Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) news and information

Approaches to big data, data analytics and business intelligence dominated the discussions during Thursday's sessions of the 22nd Annual Physician-Computer Connection Symposium in Ojai, Calif.
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Federal plans to regulate the safety of health information technology remain a work in progress, but tools are available now to engage patients in using health IT for their own benefit, two federal health IT leaders told a gathering of physician informaticists Wednesday.
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Time isn't always on Dr. Ryun Harper's side.
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Dr. Davis Lee, unlike many physician informaticists, was a bit of a computer geek before becoming a doc.
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From the beginning, the federal government sought to leverage the meaningful-use requirements in the electronic health-record incentive payment program to get providers to think about what the systems might do besides taking, storing and regurgitating patient records.
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Dealing with two new owners and meeting seven new quality metrics in just five months has made for a frenetic year for Dr. Robert White at his Albuquerque medical practice.
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Maybe Scott Carrell was born to health information technology leadership, or maybe it was thrust upon him. Or possibly both.
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Four physician informaticists and the head of a statewide health information exchange organization have won the 14th annual AMDIS Awards for outstanding achievement in applied medical informatics.
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Four physician informaticists and the leader of a health information exchange have been named winners of the 2013 annual awards for outstanding achievement in applied medical informatics given by the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, the organization for physician...
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Dr. William Bria, president of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, has been named chief medical officer of Dataskill, a San Diego-based systems integrator. In his new role, he'll be charged with helping develop clinical decision-support systems that leverage the computing...
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