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

1. Locate and encourage previous MIS members to return to the section


2. Send letters to new members and encourage active participation in their section


3. Contact members via e-mail with a link to join the listserv and Website/blog


4. 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

1. 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


2. Sponsor a contributed paper session on Being an Informationist

Objective 2: Promote continuing education relevant to medical informatics

1. Identify existing MLA CE courses relevant to medical informatics and post to the MIS web site to encourage members to attend


2. Identify medical informatics areas not already covered by MLA CE courses and encourage members to submit course proposals


3. 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

1. 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