Program in Biomedical and Health Informatics

During the past four years, the Carver College of Medicine (CCOM) and Office of Strategic Investments has sponsored training programs for developing informatics skills among early career faculty, residents, fellows, and selected staff, through coursework known as the AMIA 10x10 program. 

The CCOM aims to build an Informatics community to develop a cadre of faculty, residents, fellows, and staff practicing at University of Iowa Health Care (UIHC) with Informatics skills to improve their clinical practice and advance scientific scholarship in this field.

The AMIA 10x10 Course

The course provides a detailed overview of biomedical and health informatics to those who will work at the interface of healthcare and information technology (IT). It also provides a broad understanding of the field from the vantage point of those who implement, lead, and develop IT solutions for improving health, healthcare, public health, and biomedical research. 

An overview of the AMIA 10x10 program, course descriptions, FAQs, and a brief video with William Hersh, MD is available here.  Dr. Hersh was principal in creating the program with the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) in 2005, with the aim to educate 10,000 health care professionals and others in biomedical informatics by 2010 ("ten by ten").

Interested in completing this coursework?

The CCOM Office of Research is funding a limited number of faculty, residents, and fellows to complete this coursework.  An application form is available online.  In addition to completing the online coursework, participants are expected to write and present a final paper which may be considered for publication or presentation. 

The CCOM Biomedical and Health Informatics Community

We have established a community of CCOM Informaticists who are applying these skills in their work at UIHC.  You are invited to join us with presentations, journal clubs, and other activities. Previous meeting information and links to recorded presentations can be found here.

Next Meeting: July 11, 2024 | 12:00-1:00 pm | via Zoom | CME, CNE Credit Available

Request the zoom link. 

AI Maturity in Health Care

Boyd Knosp

 

Boyd Knosp, MS, FAMIA
Associate Dean, CCOM Information Technology 
Associate Director, Biomedical Informatics Operations (ICTS)
University of Iowa

 

 

Associate Dean for IT in the Carver College of Medicine, Boyd serves as an advocate for ICTS and brokers key services with enterprise IT units in Healthcare and the University.  Boyd has also led the development of Maturity Models to help academic institutions better understand and plan their investments in IT and Informatics. 

Associate Director of Informatics Operations for the ICTS, Boyd oversees the implementation of ICTS’s vision for informatics.  He has provided leadership for informatics and IT service delivery for over 30 years and led a team that focuses on developing new informatics tools and delivering state of the art informatics services. 

He has sponsored the creation of an Enterprise Data Warehouse for Research (EDW4R) and its connection with new local sources of data (e.g., our biobank and Axium) and with external data sources (PCORnet and TriNetX).   He has worked to connect the EDW4R with data sources across Iowa (rural clinics, personal health data and genomics data sources).

In 2021, he founded the Iowa Health Data Resource which expands UI researcher’s access to health data, builds transformative data sets and supports a secure computing environment for studies involving data with PHI.

If you are interested to present at future meetings in 2024, please contact Lindsey Knake. We currently have opportunities open for presentations on October 10, November 14 and December 12, 2024.

Program Director

Dr. Lindsey Knake, MD, MS

 

Dr. Lindsey Knake, MD, MS
Director, Biomedical & Health Informatics Development
lindsey-knake@uiowa.edu 
(319) 353-6368

 

Clinical Informatics Journal Club

The Clinical Informatics Journal Club, hosted by Dr. Lindsey Knake, meets the 3rd Tuesday of every other month from 3 - 4 pm via Zoom or in person in 7830-C JPP.  To receive a Zoom link, please contact Marian Carson.

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