American Medical Informatics Association
From the website:
AMIA is dedicated to promoting the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in health care in support of patient care, public health, teaching, research, administration, and related policy. AMIA’s 4,000 members advance the use of health information and communications technology in clinical care and clinical research, personal health management, public health/population, and translational science with the ultimate objective of improving health.
For over thirty years the members of AMIA and its honorific college, the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), have sponsored meetings, education, policy and research programs. The federal government frequently calls upon AMIA as a source of informed, unbiased opinions on policy issues relating to the national health information infrastructure, uses and protection of personal health information, and public health considerations, among others.
Learning the terminology and concerns of an area is the first step towards successful development/application of topic maps.
Questions:
- Review the latest four issues of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. (JAMIA)
- Select one article with issues that could be addressed by use of a topic map.
- How would you use a topic map to address those issues? (3-5 pages, no citations other than the article in question)
- Select one article with issues that would be difficult or cannot be addressed using a topic map.
- Why would a topic map be difficult to use or cannot address the issues in the article? (3-5 pages, no citations other than the article in question)