Themes

AMIA 2009 Themes

AMIA 2009 submissions are organized as either foundational contributions of novel informatics methods, or as more practical reports of the application of informatics in the biomedical sciences or the day-to-day practice of health care. To help attendees identify sessions in which they are most interested, AMIA 2009 is organized around a set of themes. The program will feature exciting keynote speakers, papers, panels, tutorials, workshops, posters, presentations by members of the American College of Medical Informatics, demonstrations, partnerships in innovation presentations, and late breaking sessions reporting on the newest findings in the field of biomedical and health informatics related to the following themes:

Clinical Decision Support, Outcomes, and Patient Safety

Clinical Research Informatics

Clinical Workflow and Human Factors

Consumer Informatics and PHRs

Data Integration and Exchange

Data Mining, NLP, Information Extraction

Education

EHR and CPOE systems

20/20 Global e-Health Informatics Capacity Building

Informatics, Discovery, Innovation, and Industry

Policy and Ethical Issues

Public Health Informatics and Biosurveillance

Terminology and Standards

Translational Bioinformatics