decision-making processes, the clients served and the health care issues addressed. The librarian/informationist will participate in team settings designed to utilize their skills and knowledge in non-traditional ways. Immersion is the goal and expanded knowledge the anticipated result for both partners. To read about past Learning Partnerships, click here.
Key 2009/2010 Learning Partnership Dates:
Librarian Applications Available: February 2009
Librarian Applications Due: April 15, 2009
2009/2010 Recipients Announced: Early June 2009
Election Results and Other Announcements
The election results are in, and I'm pleased to announce the following officers for 2009/2010:
Elizabeth (Beth) Whipple, Chair-Elect
Maureen (Molly) Knapp, Secretary-Treasurer
As decided by the MIS executive board, Kathy Kerdolff will serve as the MIS nominee to the MLA Nominating Committee.
We wish to thank Bette Sydelko for her willingness to run for secretary-treasurer and also for all the excellent work she is doing as our current Secretary-Treasurer.
Thanks also to the other MIS Nominating Committee members (Susan Lessick and Lisa Traditi) and to all of you who voted.
For the MIS Travel Grant Awards, I'm pleased to announce that we had 10 applicants and after tallying points according to the established criteria, we determined that the 3 grant winners are:
Laura Barrett
Doug Varner
Beth Whipple
Their checks for $350 each will be presented at the MIS Business Meeting.
Thanks to Bette Sydelko for helping me in the grant award process.
We look forward to seeing you all in Hawaii!
Janis Brown
Elizabeth (Beth) Whipple, Chair-Elect
Maureen (Molly) Knapp, Secretary-Treasurer
As decided by the MIS executive board, Kathy Kerdolff will serve as the MIS nominee to the MLA Nominating Committee.
We wish to thank Bette Sydelko for her willingness to run for secretary-treasurer and also for all the excellent work she is doing as our current Secretary-Treasurer.
Thanks also to the other MIS Nominating Committee members (Susan Lessick and Lisa Traditi) and to all of you who voted.
For the MIS Travel Grant Awards, I'm pleased to announce that we had 10 applicants and after tallying points according to the established criteria, we determined that the 3 grant winners are:
Laura Barrett
Doug Varner
Beth Whipple
Their checks for $350 each will be presented at the MIS Business Meeting.
Thanks to Bette Sydelko for helping me in the grant award process.
We look forward to seeing you all in Hawaii!
Janis Brown
Top Technology Trends on Facebook!
Eric Schnell has created a Facebook group for the MIS Top Techology Trends. This group is hugely popular with over 200 members! Check out what everyone is saying. Eric describes the group as:
"A space for librarians, MLS students, LIS faculty, or anyone else interested in discussing technology trends related to libraries - specifically medical and health sciences libraries. Also includes discussions on technology successes and failures, strategies that librarians can use to communicate and implement emerging technologies, and how technology is changing the library profession."
You join the group here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=23825262322#/group.php?gid=2464357736
"A space for librarians, MLS students, LIS faculty, or anyone else interested in discussing technology trends related to libraries - specifically medical and health sciences libraries. Also includes discussions on technology successes and failures, strategies that librarians can use to communicate and implement emerging technologies, and how technology is changing the library profession."
You join the group here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=23825262322#/group.php?gid=2464357736
Monday, February 16, 2009
AMIA Liaison Report
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
The AMIA 2009 Annual Symposium was held November 8 – 12, 2008 in Washington, DC, on Biomedical and Health Informatics: From Foundations to Applications to Policy. The symposium offered papers, posters, and invited panels, as well as tutorials and continuing education. Birds of a feather sessions, a new feature this year, provided informal sessions where people with common interests could discuss specific topics that had been solicited from prospective conference attendees.
AMIA received about 900 submissions for paper, posters, and panels. After review committees accepted proposals, a committee categorized the submissions as foundational contributions of novel informatics methods or practical reports of the applications of informatics and then sorted the submissions into themes; the 2008 meeting included 11 themes. The AMIA conference includes a mix of broad, over-arching topics, as well as specific research results. Many presenters were students in informatics graduate programs, so there seemed to be more research papers than at typical MLA meetings. Further information about the symposium can be obtained on the AMIA web site.
Other AMIA meetings include AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics, which will be held March 15-17, 2009, in San Francisco, California; and the 2009 AMIA Spring Congress , which will be held May 28 – 30, 2009, Orlando, Florida.
AMIA continues to work towards its objective of training 10,000 healthcare professionals by the year 2010 through its 10x10 program. Karen Albert, an MLA member, has completed the certificate program and found that it broadened her horizons and led to a promotion. Another regular AMIA activity includes visiting legislators to discuss issues in informatics. This year, Medical Informatics Section member, Douglas Varner participated in AMIA’s Capitol Hill day.
Only a handful of medical librarians attended the AMIA Annual Symposium, and a few of those who have become active AMIA members are currently not in the MLA directory. This meeting was the first AMIA meeting I have attended in several years, but as before I found it to be stimulating to learn about new technologies in patient care, informatics methods being used to develop diagnostics and therapeutics, and policies related to health informatics. Attending AMIA meetings helps to get a better understanding of the milieu in which we work and would be beneficial to other MLA members. The AMIA annual symposium rotates between Washington, DC and other cities, and the smaller summits and congresses are also held in various cities, so MLA members should take advantage of the opportunity to attend when AMIA is in a nearby city.
MOTION
This report is informational and requires no action by the Board of Directors.
Janis F. Brown
MLA Representative to AMIA
January 9, 2009
The AMIA 2009 Annual Symposium was held November 8 – 12, 2008 in Washington, DC, on Biomedical and Health Informatics: From Foundations to Applications to Policy. The symposium offered papers, posters, and invited panels, as well as tutorials and continuing education. Birds of a feather sessions, a new feature this year, provided informal sessions where people with common interests could discuss specific topics that had been solicited from prospective conference attendees.
AMIA received about 900 submissions for paper, posters, and panels. After review committees accepted proposals, a committee categorized the submissions as foundational contributions of novel informatics methods or practical reports of the applications of informatics and then sorted the submissions into themes; the 2008 meeting included 11 themes. The AMIA conference includes a mix of broad, over-arching topics, as well as specific research results. Many presenters were students in informatics graduate programs, so there seemed to be more research papers than at typical MLA meetings. Further information about the symposium can be obtained on the AMIA web site
Other AMIA meetings include AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics
AMIA continues to work towards its objective of training 10,000 healthcare professionals by the year 2010 through its 10x10 program. Karen Albert, an MLA member, has completed the certificate program and found that it broadened her horizons and led to a promotion. Another regular AMIA activity includes visiting legislators to discuss issues in informatics. This year, Medical Informatics Section member, Douglas Varner participated in AMIA’s Capitol Hill day.
Only a handful of medical librarians attended the AMIA Annual Symposium, and a few of those who have become active AMIA members are currently not in the MLA directory. This meeting was the first AMIA meeting I have attended in several years, but as before I found it to be stimulating to learn about new technologies in patient care, informatics methods being used to develop diagnostics and therapeutics, and policies related to health informatics. Attending AMIA meetings helps to get a better understanding of the milieu in which we work and would be beneficial to other MLA members. The AMIA annual symposium rotates between Washington, DC and other cities, and the smaller summits and congresses are also held in various cities, so MLA members should take advantage of the opportunity to attend when AMIA is in a nearby city.
MOTION
This report is informational and requires no action by the Board of Directors.
Janis F. Brown
MLA Representative to AMIA
January 9, 2009
Government Relations Committee Mid-Year Report
Medical Library Association
Medical Informatics Section
Government Relations Committee
Mid-Year Report 2008-2009
Submitted by Doug Varner
AMIA Hill Day
On September 11th, 2008 I attended the AMIA Capital Hill Day which provided opportunities for information professionals to meet with U. S. Congressional Staffers.
Approximately 40 people attended the event – I was the only representative from the Medical Library Association.
The day began with a breakfast meeting in which Representative Wu (D-OR) spoke to the group. Rep. Wu has sponsored H.R. 1467 – “10,000 Training by 2010 Act” which is currently passed through the House on the Suspension Calendar. This bill requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to award competitive grants for basic research relating to innovative methodologies for improving health care information systems. In addition the bill provides federally funded grants to improve undergraduate and Master’s degree programs in health care information systems. AMIA supports full passage of this bill.
For the remainder of the day the group was divided into smaller groups of 4-5 people. Each group was presented with a schedule for meeting with staffers from various Senate/House Committees and staffers from the offices of individual congressional members.
My group met staffers from the following Committees/Offices:
o U.S. House Science and Technology Committee
o U.S. House Ways and Means Committee
o Office of U.S. Rep. Van Hollen (D-MD)
o U.S. House Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee
o Office of U.S. Sen. Mikulski (D-MD)
o U.S. House New Democrat Coalition
The meetings consisted of educating staffers on the purpose/activities of AMIA and asking how AMIA would be able to assist staffers and U.S. Congressional members with pending legislation. Members of my group focused on H.R. 6357 – “PRO(TECH)T Act” sponsored by Rep. Dingell (D-MI). One of the provisions of this bill mandates integration of more stringent privacy and security provisions into healthcare information systems and processes and the introduction of consent into most healthcare operations. AMIA does not support the passage of this bill due to a consensus opinion of the majority of AMIA members that requiring individual consent for each and every treatment, payment and health care operation activity would slow the delivery of care, diminish quality and impose enormous new costs in the system – without providing any actual benefit in the safeguarding of health information.
Respectfully submitted,
Doug Varner
Government Relations Committee
Medical Informatics Section
Government Relations Committee
Mid-Year Report 2008-2009
Submitted by Doug Varner
AMIA Hill Day
On September 11th, 2008 I attended the AMIA Capital Hill Day which provided opportunities for information professionals to meet with U. S. Congressional Staffers.
Approximately 40 people attended the event – I was the only representative from the Medical Library Association.
The day began with a breakfast meeting in which Representative Wu (D-OR) spoke to the group. Rep. Wu has sponsored H.R. 1467 – “10,000 Training by 2010 Act” which is currently passed through the House on the Suspension Calendar. This bill requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to award competitive grants for basic research relating to innovative methodologies for improving health care information systems. In addition the bill provides federally funded grants to improve undergraduate and Master’s degree programs in health care information systems. AMIA supports full passage of this bill.
For the remainder of the day the group was divided into smaller groups of 4-5 people. Each group was presented with a schedule for meeting with staffers from various Senate/House Committees and staffers from the offices of individual congressional members.
My group met staffers from the following Committees/Offices:
o U.S. House Science and Technology Committee
o U.S. House Ways and Means Committee
o Office of U.S. Rep. Van Hollen (D-MD)
o U.S. House Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee
o Office of U.S. Sen. Mikulski (D-MD)
o U.S. House New Democrat Coalition
The meetings consisted of educating staffers on the purpose/activities of AMIA and asking how AMIA would be able to assist staffers and U.S. Congressional members with pending legislation. Members of my group focused on H.R. 6357 – “PRO(TECH)T Act” sponsored by Rep. Dingell (D-MI). One of the provisions of this bill mandates integration of more stringent privacy and security provisions into healthcare information systems and processes and the introduction of consent into most healthcare operations. AMIA does not support the passage of this bill due to a consensus opinion of the majority of AMIA members that requiring individual consent for each and every treatment, payment and health care operation activity would slow the delivery of care, diminish quality and impose enormous new costs in the system – without providing any actual benefit in the safeguarding of health information.
Respectfully submitted,
Doug Varner
Government Relations Committee
MIS Section Planning Grid
MLA Planning Grid
Section: Medical Informatics Section
Goal 1: Recruitment, Membership and Leadership in the Profession
Objective 1: Increase section membership and involvement of members in the section
Objective 2: Provide a slate of qualified candidates to elect a Chair-Elect and submit a candidate from MIS for the Nominating Committee nominee
Who, Expertise Needed:
*Membership Committee - Sadie Honey & Jeanette de Richemond, Co-Chairs
*Nominating Committee - Janis Brown, Immediate-Past-Chair/Nominating Committee Chair
Time Needed:
*Throughout the year
*Completion before February 15 deadline to announce election results
Resources Required:
*Quarterly MIS membership lists from MLA
*Listserv to solicit volunteers for committees and to announce election and election results
*Surveymonkey (or other online survey tool) to conduct election
Product Outcome:
*Listserv with up-to-date members
*Increased membership
*Increased number of members involved in committees
*Effective new leaders
Evaluation:
*Track number of total members and new members for reporting in Mid-Year and Annual Reports
*Track number of members participating on committees
*Well-qualified candidates running for office
Goal 2: Life Long Learning
Objective 1: Provide relevant and interesting programs at the annual conference in Hawaii, 2009
Objective 2: Promote continuing education relevant to medical informatics
Objective 3: Encourage use of social networking tools so members can gain familiarity with these tools and understand their value
Who, Expertise Needed:
*Program Committee - Colleen Cuddy, Section Chair-elect/Program Chair Continuing Education Committee
*Kathel Dunn, Chair
*Eric Schnell, Facebook group creator
Time Needed:
*Throughout the year responding to MLA Program deadlines
*Complete CE course inventory by October to identify potential topics for new CE courses
*Invite members to submit CE proposals on informatics topics throughout the year
Resources Required:
*MLA Program Planning resources
*MLANET CE information
*Facebook site
Product Outcome:
*High quality programming at the annual meeting
*List of MLA CE courses of potential interest to section members
*Facebook group
Evaluation:
*Number of members in the Technology Trends Facebook Group
*Development of new CE courses related to medical informatics
*Number of attendees at section-sponsored programming
Goal 3: Advocacy
Objective 1: Work with MLA to award the Medical Informatics Section/MLA Career Development Grant to one individual
Objective 2: Donate to the Donald A.B. Lindberg Research Fellowship Fund and to other worthy conferences, grants, etc.
Objective 3: Determine appropriateness of providing some funding for some members to attend MLA ’09 in Hawaii and implement the award if agreed upon.
Objective 4: Promote members by publicizing their activities at the annual conference and other national level activities on the section web site
Who, Expertise Needed:
*Laura Barrett, Section Chair
*Janis Brown, Section Immediate Past Chair
*Bette Sydelko, Section Treasurer
*Other section officers and members
Time Needed:
*Time dependent upon MLA awards timeline
*Throughout the year
Resources Required:
*MIS listserv for publicizing information about the grant (at the jury’s discretion)
*MIS web site for posting grant recipient names and projects funded and member activities
*MIS funds
*MIS membership list
Product Outcome:
*Funded grants for career development activity that will contribute to the advancement in the field of medical informatics. Updated section web site
*Transfer of funds to appropriate account
*Plan for providing funding for MLA ’09
*Announcement of members’ national activities
Evaluation:
*Ask award recipients to summarize their grants.
*Posting of award recipients on section web site within one month of announcement
Goal 4: Creating and Communicating our Knowledge
Objective 1: Make revisions to the MIS web site, specifically incorporating a section on technology trends and other changes to improve navigation, and keep the site updated
Objective 2: Initiate a section blog by developing policies and procedures, and implementing the blog
Objective 3: Work with the Social Networking Task Force to coordinate work on the development of blog and wiki guidelines and best practices.
Objective 4: Update history of the section from 1998 to the present
Who, Expertise Needed:
*Web committee - Nic Cecchino, Chair/Web master
*MIS Blog Committee - Jaime Blanck, Chair
*History of the Section Task Force -Marcia Henry
*Eric Schnell, Facebook group creator
Time Needed:
*Throughout the year
*Complete history update
Resources Required:
*Section web site
*Social networking sites
Product Outcome:
*Updated web site
*Revised history posted on section web site
*MIS blog
Evaluation:Ease of use of web site
*Activity on the blog
Section: Medical Informatics Section
Goal 1: Recruitment, Membership and Leadership in the Profession
Objective 1: Increase section membership and involvement of members in the section
- Locate and encourage previous MIS members to return to the section
- Send letters to new members and encourage active participation in their section
- Contact members via e-mail with a link to join the listserv and Website/blog
- Invite members to participate in section committees
Objective 2: Provide a slate of qualified candidates to elect a Chair-Elect and submit a candidate from MIS for the Nominating Committee nominee
Who, Expertise Needed:
*Membership Committee - Sadie Honey & Jeanette de Richemond, Co-Chairs
*Nominating Committee - Janis Brown, Immediate-Past-Chair/Nominating Committee Chair
Time Needed:
*Throughout the year
*Completion before February 15 deadline to announce election results
Resources Required:
*Quarterly MIS membership lists from MLA
*Listserv to solicit volunteers for committees and to announce election and election results
*Surveymonkey (or other online survey tool) to conduct election
Product Outcome:
*Listserv with up-to-date members
*Increased membership
*Increased number of members involved in committees
*Effective new leaders
Evaluation:
*Track number of total members and new members for reporting in Mid-Year and Annual Reports
*Track number of members participating on committees
*Well-qualified candidates running for office
Goal 2: Life Long Learning
Objective 1: Provide relevant and interesting programs at the annual conference in Hawaii, 2009
- Sponsor a third round of the invited speaker panel on Top Technology Trends expanding on the range of topics covered, and continuing the use of a Google jockey and the audience response system
- Sponsor a contributed paper session on Being an Informationist
Objective 2: Promote continuing education relevant to medical informatics
- Identify existing MLA CE courses relevant to medical informatics and post to the MIS web site to encourage members to attend
- Identify medical informatics areas not already covered by MLA CE courses and encourage members to submit course proposals
- Solicit other ideas for courses of interest to members
Objective 3: Encourage use of social networking tools so members can gain familiarity with these tools and understand their value
- Invite members to join the Technology Trends Facebook group established by Technology Trends invited speaker Eric Schnell
Who, Expertise Needed:
*Program Committee - Colleen Cuddy, Section Chair-elect/Program Chair Continuing Education Committee
*Kathel Dunn, Chair
*Eric Schnell, Facebook group creator
Time Needed:
*Throughout the year responding to MLA Program deadlines
*Complete CE course inventory by October to identify potential topics for new CE courses
*Invite members to submit CE proposals on informatics topics throughout the year
Resources Required:
*MLA Program Planning resources
*MLANET CE information
*Facebook site
Product Outcome:
*High quality programming at the annual meeting
*List of MLA CE courses of potential interest to section members
*Facebook group
Evaluation:
*Number of members in the Technology Trends Facebook Group
*Development of new CE courses related to medical informatics
*Number of attendees at section-sponsored programming
Goal 3: Advocacy
Objective 1: Work with MLA to award the Medical Informatics Section/MLA Career Development Grant to one individual
Objective 2: Donate to the Donald A.B. Lindberg Research Fellowship Fund and to other worthy conferences, grants, etc.
Objective 3: Determine appropriateness of providing some funding for some members to attend MLA ’09 in Hawaii and implement the award if agreed upon.
Objective 4: Promote members by publicizing their activities at the annual conference and other national level activities on the section web site
Who, Expertise Needed:
*Laura Barrett, Section Chair
*Janis Brown, Section Immediate Past Chair
*Bette Sydelko, Section Treasurer
*Other section officers and members
Time Needed:
*Time dependent upon MLA awards timeline
*Throughout the year
Resources Required:
*MIS listserv for publicizing information about the grant (at the jury’s discretion)
*MIS web site for posting grant recipient names and projects funded and member activities
*MIS funds
*MIS membership list
Product Outcome:
*Funded grants for career development activity that will contribute to the advancement in the field of medical informatics. Updated section web site
*Transfer of funds to appropriate account
*Plan for providing funding for MLA ’09
*Announcement of members’ national activities
Evaluation:
*Ask award recipients to summarize their grants.
*Posting of award recipients on section web site within one month of announcement
Goal 4: Creating and Communicating our Knowledge
Objective 1: Make revisions to the MIS web site, specifically incorporating a section on technology trends and other changes to improve navigation, and keep the site updated
Objective 2: Initiate a section blog by developing policies and procedures, and implementing the blog
Objective 3: Work with the Social Networking Task Force to coordinate work on the development of blog and wiki guidelines and best practices.
Objective 4: Update history of the section from 1998 to the present
Who, Expertise Needed:
*Web committee - Nic Cecchino, Chair/Web master
*MIS Blog Committee - Jaime Blanck, Chair
*History of the Section Task Force -Marcia Henry
*Eric Schnell, Facebook group creator
Time Needed:
*Throughout the year
*Complete history update
Resources Required:
*Section web site
*Social networking sites
Product Outcome:
*Updated web site
*Revised history posted on section web site
*MIS blog
Evaluation:Ease of use of web site
*Activity on the blog
2008-2009 Mid-Year Report Has Been Released
The 2008-2009 Mid-Year Report detailing MIS section business and accomplishments is now available.
MEDICAL INFORMATICS SECTION
2008-2009 Mid-Year Report
Goal 1: Recruitment, Membership and Leadership in the Profession
Janis Brown, Immediate Past Chair, worked with the MIS Nominating Committee (including Susan Lessick and Lisa Traditi), to identify one candidate for the Chair-elect position and two for the office of Secretary/Treasurer. Elections will be held through Qualtrics (a web-based survey tool licensed by Janis’s institution) beginning in early January. In an effort to improve awareness of the section, MIS participated in and contributed $200 towards the Section Shuffle event at the MLA 2008 conference. The MIS also awarded an iPod Nano to the winner (selected by lottery) of its Section Shuffle technology quiz contest, designed to elicit contact information from potential new members. The member interest survey conducted using SurveyMonkey by Janis Brown during her term as Chair, was utilized to identify members for this year’s Section committees. Laura Barrett, Chair, and Marie Ascher, Membership Committee Chair, spoke and distributed information about both MLA Section and AHIP membership at the New York/New Jersey Chapter, MLA Fall Meeting held November 6, 2008 at the NYU Medical Center.
Goal 2: Life Long Learning
Colleen Cuddy, Chair-elect, has arranged for the MIS Section to sponsor two programs and co-sponsor a third at the 2009 MLA Annual Meeting in Hawaii. With Top Tech Trends III: Technology Fusion, co-sponsored by the Educational Media and Technologies Section, this popular program returns for its third year with technology trend spotters in health sciences libraries offering their latest insights, opinions, and criticisms on where technology is leading us next. In a related effort, Eric Schnell continues to maintain a Facebook group for MLA Technology Trends (http://usc.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2464357736) to support a collaborative exchange among those interested in the field; the group currently has 195 members. Being an Informationist, or, Why Are You Working in the Library, is a contributed papers session being co-sponsored by the Molecular Biology and Genomics SIG; four contributed papers have been chosen to represent the breadth of the informationist role in the context of medical libraries. The Educational Media and Technologies Section is the sponsor of the program Resources for Disaster and Remote Access Regions, a contributed papers session being co-sponsored by the MIS. This program is about providing information resources in times of disaster and identifying innovative approaches to information delivery in remote geographic regions.
Goal 3: Advocacy
In addition to its contributions to other worthy programs such as the Donald A.B. Lindberg Research Fellowship Award, the Section continues to provide funding in the amount of $1,500 per year for the Medical Informatics Section/MLA Career Development Award. The MIS takes an active role in publicizing the award and participating in the selection process. This year, the MIS will also provide on a competitive basis (documented need/value to the Section) three travel grants in the amount of $350 each to attend the 2009 MLA Annual Meeting in Hawaii.
Douglas Varner attended AMIA’s Capitol Hill Day on September 11, 2008, as a representative of the Medical Informatics Section of MLA. It was an opportunity for him to meet with legislators and/or their staff regarding issues of concern to both MLA and AMIA, such as HIT legislation, informatics research and training, personal health records, clinical decision support and use of health data. His detailed report is an addendum to this document.
Goal 4: Creating and Communicating our Knowledge
Nic Cecchino, MIS Web master, continues to update and maintain the MIS Web site as an important resource for members and others.
MOTION
This report is informational and requires no action by the Board of directors.
Respectfully submitted,
Laura Barrett, Chair, Medical Informatics Section
Officers & Committee Personnel, 2007-2008
MEDICAL INFORMATICS SECTION
2008-2009 Mid-Year Report
Goal 1: Recruitment, Membership and Leadership in the Profession
Janis Brown, Immediate Past Chair, worked with the MIS Nominating Committee (including Susan Lessick and Lisa Traditi), to identify one candidate for the Chair-elect position and two for the office of Secretary/Treasurer. Elections will be held through Qualtrics (a web-based survey tool licensed by Janis’s institution) beginning in early January. In an effort to improve awareness of the section, MIS participated in and contributed $200 towards the Section Shuffle event at the MLA 2008 conference. The MIS also awarded an iPod Nano to the winner (selected by lottery) of its Section Shuffle technology quiz contest, designed to elicit contact information from potential new members. The member interest survey conducted using SurveyMonkey by Janis Brown during her term as Chair, was utilized to identify members for this year’s Section committees. Laura Barrett, Chair, and Marie Ascher, Membership Committee Chair, spoke and distributed information about both MLA Section and AHIP membership at the New York/New Jersey Chapter, MLA Fall Meeting held November 6, 2008 at the NYU Medical Center.
Goal 2: Life Long Learning
Colleen Cuddy, Chair-elect, has arranged for the MIS Section to sponsor two programs and co-sponsor a third at the 2009 MLA Annual Meeting in Hawaii. With Top Tech Trends III: Technology Fusion, co-sponsored by the Educational Media and Technologies Section, this popular program returns for its third year with technology trend spotters in health sciences libraries offering their latest insights, opinions, and criticisms on where technology is leading us next. In a related effort, Eric Schnell continues to maintain a Facebook group for MLA Technology Trends (http://usc.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2464357736) to support a collaborative exchange among those interested in the field; the group currently has 195 members. Being an Informationist, or, Why Are You Working in the Library, is a contributed papers session being co-sponsored by the Molecular Biology and Genomics SIG; four contributed papers have been chosen to represent the breadth of the informationist role in the context of medical libraries. The Educational Media and Technologies Section is the sponsor of the program Resources for Disaster and Remote Access Regions, a contributed papers session being co-sponsored by the MIS. This program is about providing information resources in times of disaster and identifying innovative approaches to information delivery in remote geographic regions.
Goal 3: Advocacy
In addition to its contributions to other worthy programs such as the Donald A.B. Lindberg Research Fellowship Award, the Section continues to provide funding in the amount of $1,500 per year for the Medical Informatics Section/MLA Career Development Award. The MIS takes an active role in publicizing the award and participating in the selection process. This year, the MIS will also provide on a competitive basis (documented need/value to the Section) three travel grants in the amount of $350 each to attend the 2009 MLA Annual Meeting in Hawaii.
Douglas Varner attended AMIA’s Capitol Hill Day on September 11, 2008, as a representative of the Medical Informatics Section of MLA. It was an opportunity for him to meet with legislators and/or their staff regarding issues of concern to both MLA and AMIA, such as HIT legislation, informatics research and training, personal health records, clinical decision support and use of health data. His detailed report is an addendum to this document.
Goal 4: Creating and Communicating our Knowledge
Nic Cecchino, MIS Web master, continues to update and maintain the MIS Web site as an important resource for members and others.
MOTION
This report is informational and requires no action by the Board of directors.
Respectfully submitted,
Laura Barrett, Chair, Medical Informatics Section
Officers & Committee Personnel, 2007-2008
- Marie Ascher, Bylaws Chair (06/06 – 05/09)
- Laura Barrett, Chair (06/08 – 05/09)
- Jaime Friel Blanck, Blog Committee Chair (6/08-5/09)
- Janis Brown, Immediate Past Chair/Nominating Committee Chair (06/08 – 05/09)
- Nic Cecchino, Webmaster (12/03 – 05/09)
- Colleen Cuddy, Chair-elect/Program Chair (6/08-5/09)
- Kathel Dunn, Professional Development Liaison/CE Committee Chair (6/08-5/09)
- Sadie Honey, Membership Committee Co-Chair (06/06 – 05/09)
- Kathy Kerdolff, Immediate Past Chair/Nominating Committee Chair (06/07 – 05/08)
- Jeanette de Richemond, Membership Committee Co-Chair (6/08-5/09)
- Brenda Seago, Government Relations Liaison/Co-Chair (06/04 – 05/09)
- Bette Sydelko, Secretary/Treasurer (06/07 – 05/09)
- Douglas Varner, Governmental Relations Liaison/Co-Chair (6/08-5/09)
- Elizabeth Whipple, Section Council Representative-Elect (06/07 – 05/09)
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