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Call for Submissions: AMIA/HL7 FHIR Applications Competition - Deadline August 2, 2021

dreavolz — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 16:08:31 +0000

AMIA and HL7 are partnering again to bring an exciting application competition to the AMIA 2021 Annual Symposium, October 30 – November 3, in San Diego. AMIA 2021 is the place for you if you have to offer or are interested in innovative and practical software applications that use FHIR®!

Submit Your FHIR® Application!

If you are working on FHIR® and have a software application to show, we would like to hear from you! The competition is a fun, fast-paced kaleidoscope of practical and innovative ways people use FHIR®. We are interested in health-related FHIR® software applications* that:

Are deployed in a real-world setting, and in use with clinicians, caregivers, patients or people;
Address a real-world need or problem in an innovative, efficient and effective way; and
Provide value for the clinic, research, education and administration. If you have one or more evaluation studies, so much the better!

* Please note that your software application does not need to use the Substitutable Medical Applications and Reusable Technologies (SMART®) protocol or be directly usable by an end user to qualify for the competition.

A panel of FHIR® experts and developers from HL7 and AMIA will review your App based on your submission. The reviewers will select a set of approximately 10 apps for presentation at the AMIA 2021 Annual Symposium.

You will have approximately eight minutes to present your app. Present the problem you are trying to solve, tell attendees how you went about designing and implementing your solution, and be ready to wow the audience with your app!

Presentations will not include the opportunity for questions to allow us to showcase the maximum numbers of apps possible. At the end of the session, attendees will vote on the top three apps presented.

The top three entries will receive prize monies from LOF, LLC., and the AMIA Industry Partnership Council.

Submission Deadline: August 2

Click here to learn more about the competition. Questions? Contact Titus Schleyer, DMD, PhD, at schleyer@regenstrief.org.

Please note: You must be registered for the AMIA 2021 Annual Symposium to participate in this event.

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Mon, 06/14/2021 - 12:00

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Mon, 08/02/2021 - 23:30

BioCatalyst Platform Demonstration

dreavolz — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 16:09:42 +0000

BioCatalyst is a first-of-its-kind search engine/application that allows biobanks to connect both clinical attributes and biological/molecular data to existing biospecimens in a central, easy-to-use virtual ecosystem. As of spring 2021, the Biocatalyst team has launched a working prototype that links and makes de-identified biospecimen data searchable across several data sources. A user management model is in place including an "Honest Broker" role that provides an additional security layer ensuring that all user-provided data in the system are reviewed and PHI-free.

Speakers from CD2H include Melissa Haendel, PhD, FACMI & Christopher Chute, MD, DrPH and from the UCSF Biospecimen Resource program include Harold Collard, MD; Nicola Gabancho, MBA; David Aaronson; Sudeep Basnet, MS & Joshua Ray.

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Tue, 06/08/2021 - 12:00

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Wed, 06/23/2021 - 10:00

Life Course Research Visual Toolkit

dreavolz — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 19:25:18 +0000

Recent advances in computational analytics, computer science, and data collection allow for the integration of a “life course” theoretical framework and complexity science for understanding health and development across the lifespan. The innovative NCATS Life Course Research Visual Toolkit was created to advance the recommendations outlined in, Charting the Life Course: Emerging Opportunities to Advance Scientific Approaches Using Life Course Research.

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Wed, 04/28/2021 - 12:00

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Wed, 04/28/2021 - 12:25

Great Plains Interoperability Conference 2021

dreavolz — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 19:10:20 +0000

Presented by CyncHealth, InterSystems, the Great Plains IDeA-CTR, Logica Health, the Nebraska Healthcare Collaborative, and the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program.

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Wed, 04/14/2021 - 12:00

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Tue, 05/11/2021 - 12:10

The National COVID Cohort Collaborative: Clinical Characterization and Early Severity Prediction

dreavolz — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 22:20:42 +0000

This is the first description of an ongoing longitudinal observational study of patients seen in diverse clinical settings and geographical regions and is the largest COVID-19 cohort in the United States. Such data are the foundation for ML models that can be the basis for generalizable clinical decision support tools. The N3C Data Enclave is unique in providing transparent, reproducible, easily shared, versioned, and fully auditable data and analytic provenance for national-scale patient-level EHR data. The N3C is built for intensive ML analyses by academic, industry, and citizen scientists internationally. Many observational correlations can inform trial designs and care guidelines for this new disease.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.12.21249511

This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.

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Mon, 02/15/2021 - 12:00

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Sat, 01/23/2021 - 14:20

Melissa A. Haendel joins CU Anschutz as Chief Research Informatics Officer

dreavolz — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 21:02:02 +0000

Melissa A. Haendel, PhD, has been named Chief Research Informatics Officer (CRIO) for the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, a newly created position responsible for transforming the campus use of information and information systems to accelerate biomedical discoveries, streamline health system operations, and continuously improve patient care.

The CRIO office will lead efforts to strategize and coordinate informatics governance, infrastructure, data management, and data-driven analytics across the Anschutz schools. The CRIO will be a key partner for centers and hospital partners on the campus, accelerating research and translating those discoveries to improvements in care.

“Institutions that have invested in their informatics infrastructure, expertise, training, and data governance experience greater efficiencies, innovations, financial outlooks, and importantly, improved care and patient outcomes,” Haendel said. “At the Anschutz Medical Campus, we have an excellent opportunity to work together to make a difference for patients, learners, researchers, and the entire biomedical community. Collaboration is key to realizing the promise of precision medicine, to deploying new models for training health professionals, and to achieving global research prominence.”

Haendel will also hold an appointment as professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics in the CU School of Medicine. Her appointment is effective April 1. She joins CU from the Oregon Health & Science University, where she leads the Translational and Integrative Sciences Laboratory and is a professor of medical informatics and clinical epidemiology.

“Melissa is a national leader who brings key insight into data science strategy, impressive credentials, and a robust portfolio of externally funded research work,” said John J. Reilly, Jr., MD, dean of the School of Medicine and vice chancellor for health affairs. “We look forward to the contributions Melissa will make in helping us put our data to work for the greater good. We are pleased to welcome her to our faculty.”

Haendel describes her work as the art of data translation. She is leading multiple efforts that develop data integration technologies, innovative communication strategies, and collaborative education and outreach efforts.

Haendel serves as the director of the National Center for Data to Health (CD2H), a National Institutes of Health program that works to improve collaborative analytics across 60 Clinical and Translational Science Award Institutes, including the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI). The CD2H is focused on national data sharing, cloud and information architecture, and clinical data interoperability.

During the pandemic, the CD2H led the effort to create a centralized, anonymous database of health records from people who tested positive for COVID-19, the National COVID Cohort Collaborative Data (N3C). The N3C is critical to understanding why some people get sicker than others, how the disease interacts with conditions like cancer or asthma, and whether treatments are effective.

Tellen Bennett, MD, director of informatics at the CCTSI, plays a leadership role in N3C and led the first analysis of the cohort. “Dr. Haendel is a brilliant informaticist, a strategic leader, and a gifted coalition-builder,” he said. “She led the amazingly rapid development of N3C, which is now the largest existing EHR data resource. It is poised to address ongoing challenges, such as long COVID.”

Haendel also co-founded the Monarch Initiative, an international consortium dedicated to the integration of model organism and human data to support rare disease diagnostics and mechanism discovery. She brings with her to Anschutz a National Human Genome Research Institute Center of Excellence in Genome Sciences that is dedicated to making phenotypic data computable for genomic health applications. Haendel also leads the National Cancer Institute’s Center for Cancer Data Harmonization, which harmonizes cancer research data for multimodal analytics.

“The Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine and its primary stakeholders (UCHealth, CU School of Medicine, Children’s Hospital Colorado) are each world-class institutions in their own right,” said Director Kathleen Barnes, PhD. “Dr. Haendel’s arrival signals a new era of synergy at our institution, and with her innovative informatics leadership, the Anschutz Medical Campus will become even more than the sum of our biomedical informatics parts.”

After earning her doctorate in neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin, she completed post-doctoral fellowships in developmental biology at the University of Oregon and in toxicology at Oregon State University. In 2010, Haendel joined the Oregon Health & Science University faculty, and has also held a faculty appointment as Director of Translational Data Science at Oregon State University since 2018. Haendel is currently a principal investigator on 10 externally funded programs totaling $9.9 million per year. She is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed research articles and 20 book chapters, editorials, and reviews. Her work is frequently referenced in the scientific literature, on more than 9,500 occasions at last count.

In his State of the School address in 2020, Reilly outlined a plan to boost the quality of data analytics on the Anschutz Medical Campus. “It does not make any sense to have made the investments in all these new technologies and new science on the campus … and not be able to process the data with state-of-the-art techniques,” Reilly said. “We’re going to have to start recruiting people, both a workforce to meet the service needs as well as people who have the capacity to grow into thought leaders and developers in these fields, and that will be a primary focus for us in the years ahead.”

Since then, the School has added Casey Greene, PhD, as director of the Center for Health Artificial Intelligence, and Sean Davis, MD, PhD, a 13-year veteran of the National Cancer Institute, to serve as associate director for informatics and data science at the University of Colorado Cancer Center.

In his 2021 State of the School address, Reilly said he is committed to establishing a new department dedicated to data science and informatics by July 2022.

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Fri, 03/05/2021 - 12:00

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Thu, 03/04/2021 - 13:02

Penn State CTSI Team Science Toolbox

dreavolz — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 21:24:19 +0000

Where can a leader turn when their teams are not functioning as well as they should? How can a team be built for success? How can teams develop unity when they’re built with diversity in mind? How do scientists from different disciplines get on the same page when their vocabularies may sound the same but have different meanings?

A new resource from Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute answers questions like these and equips teams with scientifically validated approaches to tackle common problems they face.

The toolbox includes four sections: Team formation, team launch, team maturation and team assessment. Each entry in the toolbox contains a brief description, an explanation of its importance, examples, tips for success and additional resources.

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Wed, 02/10/2021 - 12:00

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Tue, 02/09/2021 - 13:24

NIH COVID-19 NeuroDatabank and NeuroBioBank

dreavolz — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 18:38:14 +0000

The National Institutes of Health COVID-19 NeuroDatabank and NeuroBioBank, funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, has been initiated at NYU Langone Health. We will create and maintain a national resource documenting and studying neurological complications of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the illness caused by infection with the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus. Together, these efforts comprise the NeuroCOVID Project.

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Mon, 01/25/2021 - 12:00

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Tue, 01/26/2021 - 10:38

Using National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Data to Inform your Protocol Development

dreavolz — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 16:09:48 +0000

Researchers planning COVID-19 trials with the Trial Innovation Network (TIN) can leverage the N3C to inform their research hypotheses. N3C focuses on aligning its infrastructure so that it can generate efficient and minimally biased results. Part of that infrastructure includes the curation of value sets and phenotype variables relevant to COVID-19, such as ventilator support, ICU use, and definitions of COVID-19 cases. The potential impact of having clinical study data available from a large-scale harmonized observational database is significant.

This webinar provides an overview and update on the status of N3C, followed by presentations from 3 of the N3C Domain Teams (Pharma-Commercial, Pharmacoepidemiology, Social Determinants of Health) on how they can inform clinical trial protocol development.

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Tue, 01/26/2021 - 12:00

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Mon, 02/01/2021 - 09:00

Access the AMIA 2020 Digital Collection

dreavolz — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 23:42:00 +0000

The AMIA 2020 Virtual Annual Symposium convened more than 2,100 informatics professionals in a virtual setting. At the largest informatics meeting worldwide, new research was shared, collaborative discussions took place and innovative opportunities were presented as part of the virtual experience.

More than 250 hours of informatics presentations from AMIA’s signature conference – the largest informatics meeting worldwide.
Keynote presentations from Ruha Benjamin of Princeton University and Joshua Denny of All of Us Research Program.
Special Fireside Chat with Anthony Fauci, Director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Patti Brennan, Director of the National Library of Medicine.
111 Scientific Sessions: Papers, Oral Presentations, Panels, and System Demonstrations.
26 Workshops: (23 3-hour; 3 6-hour).
Nearly 350 posters featuring research, small-scale studies, innovative systems and services, experimental and in-practice projects, experiences with educational programs, and other dimensions of biomedical and health informatics.
Hot topics: Biomedical Informatics Year in Review; COVID-19; Telehealth; Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Social Determinants of Health.
CME and CNE credit.

Pricing options available for members (including student members), non-members, and an upgrade for those who purchased the Live Virtual registration option for the AMIA 2020 Virtual Annual Symposium.

Join AMIA today!

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Tue, 01/05/2021 - 12:00

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Mon, 11/16/2020 - 09:00