title: AMIA members' "vital signs": what the HIT implementation listserv says about goals for AMIA and for medical informatics.
abstract: The health information technology (HIT) implementation listserv was conceived as a way to combine a substantial portion of American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) members who belonged to four working groups (WGs): CIS, Evaluation, ELSI, and POI. Other AMIA members joined in significant numbers. It immediately became a major forum for discussing medical informatics, informatics policies, and discussion of the purpose of AMIA itself. The listserv membership approximates 25% of AMIA's members and has generated over 6,000 posts. We report on a survey of the listserv's members: what members think about the listserv; what participants want for medical informatics; how they think those goals should be achieved, and what AMIA's role should be in this process. The listserv provides vital signs about AMIA and hopes for informatics. We combine qualitative analysis of members' comments and responses about the listserv using ATLAS.ti qualitative text analysis tool and a word cloud generator.
authors.affiliation: Aurora Research Institute, Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee; College of Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
authors.forename: Kourosh
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ravvaz
authors.affiliation: Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: Craig
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kuziemsky
authors.affiliation: Sociology Department; Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Medical School; LDI, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Ross
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Koppel
authors.affiliation: Yale Center for Medical Informatics at Yale University School of Medicine; Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics; The Information Society Project at Yale Law School, Yale University, USA.
authors.forename: Bonnie
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kaplan
authors.affiliation: Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, Tilburg Law School, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Samantha A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Adams
authors.affiliation: Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine; Division of Clinical Informatics, Department of Community and Family Medicine; Duke Center for Health Informatics, Duke University Medical Center, USA.
authors.forename: Martha B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Adams
mesh_terms: D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires