Travel Support for 2nd Annual AMA-IEEE EMBS Conference, October 16-18, 2011, Boston, MA

这次会议将提供一个独特的机会，让临床医生和工程师参与真正的跨学科工作。会议的形式将促进具有临床经验的个人和具有技术专长的个人之间的信息交流。将向临床医生提供与实施个性化医疗策略相关的技术的最新信息。工程师将有机会通过四个选定的主题找出改善医疗保健的主要障碍是什么：医疗改革和医疗IT采用，工作流程和医疗IT，临床决策支持系统和个性化医疗，以及改善结果和质量。组织者将通过实施多种战略向广大公众提供访问会议材料的机会。首先，他们在大会网站上开设了博客。该博客将为对会议感兴趣的个人提供机会，通过发布问题、提出讨论主题和提供有关他们自己工作的信息来塑造会议。第二，所有会议摘要将通过组织者将在会议网站上实施的开放获取倡议向广大公众提供。换言之，会议摘要将张贴在会议网站上。最后，他们将从会议上提交的稿件中挑选稿件，为AMA和IEEE EMBS打算在会议结束后一年内推出的一本新杂志的第一期提供稿件。

1145239ChbatThe conference will provide a unique opportunity to achieve genuine interdisciplinary work involving clinicians and engineers. The format of the conference will facilitate the exchange of information between individuals with clinical and individuals with technical expertise. Clinicians will be provided up-to-date information about technology relevant to implement Personalized Medicine strategies. Engineers will be given the opportunity to find out what are the major roadblocks toward the improvement of Healthcare via the four selected themes: Healthcare Reform and Health IT Adoption,, Workflow and Health IT, Clinical decision Support Systems and Individualized Medicine, and Improving Outcomes and Quality.The organizers will provide the public at large with access to the conference material by implementing multiple strategies. First of all, they have set up a blog on the conference website. The blog will provide individuals interested in the conference with the opportunity to shape the conference by posting questions, by proposing discussion topics, and by providing information about their own work. Secondly, all the conference abstracts will be made available to the public at large via an open access initiative that the organizer will implement on the conference website. In other words, abstracts will be posted on the conference website. Finally, they will select contributions among those presented at the conference for the first issue of a new magazine that AMA and IEEE EMBS intend to launch within a year from completion of the conference.