Surgical and Procedural Informatics Working Group

The Surgical and Procedural Informatics Working Group serves as the academic home for professionals focused on informatics, idea exchange, and collaboration within surgical and procedural contexts. These span a broad range of delivery platforms within the healthcare system, including the emergency room, outpatient setting, hospital, intensive care unit, operating room, and procedural suites, and involve urgent, emergent, and elective care. As such, the care of surgical and procedural patients involves unique workflows and considerations not found in other areas of healthcare. These nuances critically influence how informatics solutions and advancements—ranging from applied clinical informatics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, telehealth and digital health, and others—are adapted to and applied in surgical and procedural contexts. 

The goals of Surgical and Procedural Informatics Working Group include:

• Welcome all members of AMIA whose clinical or academic pursuits relate to surgical and procedural contexts.
• Develop and sustain a network of people and groups participating in the investigation and development of informatics and digital health tools and solutions for surgical and procedural patients, clinicians, and processes.  
• Advocate for and represent the perspective and unique needs of surgical and procedural patients, clinicians, and staff with respect to the development and application of health information and digital health technologies.
• Serve as liaison between the informatics and surgical and procedural communities and societies, and in so doing, increase awareness of surgical and procedural concerns among the informatics community, and of informatics concerns among the surgical and procedural communities.
• Create, maintain, and promote educational and scholarly resources and activities for professional development, research, application development, policy development, and public understanding of surgical and procedural informatics.
• Contribute to the creation and evolution of standards and guidelines for the application of health information technologies to surgical and procedural contexts.
• Support the development and training of a pipeline of surgical and procedural informaticians to contribute to ongoing effort in this space.