Nursing and the Informatics Agenda: Sheffield UK Symposium, 06 March 2012

A symposium titled “Nursing and the Information Agenda” will be held on Tuesday, 6 March 2012 at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK.

This symposium brings together key speakers, including Peter Murray, CEO, International Medical Informatics Association; Richard Hayward, health executive, British Computer Society; Jane Smith, national clinical lead for nursing, Department of Health; Paula Procter, reader in informatics and telematics in nursing, Sheffield Hallam University, to consider

• the changing environment in which nurses work
• the role of ICT in providing better patient care, and
• the implications for higher education institutions offering healthcare programmes.

The UK government has recently announced a new drive to free up nurses to provide better patient care. Nurses’ working environments are increasingly information intensive, so in order to allow more time for patient care, better ways of managing information must be found. Information and communications technologies (ICT) can help determine more efficient ways of collecting and synthesising health data, ensure this information is available in a timely fashion, and also free up nurses to focus more on patient care. However, in order to derive the benefits, nurses must be equipped with the knowledge and skills to use such ICT competently. This poses new challenges for higher education institutions who are charged with developing practice-ready nurses.

Paula will give an overview of Sheffield Hallam’s response to providing education that meets these changing needs through Systems of eCare – http://www.shu.ac.uk/business/work-with-us/ecare-module  – an online module that is currently available to over 2,000 undergraduate students at the University

This event is free, but places are limited. Full details, and booking form, are on the website at http://www.shu.ac.uk/ad/hwb/nursingsymposium/ so those interested are encouraged to book early to avoid disappointment. The event is on 06 March, 12:30–3:30pm
 at Room 5541, Howard Building, Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus.

REMINDER: MIE2012 – Papers/Posters Submission Closes 30 January

We wish to remind colleagues that the submission deadline for full papers and posters for MIE2012 closes 23:59 UTC on January 30, 2012. Information is on the MIE2012 website at www.mie2012.it on how to submit and links to the submission website.

MIE2012, the XXIV Conference of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI), will be held in Pisa, Italy. MIE2012 will be organised by the Italian Association for Medical Informatics (AIIM), the Italian eHealth Community, and EFMI and held from August 26th to 29th, 2012.

The theme is “Quality of Life through Quality of Information”, offering the challenge to contributors to share experiences in the field of Medical and Health Informatics.

The Call for Papers and other forms of contribution – is available on the MIE2012 website (http://www.mie2012.it/)

Important dates and Deadlines

Contributions can be submitted until the deadline stated for each submission type:

January 30, 2012: Submission deadline for full papers and posters
March 1, 2012: Submission deadline for panels, workshops, short communications, tutorials
March 27, 2012: Notification of results of reviews for full papers, posters, panels, workshops, short communications, and tutorials
April 15, 2012: Submission deadline for “Village of the future” proposals

electronic Journal of Health Informatics (eJHI): Vol 7, No 1 (2012): Special Issue on HIC 2010

The electronic Journal of Health Informatics (eJHI) has just published its latest issue, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2012), Special Issue on HIC 2010, at http://www.ejhi.net/ojs/index.php/ejhi/issue/view/15

This Special Issue of elected proceedings of the 2010 Australian Health Informatics Conference is guest-edited by David Hansen, David Rowlands and Louise Schaper

Table of Contents

Editorial
Informing the Business of Healthcare – Selected Proceedings of the 2010 Health Informatics Conference
David Hansen, David Rowlands, Louise Schaper

Special Issue Papers

The Quality of Routinely Collected Data: Using the “Principal Diagnosis” in Emergency Department Databases as an Example
Siaw-Teng Liaw, Huei-Yang Chen, Della Maneze, Jane Taggart, Sarah Dennis, Sanjyot Vagholkar, Jeremy Bunker

Impact of a Clinical Information System on Multitasking in Two Intensive Care Units
Mark Ballermann, Nicola T Shaw, Damon C Mayes, R T Noel Gibney

Assessment of Software Maintainability of openEHR Based Health Information Systems – A Case Study In Endoscopy
Koray Atalag, Hong Yul Yang, Jim Warren

Mobile Digital Breast Screening: An Evaluation of the Queensland Experience
Bob Russell, Alan David Taylor

“Right at a Click of a Button”: A Qualitative Analysis of Emergency Department Nurses’ Perceptions of the Effects of an Integrated Clinical Information System
Nerida Creswick, Joanne Callen, Julie Li, Andrew Georgiou, Grant Isedale, Louise Robertson, Richard Paoloni, Johanna I Westbrook

Helping Clinicians Identify the Clinical Utility of Genetic Tests
Yulong Gu, Jim Warren, Karen Day

Using Virtual Worlds to Train Healthcare Workers – A Case Study Using Second Life to Improve the Safety of Inpatient Transfers
Ann Merete Duedal Jensen, Merete Martlev Jensen, Anne Sofie Korsager, Mei-sing Ong, Farah Magrabi, Enrico Coiera

Structured Pathology Reporting for Cancer from Free Text: Lung Cancer Case Study
Anthony Nguyen, Michael Lawley, David Hansen, Shoni Colquist

Agreeing on Meaning: A Fundamental of Sharing Health Information
Michael John Lawley, David Hansen, Madonna Kemp, Deanne Vickers

Papers

Improving Informal Caregiver Engagement with a Patient Web Portal
Steven Davis, Michelle Pigford, Jeremy Rich

Further information about eJHI is available from the website, or from Sebastian Garde, Managing Editor (managing-editor@ejhi.net) and  Evelyn Hovenga, Chief Editor (chief-editor@ejhi.net).

The electronic Journal of Health Informatics (eJHI) is an international journal committed to scholarly excellence and dedicated to the advancement of Health Informatics and information technology in healthcare. It is a journal for all health professions and informaticians of all levels. eJHI aims to publish original, high quality papers related to Health Informatics and health informatics technology in a timely fashion. It aims to provide health care workers with a readily accessible, electronic vehicle for sharing information about research, knowledge, experiences, perceptions and wisdom with colleagues involved in all facets of health informatics and health information technology.

eJHI is the official journal of the Health Informatics Society Australia (HISA) and the Australasian College of Health Informatics (ACHI).

HC2012 Health Informatics Congress: London, 2-3 May, 2012

The HC2012 Health Informatics Congress will be held on 2-3 May, 2012 at the Design Business Centre, 52 Upper Street, Islington, London, UK. Information about the event is available on the website at http://hc2012.bcs.org and tickets can be booked (registration required) through the website.

HC has been the leading health informatics themed event for the UK and Europe for over 28 years. It aims to inform and educate practitioners and users. Organised and hosted by the BCS Health Executive of The Chartered Institute for IT (the UK’s IMIA Member Society), HC2012 is being held in partnership with The Guardian newspaper, and the event combines the strengths of two previous events, Healthcare Computing and Smart Healthcare Live into one.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Michael White, Assistant Editor of the Guardian
• Jim Easton, NHS Director for Improvement and Efficiency
• Mike Farrar, Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation
• Tim Straughan, Chief Executive of the NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care
• Susan Hamer, National Director of Nursing, Midwifery and the Allied Health Professions, The Clinical Division: Department of Health Informatics Directorate.

Summer School on Modern Methods in Biostatistics and Epidemiology: Italy, June 2012

The 2012 Edition of the Summer School on Modern Methods in Biostatistics and Epidemiology (http://www.biostatepi.org) will be held on 03 – 23 June,  2012 at Castello Brandolini Colomban, Cison di Valmarino, Treviso, Italy

The School aims to provide introductory and advanced courses in medical statistics and epidemiology, and their application in etiology research and public health. The School is aimed at physicians, clinicians and public health professionals from public and private institutions who are looking for systematic training in the principles of epidemiology and biostatistics, or epidemiology applied to health care planning and evaluation. They will acquire familiarity with epidemiological and biostatistical principles and techniques and with the computational tools needed to solve practical problems.

Courses last a week (except for Stata courses, which last a day.) Students can attend for a day, one, two or three weeks. The faculty teaching the courses come from several US and European institutions, including several from the Harvard School of Public Health and Karolinska Institutet.

In addition, both introductory and more advanced one-day courses on Stata will be offered. All courses will be using Stata.

Funding is kindly provided by Bocconi University and ARCO. Limited student tuition scholarships are available; all queries should be addressed to the Summer School organisers, not to IMIA.

Please visit the course homepage for more information about the course: http://www.biostatepi.org or send an email to bioepiedu@ki.se

Enrollment application forms and other contact and query information is on the Summer School website at http://www.biostatepi.org/general_info.htm

eHealth2012: Vienna, Austria. Submission Deadline Now 25 January

The submission deadline for eHealth 2012 has been extended to 25 January, 2012.

The eHealth 2012 (www.ehealth2012.at) conference will take place in Wien (Vienna), Austria, on 10-11 May, 2012.

The topic/theme of eHealth2012 is: Mobile Health & Care: Health Care everywhere. This event is organised by, among others, IMIA’s Member Society in Austria, the Working Group Medical Informatics and eHealth of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) and the Austrian Society for Biomedical Engineering (ÖGBMT) (http://iig.umit.at/akmi/akmi.htm). IMIA is a supporting partner in the event. The eHealth2012 conference connects, in particular, researchers from Austria, Germany and Switzerland in discussing the application of eHealth technologies in health care.

Full information will be on the conference website (mainly in German – although ‘Google Translate’ works well on it). The official conference language is German, but contributions can also be submitted and presented in English. Topics comprise, among others: ambient assisted living, electronic health records, health information systems, information security, quality and certification.

PervaSense Workshop; IMIA ‘Wearable Sensors’ WG Activity

The IMIA Working Group “Wearable sensors in healthcare” (http://www.wearable-sensors.org) will co-host the 4th international workshop PervaSense “Situation recognition and medical data analysis in Pervasive Health environments” (PERVASENSE2012, http://www.pervasense.org), reports Prof. Dr. med. Dr.-Ing. Michael Marschollek, Working Group chair.

It will be held in San Diego, USA on May 21, 2012,  in conjunction with the 6th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing
Technologies for Healthcare 2012 (Pervasive Health). The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2012.

The Call for Papers (download, 98kb PDF) is available, and information is on the workshop website.

In recent years, pervasive systems in healthcare have reached a high degree of maturity. However, the interpretation of large amounts of medical sensor data with regard to a person’s individual situation still remains a great challenge for the research community. Advanced medical data analysis is one important prerequisite for providing individualized health services in Pervasive Health or Ambient Assisted Living environments. Situation recognition, in turn, is a key factor for individualization and adaptivity.

The aim of this workshop is to attract the presentation of state-of-the-art research in the three areas of situation recognition (i.e., detection of falls, Activities of Daily Living, contextaware situation recognition), medical data analysis (vital signs data analysis, short- and longterm deviations in the state of health, decision support), and behavior monitoring (trend analysis for the detection of long-term deviations in a person’s behavior for detecting age-related diseases such as dementia) in Pervasive Health or Ambient Assisted Living environments.

Gartner Research Seeking Research Director in Healthcare Information Technology, Europe

Gartner Research (http://www.gartner.com/technology/home.jsp) is currently seeking to recruit a Research Director specializing in Healthcare Information Technology, specifically on the provider side in the areas of medical/clinical informatics, telemedicine and electronic medical records. They are looking for someone with 10+ years of experience, who is an expert in this area and who can write detailed research papers, consult with and make strategic recommendations/presentations to clients and serve as a keynote speaker at industry functions internationally.

This position can be based anywhere in Europe, and will involve working virtually, covering the European Healthcare Provider market.

As a Research Director, the candidate will collaborate with other team members to identify and research areas and topics of significant research interest and need in the Healthcare provider industry. The selected candidate will advise Gartner clients on a wide variety of technical and management issues. This individual must be familiar with the processes, drivers and challenges to Provider application strategy, and the activity cycles surrounding the deployment and implementation of technologies supporting this community. The ideal candidate will also be knowledgeable about global EHR initiatives and BPO applications including the features that distinguish one from another and the challenges of deploying them. The analyst will have reasonably strong technical skills, but must also be able to address some of the management and political challenges within Healthcare. The candidate must be willing to travel and address client inquiries across many time zones.

All questions should be directed to:

Jon Dietrich
Recruiting Relationship Manager
Gartner
1-203-316-6595 (USA)
jon.dietrich[at]gartner.com

The full job description and person specification is downloadable (PDF file,  66kb)  and on the Gartner website.

International Journal of Medical Informatics: Volume 81, Issue 2 (February 2012) eTOC

International Journal of Medical Informatics is an official journal of IMIA.

Volume 81, Issue 2, Pages 73-142 (February 2012)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13865056

1. Editorial Board
Page i

2. Healthcare professionals’ adoption and use of a clinical information system (CIS) in primary care: Insights from the Da Vinci study
Original Research Article
Pages 73-87
Isabelle Vedel, Liette Lapointe, Marie-Thérèse Lussier, Claude Richard, Johanne Goudreau, Lyne Lalonde, Alain Turcotte

3. Do hospital physicians’ attitudes change during PACS implementation? A cross-sectional acceptance study
Original Research Article
Pages 88-97
Bram Pynoo, Pieter Devolder, Wouter Duyck, Johan van Braak, Bart Sijnave, Philippe Duyc

4. Physicians’ experiences of participation in healthcare IT development in Finland: Willing but not able
Original Research Article
Pages 98-113
Susanna Martikainen, Johanna Viitanen, Mikko Korpela, Tinja Lääveri

5. Preparing the ground for the ‘paperless hospital’: A case study of medical records management in a UK outpatient services department
Original Research Article
Pages 114-129
Patrick Waterson, Yolande Glenn, Ken Eason

6. Understanding physicians’ acceptance of the Medline system for practicing evidence-based medicine: A decomposed TPB model
Original Research Article
Pages 130-142
Shin-Yuan Hung, Yi-Cheng Ku, Jui-Chi Chien

Use the following URL to subscribe to the International Journal of Medical Informatics ‘New article’ feed in your RSS reader:
http://rss.sciencedirect.com/publication/science/5066

NI2012 Congress Preview Available, Registration Open

The Congress Preview document is now available for NI2012, the 11th International Congress on Nursing Informatics, to be held in Montreal, Canada on June 23-27. The Congress Preview (PDF document available here or directly at the NI2012 website – 2MB file) contains information on the conference schedule, keynote speakers, tutorials and panel highlights, pre-Congress tours and optional events, and registration. Paper copies of the document will be available at the AMIA and IMIA booths at HIMSS12 for those attending.

The NI2012 website also features video interviews with NI2012 Chair Dr Patricia Abbott, and with Dr Carol Hullin (in Spanish).

Registration and hotel booking are both open via the NI2012 website – www.ni2012.org -  and Advance Congress Registration rates are available up to May 17 (but we advise early booking).