More Events for the Merry Month of May

At least three important events take place in May, 2013 – two in Canada, one in Austria. We hope that many IMIA colleagues will be able to participate in and support at least one of them (we know not everyone can get to every event), and we wish the organisers every success.

The 17th IFHIMA (International Federation of Health Information Management Associations) Congress will be held on May 13-15, 2013, in Montréal, Québec, Canada. See www.ifhimacongress2013.com The venue will be the Palais des congrès de Montréal, located in the heart of downtown Montréal. CHIMA (Canadian Health Information Management Association – http://www.echima.ca) will be hosting the event, and the Canadian Nursing Informatics Association (CNIA – www.cnia.ca) is also partnering in the event. Those not able to attend can follow the event on Twitter – http://twitter.com/IFHIMA2013
IFHIMA (http://www.ifhima.org) is an Affiliate Member of IMIA, and IMIA is pleased to be able to participate in the IFHIMA General Assembly meeting to be held on 12 May in conjunction with the Congress.

COACH (Canada’s Health Informatics Association – www.coachorg.com) will be holding their annual e-Health conference in Ottawa, Canada on 26-29 May (venue the Ottawa Convention Centre). The theme is Accelerating Change, and full details are at www.e-healthconference.com There is a conference blog at www.e-healthconference.com/blog In addition to pre-conference workshops, there will also be the Canadian Telehealth Forum, and plenary sessions on ‘Big Data and Quality in Healthcare’ and ‘The Consumerization of e-Health’. COACH is an IMIA Member Society.

eHealth 2013 (not to be confused by COACH’s similarly named event) will take place in Vienna, Austria on 23-24 May, 2013. It is the annual event of IMIA Member Society, the Working Group Medical Informatics and eHealth of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) and the Austrian Society for Biomedical Engineering (ÖGBMT) (Arbeitskreis Medizinische Informatik (AKMI) der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Biomedizinische Technik (ÖGBMT) und der Österreichischen Computergesellschaft (OCG)  ). Full information is on the website at http://www.ehealthsummit.at/Konferenz You can also follow on Twitter at http://twitter.com/eHealthSummitAT

Medinfo2013 – Early Bird Rate Deadline Extended to 26 April

The early bird registration rate for Medinfo2013 has been extended to April 26th (23:59 UTC).

Register now to save money -see www.medinfo2013.dk

eHealth Week 2013: New Technologies, New Ideas, New Opportunities

eHealth Week 2013 (May 13 – 15) will be held at the Convention Centre Dublin, and bring together global decision makers from European public and private healthcare, to join High Level European Ministers and EU Commissioners and over 2,500 international delegates and 100 exhibitors. eHealth Week is co-organised by the European Commission, the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union and HIMSS Europe.

Working with the European Commission, the Irish Department of Health, the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the ECH Alliance, the theme of this year’s event will focus on delivering innovation and well-being. eHealth Week will show the importance of cooperation, communication and Connected Health best-practice.

Full information on the event is available at http://worldofhealthit.org/2013/ – or in the pre-conference brochure. There is also a YouTube video about the event – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EGlrWmQUrQ and the LinkedIn group for discussions at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4807288

The programme is available at http://worldofhealthit.org/2013/education/programme-at-a-glance

The latest media release provides updated information. More information and the programme at www.ehealthweek.org Twitter: @EU_eHealthweek, #eHW13 Facebook  Press Contact: Russell Cooley Tel: 00 353 1 237 7713 Email: russell@ics.ie

HISI (Health Informatics Society of Ireland – www.hisi.ie), IMIA’s Member Society in Ireland, is pleased to be an active partner in eHealth week – especially as it is during the period of the Irish Presidency.

IMIA is pleased to be a Supporting Partner (http://worldofhealthit.org/2013/supporting-partners/).

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.

April Events Highlights – MEAHI and EFMI Conferences

Two important regional conferences take place in April, 2013 – the 4th Middle East Conference on Healthcare Informatics, to be held in Dubai, UAE on 22-24 April – and the EFMI Special Topic Conference (STC), to be held in Prague, Czech Republic, on 17-19 April. Please watch for further updates here, or on the event websites, as they draw closer. We encourage colleagues to attend these events.

The 4th Middle East Conference on Healthcare Informatics – Dubai, UAE: The conference theme is “Applied Health Informatics: A Regional Trend or a Priority?” and this event will be held on 22 – 24 April 2013 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The event is being organised by the Middle East Association for Health Informatics (MEAHI – www.meahi.org), which brings together IMIA members in the region. In addition to the conference itself, which features keynote talks, peer-reviewed papers, workshops and other activity, there will be the MEAHI General Assembly meeting and the launch of the MEAHI Nursing Informatics group. Registration for the event is still open.

Information on the conference and associated activities is on the MEAHI website, and there will be important updates in the next week or two. A Facebook event page is available at https://www.facebook.com/events/236490406484455/

UPDATE, 15 APRIL: The MEAHI General Assembly meeting will be held on 23 April (4.20-6pm) at the Crowne Plaza Deira Hotel, Dubai, UAE. The conference programme is available on the MEAHI website – http://www.meahi.org/#!conference-program/clhv

The EFMI STC 2013 – Prague, Czech Republic: The Czech Society of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Informatics and the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI) are pleased to invite you to participate in the next EFMI Special Topic Conference (STC) “Data and Knowledge for Medical Decision Support”. It will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, on April 17 – 19, 2013. Keynote speakers are Prof. Marion Ball and Prof. Jan van Bemmel.

Conference registration is open, and the preliminary programme is available on the conference website – see http://www.stc2013.org

eHealth Week 2013 (May 13 – 15) in Dublin, Ireland

eHealth Week 2013 (May 13 – 15) will be held at the Convention Centre Dublin, and bring together global decision makers from European public and private healthcare, to join High Level European Ministers and EU Commissioners and over 2,500 international delegates and 100 exhibitors. eHealth Week is co-organised by the European Commission, the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union and HIMSS Europe.

UPDATE (27 March): early bird registration rate closes on 01 April – see http://worldofhealthit.org/2013/registration

Full information on the event is available at http://worldofhealthit.org/2013/ – or in the pre-conference brochure. There is also a YouTube video about the event – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EGlrWmQUrQ and the LinkedIn group for discussions at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4807288

The programme is available at http://worldofhealthit.org/2013/education/programme-at-a-glance

The Irish Department of Health will host several Presidency events attended by EU Commissioners and officials, Ministers of Health and government officials from Member States, Accession, Candidate and EFTA countries. Department of Health tracks, open to all eHealth Week attendees, will feature discussion on the high economic and societal value of eHealth, reforming health systems, business modelling in the “ecosystem”, empowering patients, legal issues and education and skills to support eHealth deployment and implementation. Further detail on other sessions (including WoHIT sessions, European Innovation Partnership, and the mhealth Symposium) is in the recent media release, and on the event website.

HISI (Health Informatics Society of Ireland – www.hisi.ie), IMIA’s Member Society in Ireland, is pleased to be an active partner in eHealth week – especially as it is during the period of the Irish Presidency.

IMIA is pleased to be a Supporting Partner (http://worldofhealthit.org/2013/supporting-partners/).

GMDS 2013 Conference – Lubeck, Germany; 01-05 September

The 58th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Medical Computer Science, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS) eV  will be held on 01 – 05 September 2013 in Lübeck, Germany. The focus of the conference will be on the methodological and applied research in medical computer science, Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Medical Documentation. The theme of GMDS Annual Meeting 2013 is: “In Focus life – Interdisciplinary research for patient care in the future.”

Full information (in German) is at http://www.gmds2013.de/ The submission deadline (except for workshops) has been extended to 15 April, 2013, and full Call details are on the website. (Google Translate English version >>)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (GMDS) e.V. (the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology – GMDS) is an IMIA Member Society, and we are pleased to help publicise and support the event.

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,
sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

sehr herzlich laden wir Sie vom 01. bis 05. September 2013 zur 58. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (GMDS) e.V. nach Lübeck ein. Im Mittelpunkt der Tagung steht die methodische und anwendungsorientierte Forschung in der Medizinischen Informatik, Biometrie, Epidemiologie sowie der Medizinischen Dokumentation. Das Leitthema der GMDS-Jahrestagung 2013 lautet: „Im Focus das Leben – Interdisziplinäre Forschung für die Patientenversorgung der Zukunft“.

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2013) and Doctoral Consortium

The 14th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2013) and the 5th Doctoral Consortium for the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME) will be held in Murcia, Spain. Information on all activities is available at http://www.aimedicine.info/aime13/

Deadline for submission for the doctoral consortium: February 18, 2013. Submissions should be sent by email to nada.lavrac[at]ijs.si

May 29, 2013: Doctoral symposium and tutorials
May 30-31, 2013: Main conference programme
June 1, 2013: Workshops

Full details on the doctoral consortium, and how to submit, are at http://www.aimedicine.info/aime13/dc.html

Health Informatics Scotland 2013 – CFP Closes 15 May

The Health Informatics Scotland (HIS’13) conference is a leading annual conference and exhibition held to showcase the latest advances in the field of health informatics. Following the introduction of a very successful research stream in 2012, submissions are invited for: Research Papers; Presentations; Posters; Workshop Proposals. This event will be held on 18-19 September, 2013 at the Edinburgh Conference Centre, Riccarton Campus, Edinburgh, Scotland.

The four themes for 2013 are:

• “eHealth Closing the Loop! Connecting and Communicating information between secondary & primary; health & social care; NHS & Patient.”
• “Nursing Impact on eHealth: a stream jointly run with BCS Nursing Group and Royal College of Nursing eHealth Group”
• “Current Research in Health Informatics: a stream jointly run by the major universities in Scotland”
• “A Scottish Jam/Hack/Camp Un-Conference with a mobile ‘App’ development theme. Participate and make up your own agenda as the event rolls on.”

In addition, the event:

• will be hosting the first “Derek Hoy Memorial Lecture”
• will also hold the NHS Scotland eHealth Awards
• on behalf of the BCS Nursing group we will be awarding the Dame Phyllis Friend Award to a UK nurse involved in innovative informatics or eHealth work.

Submission deadlines:

• 15^th May 2013: Submission deadline for research papers (papers up to 5 pages) or presentations (2 page abstract) or workshop proposals (up to 2 page description).
• 30^th June 2013: Submission deadline for posters (1 page abstract).

For further information, please visit:

http://www.hiscotland.info (HIS’13 Conference)
http://www.hisresearch.info (Call for Papers)

UPDATE: Smartech4Health 2013: Submission Deadline Open to 21 February 2013

UPDATED 03 February:   The call for submissions for the Special Track “Emerging Smart Technologies for Individualised Healthcare” (Smartech4Health) of the CBMS 2013 symposium is open and the submission deadline has been extended to 21st February 2013.

Information about the event -  the 26th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS) to be held at University of Porto, Portugal on 20-22 June 2013 – is available at http://smartech4health.cs.ru.nl

Current technology and communication developments, and the increasing willingness of people to be involved in making decisions about their health or disease, have been paving the way for advances in the area of individualised healthcare. The uncertainty and complexity within this area require smart solutions and systems, which are capable to interpret context-specific information concerning the patient and his/her environment.

The Scientific Programme Committee of Smartech4Health 2013 invites computer scientists, clinical informaticists, researchers, engineers and practitioners to submit high quality contributions and innovations in the interdisciplinary area of smart technologies for individualised healthcare, covering but not limited to the topics of interest listed below:

• Intelligent care assistants with embedded individualised decision-support
• Context-aware monitoring devices, sensors and networking
• Home-based diagnosis and treatment support
• Utilisation of workflows for remote chronic disease management
• Advanced healthcare services
• Smart mobile health
• Intelligent approaches to healthcare delivery process
• Preventive and health screening services at distance
• Cloud-based/SOA technologies for individualised healthcare
• Individualised user interfaces, visualisation and patient-device interaction models
• Quality evaluation criteria and evidence-based frameworks

Deadline for submissions    February 21, 2013
Notification of acceptance     March 31, 2013
Camera-ready manuscripts          May 1, 2013
Smartech4Health (CBMS)       June 20-22, 2013

When submitting a paper to this track, please choose its title. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, published by IEEE.

For more information, please refer to the track website or contact the track organiser Marina Velikova (marinav[at]cs.ru.nl).