8th Annual Talbot Informatics Symposium
July
2003, Denver, CO
"Improving
the Quality and Effectiveness of Veterinary Care through the use
of Computers, Technology and Informatics"
The 2003
Talbot Symposium took place at the AVMA
Annual Convention in Denver, CO on Sunday, July 20, 2003. The
Informatics Program continued on Monday, July 21 and Tuesday, July
22, 2003. Turnout was excellent and our room location was an
"upgrade" from years past.
Talbot 2003 Student Award Winner
Congratulations to Dr. Chris Brandt
"Pocket
VMACS: Real-time, Wireless Access
to Patient Records on Your
Pocket PC"
Sponsored by:
Nominations for President-elect
Nomination for 2004 President-elect are now open. If you would like to nominate a member, send an email to pittenger@aol.com.
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veterinary medicine. This includes serving as an educational
resource, promoting the use of information technology and
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in veterinary information management.
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medical librarians, students, software and hardware developers,
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of clinical veterinary medicine, one third are in academia, and
the remainder are in industry, government, and other veterinary
medicine. Membership is international, including Australia,
Brazil, Canada, Israel, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia, as well as
the United States.
Meeting
The
annual membership meeting is held in conjunction with the AVMA
Annual Convention and includes the one-day Richard
B. Talbot Symposium on Veterinary Informatics and two days of
general information on computer usage. The members of the
Association are encouraged to write articles and/or make
presentations regarding their experiences, as these are valuable
to establish veterinary informatics as a legitimate discipline and
to encourage individuals in the veterinary community to become
more involved in the information age.
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Welcome to the September 2003 edition of the AVI HTML Newsletter. As they say in the film industry, "another one is in the can". The 2003 Talbot Symposium appeared to be a success judging by the turnout. Many folks gathered, both old and new, to talk about the past, present and future of informatics in veterinary medicine.
My task is to steer the ship for the next twelve months. Lets all hope I don't hit anything bigger than we are!
The exact course that we will end up plotting is as of yet unknown. There have been some calls to action for the Association to reinvent itself. Over the next several months we will study our past travels and current course and determine what may lie ahead. I like to tell my employees that the only constant things they will experience working with me is change. Change is constant. As an Association, we must continue to evolve or we will risk becoming irrelevant and unnecessary.
I welcome any and all feedback on the direction(s) you as a member think we should take. I will compile all of the suggestions and notes from the past few months, along with any new ideas submitted from here on. We will then begin the deliberation. With any luck, we will become stronger, faster and wiser.
Respectfully,
Stephen T. Pittenger, D.V.M.
Software
Spots Devilish Details
August
18, 2003
Scientists
at the US Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and
Environmental Laboratory have developed a way to enable computers
to spot subtle life-or-death warning signs through the lab's
change detection system. Complete Wired News article available at:
http://wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,60045,00.html
Researchers
Pursue Biology-based Computers
August
18, 2003
It
almost sounds too fantastic to be true, but a growing amount of
research supports the idea that DNA, the basic building block of
life, could also be the basis of a staggeringly powerful new
generation of computers. If it happens, the revolution someday
might be traced to the night a decade ago when University of
Southern California computer scientist Leonard Adleman lay in bed
reading James Watson's textbook "Molecular Biology of the
Gene." Complete Associated Press article available at:
http://www.boston.com…
Let there be light
Thursday
August 14, 2003
The
biggest scientific project in more than 30 years is taking place
at the
University of Saskatchewan and when it's complete, it is
expected to create a
wave of agricultural research in Canada
that includes livestock
applications.
http://www.producer.com/articles/20030814/news/
20030814news08.html
Call for Speakers & Presentation Proposals for 2004 Talbot Symposium
Please forward to all interested practitioners, colleagues, faculty, and students!
9th Annual Talbot Informatics Symposium - July 2004
"Enhancing the Practice of Veterinary Medicine and Learning
through the use of Computers, Technology and Informatics"
The 2004 Talbot Symposium on
Computers and Veterinary Informatics
This year's focus once again, is on topics that demonstrate how the integration of informatics and computer technology can increase the quality of patient care; provide educational enrichment and enjoyment for practitioners, hospital staff, educators and students. We also hope to demonstrate how Informatics can ultimately effect the bottom lines of both private practices and university teaching hospitals. The Talbot Symposium takes place at the AVMA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, on Sunday July 25th, 2004. The Convention runs in Philadelphia, PA from July 24-28, 2004. The regular Informatics Program continues on Monday, July 26 and Tuesday, July 27, 2004. The Sunday session consists of twelve 30-minute presentations. Monday and Tuesday's programs consist of 45 or 90-minute sessions.
Deadline for submission is September 30, 2003
Additional Information regarding this call for papers may be found on the AVI Website
We are again pleased to announce:
4th Annual Association for Veterinary Informatics Scholars' Award
Prizes of
$750 plus round trip airfare, free registration for the AVMA
Annual Convention, and AVMA speaker's fee will be awarded for at
least one, possibly two, winning student informatics proposals for
a 30-minute presentation to be given on Sunday July 25th
during the Talbot Informatics Symposium. Students enrolled in any
accredited college of veterinary medicine or in a veterinary or
medical informatics program, and not graduating prior to the Class
of 2004 are eligible for this award. Suggested topics for
all potential speakers are listed below. We strongly encourage
private practitioners to submit proposals, as well as academicians
and students.
Deadline for submission is September 30, 2003
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American Veterinary Health Information Manager's Association
(AVHIMA) met in conjunction with the American Veterinary Medical
Association's (AVMA) annual meeting July 19-23, 2003
in Denver, Colorado. The UVIS (Universal Veterinary
Information System) User's Medical Record Committee held a working
meeting during this time as well. Veterinary College
Representatives from the Medical Records Departments / Health
Information Managers, Computing Resources, Business and Finance,
Administrators etc. met to plan the next level of program
enhancements that will benefit all the member user schools.
The Clinician Interface Tool will be the next functional component
to be implemented. Cornell is testing the beta version at
present and it will be implemented when Cornell 'goes live' -
projected for late Fall or first of the year, 2004.
The Clinician Interface Tool will allow the clinical faculty to
process and manage their caseload in an almost complete
electronic record format. The integration of imaging
will also permit a full range of ancillary lab reporting and the
immediate accessibility of information for the end user.
A projected web-based access will be developed and will permit
referring veterinarians to follow their cases throughout the
hospital stay. A web-based abstract template, developed by
University of Illinois, will also permit the entry of coded data
for research efforts. Dr. Art Siegel and Kathy Ellis
provided a live 'demo' and this development holds great promise
for the continued capture, abstraction, and transmission of data
from member schools directly to the Veterinary Medical Data Base
(VMDB)-a national data repository for the veterinary colleges in
North America and Canada.
Continuing Education
COMPUTER
SOFTWARE SHOWCASE
Saturday,
October 4, 2003
8:00 a.m. to Noon (Vendor Lecture)
2:00 p.m.
to 6:00 p.m. (hands-on demos)
Fort
Worth Convention Center
Are
you looking to upgrade your computer software? The Southwest
Veterinary Symposium offers registrants a look at the latest
products at the first annual "Computer Software Showcase"
featuring lectures and hands-on demonstrations by the top
veterinary practice management software companies in the country
(AVImark, Cornerstone VetConnect Systems, ImproMed and IntraVet).
Registrants will have the opportunity to evaluate these software
products side-by-side. Saturday morning, Dr. Steve Pittenger,
member of the TVMA Informatics/Telecommunications Committee, will
present a short introduction and review of what to look for in a
software vendor, after which each company representative will
present a 40-minute lecture on their software package. A special
room will be setup for the afternoon session to give attendees a
chance to actually talk to vendors one-on-one, sit down at
computers and get some hands-on time. Space may be limited.
Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis for both the
morning and the afternoon session. There is no extra fee.
Veterinary
Hospital Managers Association
"Annual
Meeting & Conference"
October
2-5, 2003
Chicago, Illinois
AMIA
2003 Annual Symposium
November
8-12, 2003
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Washington, DC
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The
Triennial Meeting of the International Medical Informatics
Association
September 7-11, 2004
San Francisco, CA, USA
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