AMIA Spring Congress, Report from Breakout Groups

Friday, June 5, 2003

Bridging the Digital Divide: Informatics and Vulnerable Populations

Claire Twose

Congress Web site: http://www.amia.org/meetings/spring/current/info.html

Issues and Trends Group

Vision

All people in the US regardless of literacy, culture, function or socioeconomic status, can effectively improve their health using e-heath interventions

Barriers

Policy

Funding

Research priorities

Education and Training

Overarching recommendations

Strategies Group

Mission

Three Major Strategic Goals

Strategies

AMIA's role in addressing underserved populations

Evaluation Group

Ideal:

Challenges to Achieving the Idea were Grouped into Three Areas:

Community

Scientific

Administrative(Taken from breakout session notes, not the summary)

Recommendations(These recommendations have been taken from my breakout session notes):

Education/Training

Research

Funding

Policy

Dissemination

Ideal

To improve health literacy, health care, public health and health itself by delivering universal, timely access to health information, communication decision support and disease management tools that are evidence-based, culturally sensitive, adaptive, and empowering to the individual

Barriers

Enablers

Strategies

Policies

Funding

Research

Education

Innovation