Medinfo2010 – early bird registration extended

The Medinfo2010 LOC have announced that the date for early bird registration has been extended to 28 February, 2010. In addition, the date for notification by the SPC of acceptance of papers has been brought forward to 15 February. This will, in particular, help authors who need to wait until they know their work has been accepted before their employers, etc. will confirm funding support.

Further information is on the Medinfo2010 website at http://www.medinfo2010.org/

In addition, those registering and paying before 18 December 2009 will be entered into a prize draw and could win full refund of registration fees, or one of several other prizes.

New president for SAHIA

SAHIA, the South African Health Informatics Association, who are hosts of Medinfo2010, have a new president. He is Vuminkosi (‘Vuma’) Magaqa, who is currently Acting CIO of the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health. Vuma is also a member of the Medinfo2010 LOC and succeeds Roger Day.

300 days to Medinfo2010!

There are now only 300 days to the start of Medinfo2010 in Cape Town, South Africa. See the conference website at www.medinfo2010.org for all the latest information – including early bird registration, which closes on 18 December.

If you are at the AMIA2009 symposium in San Francisco, then please call by the Medinfo2010 stand in the exhibition area to see us.

IMIA Health Information Systems WG event – Sept. 2010

Christian Lovis, chair of the IMIA Health Information Systems Working Group (IMIA HIS WG), has announced that the WG will be organising a two day workshop on Health Information Systems – 30 Years of Evolution, that will take place just before the Medinfo 2010 Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.

Christian notes that 2010 is a very important date for the IMIA Health Information Systems (HIS) WG, and Cape Town a very special place. In 1979, the first HIS working conference was held in Cape Town, South Africa. As a result of that conference the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) created a working group on hospital information systems. That working group has since organised a series of working conferences (Nijmegen, Gottingen, Durham, Heidelberg) of which the proceedings have been published.

As the next World Congress on Medical Informatics, Medinfo, will take place in September 2010 in Cape Town (http://www.medinfo2010.org/), this offers a unique opportunity to have another HIS working conference in conjunction with Medinfo where the evolution over a 30-year period can be discussed and challenges for the coming decade identified.

The event is scheduled to be held on September 10-12, 2010 in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Further details will be advised in due course.

At the two-day conference, several of the pioneers in the field will be present, together with new talent; there will be three plenary sessions, discussion groups and invited speakers, and the outcomes of the conference will be reported during a panel at Medinfo.

Final reminder – 15 October deadline for Medinfo2010 submissions

There are still a few days to complete and submit your papers, posters, and other scientific contributions for Medinfo 2010 – the deadline is OCTOBER 15, 2009.

Information on submitting can be found at the Medinfo 2010 website and at the conference submission site.

We look forward to your submissions and to seeing everyone in Cape Town, South Africa next year.

Medinfo2010 submission extended to 15 October

Riccardo Bellazzi and Johanna Westbrook, on behalf of the Medinfo2010 Scientific Programme Committee, have announced that the submission deadline for Medinfo 2010 has been EXTENDED to OCTOBER 15, 2009.

This new deadline will be FINAL, and there will be no further extensions.

Information on submitting can be found at the Medinfo 2010 website and at the conference submission site.

We look forward to your submissions and to seeing everyone in Cape Town, South Africa next year.

One year to Medinfo2010

MedInfo2010, the 13th International Congress on Medical Informatics, starts one year from today, on 12 September 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa. Full information is on the conference website at http://www.medinfo2010.org/

An important deadline before then – 30 September 2009 is the closing date for submissions of papers, posters, panels, and all other kinds of scientific submission. The conference submission website is at http://medinfo2010.online-registry.net/

If you are not already doing so, you can follow MedInfo2010 news on Twitter (@medinfo2010, or via@IMIAtweets).

The first keynote speaker has been announced – Nada Lavrac, Head of the Department of Knowledge Technologies at the Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her main research interests are in machine learning, relational data mining, knowledge management, and applications of intelligent data analysis in medicine and bioinformatics.

Medinfo 2010 submission deadline – 58 days to go

The deadline for making your submissions for Medinfo 2010 is now only 58 days away. Submissions can be made through http://medinfo2010.online-registry.net/ (you need to set up an account first, which is easy). Full details of the author instructions for each category of submission are available once you have logged in.

The closing date for all types of submission is 30 September, 2009.

The 13th International Congress on Medical Informatics will be held in Cape Town, South Africa on 12 – 15 September 2010 (www.medinfo2010.org).

If you are already planning your trip, you may wish to note that the site for conference registration and accommodation booking is now also open at

https://events.confco.co.za/ei/cm.esp?id=126&pageid=_2OO0LACU8

MedInfo 2010 Mentor Scheme deadline extended

The deadline for submissions to the MedInfo 2010 Mentor Scheme has been extendeded to July 20th.

If you wish to participate in the scheme, which aims to provide additional support to early career researchers and non-native English speakers, then please submit your paper via http://medinfo2010.online-registry.net/ and you will be provided with feedback from a member of the panel of international health informatics experts.

100 days for MedInfo 2010 submissions

There are now only 100 days left to make your submissions for MedInfo 2010, the 13th International Congress on Medical Informatics, to be held in Cape Town, South Africa on 12 – 15 September 2010 (www.medinfo2010.org). The closing date for all types of submission is 30 September, 2009.

Submissions can be made through http://medinfo2010.online-registry.net/ (you need to set up an account first, which is easy).

The closing date for those wishing to use the Scientific Mentor Scheme, a new initiative that aims to provide additional support to early career researchers and non-native English speakers, is 1st July 2009.