The American Medical Informatics Association will be holding a national meeting titled PHI 2011: Setting the Next Informatics Agenda for Public Health May 25-27, 2011, at the Swan and Dolphin Hotel in Orlando.
Here is some information from their website:
PHI 2011 will:
o Provide a forum for organic collaboration, participation, and consensus on the future of public health informatics.
o Gather the public health community for thought leadership, facilitated discussions, plenary and break-out sessions.
o Present multiple tracks and two poster sessions.
o Provide opportunity to earn CME/CE credit
AMIA is dedicated to promoting the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in health care in support of patient care, public health, teaching, research, administration, and related policy. AMIA’s 4,000 members advance the use of health information and communications technology in clinical care and clinical research, personal health management, public health/population, and translational science with the ultimate objective of improving health.
For over thirty years the members of AMIA and its honorific college, the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), have sponsored meetings, education, policy and research programs. The federal government frequently calls upon AMIA as a source of informed, unbiased opinions on policy issues relating to the national health information infrastructure, uses and protection of personal health information, and public health considerations, among others.
AMIA is an interdisciplinary and diverse group of individuals and organizations that come from over 65 countries. Individual members include:
* Physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, and other clinicians
* Researchers and educators
* Advanced students pursuing a career in informatics
* Scientists and developers
* Government officials and policy makers
* Consultants and industry representatives
* Standards developers
For more information, please visit the AMIA website.
