AMIA - Knowledge in Motion Working Group (KIM-WG)

AMIA Knowledge in Motion Working Group Podcast Series on
"IT and Patient Empowerment"

The Knowledge in Motion Working Group is introducing a podcast series on IT and Patient Empowerment. The aim of the podcast series is to foster discussion of the concept of patient empowerment in the informatics community and an understanding of the potential of informatics applications to redefine the patient role. Experts in the field are discussing current and future trends, challenges and concerns will be highlighted.

To listen, Go to the AMIA Podcast Page

AMIA KIM WG Podcast 1: Drs Leonard and Eysenbach discuss Patient Empowerment

Kevin J. Leonard, MBA, PhD, CMA
Dr. Kevin Leonard is an Associate Professor at the Department of Health Policy, Management and evaluation at the University of Toronto and a Research Scientist of the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation of the University Health Network. He is the Founder of Patient Destiny and the Executive Director of the Indicies Measuring Performance Relating Outcomes, Value and Expenditure from Information Technlogy (IMPROVE-IT)

Gunther Eysenbach, MD MPH
Gunther Eysenbach, MD MPH, studied medicine in Munich and Freiburg in German, and obtained a Master in Public Health from Harvard University. Dr. Eysenbach is a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation at the Toronto Research Institute/Toronto General Hospital and Division of Medical Decision Making and Health Care Research. He also holds an academic appointment as Associate Professor at the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto. He is the founding editor and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
AMIA KIM WG Podcast 2: Dr Terrence Adam discusses Personalized Medicine

Terrence Adam MD, PhD
Dr. Adam received his PhD degree in Health Informatics and his MD degree from the University of Minnesota. He also holds a BS in Pharmacy from South Dakota State University. He is Faculty at the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the School of Computing and Informatics at the Arizona State University and Chief Medical Resident at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona. His research interests include pharmacy informatics, health care quality and drug safety.
AMIA KIM WG Podcast 3: Dr Lawrence Afrin discusses Public Policy and Ethical Issues in Mobile Computing for Disease and Wellness Management

Lawrence B. Afrin MD
Dr. Afrin received his BS degree in Computer Science from Clemson University and then pursued all of his medical training at the Medical University of South Carolina, where he has been on faculty and serving as senior physician-IT liaison since 1995. He also has directed the Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Training Program since 1997 and has served as director of information technology for MUSC's Office of Graduate Medical Education since 2003. His medical informatics research interests lie in the areas of clinical information systems, clinical research, and medical education.

Guidelines for the Clinical Use of Electronic Mail with Patients
Internet Working Group White Paper
AMIA's renowned statement on physician/patient e-mail communications.

Presentations at the AMIA Annual Symposia

AMIA 2001 -
A Medical Informatics Odyssey: Visions of the Future and Lessons from the Past

Tutorial 25
Lexical Tools for UMLS Developers
Instructors: A.C. Browne, G.Divita, C.J. Lu, PhD and A.T. McCray, PhD, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.

The SPECIALIST lexicon and lexical tools have been released with the UMLS Knowledge Sources since 1994. The SPECIALIST lexicon is a large syntactic English lexicon with an emphasis on medical terminology. It records orthographic, syntactic, and morphological information about words and terms. The lexical tools are a suite of programs based on the lexicon and designed to help users deal with several kinds of lexical variation. The lexical programs generate a range of variations for English lexical terms and should be useful for recognizing lexical variation in biomedical terminologies and texts. Options include lowercasing, uninversion, sorting words in a multi-word term, stopword removal, possessive marker removal, punctuation removal, and generation of singular and plural forms and other lexically related variants. The lexical tools will be demonstrated in detail. Terms from one or more controlled vocabularies will be used to illustrate the capabilities of the tools and additional examples will be solicited from the participants. Recent additions to the capabilities of the tools will be discussed as will prospective enhancements. The UMLS Internet based Knowledge Source Server will be demonstrated, particularly with regard to its use of the lexical programs. The acquisition and installation of the lexical tools will also be discussed.

AMIA 1998 -
A Paradigm Shift in Health Care Information Systems: Clinical Infrastructures for the 21st Century

Session
The Internet Working Group is proud to announce it will hold two sessions on "Practical Aspects of Internet System Development." The goal of the sessions is to provide practical information about developing and deploying Internet-based applications. These sessions are informal and designed to maximize interaction with the presenters. Topics to be covered this year include:

An Overview of Server-side Scripting: CGI, PERL, Cold Fusion, ASP, and Java Servlets
Java: An Introduction
An Overview of eXtensible Markup Language (XML): The New Language of the Web
Web-enabling Databases: Where to Start?
Information Management Practices for Internet Technology
Deploying Medical Knowledge on the Web: Metatags as Search and Navigation Enhancers on the Web