Joint Business Meeting of IMIA and AMIA WG at Medinfo 2004

A Joint Working Group Business Meeting of AMIA and IMIA Dental Informatics WG was held at the MedInfo 2004 in San Francisco, CA, USA, on September 9, 2004 between 3 pm and 5:30 pm. Four presentations were made and 16 members participated in the meeting.

• Presentation

  Please click the links below to download the power point slides

  3:10 - 3:30 Heiko Spallek, "Dental Informatics Online Community"

  3:30 - 3:50 Lynn Johnson, "How Informatics Supports Collaborations in Dental Education"

  3:50 - 4:30 John Eisner, "Dentistry's role in the NHII", "The future of dental diagnostic codes"

  4:30 - 4:50 Titus Schleyer, "A Novel Computing Environment for Clinical Dental Care"

• Participants

          * Listed in alphabetical order by last name *
  1. Callahan, Christopher
  2. Din, Franklin
  3. Eisner, John
  4. Fraige, Alexandre
  5. Johnson, Lynn
  6. Kirshner, Michael
  7. Koch, Sabine
  8. Mard, John
  9. Overton, Christopher
  10. Pai, Satishchandra
  11. Robinson, Michelle
  12. Schleyer, Titus
  13. Spallek, Heiko
  14. Thyvalekakath, Thankam
  15. Xu, Xiaomin
  16. Yoo, Wook-Sung

• Announcement

  New AMIA WG chairs-elect:
  

  The two new chair-elects introduced themselves:
  

  • Michelle Robinson, MA DMD, Director of Informatics, Marquette University, Div of Public Health Dentistry (robinsonm@marquette.edu), and
  • Satishchandra Pai, MDS, MSI Columbia University (ssp2004@columbia.edu).

  They will take over from Heiko Spallek, the current chair, on January 1,2005. They discussed about "The Federal e-Health initiative".

  New IMIA WG chairs-elect:
  

  The new chair was announced:
  Gary F. Guest, DDS, DMD, Director of Predoctoral Clinics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, (guest@uthscsa.edu)
  He will take over from Wook-Sung Yoo, the current chair, in 2006.

  AMIA WG Policy Changes:

  The AMIA Board of Directors has agreed to remove obsolete distinctions and requirements for the AMIA Working Groups (WGs) and Special Interest Groups (SIGs), and make the processes for lifecycle management and project funding more responsive. These changes are effective immediately. That means in detail that the distinction between Working Groups and Special Interest Groups has been removed. In addition, Working Groups no longer have to submit "token" budgets and projects, rather groups are free to submit project proposals any time, rather than once a year. And, groups do not have to create specific projects to remain active, as long as they form an active community with a responsive chair.

  The new requirements for AMIA WGs are:

  1. Each working group must have a chair.
  2. The chair must be an active participant in the working group and an effective liaison to the rest of AMIA.
  3. The group must hold elections
  4. Each group must maintain a web site and an email distribution list.
  5. Each group must exhibit ongoing behavior consistent with the continued need to be in active status.

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