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AAMC Explores Ways Academic Medicine Will Employ Information Technology in Coming Decade
NLM Awards Association $450,000 Contract
Washington, DC -- December 9, 1999--The Association of American Medical Colleges will examine the information management needs of U.S. medical schools and teaching hospitals through a $450,000 contract recently awarded by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The 20-month study will explore the Integrated Academic Information Management Systems (IAIMS)-an extramural funding initiative of the NLM begun in 1982-and its effect on the current information management practices in academic medicine.
IAIMS is a byproduct of the AAMC Matheson-Cooper study, which was funded by NLM in 1980. The Matheson-Cooper study articulated the long-range development of integrated institutional information management networks, described how these networks could be established through a technologically-sophisticated library, and explained why the health sciences library is essential in the networked information environment. Recognizing the significant changes that have taken place in health care and information technology over the past 20 years, the new AAMC study will assess how the IAIMS meets present needs and how well it is suited to adapt to changing future needs.
A national symposium will be convened at the end of the project. The study's final report will provide:
- An assessment of lessons learned from IAIMS;
- An informed projection of the information infrastructure needed in health care organizations in the coming decade;
- A design for the next-generation IAIMS program; and
- Recommended roles for NLM and other agencies, medical schools, teaching hospitals, information professionals, associations and others.
A 14-member external review panel has been formed to examine and confirm the findings of the NLM-funded study. The panel will be chaired by Valerie Florance, Ph.D., project director for AAMC's better_health@here.now initiative. The IAIMS study is part of the Association's larger initiative, better health@here.now, committed to exploring the ways that medical schools and teaching hospitals can best use information technology, in biomedical research, education and health care, to ultimately enhance the health of people and communities. Initiated in 1998, better_health@here.now has two fundamental goals:
- To envision the networked infrastructure of computers, software tools, information resources, policies and expertise that will improve the ability of medical schools and teaching hospitals to achieve their mission goals in scientific discovery, medical education, health care and community service;
- To construct a blueprint that can guide medical schools and teaching hospitals in the development and integration of appropriate information infrastructure (networks, computers, software, content, policies, expertise) over the next decade.
Since April 1999, better_health@here.now has been gathering data about information management in medical schools and teaching hospitals through opinion polls and focus sessions at national meetings. In August, AAMC launched the better_health@here.now Delphi study targeting deans, hospital CEOs, informatics leaders, scientists, library directors and education leaders. Respondents have been asked to think about the state of academic medicine over the next decade and identify any changes that may occur as a result of technology and the Internet. Results from the Delphi study are expected to be available in January. Another key component of the better_health@here.now initiative is better_health2010, an information technology futures project to develop the vision and blueprint for medical schools and teaching hospitals to follow as they confront information technology and management decisions in the future. A 24-member advisory board comprised of leading health care and information technology experts will provide general oversight of better_health2010 and will also address key policy issues and recommend priorities for action. Louisiana State University School of Medicine Dean Robert L. Marier, M.D., will serve as chair. The board's first meeting is scheduled for January 13-14, 2000, in Washington, D.C. A complete list of advisory board members is attached.
For more information, please contact the AAMC's Valerie Florance at vflorance@aamc.org or the project's Web site at www.aamc.org/better_health.
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The Association of American Medical Colleges represents the 125 accredited U.S. medical schools; the 16 accredited Canadian medical schools; some 400 major teaching hospitals, including 74 Veterans Administration medical centers; 91 academic and professional societies representing nearly 88,000 faculty members; and the nation's 67,000 medical students and 102,000 residents.
Additional information about the AAMC and U.S. medical schools and teaching hospitals is available at the AAMC Newsroom.
NLM Study Review Panel
- Nancy M. Bennett, M.D., M.S., Director, Center for the Study of Rochester's Health
- Parvati Dev, Ph.D., Director, SUMMIT, Stanford University School of Medicine
- Charles P. Friedman, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine and Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh/UPMC-Health System
- John P. Glaser, Ph.D.,Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Partners HealthCare System, Inc.
- Roger Guard, ASVP for IT and Libraries, CIO, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center
- William Hersh, M.D., Associate Professor and Chief, Division of Medical Informatics & Outcomes Research, Oregon Health Sciences University
- George Hripcsak, M.D., Associate Professor of Medical Informatics, Columbia University
- Michael G. Kienzle, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean, Clinical Affairs and Biomedical Communications, University of Iowa
- Daniel R. Masys, M.D., Director of Biomedical Informatics and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego
- John A. Paton, Ph.D., Director of Academic Computing & Media Services, Yale School of Medicine
- Wayne J. Peay, Director, Spencer E. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
- Robert E. Reynolds, M.D., Dr.P.H., Vice President and Chief Information Officer (Interim), University of Virginia
- Paul C. Tang, M.D., Medical Director, Clinical Informatics, Palo Alto Medical Foundation
- Valerie Florance, Ph.D., Panel Convener for IAIMS:TNG, Project Director, better_health@here.now, Association of American Medical Colleges
Better_health2010 Advisory Board
- Robert L. Marier, M.D., Dean, LSU School of Medicine (Chair)
- Don E. Detmer, M.D., University Professor of Health Policy, University of Virginia Medical Center and Cambridge University
- Jeremiah Barondess, M.D., President, New York Academy of Medicine
- Steven McGeady, Ph.D., VP & Director, Internet Health Initiative, Intel
- Kay Dickersin, Ph.D., Assoc. Professor, Brown University
- Suzanne Stensaas, Ph.D., Professor, University of Utah School of Medicine
- Harry R. Jacobson, M.D., Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, Vanderbilt University
- Edward Miller, M.D., Dean of the Medical Faculty, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Floyd Malveaux, M.D., Ph.D. Interim VP for Health Affairs & Dean, School of Medicine, Howard University
- Jeffrey Otten, President, Brigham & Women's Hospital
- F. Steven Larned, M.D., Vice President for Medical Affairs, Maine Medical Center
- C. Martin Harris, M.D., Chief Information Officer, Cleveland Clinic
- Sherrilynne S. Fuller, Ph.D., Interim Director of Informatics, University of Washington School of Medicine
- Clifford Lynch, Ph.D., Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information
- Daniel R. Masys, M.D., Director, Biomedical Informatics, UCSD
- Charles P. Friedman, Ph.D., Director, Center for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh
- Frank Davidoff, M.D., Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine, American College of Physicians
- Andrew Rappaport, August Capital
- William A. Peck, M.D., Dean, Washington University School of Medicine
- Ralph W. Muller, M.D., President, University of Chicago Hospitals and Health System
- J. Michael Fitzmaurice, Ph.D., Senior Science Advisor for IT, AHCPR
- F. Robert Glatz III, M.D., Department of Surgery Resident, Southern Illinois University
- David Lipman, M.D., Director, NCBI
- Thomas L. Garthwaite, M.D., Under Secretary for Health, Veterans Health Administration
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