Pediatric Informatics: Computer Applications in Child Health (Health ...

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Center for Medical Home Implementation to support effective implementation of
medical home among pediatric health care providers, public health professionals.
Bright Futures http://brightfutures.aap.org/
Bright Futures is an AAP national health care promotion and disease prevention
initiative funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s
(HRSA) Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) ‘that “uses a developmentally
based approach to address children’s health needs in the context of
family and community, structured in the form of the Bright Futures Toolkit, “an
essential compendium of parent questionnaires, fact sheets, screening tools and
other pediatric health supervision materials.” ’
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP): http://www.centerforhit.org/
The mission of the AAFP is to improve the health of patients, families, and communities
by serving the needs of its members with professionalism and creativity.
The AAFP hosts a Center for Health Information Technology that is very active
in promoting education and training for electronic record adoption among family
practitioners.
36.2 Organizations: Medical Informatics
and Information Technology
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA): http://www.amia.org
AMIA is a 30 year old organization that is “the professional home for biomedical
and health informatics 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 members
encompass an interdisciplinary and diverse group of individuals and organizations
that represent over 65 countries.” It publishes the Journal of the American Medical
Informatics Association (JAMIA) and hosts a widely attended Annual Symposium.
Its current work includes an effort to increase clinician education of informatics and
to gain recognition of clinical informatics as a medical specialty.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) http://
www.himss.org
HIMSS is “the healthcare industry’s membership organization exclusively
focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information
technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.
HIMSS represents over 300 corporate members that collectively represent organizations
employing millions of people. HIMSS frames and leads healthcare public
policy and industry practices through its advocacy, educational and professional
development initiatives designed to promote information and management systems’
contributions to ensuring quality patient care.”