2004 Annual Report

WG Name: Primary Care Informatics Working Group (PCIWG)

WG Chair: David R. Little, MD MS, Wright State University Department of Family Medicine, Dayton, Ohio
Chair-Elect: Sheila Teasdale, MMedSci, PRIMIS Service Director, University of Nottingham, UK
Past Chair: John A. Zapp, MD, Director, Family Practice Residency, Mercy Medical Center, Redding, California

Treasurer: Alan E. Zuckerman, Georgetown University
Secretary: Michael Weiner, Regenstrief Institute, Indiana
Program: Jeff Suzewits, Southern Illinois University
At-Large: Bob Gerstle, Baystate Health System, Springfield, MA (Pediatrics)
Andy Steele, University of Colorado (Medicine)
Thomas Thornton, Upper Sandusky, Ohio (Family Practice)
Melinda Jenkins, Columbia University (Nurse Practitioner)
Education: Jacob Reider, Albany Medical Center (Family Practice)
Clinical: Alan Zuckerman, Georgetown University
Research: Kevin Johnson, Vanderbilt University (Pediatrics)
Awards: Mark Weiner, University of Pennsylvania (Internal Medicine)

Mission Statement: This Working Group serves all members involved in, and/or working with, the practice and teaching of all primary care disciplines, including General Internal Medicine, General Pediatrics and Nurse Practitioners. The creation of this Working Group is the results of more than a decade of effort by individuals and groups from Family Medicine, General Internal Medicine, and General Pediatrics. These efforts have been directed at applications of, and research on, computer technology in practice and teaching.

The purpose of this Working Group is to promote and encourage the appropriate development and use of medical informatics in the practice and teaching of Family Medicine and other primary care disciplines. Objectives include: encouraging the use of clinical computing, electronic communications, standard medical vocabulary for primary care, representing primary care views to the AMIA Board of Directors, stimulating research in primary care informatics, providing information, and acting as a resource, developing a network of primary care informaticians, developing and testing products, and influencing informatics policy development as it affects primary care.

Activities for 2004:

• Contributed to Spring Congress
• Conducted full-day consensus conference at Medinfo 2004
• Published consensus conference report: de Lusignan S, Teasdale S, Little D, Zapp J, Zuckerman A, Bates DW, Steele A. Comprehensive computerised primary care records are an essential component of any national health information strategy: report from an international consensus conference. Informatics in Primary Care 2004; 12(4):255-264
• Conducted panel at Medinfo 2004: “The Case for Electronic Health Records in Primary Care”
• Hosted a hospitality suite at Medinfo 2004 with demonstrations of primary care informatics projects and provision of networking and working space for PCIWG members
• Continued support for National Alliance for Primary Care Informatics (NAPCI), including publication of regular updates in Informatics in Primary Care
• Work started (J Suzewits, A Steele) on primary care informatics bibliography, to be available on PCIWG website
• Established collaborative relationship with Nursing Informatics WG to incorporate Nurse Practitioners into the Primary Care Informatics WG. Appointed Melinda Jenkins as Nurse Practitioner Member-at-Large to PCIWG Executive Committee.
• Consulted with Society of Teachers of Family Medicine on a successful grant proposal to establish the Family Medicine Digital Resource Library (FMDRL).
• Established a collaborative relationship with the Education WG to contribute to AMIA Informatics Education Repository Project

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