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Subject: Re: AMIA conference.
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 14:31:57 EDT
In a message dated 10/23/00 2:26:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> Just got the golden handshake from my day job boss(es) to attend the
> AMIA conference in November. I've never been to this conference and am
> trying to figure out how much LinuxMedNews propaganda I should bring.
> Any suggestions? How many folks attend?
>>Several thousand attend. However, it is quite different from the usual IT
>>conferences. Medical Informatics is not 'computers in medicine' but the
>>study and application of medical >>information science. IT is just a
>>vehicle.
An interesting perspective. I am seeing more and more blurring of the lines
between healthcare providers and information systems developers (MD/IT
Developer & IT Developer/MD/PA/RN).
>>Many of the people who go to this conference are not technologists nor IT
>>personnel..
I am a living example of a healthcare IT developer that attends conferences
such as this. I find the change in focus and people refreshing and helpful
to the projects that I'm working on.
I wish more of my associates would attend these as well, especially when
meetings at conferences result in healthcare enterprise IT development
projects getting underway (Visual Basic doesn't scale very well ;-).
Jim Intriglia
www.JimIntriglia.com
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