111 days to Medinfo2013 – Visa Letters and Other Issues

According to the IMIA office iPad, there are now just 111 days until the official opening of Medinfo2013 in Copenhagen, Denmark on 20 August, 2013.

The 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics – Medinfo2013 – will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is hosted by the Danish Society of Medical Informatics. We look forward to seeing as many colleagues as possible there, and encourage you to register as soon as possible and ‘spread the word’ among your friends, colleagues and organisations.

The LOC and PCO ask that we draw your attention to a couple of issues – making sure yo apply for visa letters if needed, and that if you wish a paper/hard copy of the proceedings, you will need to order it at additional cost. See the Medinfo2013 website for these updates and further updates in the coming weeks: http://www.medinfo2013.dk (we will also mirror updates here as quickly as possible).

Visa and Letter of invitation
Delegates from specific countries need a visa to visit Denmark. Please follow this link for further information and for the list of the countries from where you need a visa. (Please note that you cannot apply for a visa earlier than three months before expected date of departure from your home country). Link to Letter of Invitation.

Paper Copy of the Proceedings
IOS Press offers a paper copy of the Proceedings to conference participants for the discount price of Euros 99. Read more.

New Trends in Health Social Media: Hype or Evidence-based Medicine? (Medinfo Panel)

Members of the IMIA Social Media Working Group seek input and interaction form all those interested in addressing the title/topic of their Medinfo2013 panel – “New Trends in Health Social Media: Hype or Evidence-based Medicine?” Luis Fernandez-Luque, IMIA Social Media WG Secretary, writes:

In order to allow interaction with the health social media community we will post a series of blog entries about the different topics addressed in our panel. What do you think? Is Social media Hype or Evidence-based Medicine? Where do you think the research is going? What are your thoughts?
See the blog post on the SMWG site for further information: http://imiasocialmedia.wordpress.com/

The panel summary states: “The use of social media in the health domain is growing continuously in the terms of use and also complexity. This panel will provide and overview of the current situation and the challenges ahead. The presenters will provide an engaging discussion rooted in the evidence of the emerging field of Health Social Media. Among other topics the following aspects will be addressed: gamification, personalized medicine, patient safety and other topics that will be discussed in the panel.”

Panellists include heterogenous researchers from the WG:

• Luis Fernandez-Luque, MS (Norut, Tromsø, Norway);
• Annie Lau, PhD (Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia);
• Carol S Bond, Dr (Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, United Kingdom);
• Kerstin Denecke, PhD (University Medical Center of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany) ; and
• Fernando José Martín-Sanchez, Professor (Health and Biomedical Informatics Research Unit. The University of Melbourne, Australia).

Medinfo2013, the 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark on 20-23 August, 2013 – see www.medinfo2013.dk

Medinfo2013 – Registration Open, 131 Days To Opening Session

Medinfo2013, the 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark on 20-23 August, 2013 – see www.medinfo2013.dk

The Danish Society of Medical Informatics looks forward to hosting this premier international event for the world to meet and exchange knowledge on the important role of informatics in health care. The topic of Medinfo2013 will address the challenges we foresee to continue in:

Conducting medical informatics by
Converging technologies,
Conveying sciences and
Connecting people

Registration and hotel booking are open – see http://www.medinfo2013.dk/registration  and http://www.medinfo2013.dk/node/44

Early bird registration closes on 18 APRIL (note extended date).

IMIA General Assembly and Board members please note: the IMIA Board meets on 19 August; the IMIA General Assembly meets on 20 August.

Francophone SIG pre-symposium at Medinfo2013 (Session francophone d’informatique médicale)

The IMIA Francophone SIG is organising a French-speaking scientific track as a pre-symposium associated with the Medinfo2013 conference (www.medinfo2013.dk) on August 20th, 2013.

Further details of the Call for Submissions can be found below in French – and on the SIG website at http://francophonesig.imia.info/. The deadline for submission is April 5, 2013. The call spans the MEDINFO topics, with special emphasis on issues specific to Francophone countries or which involve the processing of French language.

Submission format uses the same stylesheet as MEDINFO.  Both long (5 pages) and short (2 pages, work in progress) papers are solicited. The paper submission URL is: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=frsigimia2013

The chair and vice chair of the SIG invite your submissions and participation:

Chair: Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI-CNRS, Université Paris Sud, France
Email: pz[at]limsi.fr
Vice chair: Cheikh Oumar Bagayoko, Bamako, Mali
Email: cob281[at]yahoo.fr

Deuxième appel à communications

SESSION FRANCOPHONE D’INFORMATIQUE MÉDICALE – http://francophonesig.imia.info/ – pré-symposium associé à la conférence MEDINFO Copenhague, Danemark – mardi 20 août 201

== DATES IMPORTANTES ==

5 avril 2013 : date limite de soumission des articles
2 mai 2013 : notification aux auteurs
21 mai 2013 : version finale

Questions sur la session et les soumissions : email frsigimia2013[at]easychair.org

== LE SIG FRANCOPHONE DE L’IMIA ==

Le tout nouveau SIG francophone de l’IMIA, groupe d’intérêt créé lors de l’Assemblée générale de septembre 2012 de l’Association internationale d’informatique médicale, organise une session scientifique en marge de la conférence MEDINFO.  Cette session d’une journée a pour but de permettre à la communauté francophone de l’informatique médicale de se réunir et de faire le point sur les travaux en cours. Les présentations et les articles seront en français, avec un titre et un résumé en français et en anglais.  Les articles retenus feront l’objet d’actes électroniques qui ne seront pas inclus dans ceux de MEDINFO ni indexés dans MEDLINE. La participation à la session se fera, sans surcoût, à travers l’inscription à la conférence MEDINFO.

Context Sensitive Health Informatics Pre-Medinfo2013 Conference: Submissions Now Due 08 February

Prof. Marie-Catherine Beuscart-Zéphir (Past Vice Chair), and Prof. Christian Nøhr (Chair of the IMIA Human Factors Engineering for Healthcare Informatics Working Group) wish to announce that the Call for Papers is available for the “Context Sensitive Health Informatics” event, a pre-Medinfo conference jointly organized/supported by several IMIA WG (Human Factors Engineering for Healthcare Informatics, Organizational and Social Issues, Health Informatics for Patient Safety).

The event will be held on 17 and 18 August, 2013 at the Danish Institute for Medical Simulation at Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Call for papers – deadline EXTENDED TO 08 FEBRUARY
Context Sensitive Health Informatics is about health information technologies and their environments. Environments may be people in different roles such as users, designers, and evaluators, but also nonhuman constructs such as organizations, work practices, guidelines and protocols, buildings and markets. We invite original contributions addressing the conference topic.

For more information about the conference and the call please see the conference web site:  www.cshi2013.org and the attached downloadable document: IMIA Context Sensitive Health Informatics Call for Papers

Submission of paper: 8 February 2013
Notification of acceptance: 2 April 2013
Submission of final papers: 22 April 2013

This is an official event of several IMIA WGs and is supported by IMIA, AMIA, EFMI and other organisations.

IMIA Award of Excellence 2013 – Nominations Invited

IMIA invites nominations for the fourth IMIA Award of Excellence, to be presented at Medinfo2013 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The closing date will be 10 March, 2013, and nominations must be received by the IMIA CEO (by email to imia[at]imia-services.org) by that date. Self-nominations will not be accepted.

The primary criterion for a potential recipient of the IMIA Award of Excellence is “an individual whose personal commitment and dedication to medical informatics has made a lasting contribution to medicine and healthcare through her or his achievements in research, education, development or application in the field of medical informatics.”

Nominations have no specific format, but must include sufficient information and supporting details about the nominee to both demonstrate how they meet the primary criterion and allow their nomination to be judged against others. They should contain, at a minimum:

• a one page summary of the nominee’s most important accomplishments/contributions;
• a current CV; and
• 2-3 letters of support from named referees, or nominator and seconders.

The IMIA Award of Excellence committee for 2013 (as approved by the 2012 IMIA GA meeting in Beijing):

• IMIA President Antoine Geissbuhler (chair, Switzerland)
• IMIA VP Medinfo Riccardo Bellazzi (Italy)
• R Brian Haynes (Canada)
• Hyeoun-Ae Park (South Korea)

The IMIA Award of Excellence Committee will consider nominations and make a recommendation on the Award winner(s), and submit this to the IMIA Board for ratification at its April 2013 meeting. The recommendation of the IMIA Board will be final. As part of the Award, IMIA will provide funding support to the recipient(s) to attend Medinfo2013 to receive the Award.

Any queries should be directed to imia[at]imia-services.org Further information about the history of the Award, and previous recipients, is at http://www.imia-medinfo.org/new2/node/35

UPDATE: Medinfo2013 Submission Deadlines; Reviewers Invited

SUBMISSION DEADLINES

***10 January 2013 for Panels, Tutorials, Workshops, Demo Proposals and Care for the World Proposal Submissions***

Papers, Student Papers, and Poster Submissions are now CLOSED.

CALL FOR REVIEWERS

Invitation and instructions – downloadable PDF file.

If you have previously been a reviewer, or been suggested by a member of the SPC, you should have recently received an invitation email to update your information. We encourage all colleagues to respond to the email – reviewing is an important element of the success and quality of Medinfo events. If you are not a reviewer, we encourage you sign up at https://medinfo2013.online-registry.net

Medinfo2013 SPC co-chairs Dominik Aronsky (Switzerland) and Tze-­Yun Leong (Singapore), together with IMIA VP Medinfo Riccardo Bellazzi (Italy) and the Danish LOC, encourage you to submit your work for Medinfo2013. Go directly to https://medinfo2013.online-registry.net or via the Medinfo2013 website – www.medinfo2013.dk

The Call for Submissions is also available as a downloadable PDF file.

All accepted papers will be OPEN ACCESS immediately and indexed in PubMed/Medline.

Please distribute this information widely among your friends and colleagues, consider submitting your work to Medinfo2013, and we look forward to seeing you in Copenhagen, Denmark in late August, 2013.

Instructions for authors in relation to the categories of submissions are available on the Medinfo2013 website – via http://www.medinfo2013.dk/node/13 We ask that you read the categories of submission carefully – especially new categories such as the ‘Care of the World mini-symposium’ – and make sure that you submit your work to the appropriate category.

We remind you to adhere as closely as possible to the submission formats – submissions that do not conform may be rejected without review.

Medinfo2013 – 10 December 2012 Close of Submissions for Papers, Student Papers, and Posters

As of today, 20 November 2012, there are just 20 days left to submit papers, student papers and posters for Medinfo2013.

All accepted papers will be OPEN ACCESS immediately and indexed in PubMed/Medline.

Medinfo2013 SPC co-chairs Dominik Aronsky (Switzerland) and Tze-­‐Yun Leong (Singapore), together with IMIA VP Medinfo Riccardo Bellazzi (Italy) and the Danish LOC, are pleased to announce that the submission system for Medinfo2013 is open. We all look forward to receiving your submissions. Go directly to https://medinfo2013.online-registry.net or via the Medinfo2013 website – www.medinfo2013.dk

The Call for Submissions is also available as a downloadable PDF file.

Important Closing Dates:

10 December 2012 for Papers, Student Papers, and Poster Submissions
10 January 2013 for Panels, Tutorials, Workshops, Demo Proposals and Care for the World Proposal Submissions

Please distribute this information widely among your friends and colleagues, consider submitting your work to Medinfo2013, and we look forward to seeing you in Copenhagen, Denmark in late August, 2013.

If you have already been registered with the online-registry system through a previous conference (Medinfo or MIE), then your account may already be set up – please log in and update your details. Otherwise, please register to be able to pre-register for Medinfo2013, submit your contributions for Medinfo2013 and view information about your submissions.

We also invite you to sign up to be a reviewer,via the same system, if you have not already done so.

Instructions for authors in relation to the categories of submissions are available on the Medinfo2013 website – via http://www.medinfo2013.dk/node/13 We ask that you read the categories of submission carefully – especially new categories such as the ‘Care of the World mini-symposium’ – and make sure that you submit your work to the appropriate category.

We remind you to adhere as closely as possible to the submission formats – submissions that do not conform may be rejected without review.

Context Sensitive Health Informatics Pre-Medinfo2013 Conference: Call for Papers

Prof. Marie-Catherine Beuscart-Zéphir, outgoing Vice Chair of the IMIA Human Factors Engineering for Healthcare Informatics Working Group wishes to announce that the Call for Papers is available for the “Context Sensitive Health Informatics” event, a pre-Medinfo conference jointly organized/supported by several IMIA WG (Human Factors Engineering for Healthcare Informatics, Organizational and Social Issues, Health Informatics for Patient Safety).

The event will be held on 17 and 18 August, 2013 at the ITX Lab at Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Call for papers
Context Sensitive Health Informatics is about health information technologies and their environments. Environments may be people in different roles such as users, designers, and evaluators, but also nonhuman constructs such as organizations, work practices, guidelines and protocols, buildings and markets. We invite original contributions addressing the conference topic.

For more information about the conference and the call please see the conference web site:  www.cshi2013.org (under construction)

Submission of paper: 1 February 2013
Notification of acceptance: 2 April 2013
Submission of final papers: 22 April 2013

This is an official event of several IMIA WGs and is supported by IMIA.

Post No. 600 – Medinfo2013 Submissions Open – We’re Waiting for Your Papers Etc.

Medinfo2013 SPC co-chairs Dominik Aronsky (Switzerland) and Tze-­‐Yun Leong (Singapore), together with IMIA VP Medinfo Riccardo Bellazzi (Italy) and the Danish LOC, lead by Lene Vistisen and Knut Bernstein (both Denmark), are pleased to announce that the submission system for Medinfo2013 is now open. We all look forward to receiving your submissions. Go directly to https://medinfo2013.online-registry.net or via the Medinfo2013 website – www.medinfo2013.dk

Important Closing Dates:

10 December 2012 for Papers, Student Papers, and Poster Submissions
10 January 2013 for Panels, Tutorials, Workshops, Demo Proposals and Care for the World Proposal Submissions

Please distribute this information widely among your friends and colleagues, consider submitting your work to Medinfo2013, and we look forward to seeing you in Copenhagen, Denmark in late August, 2013.

If you have already been registered with the online-registry system through a previous conference (Medinfo or MIE), then your account may already be set up – please log in and update your details. Otherwise, please register to be able to pre-register for Medinfo2013, submit your contributions for Medinfo2013 and view information about your submissions.

Instructions for authors in relation to the categories of submissions are available on the Medinfo2013 website – via http://www.medinfo2013.dk/node/13  We ask that you read the categories of submission carefully – especially new categories such as the ‘Care of the World mini-symposium’ – and make sure that you submit your work to the appropriate category.

We remind you to adhere as closely as possible to the submission formats – submissions that do not conform may be rejected without review.