AMIA 2018 Annual Symposium

Join RTI researchers at the AMIA 2018 Annual Symposium to learn about the latest advancements and research in health informatics .

From Evidence to Action: Enabling Opioid Pain Management Guidelines Through Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support
Understand barriers, facilitators, methods, and lessons learned when transforming narrative based clinical guidelines into patient-centered, point of care clinical decision support.

• Barry Blumenfeld
• 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
• Nov 7, 2018
• Imperial A

Using Telehealth to Identify and Manage Substance Use Disorders in Rural Areas
Identify uses of telehealth in behavioral health in the rural setting, and describe considerations using telehealth for substance use disorders

• Saira Haque
• 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
• Nov 5, 2018
• Grand Ballroom

The Making of an Interactive EHR Usability Change Package
Identify and address EHR usability issues with the use of the EHR Usability Change Package tool designed to help users understand and identify basic usability issues, select and tools to help address those issues, and implement solutions.

• Laura Marcial
• 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
• Nov 5, 2018
• Grand Ballroom

Qualitative Approaches to Design Thinking for Informatics
Explicate the rationale for design thinking and the relevance of this approach to their own work, and its relationship to other design methodologies, and synthesize tutorial content to recommend a design thinking approach for integrating qualitative methods into the design thinking approach to a public health or consumer health informatics project.

• Barbara Massoudi
• 1:00 PM–4:30 PM
• Nov 3, 2018
• Imperial B

Patient and Consumer Engagement in Health Information Technologies
Understand challenges and possible solutions in using patient portals and patient-generated health data to strengthen participatory medicine from a clinician and patient perspective.

• Jonathan Wald
• 8:30 AM–12:00 PM
• Nov 4, 2018
• Franciscan D

National Health IT Priorities to Advance Research
Learn about ongoing work to identify health IT infrastructure gaps and the actions needed to address them, and provide input that will inform and strengthen the work being undertaken by ONC.

• Jonathan Wald
• 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
• Nov 6, 2018 
• Imperial A