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Medical Informatics and Electronic Health Records (EHR) SIG

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SIG Description

Pediatric healthcare practitioners interested in the use of information technologies to support patient care, teaching, research and health care administration. We have diverse backgrounds, talents, and interests. Some are "techies" and others just want use the technology to help them take care of patients. EVERYONE is welcome.

Mission/Goals

The Medical Informatics and Electronic Health Records (EHR) SIG goals are to:

Provide a forum for APA members to discuss all aspects of pediatric medical and present their scholarly work in the field
Offer opportunity to network with other pediatric professionals interested in pediatric medical informatics.
Introduce other pediatric professionals to the field of medical informatics

Join SIG Listserv

To Join the SIG and its listserve contact MI SIG Chair at:
Emily Chui Webber emwebber@iupui.edu, Ed Sepe esepe@cnmc.org and Eric Shelov
SHELOV@email.chop.edu

What do I get if I join the Medical Informatics and Electronic Health Records (EHR) SIG?

We meet at the Pediatric Academic Societies meeting in May each year. We often have a theme presentation with lots of ensuing discussion. We also have had short presentations on different topics. It is a great forum to meet people and get ideas.

We also have our own listserve that offers the opportunity for online discussions and communicates information to the MI SIG membership as well.

There is also the opportunity to work on potential projects through the MI SIG.

Previous Annual Meeting topics

2010 – Meaningful Use of Medical Informatics and Creation of a new Subspeciality in Medical Informatics
2009 – Careers in Medical informatics
2008 – Medical Informatics Round Robin
2007 – Pediatric Medical Informatics and Public Policy
2006 – Health Information Technology Standards
2005 – Bioinformatics: Integrating Computers, Basic Science and Clinical Medicine
2004 – Clinical Physician Order Entry

What is Medical Informatics?

From the American Medical Informatics Association
(http://www.amia.org/inside. 2008) :

"Biomedical and health informatics applies principles of computer and information science to the advancement of life sciences research, health professions education, public health, and patient care. This multidisciplinary and integrative field focuses on health information and communication technologies (HICT), and involves the computer, cognitive, and social sciences. Biomedical and health informatics has developed its own areas of emphasis and approaches that sets it apart from other professions and disciplines.

Biomedical and health informatics is an emerging, interdisciplinary and diverse field that combines health sciences (such as medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy and allied health) with computer science, management and decision science, biostatistics, engineering and information technology.

Solves problems in health care delivery, pharmaceutical, biomedical and health sciences research, health education and clinical/medical decision making. Is essential in all aspects of health care and biomedicine."