2007 AMIA Spring Congress

Opening and Closing Sessions

Opening Plenary Session and Keynote Address
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
8:30 am -10:00 am

Putting Health into the Patient's Hands - Consumerism and Health Care

Consumers are more and more active when it comes to their health. Every day an enormous number of people use Google to learn more about an illness, drug or a treatment, or simply to research a condition or diagnosis. How do you make patients more empowered and informed about their healthcare decisions? Google has been steadily developing its ability to make search results more medically relevant and more helpful to users. Learn more about Google’s interest in health and other demonstrated online tools for managing health and health information.

Adam Bosworth, Vice President, Google

Adam is a Vice President at Google, overseeing a variety of technology initiatives. He was previously a Vice President at BEA Systems, where he was responsible for the engineering efforts in BEA's Framework Division. Prior to joining BEA, Adam co-founded Crossgain, a software development firm acquired by BEA in 2001; Crossgain's "Cajun" project developed into BEA's WebLogic Workshop.

Known as one of the pioneers of XML, Adam previously held various senior management positions at Microsoft, including General Manager of the WebData group, a team focused on defining and driving XML strategy. While at Microsoft, he was responsible for assembling and driving the team that developed Internet Explorer 4.0's HTML engine (codenamed 'Trident'). These two efforts in conjunction delivered the technology known today as Ajax. Before that he was responsible for designing and delivering the Microsoft Access PC database product.

Prior to Microsoft, Adam worked for Borland where he developed the Quattro spreadsheet application following Borland's acquisition of Analytica in 1985 - founded by Adam Bosworth and Eric Michelman, and managed by Brad Silverberg.

Closing Session
Clinical Decision Support: Today and Tomorrow
Thursday, May 24, 2007
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Dan Masys, Vanderbilt University
Patti Brennan, University of Wisconsin Madison
Christopher G. Chute, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Dean Sittig, Kaiser Permanente
Sherrilynne Fuller, University of Washington

The 2007 AMIA Spring Congress will close with panel of experts who will lay out the informatics grand challenges associated with patient-specific clinical decision support. The delivery of best practice, evidence-based guidance via computer-generated care pathways, alerts, reminders, and decision support tools is a microcosm of the major trends affecting biomedical informatics. Effective clinical decision support requires agile knowledge management and representation, systems integration, attention to workflow and user interface design, and effective institutional implementation strategies. It will also be dramatically impacted by the availability of DNA data and protein data that are relevant to pharmacogenomics and other approaches to 'personalized medicine'. Panelists will place a special emphasis on unmet needs for current and future decision support, and how researchers and developers in the informatics community can address these grand challenges.