Health informatics: our domain, our challenge

With November comes the AMIA Annual Symposium, a chance to reconnect with colleagues and friends and an opportunity to look back over the past year and see just how much progress has been made. It has been a remarkable year to be part of the informatics community. AMIA and our members have continued to make significant contributions to improving health and health care.The appointment of Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, FACMI, as the new National Library of Medicine (NLM) director marks a new era in the health informatics community. Under the leadership of the previous director, Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD, FACMI, the NLM was a longstanding advocate for biomedical informatics training and basic biomedical informatics research. In the era of precision medicine, data scientists, and widespread availability of electronic health records, the NLM now has an opportunity to reshape itself to address …