[AK-MI] IMIA News Bulletin, July 2009

Di Jul 7 15:49:16 CEST 2009

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

die IMIA - International Medical Informatics Association - baut derzeit
ihren Mitgliederservice deutlich aus. 

In diesem Zusammenhang gibt es jetzt einen monatlichen Newsletter. Den
aktuellen Newsletter möchte ich Ihnen hiermit zukommen lassen. 

Wir werden in Zukunft nur die relevantesten Informationen an den
AKMI-Verteiler weiterleiten (wie auch schon bisher). 
Sie können den vollständigen monatlichen Newsletter aber persönlich
abonnieren unter  http://imianews.wordpress.com  (Button "subscribe" auf
der rechten Seite).

Mit besten Grüßen,
Elske Ammenwerth

>>> Peter Murray <peterjmurray at gmail.com> 07.07.2009 10:57 >>>
*IMIA monthly news bulletin; no. 3, 07 July 2009*

Please feel free to redistribute this bulletin or its contents among
your
members and colleagues (quoting origin to help publicise IMIA). For
more
frequent news updates, see our new IMIA News site at
http://imianews.wordpress.com/ 

IMIA website: http://www.imia.org 
MedInfo2010 website: http://www.medinfo2010.org 
For all official IMIA communications (except news items, as below),
please
use imia at imia-services.org 

Items:
1. Online IMIA News
2. MedInfo2010
   a] Submission dates
   b] Please publicise locally
3. MIE2009
4. 2009 General Assembly meeting
5. New leadership for IMIA-NI SIG - and request for national
nominations
6. Conferences and events
7. "Methods of Information in Medicine" Table of Contents and
news/calendar
pages
8. August 2009 bulletin

*1. Online IMIA News*

The new IMIA News website (at http://imianews.wordpress.com ) has
proved
successful so far. Thank you to all who have subscribed to it. There is
a
variety of ways to subscribe and receive regular updates (including
RSS
feeds - so you don't have to remember to keep visiting the website). We
will
continue to improve the functionality and content, including items
syndicated from other sources, in response to your feedback.

We welcome feedback and ideas for further development. For submitting
feedback, news items, etc please email news at imia-services.org 

*2.* *MedInfo2010*

a] Submission dates

Important dates to remember for MedInfo2010:
July 20, 2009 - closing date to take advantage of the new 'Scientific
Mentor
Scheme' (PLEASE NOTE EXTENDED DEADLINE)
September 30, 2009 - closing date for all MedInfo 2010 submissions

***Online registration for submissions is now open - in particular for
those
wishing to use the Scientific Mentor Scheme. See
http://medinfo2010.online-registry.net/ 

Full details on the scheme and other submissions are at
http://www.medinfo2010.org/index.php?page=abstract 

b] Please publicise locally

Please publicise MedInfo 2010 in your national societies, groups,
among
colleagues, and through any mailing lists you may belong to. We wish
to
encourage widespread awareness of the event, scientific submissions,
and
attendance.
Consider putting a link to the MedInfo 2010 website in your email
signature
file.

*3. MIE2009

*The main EFMI event of the year, the MIE2009 conference, will be held
from
*30th August to September 2nd* in *Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina*. .
Registration can be done via the website www.mie2009.org; the payment
for
the conference can only be done by bank transfer, but the hotel can be
paid
by credit card.

For all information about MIE2009, see the website or contact the
Local
Organising Committee at loc at mie2009.org 
*

* *4.* *2009 General Assembly meeting*

The 2009 IMIA General Assembly meeting will take place on Wednesday
November
25, 2009 in Hiroshima, Japan (and the IMIA Board on 24 November). This
will
be in conjunction with the 'Collaborative Meetings on Health
Informatics -
CoMHI 2009', which will include APAMI 2009, Working Group and other
meetings, and many associated activities in the period November 21-25.

We will be sending out the first formal invitations around the end of
August.

Full informati
on will be available through the IMIA website and at:
http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/humind1/comhi2009/index.html 

*
5. New leadership for IMIA-NI SIG - and request for national
nominations*

The triennial NI Congress, organised under the auspices of the IMIA
Nursing
Informatics Special Interest Group (IMIA-NI) took place recently in
Helsinki, Finland. This is also the time at which the new leadership
takes
over.

Heimar Marin (Brazil) is the new chair of IMIA-NI (2009-2012). In
addition
four vice-chairs were appointed for 2009-2012: William Goossen (The
Netherlands) becomes the vice chair for working groups, Patrick Weber
(Switzerland) becomes the vice chair for communications, Hyeoun-Ae
Park
(Korea) becomes vice chair for membership and Lucy Westbrook (New
Zealand)
becomes vice chair for administration and finance.

Many national society members of IMIA do not have nurse representatives
in
IMIA-NI. If your national society is in this position, please consider
nominating a representative; contact Prof. Hyeoun-Ae Park (Korea),
vice
chair for membership (hapark at snu.ac.kr)

*6. Conferences and events* (1)

We maintain a calendar of meetings and events on the IMIA website, and
a
version appears in 'Methods of Information in Medicine'. Some
forthcoming
events you may wish to particularly note:

August 30 - September 02, 2009   MIE 2009 – Medical Informatics in a
United
and Healthy Europe
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina     http://www.mie2009.org 

September 17-18, 2009    Medicine 2.0, 2009 conference
Toronto, Canada             http://www.medicine20congress.com 

November 14-18, 2009      AMIA 2009 Annual Symposium
San Francisco, USA         http://symposium2009.amia.org/ 

November 21-25, 2009       APAMI 2009 conference and CoHMI
Hiroshima, Japan
http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/humind1/comhi2009/index.html 

*Conferences and events* (2)

The IMIA News website contains a link to a collaboratively maintained
'Global Health Informatics Events Calendar'. IMIA members may find this
of
use, in addition to our own calendar of events on the IMIA website.

*7. "Methods of Information in Medicine" Table of Contents and
news/calendar
pages*

The "Methods" Table of Contents for each issue will be posted on the
new
IMIA News website. The most recent one relates to Volume 48, Issue 3.
"Methods" also contains IMIA news pages, and these are available as a
PDF
file with free download. See the "Methods" website at
http://www.methods-online.com/ 

*
8. Vacancies: University of Victoria (Canada)

*The School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria,
Canada
(one of IMIA's Academic Institutional members) is seeking applications
for a
"3 year Limited Term Senior Instructor position (with the possibility
of 2
year renewal) in Health Informatics".

More detail and links can be found on IMIA News (
http://imianews.wordpress.com/) and detailed information about the
School
can be found on its website at http://hinf.uvic.ca Electronic
submissions
are welcome may be sent by email attachments to his at uvic.ca 

*8. August bulletin*

As many people in the northern hemisphere will be in holiday season,
the
August bulletin will be short, and will be sent on Monday, 03 August.

**
Contact email addresses are being consolidated, although at present
email
sent to any of the addresses on the IMIA website should be redirected.

END OF IMIA News Bulletin, July 2009

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Dr Peter J. Murray
Acting Executive Director
IMIA, International Medical Informatics Association
www.imia.org 

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Medinfo 2010 - Cape Town, South Africa - September 2010 -
www.medinfo2010.org 
Medicine 2.0'09 - Toronto, Canada - September 2009 -
www.medicine20congress.com 

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