IMIA MONTHLY NEWS BULLETIN; NO. 12, 09 APRIL 2010
12/04 09:05
IMIA monthly news bulletin; no. 12, 09 April 2010
IMIA website: http://www.imia.org IMIA News site: http://imianews.wordpress.com/
MedInfo2010 website: http://www.medinfo2010.org
For all official IMIA communications, please use imia@imia-services.org
Items:
1. MedInfo2010
a] Conference registration, accommodation
b] Sponsorship, speakers
c] Facebook event page
d] Raising funds to support students
2. Forthcoming events
a] IMIA Working Group activities
b] Regional events
c] National/international events
3. 2010 dates for Board and GA members
4. IMIA WG/SIG meetings at Medinfo2010
5. MIE2011 on Facebook, Twitter
6. IMIA WG/SIG meetings at Medinfo2010
7. AMIA seeking Executive Director Global Programs
8. Revised IMIA Recommendations on Education
9. Journals
10. IMIA and members on social networking
11. Requesting feedback on IMIA bulletin and communications
12. May 2010 bulletin
1. MedInfo2010
MEDINFO 2010 - 13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics; 12 to 15 September 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa - http://www.medinfo2010.org(156 days to go - no-one spotted the error in the March bulletin).
a] Conference registration, accommodation
The site for conference registration and accommodation booking payment is open - via the main MedInfo 2010 website (www.medinfo2010.org), or directly athttps://events.confco.co.za/ei/cm.esp?id=126&pageid=_2OO0LACU8
b] Sponsorship, speakers
IBM has been confirmed as a major sponsor for Medinfo2010.
Dr Najeeb Al-Shorbaji, Director, Department of Knowledge Management and Sharing at the World Health Organization Headquarters (WHO/HQ) has been confirmed as a keynote speaker. Further information on keynote speakers is on the Medinfo2010 website.
c] Facebook event page
We have also set up a Medinfo2010 event page for those who use Facebook (http://www.facebook.com//event.php?eid=227856279989 ) ? sign up to the event page and let us know your plans, and what you want to get out of, and will be putting into, Medinfo2010.
You can follow all the latest news updates on the Medinfo2010 website, and on Twitter ? @medinfo2010
d] Raising funds to support students
The CHIRAD Foundation is supporting Medinfo 2010 by raising funds for SAHIA (South African Health Informatics Association) to help students who would otherwise be unable to attend the congress. The aim of the effort to raise US$100 as a once-off personal contribution is to allow individuals, committed to the continued upliftment of health/medical informatics, to contribute a token amount to a fund specially created to sponsor students in our field. Many $100 will enable these gifted people the chance to attend Medinfo2010 and learn from the world leaders. These students will be selected on merit by the LOC with input from the SPC and will typically come from disadvantaged countries where funding for prestigious events like Medinfo is non existent.
Should you not be attending the congress you can also contribute. See the Medinfo2010 website for more information.
2. Forthcoming events
We will generally only here mention those in 2010, unless calls for submissions for 2011 events are open. Notices of these events and others not listed here are added to the IMIA website and IMIA News website when they are announced, when calls for submissions open/close, or when there is significant new information.
a] IMIA Working Group and Special Interest Group activities
The IMIA Open Source Health Informatics WG and EFMI LIFOSS WG are co-organising a track that is dedicated specifically to Free/Libre Open Source Software in Health Care (FLOSS-HC) at the 8th annual Med-e-Tel conference (14-16 April 2010) (see http://www.medetel.eu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=benefits_of_open_source_software_in_health_care)
The IMIA Health Information Systems Working Group (IMIA HIS WG) will be organising a two day workshop on Health Information Systems ? 30 Years of Evolution, that will take place on September 10-12, 2010 in Stellenbosch, South Africa, just before the Medinfo 2010 Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. Further details will be advised in due course.
b] Regional events
The 2010 Special Topic Conference (STC) of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) will take place in Reykjavík, Iceland on June 2-4, 2010. The event has the theme ?Seamless care ? safe care. The challenges of interoperability and patient safety in health care? Full information is athttp://www.sky.is/stc2010 Registration is open via the conference website.
c] National/international events
A selection of forthcoming events; more information is on the IMIA and IMIA News websites, and in the Methods Calendar of Events.
BCS HC2010 Health Informatics Congress- April 27-29, 2010. Birmingham, UK. http://www.hcshowcase.org
AHIC 2010 Conference - April 28-30, 2010. Kitchener ON, Canada. http://ahic.nihi.ca Submissions are now closed.
***NEW: Saudi eHealth conference - 2-4 May, 2010. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. http://www.saudiehealth.org
eHealth2010 - May 6-7, 2010. Vienna, Austria. http://www.ehealth2010.at/index_en.html
e-health 2010 - May 30 - June 2, 2010. Vancouver BC, Canada. http://www.e-healthconference.com/index.htm
HealthGrid 2010 - 28-30 June, 2010. Paris, France. http://paris2010.healthgrid.org/ Submissions are now closed.
SINI2010 (20th anniversary Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics) - 21-24 July, 2010. Baltimore MD, USA. http://www.nursing.umaryland.edu/sini Submissions are now closed.
HIC 2010 - 24-26 August, 2010. Melbourne, Australia. http://www.hisa.org.au/hic2010 Submissions are now closed.
IMIA-IFIP at WCC2010 - 20-23 September, 2010. Brisbane, Australia. http://www.wcc2010.com/treat-it IFIP and IMIA will hold a joint E-Health conference as part of ?Treat IT? stream of the IFIP World Congress 2010 Program.
HINZ2010 - 2-4 November, 2010. Wellington, New Zealand. http://www.hinz.org.nz/page/conference Call for submissions: closes 29 May.
AMIA2010 - 13-17 November, 2010. Washington DC, USA. http://symposium2010.amia.org/ Submissions are now closed.
IFHRO 2010 - 15-19 November, 2010. Milan, Italy. http://www.ifhro2010.it Call for abstracts: closes 31 May.
ITCH 2011 - 24 - 27 February, 2011. Victoria BC, Canada. http://itch.uvic.ca/index.php Call for submissions: closes 30 June.
4. 2010 dates for Board and GA members
The early 2010 IMIA Board meeting (Board members only) will be held on May 29, 2010 in Vancouver BC, Canada. Precise details will be communicated to Board members.
The 2010 Board and General Assembly meetings will be held in conjunction with Medinfo2010 in Cape Town, South Africa. The Board will meet on 11 September and the General Assembly on 12 September.
2011 General Assembly meeting, advance notice: - at the kind invitation of the hosts of MIE2011, the 2011 Board and General Assembly meetings will be held in Oslo, Norway. Precise dates will be advised. MIE2011 (www.mie2011.org) will be held on 28-31 August.
5. MIE2011 on Facebook, Twitter
MIE2011, the XXIII international conference of EFMI, the European Federation for Medical Informatics, will be held at Akershus University Hospital and in Oslo, Norway on 28-31 August, 2011. The conference website is at http://www.mie2011.org/, and the LOC have established presences on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=363398669412) and Twitter (http://twitter.com/mie2011) to aid interaction. See also http://wp.me/pvCUS-lT
6. IMIA WG/SIG meetings at Medinfo2010
Any IMIA WG/SIG chairs who have not contacted Prof. Hyeoun-Ae Park, IMIA VP for WG/SIG about holding a business meeting at Medinfo2010 should do so urgently. This is a final reminder, and we may not be able to schedule WG/SIG meetings not requested after the next few days. Thank you to all WG/SIG chairs and vice chairs who have already contacted Prof. Park.
7. AMIA seeking Executive Director Global Programs
AMIA is recruiting for an Executive Director for Global Programs. Initially, this position will oversee AMIA?s Global Partnership Program (GPP) and Health Informatics Building Blocks (HIBBs) activities, although further growth of global activities/programs is anticipated. Full information is on the AMIA website athttps://www.amia.org/files/shared/Exec_Direc_Global_Progs.pdf or via http://wp.me/pvCUS-mv
8. Revised IMIA Recommendations on Education
The revised IMIA Recommendations on Education in Biomedical and Health Informatics Education, which were endorsed by the 2009 IMIA General Assembly, are now available as a free download (pdf file) in Methods of Information in Medicine. See http://imianews.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/revised-imia-education-recommendations-published/ for further information and a link to the download.
Requirements around reprinting and translations: The copyright for this document is with IMIA. Translations are encouraged. For translations as well as for all other reprints, written permission by IMIA is needed. In all reprints the original publication of the revised IMIA recommendations on education has to be quoted as the original reference. Please liaise with Dr Peter J. Murray, IMIA Executive Director, for all queries.
The recommendations have received a good response so far, with many downloads. They are already being republished and translated in several places, and we will promote these efforts when they are finalised.
9. Journals
IMIA has three official journals: Methods of Information in Medicine (http://www.methods-online.com/) and Applied Clinical Informatics (http://www.aci-journal.org/) (Schattauer Publishers Stuttgart) and Elsevier Science?s International Journal of Medical Informatics (http://www.ijmijournal.com/home).
METHODS - Volume 49, Issue 2 is available at: http://www.methods-online.com with the Table of Contents also at http://wp.me/pvCUS-m2 There are several free downloads.
ACI - the Table of Contents of the first complete issue of ACI is now available on the journal website. Access to issue 1 (Applied Clinical Informatics 2010;1 (1) ) will remain free, with seven downloadable articles. See more information at http://wp.me/pvCUS-mN
ACI has a Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/ACIJournal
JAMIA, the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is now published by the BMJ Group - http://jamia.bmj.com/ AMIA members must access JAMIA from myamia.org. Non-members must gain access to the journal by purchasing an annual subscription for both online and print editions.
10. IMIA and members on social networking
IMIA has been experimenting with social networking and Web 2.0 technologies. Currently, we have presences at:
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5675909898
LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=49852
Twitter - http://twitter.com/IMIAtweets and http://twitter.com/medinfo2010
The IMIA Web 2.0 Exploratory Taskforce welcomes the views of IMIA members and thw wider global community on the value of using such technologies, and suggestions for how IMIA could or should expand their use.
Other IMIA members and colleagues who we know are using these tools include:
ACHI (Australasian College of Health Informatics) - http://twitter.com/ACHI_News
AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) - http://twitter.com/amiainformatix - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22035225274
APAMI (Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics) - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22242409952
HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) -http://twitter.com/himss - http://www.facebook.com/pages/HIMSS/142288373333
HISA (Heath Informatics Society of Australia) - http://twitter.com/HISA_news
Please let us know of any others.
11. Requesting feedback on IMIA bulletin and communications
This is the twelfth monthly email bulletin. As we move forward in coming months on expansion of IMIA's electronic services through its websites, this bulletin, and other methods, we welcome your views. If you have any comments on how IMIA is using elecgronic communications and services, or you think we should use them, please send your views to imia@imia-services.org
For example:
- should the monthly bulletin remain plain email or should it have a more graphical layout? - should we also provide a pdf version? - should the content be different?
- should IMIA make more (or less) use of new social networking or other communications/interactions modes with its members and the wider community? - how much use should we make of discussion forums, for example?
- how interactive should the IMIA website be? - what other features should it have?
12. May 2010 bulletin
The May 2010 bulletin will be published on 03 May. We welcome all feedback (to imia@imia-services.org) and any news items, conferences, etc for the websites.
For more frequent news updates, and subscription options by email, RSS feeds, etc., see the IMIA News site at http://imianews.wordpress.com/
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