AMIA receives $1.2 million grant from Gates Foundation

The American Medical Informatics Association has received a $1.2 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The money is intended to help promote training in health informatics as part of a new initiative.

The new program, called 20/20, is an attempt to train 20,000 informatics professionals around the world by the year 2020. This effort is being spearheaded by the International Medical Informatics Association, of which AMIA is a regional affiliate.

It is also based on an AMIA initiative called 10x10, in which the AMIA is trying to train 10,000 informatics professionals in the U.S. by the year 2010.

The AMIA says that it will use the money to develop scalable approaches to e-health education. This will hopefully give less-developed countries a blueprint to work off of as they try to train their own health informatics professionals.

To learn more about the new program:
- read this Healthcare IT Blog piece

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