For the last decade, the AMIA Policy Invitational has served as a unique platform to inform legislative, regulatory, and policy development. During the 2016 AMIA Policy Invitational (API2016) participants will participate with colleagues in focused and thought-provoking discussions that will help articulate recommendations for the new Administration and 115th Congress.
The theme of this year’s Invitational looks at the possibilities and the pitfalls of reaching near universal adoption of EHRs in US healthcare, and how this paradigm requires a re-examination of how clinical practice interacts with clinical research and vice versa. API2016 will feature three keynote speakers, including:
- Dr. Robert M. Califf, Commission of the Food & Drug administration;
- Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan, Director of the National Library of Medicine; and
- Dr. Andrew B. Bindman, Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality.
The increasing overlap between clinical research and practice necessitates a broad discussion of how we can leverage point-of-care activities and systems to improve clinical research, accelerate biomedical discovery and improve the health of individuals and populations.
Attendees will participate in multi-stakeholder breakout sessions where they will engage with their peers in facilitated discussions meant to develop concrete, actionable recommendations on the topics of “Enabling the Local Learning Health System and Evidence-Generating Medicine,” “Networked Discovery through Multi-site and Any-site Research,” and “Maintaining a self-assembling research ecosystem.”