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Viewpoint
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Viewpoint Archive
E-Discovery: The New Reality—Sissy Holloman, University of North Carolina Hospitals, and Sharon L. Klein, Pepper Hamilton, LLP
Educational Technology: "I didn't need it why do they?"—Jill Jemison, University of Vermont School of Medicine
The Money Bone's Connected to the Service Bone—Wayne Thompson, CIO, University of New Jersey School of Medicine and Dentistry
Acronyms and Other Crimes Against Nature—Vince Sheehan,
Chief Information Officer and Associate Dean of Information Technology, Indiana University School of Medicine (March 2007)
The Value of Information—Morgan Passiment,
Director of Information Resources Outreach and Liaison, AAMC (Nov. 2006)
GIR Introduces New Leadership Resource—A. Jerome York, Vice President and CIO, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio (Sept. 2006)
A Word from the GIR Steering Committee Chair—James E. McNamee, Ph.D., Chair, GIR Steering Committee; Associate Dean of Information Services and CIO, University of Maryland School of Medicine (Aug. 2006)
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A Word from the GIR Steering Committee Chair
By James E. McNamee, Ph.D.
Chair, GIR Steering Committee
Associate Dean of Information Services and CIO,
University of Maryland School of Medicine
GIR Updates Web Site
One way to deliver more value to our members is to communicate about events
that take place between our meetings. This month we launch
another means to help you keep in touch with the GIR and with each other.
This spring, the Steering Committee worked with the AAMC's communications staff to redesign the GIR Web site, which has been
a repository for meeting presentations and other documents.
The GIR site now will feature reports about GIR activities, news about
us and our member institutions and opinion pieces.
GIR Welcomes New AAMC President
Our first action this summer is to welcome Dr. Darrell G. Kirch, the AAMC's new
president. The GIR worked closely with past-president
Dr. Jordan J. Cohen, and the AAMC's senior executives on the design
and implementation of AMCAS Version 2. We stand ready to assist the AAMC
when needs arise.
IT Task Force
Research at academic medical centers continues to grow despite slowed
NIH funding. Advanced research technologies create a torrent of digital
research data that must be stored, cataloged and analyzed daily. Pressure
is also building to share data and research expertise with collaborators
worldwide. This presents our organizations with tremendous opportunities
and challenges. In response, the GIR is establishing a task force to provide
AAMC member institutions with an overview of IT requirements and "best
practices" in several areas deemed critical for the development of effective
research collaborations. New technologies and policies to support modern
biomedical research are needed. In particular, the GIR Steering Committee
charged the task force to consider the issues of electronic collaboration
tools, cross-institutional authentication and security. A copy of the
Task Force charge is available here. We especially thank Steering Committee
member Dr. Dave Damassa of Tufts for creating this charge.
Meetings
This year's AAMC Fall Meeting will take place in Seattle. The GIR will sponsor a lecture, be part of a multi-group symposium
and co-sponsor with AAHSL the annual Matheson lecture. Check
here for more information about these sessions in the coming months.
Planning is also underway for the 2007 annual spring GIR meeting in Chicago, which will be a joint meeting with the AAMC's Group on
Business Affairs (GBA) and the Group on Institutional Planning (GIP).
Lynn Kasner-Morgan, our Chair-elect, is working with Art Krumrey and Ron
Price of Loyola University Medical Center to organize this event. They
welcome your input.
Until next month, I hope you'll find a way to stay cool and enjoy a relaxing
summer.
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