IMIA MONTHLY NEWS BULLETIN; NO. 13, 03 MAY 2010
05/05 10:27

IMIA monthly news bulletin; no. 13, 03 May 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] Preliminary programme
    b] Conference registration, accommodation
    c] Facebook event page, Twitter
    d] Raising funds to support students
    e] Senior Officers Club activity
2. Forthcoming events
    a] IMIA Working Group activities
    b] Regional events
    c] National/international events
3. 2010 dates for Board and GA members
4. MIE2011 on Facebook, Twitter
5. Journals
6. IMIA and members on social networking
7. Requesting feedback on IMIA bulletin and communications
8. 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(132 days to go).

a] Preliminary programme

The preliminary programme (draft) for Medinfo2010 is now available on the website. It contains information on pre-conference tutorials, plenary sessions, major meetings, parallel sessions and social events. Many thanks to the SPC (especially Riccardo Bellazzi and Johanna Westbrook) and the LOC for all their work on this.

b] 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    Standard registration closes on 30 June.

c] Facebook event page, Twitter

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.

e] Senior Officers Club activity

The IMIA Senior Officers Club will be holding an invitation-only meeting/activity at Medinfo2010. Further information and invitations will be sent to individuals soon. Thanks to Marion Ball, Hans Peterson and Jan van Bemmel for work on planning this.

It is expected that many other groups will additionally be planning meetings at Medinfo2010. Please feel free to contact imia@imia-services.org to help in publicising these activities (note: some may be by invitation only).

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 Health Information Systems Working Group (IMIA HIS WG) - Chair, Christian Lovis, Vice-chair Dominik Aronsky - 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 Franschhoek, near Stellenbosch, South Africa. The event will have plenary and discussion sessions, exploring the evolution and history of HIS concepts and architectures, and will explore lessons learned and look forward to the challenges of the coming decade(s). Full information on the event is available via http://wp.me/pvCUS-nq or directly at http://www.hiswork2010.com

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.

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/  

SINI2010 (20th anniversary Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics) - 21-24 July, 2010. Baltimore MD, USA. http://www.nursing.umaryland.edu/sini  

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. 

**NEW** XII Brazilian Health Informatics Conference - 18-22 October. Pernambuco, Brazil. http://www.sbis.org.br/cbis2010  Call for abstracts: closes 15 May.

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.

Medicine 2.0'10 - 29-30 November. Maastricht, The Netherlands. http://www.medicine20congress.com 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.


3. 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. 

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.


4. 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


5. 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.


6. 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

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

Several of the above also have LinkedIn groups; in addition, UK Council for Health Informatics Professions (UKCHIP), ANIA-CARING, AMIA NIWG, and BCS Health.

Please let us know of any others.


7. Acknowledgments and thanks

IMIA relies heavily on the volunteer efforts of many people in our member societies, WG/SIG and other members, and in particular the many hours of work that the Board members provide. However, we also rely on the work of a small number of people who are paid part-time and put in far more work than they are ever paid for. I hope you will join me in thanking Martina Hutter (IMIA Yearbook), Elaine Huesing (Financial Administration) and Jeff Keller (Website Administration) for all their hard work.


8. June 2010 bulletin

The June 2010 bulletin will be published on 01 June, following the IMIA Board meeting of 29 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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