HIC 2015 Call for Submissions – Deadline 16 March

HISA (http://www.hisa.org.au) is pleased to invite you to respond to the Call for Submissions for HIC 2015, Australia’s premier digital health and health informatics conference – see https://hisa.site-ym.com/page/hic2015papers for the HIC 2015 Call for Papers, and https://hisa.site-ym.com/page/hic2015nia for the NIA (Nursing Informatics Australia) Call for Papers.

HISA 2015 will be held in Brisbane, Australia on 03-05 August, 2015 – see http://www.hisa.org.au/page/hic2015 for full information.

You have an opportunity to put forward your contribution to science, research and the business of healthcare and play a role in the collaborative nature of HIC as we work together to drive reform. In an innovative move, this year for the first time the presentations will be allocated based on theme rather than in separate streams for academic/scientific and industry/clinical.

Themes for 2015 – authors are encouraged to submit under the following themes and health informatics specialty areas:

• System and workforce change management
• Integrated care
• Participatory medicine
• Value of dataDigital health/advancement in technology
• Aged Care informatics
• Indigenous informatics
• Innovations/latest research

Submissions close on Monday 16 March 2015.

Please refer to the following guidelines:

Scientific/Academic papers (full papers, 4-6 pages, 2000-3000 words)

Industry/Clinical case study abstracts (650 word abstract)

All NIA submissions will be given automatic entry to NIA’s Moya Conrick Prize. The Moya Conrick Prize is presented in recognition of the valuable work by the late Dr Moya Conrick via the best submitted paper and presentation at NIA. The prize is based specifically on nursing informatics, including the quality, originality, contributions, subject matter and timeliness of the submission. The Moya Conrick Prize is shared amongst all authors of the submission and shall be announced by a member of the NIA executive.

 

NI2016 – Student Wearable Design Contest; Submission Deadline 01 April, 2015

The purpose of the NI2016 Student Wearable Contest is to encourage collaborative teams to develop and share innovative ideas in wearable or ubiquitous technologies to promote mobile-health, connected health or ubiquitous computing in health care. The goal is to allow the next generation of interprofessional collaborative teams to showcase how technologies can transform nursing and health care.

Details of the contest are available on the NI2016 website – see www.ni2016.org  and directly at http://www.ni2016.org/images_newsletter/PDF_news/141222_StudentContest.pdf

Topic areas of the contest: Wearable, Mobile and ubiquitous computing – including wearable devices, mobile apps, integration of mobile technologies into the care continuum.

The description of the prototype must:

1. provide evidence that it is innovative or new;
2. show its relevance to patient / family care or health care professional
3. demonstrate a change in the care of a patient / family or in the work of health care professionals
4. follow acceptable standards, privacy and data protection guidelines
5. Describe the details of its usability (plan for usability testing or results of testing)
6. include a visualization of the idea that should include:
   a. Technical architecture
   b. Photo or drawing
7. Maturity of device
   a. What stage is it now?
   b. What stage of maturity at time of presentation (June 2016)?
8. should represent an interprofessional collaboration among students that encourages work across schools, across degrees, across disciplines (nursing, health professions, engineering, computer sciences, etc)
9. no more than two Universities can work together.

Abstract must be submitted in English. Presentations at NI2016 can be presented in English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese or Mandarin Chinese. For more information for translation services, please contact the NI2016 at http://ni2016.org/submission/

Deadline for submission: April 1, 2015

Descriptions are also available here in English, French, German and Spanish.

SINI 2015 (Nursing Informatics) Call for Abstracts is Open

SINI 2015 (Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics) is the 25th anniversary event of this long-running series, hosted by the University of Maryland School of Nursing. See http://www.nursing.umaryland.edu/sini/ for information on attending, submission, registration, etc. SINI 2015 will be held on 22-24 July, 2015.

The Call for Abstracts is open, and will close on 01 March, 2015 – see http://www.nursing.umaryland.edu/sini/abstracts/  All abstracts are to be submitted using the online submission form.  Be sure to review the submission and abstract guidelines before you submit. If you have questions during this process, contact Sonia Smith at pe[at]son.umaryland.edu or call 410-706-3767

 

 

 

 

IMIA Nursing Informatics (IMIA NI) Education Working Group

The IMIA-NI Education Working Group’s web presence has been launched by Michelle L L Honey and Paula M Procter, Co-Chairs of the Working Group. It is available at https://sites.google.com/site/imianiedwg/ and contains, among other items, a series of “NI Leader Vignettes” – https://sites.google.com/site/imianiedwg/ni-leader-vignettes

Nursing informatics, as defined by IMIA NI: “Nursing informatics science and practice integrates nursing, its information and knowledge and their management with information and communication technologies to promote the health of people, families and communities worldwide.” (IMIA NI 2011)

If you are interested in the activitirs of the Working Group, the co-chairs will be pleased to hear from you – see https://sites.google.com/site/imianiedwg/contact-us

 

NI2016, 13th International Congress in Nursing Informatics Geneva; June 25-29, 2016

The NI2016 newsletter is available – see http://ni2016.org/newsletters/en/newsletter_141114.html for the current issue. NI2016 will be the 13th International Congress in Nursing Informatics, and held in Geneva, Switzerland on June 25 to 29, 2016. See http://ni2016.org for all updates and information.

NI2016 will:

• attract all nurses interested of the future of nursing care around the world. Information technologies play a key role for health benefits and supporting the people healthy behavioral.
• provide simultaneous translation in the main conference room.
• give many awards: – best scientific paper – best poster – best student paper – best student poster – best international student design application and best national student design application.
• present the greatest fashion show of wearable devices.

Registration is open, with very early bird rates until 30 June, 2015. See http://ni2016.org/registration/

NI Congresses – Onwards from Taipei in 2014 to Geneva 2016

NI2014, the 12th International Congress on Nursing Informatics (www.ni2014.org) held in Taipei, Taiwan is now over. So, the international nursing informatics community begins to turn its mind to the next NI Congress, NI2016, to be held in Geneva, Switzerland.

The 13th International Congress on Nursing Informatics, held under the auspices of IMIA-NI, and hosted by the Swiss Nursing Association, among other orgnisations, will be held in Geneva, Switzerland on 25-29 June, 2016. The website is already live at http://www.ni2016.org and will be further developed over the next two years. There will be very early bird registration rates (fordelegates, accompanying persons, etc) from 01 July 2014 to 30 June 2015, followed by increasing rates following as the event nears – see http://ni2016.org/registration/

The Call for Papers will open on 30 March, 2015, with a submission deadline of 30 September, 2015. See http://ni2016.org/submission/ The theme of the conference will be eHealth for all. Every level collaboration – From project to realization. A number of innovations will be developed and announced over the coming months.

A flyer about the event (3.5MB PDF) is available to download and use for promotional purposes.

 

 

 

NI2014 (Nursing Informatics) – Advance Registration Closes 15 May

NI2014 – the 12th International Congress on Nursing Informatics – will be held on 21-25 June, 2014 in the Taipei International Convention Center (TICC). NI2014 is organised by the Taiwan Nursing Informatics Association (TNIA) and other associations, on behalf of the IMIA Special Interest Group in Nursing Informatics (IMIA-NI).

The deadline for advance registration is May 15, 2014 – see http://www.ni2014.org/RegistrationInformation.html

Full information about the event is available on the conference website, at www.ni2014.org

The theme of the conference is “eSmart + ” where “e” stands for eHealth, “S” implies simplicity, “m” represents mobility and meaningful use, “a” denotes advanced leadership, “r” indicates revolution, “t” means translational technologies, and “+” symbolizes People Leading uCare Safely. The acronym is also used to convey the idea of adopting smart technology to help health providers deliver higher quality care.

New TIGER Report, 2014 – Recommendations for the Innovative Nurse Leader

The TIGER Initiative Foundation has released a new leadership collaborative report, The Leadership Imperative: TIGER’s Recommendations for Integrating Technology to Transform Practice and Education (2014) [download]. This new report resulted from a continued recognition of how critical leadership is to fulfilling the TIGER vision and mission, and to providing transformational leadership that drives and executes the transformation of healthcare.

The report addresses the need to focus on both practice and technology, as well as providing valuable information, tools and resources for leaders to access and utilize as they integrate technology into practice and education. The foreword, by Angela Barron McBride, PhD, RN, FAAN notes that “The question for every nurse and every hospital board is how you go about promoting transformational change in which the emphasis is not on transitory, isolated performance improvements by individuals, but on sustained, assimilated, comprehensive change of the whole (Lukas et al., 2007) and this report offers one answer: nurse leaders knowledgeable about how information technology can help redesign practices so that they are standardized, evidence-based and clinically integrated, and reinforce the values of a caring culture.” Please download, read and share this new TIGER report.

Full information on the TIGER Initiative Foundation is at  http://www.thetigerinitiative.org/

TIGER Vision Statement: To enable nurses and interprofessional colleagues to use informatics and emerging technologies to make healthcare safer, more effective, efficient, patient-centered, timely and equitable by interweaving evidence and technology seamlessly into practice, education and research fostering a learning healthcare system.

NI2014 – 12th International Congress on Nursing Informatics – Early Bird Registration

NI2014 – the 12th International Congress on Nursing Informatics – will be held on 21-25 June, 2014 in the Taipei International Convention Center (TICC).  NI2014 is organised by the Taiwan Nursing Informatics Association (TNIA) and other associations, on behalf of the IMIA Special Interest Group in Nursing Informatics (IMIA-NI).

The deadline for early bird registration is 23:59(GMT+8), February 15, 2014 (link via conference website).

Full information about the event is available on the conference website, at www.ni2014.org

The theme of the conference is “eSmart + ” where “e” stands for eHealth, “S” implies simplicity, “m” represents mobility and meaningful use, “a” denotes advanced leadership, “r” indicates revolution, “t” means translational technologies, and “+” symbolizes People Leading uCare Safely. The acronym is also used to convey the idea of adopting smart technology to help health providers deliver higher quality care.

Report From CINC/CNNIC Conferences and APAMI – Beijing, China; 25-27 October, 2013

Our colleague Professor Ying Wu, PhD, RN, ACNP, Dean of the School of Nursing, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China and President, APAMI, reports on the events recently held in Beijing. Her full report is available here, and the highlights include:

The first China National Nursing Informatics Conference (CNNIC) was jointly held with the 2nd Capital International Nursing Conference (CINC) from October 25th to 27th, 2013, in Beijing, China. The theme of this convention was “Translational Research, Evidence-based Practice, and Securing Health”. On October 25th, along with the opening ceremony for the conferences, a celebration of the 20th anniversary for APAMI was held, to recall the establishment of the organisation and achievements that have been made within APAMI over the past 20 years.

During the ceremony, Minister Assistant of Ministry of Education Huiqing Lin, Deputy Director of Medical Affairs, Hospital Authority (HA) National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) of the People’s Republic of China, Dr. Jun Zhou, IMIA Vice-President and President-elect Dr. Hyeoun-Ae Park, CMIA President Dr. Shuqian Luo, President of Chinese Nursing Association Dr. Xiuhua Li,  and other delegates also delivered remarks about the future development of the nursing profession in China, and expressed their support in the area of health informatics.

Almost five hundred people attended the conference. 43 oral and 110 poster presentations, including abstracts in the field of health and nursing informatics, were shared with attendees  and distinguished guests and scholars from the US, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, and China who participated in this global convention.

Full size photos:  opening (3.1MB)  group (1.1MB)