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.

Medinfo2013 – First Call for Papers, Posters

On behalf of Medinfo2013 Scientific Program Committee (SPC) Co-Chairs Dominik Aronsky, MD, PhD (dominik.aronsky[at]vanderbilt.edu) and Tze-Yun Leong, PhD (leongty[at]nus.edu.sg), we are pleased to announce the first preliminary Call for Papers, Student Papers, and Poster Submissions.

The closing date for submission will be: 10 December 2012

Information on calls for other forms of submission, and on the opening of the submission system, will be made in the near future.

MEDINFO2013: 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics – to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark on August 20-23, 2013 – see http://www.medinfo2013.dk

The theme for MEDINFO2013 is “Conducting medical informatics by Converging technologies, Conveying sciences and Connecting people.” The congress welcomes submissions on both emerging methodologies that contribute to the conceptual and scientific foundations of biomedical and health informatics, and successful implementations of innovative application, integration, and evaluation of eHealth systems and solutions. MEDINFO2013 is organized around four major tracks relevant to the domains of translational bioinformatics, clinical informatics, clinical research informatics, nursing informatics, consumer health informatics, and public health informatics.

The full text of this preliminary call is available:  PDF (110kb)  DOC (20kb)

We invite all IMIA members to cascade the information within their organisations, networks and contacts.

Medinfo2013 – Sponsorship & Exhibition Prospectus Available

The Sponsorship and Exhibition Prospectus for Medinfo2013 is available from the Medinfo2013 website – http://medinfo2013.dk

The prospectus, which includes full information on the exhibition and sponsorship opportunities for Medinfo2013, is available for direct download (PDF file, 3.9MB).

The Medinfo2013 website is currently being upgraded, and further information will be added over the coming weeks. We expect that the initial Call for Participation will be availbale shortly, and registration will open in autumn 2012. Stay informed by completing the Expression of Interest form on the website – http://medinfo2013.dk/stay-informed

On behalf of the Danish Society of Medical Informatics and the Medinfo2013 Local Organising Committee (http://medinfo2013.dk/organizers), Lene Vistisen, Chairman of medinfo2013 LOC  and DSMI President Pia Elberg look forward to welcoming you to Medinfo2013 in Copenhagen, Denmark on 20-23 August, 2013 (and earlier for those attending tutorials and IMIA meetings).

The theme of Medinfo2013 will address the challenges the LOC and SPC foresee as continuing in

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

Medinfo2013 will be in …

At the IMIA General Assembly meeting in Hiroshima, Japan on 25 November 2009, the decision was made on the site for the Medinfo2013 conference. Two bids were presented, by colleagues from Copenhagen, Denmark and Istanbul, Turkey. After a vote of GA members, the decision was made that Medinfo2013 will be in Copenhagen, Denmark. More news will follow in due course.