title: Defining the medical subspecialty of clinical informatics.
abstract: As the professional home for biomedical and health informaticians, AMIA is actively working to support high quality relevant professional education and research opportunities. This issue of JAMIA presents two key documents that provide tangible evidence of progress on this front. In this editorial, we describe the context and specific purpose of the two documents, how they were developed, and AMIA's plans to build upon the documents.
authors.affiliation: American Medical Informatics Association, 4915 St. Elmo Avenue, Suite 401, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA. ded2x@virginia.edu
authors.forename: Don E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Detmer
authors.forename: John R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Lumpkin
authors.forename: Jeffrey J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Williamson
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards; D004501:Education, Medical; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education; D008511:Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D012955:Societies, Medical; D013038:Specialization; D014481:United States