Joan Edgecumbe Scholarship; HISA Apps Challenge

HISA (Health Informatics Society of Australia – www.hisa.org.au) is proud to introduce the Joan Edgecumbe Continued Professional Development Scholarship into their repertoire of annual Awards and scholarships. See full information on the HISA website: http://www.hisa.org.au/?page=edu_joan

This scholarship is in recognition of the continued service and passion to the health informatics sector by Mrs. Joan Edgecumbe. Joan is one of HISA’s founding members and over HISA’s 20 year history has occupied the role of Executive Officer, committee member and Board member, until her retirement in 2011. The Joan Edgecumbe Scholarship is designed to encourage undergraduate, graduate certificate, diploma, masters and PhD students who demonstrate commitment and promise in the field of health informatics to attend the annual Health Informatics Conference 2013.

To be considered for the Joan Edgecumbe Continuing Professional Development Scholarship, please fill out the form on http://www.hisa.org.au/?page=edu_joan Please note that this scholarship is only available to HISA members. Application close on 31 May.

HISA Apps Challenge 2013: HISA’s Health Apps Challenge invites budding app developers to come up with an idea for an app to assist and improve health and health outcomes. Participants are required to design* an innovative e-health related mobile application that facilitates and improves the way individuals experience or receive healthcare or access and use information that can improve health outcomes.

This year participants may enter an app that addresses any healthcare topic, but we encourage you to consider focusing on one of the following four areas, in keeping with the themes of HIC 2013:

• Mental health
• Oncology
• Indigenous health
• Chronic disease management

Full information is at http://www.hisa.org.au/?page=app_challenge_2013 Monday 3 June – Submission deadline (9.00 AM EST)

* Applicants to HISA’s Health Apps Challenge 2013 are not required to actually develop their app prior to entry in the competition. Submissions involve a video presentation of the app concept.

HINZ 2013 Conference: 27-29 November, Rotorua

The 12th Annual Conference and Health Innovation Marketplace (HINZ 2013 Conference), will be held on 27-29 November 2013, in Rotorua, New Zealand with the theme “Engaged Patients: Rebalancing the clinical relationship“.  Full information will be updated on the HINZ website, via http://www.hinz.org.nz

HINZ is also on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/HINZ/183692571666936 and Twitter: https://twitter.com/hinz_nz

HIC 2013 Conference (Adelaide, Australia) – Early Bird Rate Closes 20 May

HIC 2013, Australia’s Health Informatics Conference, organised by the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA), will be held from 15 July – 18 July 2013 in Adelaide at the Adelaide Convention Centre, with the primary theme of Digital Health Service Delivery – The Future Is Now! See full information on the event, including registration, at http://www.hisa.org.au/page/hic2013

HIC 2013 registration is open – the early bird rate closes on 20 May.

Major Events for 2014: NI2014 and MIE2014

Initial announcements have been made about two important events on the global health, nursing and biomedical informatics calendar for 2014. Further information will be given soon on important timelines, so please keep an eye on the relevant websites; IMIA will also be helping to promote both events.

NI2014 – the 12th International Congress of Nursing Informatics will take place in Taipei (at the Taipei International Convention Center, near to the famous Taipei 101) on 21-25 June, 2014. Initial information is available on the conference website – see http://www.ni2014.org We encourage all nursing and nursing informatics colleagues (and others) to participate.

MIE2014 – the 25th European Medical Informatics Conference – will be held in Istanbul on 31 August – 03 September, 2014. Information will be available on the conference website at http://www.mie2014.org and on the EFMI web portal at http://www.efmi.org We look forward to seeing many colleagues from Europe and further afield at this event.

APAMI 2014 Conference Bids Open

Prof. Michio Kimura (Hamamatsu University, Japan), current President of APAMI, the Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (www.apami.org), is pleased to announce that the Call for Bids for the APAMI 2014 conference is now open. Completed bids should be sent to APAMI Secretary John Chiang (email: ijchiang[at]gmail.com) by September 10, 2012.

The APAMI conference will, in future, be held in alternate years to Medinfo (ie, 2012, 2014, 2016, etc). It can be in spring, summer, or fall. Bids must be from IMIA Member Society, and must include: official letter of IMIA Member Society to show the intention to host; theme explanations; venue and dates explanations, financial estimates. The host country/region has to agree to pay 10,000USD or 10% of the revenue of the conference (whichever higher) to APAMI after the conclusion of the the conference.

The final decision will be made at the APAMI GA in Beijing, which will be held at the APAMI 2012 conference, 22-25 October (see http://www.apami2012.org/?mod=en)

APAMI-2012 – 7th Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics Conference – Call for Papers Extended to 10 July

UPDATE: The deadline for paper submissions has been extended to 10 JULY.

The 7th Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics Conference (APAMI-2012) will be held at the Crowne Plaza Beijing Sun Palace, Beijing, China on October 22-25, 2012.

The Call for Papers is now open – closing date for submission of FULL PAPERS is July 10, 2012. Call for Papers (English – document, 20kb) The Call for Papers is also available online (in English) at http://www.apami2012.org/lunwen.php?mod=en

Further information on APAMI-2012 can be obtained from the conference web site: http://www.apami2012.org (Chinese version) or  http://www.apami2012.org/index.php?mod=en (English version).

Submission: Papers must be submitted through ‘easychair’ online. The program committee and submission web page is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apami2012
Inquiry Contact: Lucy Zhang
Tel: 861068278214
Email: yzha0943[at]gmail.com

The theme of the event is “New situation, New technology and New opportunity”, with the emphasis on using information technology to improve healthcare services. October is the most comfortable time of the year in Beijing. The organisers warmly welcome you to attend this event and make it a complete success.

IMIA members should note that the IMIA Board and General Assembly meetings will be held in conjunction with APAMI-2012.

Indian Association for Medical Informatics (IAMI): Discussion Lists Changes

The Indian Association for Medical Informatics (IAMI – http://www.iami.org.in) has been running online discussion groups since 2001. These have been within an open forum, with many IAMI members, as well as non members from India and across the globe, involved. Over the years, many issues pertaining to healthcare informatics have been discussed by the members with an average of 2 to 6 mails in a day. The method followed is to allow any member to open a topic based on a recent news item report or as a topic of the month session. Interested members reply and an attempt is made to reach a consensus.

Issues discussed in the last few months include ehealth, ICD10, Adoption of IPads in the healthcare setting, Swasthya tablet (a new low cost Tablet PC for healthcare workers in India). Recent invited topics of the month included – Healthcare IT (Status) in India, Journals (how to publish and relevance of open source publishing) etc. Language of our discussions is English.

Of the discussion groups/lists maintained in recent years, iami_gen[at]googlegroups.com is currently the most prominent, especially in international circles. However, iami[at]yahoogroups.com is bigger, with many more non-members including some prominent government functionaries There are others created for specific purposes. Since many members were common and mails were being shared, the discussion threads had started getting confusing. Sometimes many copies of the same mail as well as there was a possibility of some members not receiving an important reply.

It has been decided by the IAMI General Body, which met in February 2012, that the discussion groups need to be consolidated. As per consensus, all members of iami_gen[at]googlegroups.com will be transferred to iami[at]yahoogroups.com and activity of the former will be phased out soon. Ownership of this group will reside with the Current President and Secretary, who will decide the moderation rules.

IAMI invites IMIA members to join our new official discussion group, i.e. iami[at]yahoogroups.com. For membership, send a blank email to iami-subscribe[at]yahoogroups.com from the email address which they wish to use. If any member is already receiving mails from iami_gen[at]googlegroups.com, he/she is informed that the name shall automatically be transferred to the new official group i.e. iami[at]yahoogroups.com Most of the members of iami_gen  group have been transferred to iami[at]yahoogroups.com already and the remaining are being transferred.

IAMI is an IMIA Member Society.

UPDATE: 7th Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics Conference (APAMI-2012) – Call for Papers

The 7th Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics Conference (APAMI-2012) will be held at the Crowne Plaza Beijing Sun Palace, Beijing, China on October 22-25, 2012.

The Call for Papers is now open – closing date for submission of FULL PAPERS is June 10, 2012. Call for Papers (English – document, 20kb)

Submission: Papers must be submitted through ‘easychair’ online. The program committee and submission web page is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apami2012
Inquiry Contact: Lucy Zhang
Tel: 861068278214
Email: yzha0943@gmail.com

The theme of the event is “New situation, New technology and New opportunity”, with the emphasis on using information technology to improve healthcare services. October is the most comfortable time of the year in Beijing. The organisers warmly welcome you to attend this event and make it a complete success. Further information on APAMI-2012 can be obtained from the conference web site: http://www.apami2012.org (currently Chinese only, English version available soon – see Google Translate English version)

IMIA members should note that the IMIA Board and General Assembly meetings will be held in conjunction with APAMI-2012.

HIC 2012 (Sydney, Australia) – Call for Submissions Closes February 23

The Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA – http://www.hisa.org.au) is pleased to announce their Call for Submissions for HIC 2012, Australia’s Health Informatics Conference, to be held from 30 July – 2 August 2012 at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre. Full information on the Call is at http://www.hisa.org.au/hic2012 – the deadline for paper submissions is 23 February, 2012.

Prof Anthony Maeder and Prof Fernando Martin-Sanchez (IMIA VP Membership) are the Joint Chairs of the HIC 2012 Scientific Program Committee.

The primary theme of the event is Health Informatics – Building a Healthcare Future through Trusted Information, and HIC2012 will focus on consumers, practitioners, researchers and industry. HIC 2012 has three categories of submission:
1. Scientific Papers (full papers, 4-6 pages, 2000-3000 words)
2. Structured industry case studies (600 word overview)
3. Workshops (600 word submission).

HIMSS AsiaPac12 Call for Papers: Closes 31 January, 2012

The HIMSS AsiaPac12 Health IT Conference will be held on 17-19 September, 2012 in Singapore   HIMSS AsiaPac 12 is calling for submissions to present papers on IT development in the Asia Pacific regions. Proposals are sought from top industry leaders and experts that will specifically address the educational needs of professionals in various sectors of healthcare, regarding enterprise solutions and practical approaches to today’s healthcare IT issues. Information is available at the HIMSS AsiaPac12 website.

Closing Deadline: Tuesday, 31 January 2012 – follow link to submission site >>>

Topics should stimulate discussions and offer practical information and solutions, including a case study. It should represent the diverse healthcare needs in Asia Pacific. The event will feature “Four Conferences in One”, with topic categories including:

• HIT X.0 -  for healthcare IT leaders who want to be on the forefront of innovative ideas, gain exposure to cutting-edge scientific advances, and explore emerging technologies for the future of patient care.
• mHIMSS (Mobile Health) – sessions will explore, examine, and debate the ways mobile technology will transform health care delivery, research, business and policy for the 21st Century in healthcare delivery.
• Home Care (Chronic Disease Management and Independent Living for the Aged) – exploring the support of patients with chronic diseases to take an active role in their own care and of health professionals to better assist their patients in managing their illness. This track also provides a global, cross cultural understanding of the reality of ageing in countries undergoing marked demographic changes, and the myriad social and cultural differences in people’s experiences of ageing and health.
• Standards and Interoperability – this track will provide opportunities to learn more about standards and interoperability as industry thought leaders, health IT developers and clinician end-users converge and share their rich experiences and knowledge to these important issues during the sessions.

If you have any question regarding HIMSS AsiaPac 2012 submissions, please contact amak@himss.org, Education Manager for HIMSS Asia Pacific.