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09 September 2004
Chair: DavidLittle (apologies)
Chair Elect: SheilaTeasdale
Past Chair John Zapp
Secretary MichaelWeiner (apologies)
Treasurer Alan Zuckerman
Program Chair Jeff Suzewits
Members at Large Bob Gerstle (did not attend)
Subcommittee chairs Kevin Johnson – Research (apologies)
Given as above.
The minutes had been circulated soon after the event and were accepted.
Sheila reported on the AMIA constitutional changes being proposed and voted on at the General Members’ meeting on Saturday, September 12th, and emphasised the AMIA leadership’s concern to have as many members expressing their opinion as possible. The Working Groups are also being managed differently, especially in the areas of budgeting and new rules and guidance for WG activities. Committee members are recommended to read the Working Groups policy document at www.amia.org/about/policies/f6.html.
Reports from subcommittee chairs had already been given at the Business Meeting; each officer and subcommittee chair will be asked to prepare a very brief report to be collated into the overall report to AMIA on PCIWG activities in 2004.
Dave Little’s major contribution to the planning and organisation of the PCIWG consensus conference was acknowledged and applauded by all present.
There was a brief discussion about feedback from the PCIWG consensus conference; outputs from the event will be a paper in Informatics in Primary Care and the development of a White Paper on what should be done next using the participation from the delegates; Sheila will also post the PowerPoints to the PCIWG website.
It was agreed that next year’s conference activity should be less strategic and more about implementations, see further discussion under item 6. We also considered the issue of lack of funding for this year’s event. We need to establish why Siemens felt unable to sponsor this event, by having Sheila and David Bates as chair of NAPCI write to the President of Siemens Medical to explain the situation this year, regretting that they felt unable to sponsor an international event which had plans to webcast to the world, and hoping that they might consider funding next year. We will need at least a broad theme for next year before writing to them in this vein. There are other vendors who can also be approached simultaneously once we have a theme. Andy offered to investigate AHRQ funding for next year also. Sheila will talk to Kathleen McCormick about how the Nursing Informatics WG goes about obtaining sponsorship.
John Zapp gave a brief report on progress with NAPCI: there was widespread stakeholder support apart from AAFP; it was agreed that Sheila as Chair-Elect and NAPCI Board member would write to the current President of AAFP to ensure he was informed of the strength of feeling at both the PCIWG Business Meeting and the Consensus Conference that AAFP should join NAPCI – these views were forcibly expressed by a number of AAFP members at those events.
a. Membership: Sheila Teasdale would find out from Mary Ellen the current membership of PCIWG, and check whether or not they were all on the email list.
All agreed the need to grow the membership. It was suggested that Committee Members-at-large could spread the word in their own specialty (ACP, AAP, etc.). At the same time, we should be encouraging more members to be active within PCIWG, starting with those we already known to be enthusiastic. A subgroup would start work on this, based on the Members-at-large. A number of ideas were put forward: emailing current PCIWG members to encourage them to recruit one new member each; putting examples of good work on the PCIWG website; emailing everyone in primary care who had a poster at Medinfo to get a pdf of it onto the PCIWG website with an award for the best if possible; putting ppts (or URLS) of relevant presentations from other society meetings, e.g. AAP, STFM.
b. Primary care representation on AMIA Board: we should try to get primary care representation on the board. To be discussed at next conference call. [Post-meeting note: David Bates and Kevin Johnson elected for 2005.]
c. Primary care informatics fellowship: The idea of establishing a primary care informatics fellowship was put forward. This would need budget approval from AMIA and should be discussed at the next conference call.
a. An activity plan is due for submission to AMIA Dec 1 and then quarterly; decision will normally be forthcoming within 4–6 weeks.
b. Budget supporting the activity plan also due Dec 1. The process has changed this year (see relevant section in Working Groups Policy document).
c. Elections and developing leadership: nominating committee needed for new chair elect and officers for 2006, taking up post 2007, elections will be before AMIA October 2005. The nominating committee should consist of the new Chair (Sheila) plus 2 others, and at least 2 people should be nominated for each position. To be discussed at next conference call.
d. Communications: Tom Thornton did not attend Medinfo, and he has not been in touch for some time. Dave Little should attempt to contact him and thank him for all his efforts on the website.
A small workgroup (Michael Weiner, Sheila Teasdale, Andy Steele, David Kendrick) should be convened to work on website, email list, target audiences, key messages; ideas included:
e. Program:
f. Subcommittees: It was agreed that the current subcommittees (Education, Research and Clinical) should continue, with existing leadership.
g. NAPCI: PCIWG should continue to work closely with NAPCI; participation in state-wide meetings and potential for a national conference should be discussed with NAPCI. There was a unanimous recommendation that NAPCI work on getting AAFP to join.
h. Funded activities for 2005: Jacob Reider should continue to work with the AMIA Education Working Group on faculty development in primary care.
a. Conference call schedule: It would help planning if a conference call schedule were drawn up and circulated; these calls have been a very useful part of progressing PCIWG business; their cost should be included in the budget submission for 2005.
Possible dates for meetings at the AMIA Spring Congress in Boston and the AMIA Annual Fall Symposium in Washington would be circulated (it is hoped that there would be increased attendance of committee members in Boston as the topic for 2005 is very relevant to primary care) and finalised as soon as possible.
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