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Continuing Education
| 2005 AMIA Spring Congress Objectives |
- Understand practical aspects of selecting electronic health record (EHR) systems and their critical features
- Identify issues and demonstrate best practices in implementation and use of ambulatory EHR
- Compare and contrast how using EHRs may improve the quality, safety, and affordability of health care
- Understand how to achieve health care quality, patient safety, and cost savings or revenue enhancement in practice using EHR
- Provide guidance to health care professionals involved in planning for, implementing, or deriving benefit from ambulatory EHR
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| Conference Disclosure |
Before the program, all faculty will disclose the existence of any financial interest and/or other relationships they may have with a manufacturer or manufacturers of any commercial product or products to be discussed during their presentation. This includes any honoraria/expenses, grants, consultant role, speaker’s bureau membership, stock ownership, or any other special relationship. AMIA includes a disclosure list with the on-site registration materials. A program addendum, also distributed with the on-site registration materials, will include further updated disclosure information.
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| Continuing Education Information |
Physician Continuing Education
16 Category 1 CME Credits Available
Attendees of the 2005 AMIA Spring Congress may earn valuable continuing medical education (CME) credits by participating in the meeting. AMIA is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. AMIA designates this continuing medical education activity for up to 16 hours in Category 1 credit toward the American Medical Association (AMA) Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he or she actually spends in the educational activity.
Nursing Continuing Education
Continuing education credits for nurses will be provided by University of Maryland School of Nursing, which is accredited as a provider of continuing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
More information will be available on the AMIA Web site and in the onsite registration materials. AMIA includes continuing education evaluation forms in the on-site registration materials.
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