IMIA Interim CEO; Recruitment for Substantive Post

The first phase of the transition period for the IMIA CEO post is completed. Following the retirement of Dr Peter Murray as IMIA CEO, Elaine Huesing is now Interim IMIA CEO, and has assumed all the responsibilities of the post. Elaine can be contacted for all IMIA issues at the normal email address, ie imia@imia-services.org

The IMIA Board, following its meeting on March 22, 2015 in San Francisco, is completing the detail of the process for recruitment of a new CEO. An announcement will be made to IMIA members, by the 2015 General Assembly meeting at the latest.

Dr Lyn Hanmer Receives Inaugural Sedick Isaacs Award

Dr Lyn Hanmer received the inaugural Sedick Isaacs Award at a ceremony on 09 March 2015, at the recent HELINA conference in Accra, Ghana. As part of the award, she gave a keynote presentation “The importance of partnerships for Health Informatics development in HELINA and other low-resource settings” at the HELINA conference, and her presentation will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Health Informatics in Africa (http://www.jhia-online.org/index.php/jhia).

The Sedick Isaacs Award is a newly-inaugurated IMIA Award that recognises the lasting contribution made to health and medical informatics in Africa by Dr Sedick Isaacs [1]. It is an IMIA award, funded by IMIA and administered jointly by IMIA and HELINA. The primary criterion for a recipient of the Sedick Isaacs Award is to recognise “an individual whose personal commitment and dedication to medical informatics has made a lasting contribution to medicine and healthcare within Africa, through her or his achievements in research, education, development or application in the field of medical informatics.” The secondary criterion is that the recipient should be a person living and working in Africa.

Several very high quality nominations were received. The aim is to present the Sedick Isaacs Award at each HELINA conference.

[1] Hanmer, L (2013) Sedick Isaacs Obituary. IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics. http://www.schattauer.de/en/magazine/subject-areas/journals-a-z/imia-yearbook/imia-yearbook-2013/issue/special/manuscript/20004/download.html

Global Telehealth 2015 Conference – Toronto, Canada; 29-30 May, 2015

The 4th International Conference on Global Telehealth (GT2015) will be held on May 29-30, 2015 at the Delta Toronto Hotel, 75 Lower Simcoe Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Full information is on the event website at www.GT2015.org

The theme for GT2015 is “Serving the Underserved: Integrating technology and information for better healthcare”. COACH: Canada’s Health Informatics Association is delighted to be hosting Global Telehealth 2015, an international scientific conference covering the full breadth of  telehealth, mobile health and virtual health. It consists of 50+ scientific and applied paper presentations that have been submitted from more than 25 countries. Keynote speakers include Dr. Najeeb Al-Shorbaji, Director, Knowledge, Ethics & Research, World Health Organization; Dr. Alain B. Labrique, Founding director, Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative; and Dr. Ivar Mendez, Fred H. Wigmore Professor of Surgery & Chairman, Department of Surgery, University of Saskatchewan , and Unified Head of Surgery of the Province of Saskatchewan.

IMIA is pleased to be an Endorser of the event.

Registration is open, and the early bird rate end on 07 April:

GT2015 Early Bird Full Conference $599.00 (Ends April 7, 2015)
GT2015 Full Conference $749.00 (As of April 8, 2015)
GT2015 One Day $425.00
GT2015 Full Conference Group Rate $1499.00 (3 attendees – Ends April 7, 2015)

Conference flyer (PDF download)

The programme is at http://www.coachorg.com/en/newsandevents/GT-2015-Program.asp

 

Nursing Knowledge: 2015 Big Data Science Conference

On behalf of Bonnie Westra and Diane Skiba, we are pleased to provide information on this event, which may be of interest to nursing colleagues and others with a specific interest in big data issues.

The 2015 Nursing Knowledge: Big Data & Science Conference for Transforming Health Care conference will be held on June 3 – 5, 2015 in Minneapolis, MN, USA. This third annual national conference is designed to advance an action plan to create sharable, comparable nursing data that is integrated into the electronic health record. See http://www.nursing.umn.edu/about/calendar-of-events/2015-events/nursing-knowledge-2015-big-data-science-conference/index.htm for full information. The PDF also contains information about the programme.

The venue will be Weaver Densford Hall, 308 Harvard St. SE, University of Minnesota School of Nursing.

eTOC for ACI eJournal: 2015 Volume 6 (1); New Volume, Further New Articles Available

New articles of ACI – Applied Clinical Informatics (2015, Volume 6 (1)) are available. There are five new articles below, making currently nine articles available in this issue, including two free downloads.

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corRECTreatment: A web-based decision support tool for rectal cancer treatment that uses the analytic hierarchy process and decision tree
Research Article
A. Suner (1), G. Karakülah (2, 3), O. Dicle (3, 4), S. Sökmen (5), C. C. Çelikoğlu (6)
(1) Ege University, School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Bornova-Izmir, 35040, Turkey; (2) Neurobiology-Neurodegeneration and Repair Laboratory, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, USA; (3) Dokuz Eylül University, Health Sciences Institute, Department of Medical Informatics, Inciraltı-Izmir, 35340, Turkey; (4) Dokuz Eylül University, School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Inciraltı-Izmir, 35340, Turkey; (5) FACS, FASCRS, FASPSM Member from Dokuz Eylül University, School of Medicine, Department of General Surgery, Colorectal and Pelvic Surgery Unit, Inciraltı-Izmir, 35340, Turkey; (6) Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Science, Department of Statistics, Buca-Izmir, 35160, Turkey
Appl Clin Inform 2015 6 1: 56-74   dx.doi.org/10.4338/ACI-2014-10-RA-0087

The Value of Clinical Teachers for EMR Implementations and Conversions
Invited Editorial
L. A. Stevens (1, 2), J. L. Pantaleoni (1, 2), C. A. Longhurst (1, 2)
(1) Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California; (2) Department of Clinical Informatics, Stanford Children’s Health, Palo Alto, California
Appl Clin Inform 2015 6 1: 75-79   dx.doi.org/10.4338/ACI-2014-09-IE-0075

Successful Physician Training Program for Large Scale EMR Implementation
Case Report
Supplementary Material
J. L. Pantaleoni (1, 2), L. A. Stevens (1, 2), E. S. Mailes (2), B. A. Goad (2), C. A. Longhurst (1, 2)
(1) Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California; (2) Department of Clinical Informatics, Stanford Children’s Health, Palo Alto, California
Appl Clin Inform 2015 6 1: 80-95   dx.doi.org/10.4338/ACI-2014-09-CR-0076

Data Collection Methods in Health Services Research – Hospital Length of Stay and Discharge Destination
Research Article
M. N. Sarkies (1, 2), K.-A. Bowles (2, 3), E. H. Skinner (4, 5), D. Mitchell (1, 6), R. Haas (2, 3), M. Ho (1), K. Salter (1), K. May (1), D. Markham (1), L. O’Brian (2, 7), S. Plumb (8), T. P. Haines (2, 3)
(1) Monash Health, Allied Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; (2) Monash Health, Allied Health Research Unit, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; (3) Monash University, Physiotherapy Department, Allied Health Research Unit, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; (4) Monash University, Allied Health Research Unit, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; (5) Western Health, Allied Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; (6) Monash University, Physiotherapy Department, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; (7) Monash University, Occupational Therapy Department, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; (8) Melbourne Health, Allied Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Appl Clin Inform 2015 6 1: 96-109   dx.doi.org/10.4338/ACI-2014-10-RA-0097

A National Survey of Parent Perspectives on Use of Patient Portals for Their Children’s Health Care
Research Article
S. J. Clark (1), L. E. Costello (1), A. Gebremariam (1), K. J. Dombkowski (1)
(1) Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit, University of Michigan
Appl Clin Inform 2015 6 1: 110-119   dx.doi.org/10.4338/ACI-2014-10-RA-0098

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New name for “Informatics in Primary Care”; latest issue published

After 20 years as “Informatics in Primary Care”, the BCS Health’s house journal has been renamed “Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics”.

In a media release, BCS writes:

Informatics is an innovative science, and informaticians need to innovate across professional and discipline boundaries. The title was carefully selected to reflect that

(1) informatics provides the opportunity to innovate rather than simply automates;

(2) implementing informatics solutions often results in unintended consequences, and many implementations fail and benefits and innovations may go unrecognised;

(3) health informatics is a boundary spanning discipline and is by its very nature likely to give rise to innovation.

Professor Simon de Lusignan, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom remains the Editor-in-Chief (see http://hijournal.bcs.org/index.php/jhi/about/editorialTeam for full information). Simon explains the changes in an Editorial at http://hijournal.bcs.org/index.php/jhi/article/view/152

You can read all articles in full, free of charge, at http://hijournal.bcs.org/index.php/jhi/issue/view/14

HELINA Conference: Accra, Ghana on 7 – 11 March 2015

The delayed HELINA2014 conference will be held in Accra, Ghana at the University of Ghana, ISSER Conference Centre from March 7 – 11, 2015. See  http://conf.helina-online.org/index.php/2014/index/ for latest updates.

The conference theme is Informatics for Universal Health Coverage in Africa: From Point of Care Systems to National Strategies.

This year’s conference is supported by the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), the Ghana Ministry of Health, the Ghana National Health Insurance Authority, Ghana Ministry of Communication, Ghana Medical Association, Christian Health Association, Ghana Health Service, Ghana AIDS Commission, the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO), and Koegni-eHealth Innovation for Development.

Programme Highlights include:

– Current Innovations in Heath Informatics research and practice from Africa
– Dedicated session on Health Informatics Education in Africa
– Keynote Speech : “The emergence of clinical terminology in healthcare” Don Sweete, CEO, International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO)
– Gala and networking night on 9th March, 2015

Final conference programme will be available on Tuesday 17 February 2015. Information will be posted on the conference website

Pre-conference Events:

– Big Data and Data Mining Tutorial on 7th March, 2015
– Health Information System and Interoperability – Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) tutorial on 8th March, 2015

Please direct all questions to HELINA (hcs[at]helina-online.org), not to IMIA.
Contact: hcs[at]helina-online.org

HIC 2015 Call for Submissions – Deadline 16 March

HISA (http://www.hisa.org.au) is pleased to invite you to respond to the Call for Submissions for HIC 2015, Australia’s premier digital health and health informatics conference – see https://hisa.site-ym.com/page/hic2015papers for the HIC 2015 Call for Papers, and https://hisa.site-ym.com/page/hic2015nia for the NIA (Nursing Informatics Australia) Call for Papers.

HISA 2015 will be held in Brisbane, Australia on 03-05 August, 2015 – see http://www.hisa.org.au/page/hic2015 for full information.

You have an opportunity to put forward your contribution to science, research and the business of healthcare and play a role in the collaborative nature of HIC as we work together to drive reform. In an innovative move, this year for the first time the presentations will be allocated based on theme rather than in separate streams for academic/scientific and industry/clinical.

Themes for 2015 – authors are encouraged to submit under the following themes and health informatics specialty areas:

• System and workforce change management
• Integrated care
• Participatory medicine
• Value of dataDigital health/advancement in technology
• Aged Care informatics
• Indigenous informatics
• Innovations/latest research

Submissions close on Monday 16 March 2015.

Please refer to the following guidelines:

Scientific/Academic papers (full papers, 4-6 pages, 2000-3000 words)

Industry/Clinical case study abstracts (650 word abstract)

All NIA submissions will be given automatic entry to NIA’s Moya Conrick Prize. The Moya Conrick Prize is presented in recognition of the valuable work by the late Dr Moya Conrick via the best submitted paper and presentation at NIA. The prize is based specifically on nursing informatics, including the quality, originality, contributions, subject matter and timeliness of the submission. The Moya Conrick Prize is shared amongst all authors of the submission and shall be announced by a member of the NIA executive.

 

eTOC for ACI eJournal: 2015 Volume 6 (1); New Volume, New Articles Available

New articles of ACI – Applied Clinical Informatics (2015, Volume 6 (1)) are available. There are currently four articles available in this issue.

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The Table of Contents below is online at www.aci-journal.org

Leveraging Electronic Tablets for General Pediatric Care – A pilot study
Research Article
Supplementary Material
V. Anand (1), S. McKee (2), T. M. Dugan (2), S. M. Downs (2, 3)
(1) Pediatric Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; (2) Childrens Health Services Research, School of Medicine, Indiana University, IN; (3) Regenstrief Institute for Healthcare, IN
Appl Clin Inform 2015 6 1: 1-15    dx.doi.org/10.4338/ACI-2014-09-RA-0071

Legal and Regulatory Considerations Associated with Use of Patient-Generated Health Data from Social Media and Mobile Health (mHealth) Devices
Review
C. Petersen (1), P. DeMuro (2, 3)
(1) Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA; (2) Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA; (3) Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, Seattle, Washington, USA
Appl Clin Inform 2015 6 1: 16-26    dx.doi.org/10.4338/ACI-2014-09-R-0082

Emergency Medicine Resident Physicians’ Perceptions of Electronic Documentation and Workflow – A mixed methods study
Research Article
Supplementary Material
P. M. Neri (1), L. Redden (1), S. Poole (2, 3, 4), C. N. Pozner (2, 3, 5), J. Horsky (2, 5), A. S. Raja (2, 5), E. Poon (6), G. Schiff (2, 5), A. Landman (2, 5)
(1) Clinical & Quality Analysis, Partners HealthCare System, Wellesley, MA; (2) Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; (3) Neil and Elise Wallace STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation; (4) Simulation Consulting, Phoenix, Arizona, USA; (5) Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; (6) Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Appl Clin Inform 2015 6 1: 27-41    dx.doi.org/10.4338/ACI-2014-08-RA-0065

Association between Electronic Health Records and Health Care Utilization
Research Article
R. Kaushal (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), A. Edwards (1, 2, 3), L. M. Kern (1, 2, 3, 5), with the HITEC Investigators
(1) Department of Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY.; (2) Health Information Technology Evaluation Collaborative, New York, NY.; (3) Center for Healthcare Informatics and Policy, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY.; (4) Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY.; (5) Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY.; (6) New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY.
Appl Clin Inform 2015 6 1: 42-55    dx.doi.org/10.4338/ACI-2014-10-RA-0089

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NI2016 – Student Wearable Design Contest; Submission Deadline 01 April, 2015

The purpose of the NI2016 Student Wearable Contest is to encourage collaborative teams to develop and share innovative ideas in wearable or ubiquitous technologies to promote mobile-health, connected health or ubiquitous computing in health care. The goal is to allow the next generation of interprofessional collaborative teams to showcase how technologies can transform nursing and health care.

Details of the contest are available on the NI2016 website – see www.ni2016.org  and directly at http://www.ni2016.org/images_newsletter/PDF_news/141222_StudentContest.pdf

Topic areas of the contest: Wearable, Mobile and ubiquitous computing – including wearable devices, mobile apps, integration of mobile technologies into the care continuum.

The description of the prototype must:

1. provide evidence that it is innovative or new;
2. show its relevance to patient / family care or health care professional
3. demonstrate a change in the care of a patient / family or in the work of health care professionals
4. follow acceptable standards, privacy and data protection guidelines
5. Describe the details of its usability (plan for usability testing or results of testing)
6. include a visualization of the idea that should include:
   a. Technical architecture
   b. Photo or drawing
7. Maturity of device
   a. What stage is it now?
   b. What stage of maturity at time of presentation (June 2016)?
8. should represent an interprofessional collaboration among students that encourages work across schools, across degrees, across disciplines (nursing, health professions, engineering, computer sciences, etc)
9. no more than two Universities can work together.

Abstract must be submitted in English. Presentations at NI2016 can be presented in English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese or Mandarin Chinese. For more information for translation services, please contact the NI2016 at http://ni2016.org/submission/

Deadline for submission: April 1, 2015

Descriptions are also available here in English, French, German and Spanish.