The AMDIS Awards for excellence, outstanding achievement and special recognition in Applied Medical Informatics are presented by the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems. These awards honor individuals and/or organizations for successful application of information systems/technology in the practice of medicine.
By Joseph Conn June 23, 2012 Three physicians and one organization are winners of the 2012 awards for outstanding achievement in applied medical informatics from the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems. ... FULL STORY
By Joseph Conn June 23, 2012 HealtheLink, a Buffalo, N.Y.-based regional health information organization also known as Western New York Clinical Information Exchange, is the lone organizational winner of an AMDIS award this year. ... FULL STORY
By Joseph Conn June 23, 2012 AMDIS award winner Dr. Steve Arendt and his colleagues at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., saw the number of cases of ventilator-acquired pneumonia drop to zero during the past year while caregivers for stroke patients... ... FULL STORY
By Joseph Conn June 23, 2012 Dr. James Killeen is the master of wireless emergency response. AMDIS award winner Killeen is an associate clinical professor of medicine in the emergency and hyperbaric medicine departments at the University of California at San Diego and the developer of WebCharts, an EHR system for the... ... FULL STORY
By Joseph Conn June 23, 2012 Aug. 28, 2011, was moving day for the last patients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the 102-year-old, 226-bed hospital in Washington where former President Dwight Eisenhower and hundreds of thousands of other veterans from America's many wars, from World War I to Afghanistan, had received... ... FULL STORY
By Modern Healthcare June 23, 2012 In an exclusive interview, Dan Porreca, executive director of HealtheLink, the health information exchange for Western New York, talks with Modern Healthcare reporter Joseph Conn. Porreca discusses the growth of the HIE and how it has begun linking with long-term-care facilities, where adoption of... ... FULL STORY
By Joseph Conn July 11, 2011 Two organizations and six individuals are winners of the 2011 awards for outstanding achievement in applied medical informatics from the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems. ... FULL STORY
By Joseph Conn July 11, 2011 Bill Beighe is the only nonphysician among the six individual AMDIS award winners this year. Beighe is chief information officer of the 300-provider, 100-location Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz (Calif.) and CIO of the 600-plus-member Santa Cruz Health Information Exchange. ... FULL STORY
By Joseph Conn July 11, 2011 Dr. Larry Holder is the chief medical information officer at Decatur (Ill.) Memorial Hospital and physician champion of an award-winning health IT program. ... FULL STORY
By Joseph Conn July 11, 2011 Cleveland came away with two AMDIS award winners this year—the MetroHealth System and its chief medical informatics officer, Dr. David Kaelber. ... FULL STORY
By Joseph Conn July 11, 2011 Dr. Peter Park is a commander in the U.S. Navy and deputy director for clinical informatics with the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. ... FULL STORY
By Joseph Conn July 12, 2010 The nine winners of this year's annual awards for outstanding achievement in applied medical informatics from the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems share a common theme, according to AMDIS President William Bria—they know how to employ information technology to get the... ... FULL STORY
By Elizabeth Gardner July 13, 2009 Getting a healthcare institution to embrace meaningful clinical automation takes dedication, drive and deep knowledge of what clinicians need. For 10 years, the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems has recognized outstanding achievement in applied medical informatics. ... FULL STORY
July 21, 2008 Five physician informaticists and four healthcare organizations are winners of the 2008 Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems' Awards for excellence and achievement in applied medical informatics. The winners reflect "an explosion of applied medical informatics in the world," says... ... FULL STORY
By Jay Greene July 16, 2007 Four physicians and two organizations have been named winners of the 10th annual AMDIS awards for excellence and achievement in applied medical informatics by the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, an 1,800-member professional membership organization based in Lake Almanor,... ... FULL STORY
By Rebecca Mielcarski July 01, 2006 The 2006 AMDIS award winners for distinction in applied medical informatics are all working toward one common goal: to implement an electronically based record system that will create a faster, more-accurate medical practice within their healthcare system. ... FULL STORY
By Andis Robeznieks July 01, 2005 The winners of the 2005 AMDIS awards for excellence and achievement in applied medical informatics have learned how to get people to buy into their programs for using health information technology: Loads of preparation; documentation of existing problems with explanations of how IT will solve those... ... FULL STORY
