[AK-MI] IMIA Monthly News Bulletin - No. 39, July 2012

Di Jul 3 13:06:55 CEST 2012

Sehr geehrte Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

ich darf mir erlauben, Ihnen im Anhang den aktuellen Monthly News Bulletin der IMIA (International Medical Informatics Association) zu übersenden, welcher eine gute Übersicht über anstehende internationale Veranstaltungen im Bereich der Med. Informatik bietet. 

Mit besten Grüßen,
Elske Ammenwerth

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Welcome to the July 2012 issue of IMIA's monthly newsletter. We welcome feedback, and invite members' contributions for forthcoming issues.
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IMIA Monthly Newsletter
July 2012: Issue 39 

In This Issue
1. APAMI-2012 Conference: 10 July extended submission deadline
2. Medinfo2013: First Call for Papers, Posters
3. HIC 2012: Sydney, Australia
4. IMIA WG ‘Security in Health Information Systems (SiHIS)' Event
5. HINZ2012: Call for Submissions
6. MIE2012
7. IMIA Strategic Plan Update
8. IMIA-NI SIG and NI Congresses
9. Miscellany: short items
10. Forthcoming events
  a] Regional events
  b] National/global events
11. Next newsletter: August 2012

This newsletter is a little shorter than usual, due to holidays.

APAMI-2012 Conference -10 July submission deadline
The 7th Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics Conference (APAMI-2012) will be held at the Crowne Plaza Beijing Sun Palace, Beijing, China on October 22-25, 2012. The Call for Papers is now open - the closing date for submission of FULL PAPERS has been extendd to July 10, 2012. The Call for Papers (document in English) is available at http://wp.me/pvCUS-1d2 [direct link to Call document in English]

Submission: Papers must be submitted through ‘easychair’ online. The program committee and submission web page is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apami2012  Contact: Lucy Zhang Tel: 861068278214  Email: yzha0943 at gmail.com

The theme of the event is “New situation, New technology and New opportunity”, with the emphasis on using information technology to improve healthcare services. October is the most comfortable time of the year in Beijing. The organisers warmly welcome you to attend this event and make it a complete success. Further information on APAMI-2012 can be obtained from the conference web site: http://www.apami2012.org (Chinese version - http://www.apami2012.org/index.php?mod=en for English version)

IMIA members should note that the IMIA Board and General Assembly meetings will be held on October 22 and 23 respectively, in conjunction with APAMI-2012.

Medinfo2013 - First Call for Papers, Posters - Deadline 10 December 2012 
On behalf of Medinfo2013 Scientific Program Committee (SPC) Co-Chairs Dominik Aronsky, MD, PhD (dominik.aronsky[at]vanderbilt.edu) and Tze-Yun Leong, PhD (leongty[at]nus.edu.sg), we are pleased to announce the first preliminary Call for Papers, Student Papers, and Poster Submissions. Information on calls for other forms of submission, and on the opening of the submission system, will be made in the near future. Congress registration will also open in late 2012.

The closing date for submission will be: 10 December 2012

MEDINFO2013: 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics - to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark on August 20-23, 2013 - see http://www.medinfo2013.dk
The theme for MEDINFO2013 is "Conducting medical informatics by Converging technologies, Conveying sciences and Connecting people." The congress welcomes submissions on both emerging methodologies that contribute to the conceptual and scientific foundations of biomedical and health informatics, and successful implementations of innovative application, integration, and evaluation of eHealth systems and solutions. MEDINFO2013 is organized around four major tracks relevant to the domains of translational bioinformatics, clinical informatics, clinical research informatics, nursing informatics, consumer health informatics, and public health informatics.

The full text of this preliminary call is available:  PDF (110kb)  DOC (20kb). We ask all IMIA colleagues to cascade the information within their organisations, networks and contacts.

HIC 2012: Health Informatics – Building a healthcare future through trusted information
The annual conference of Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) will be held from July 30 – August 2 in Sydney, Australia. The life-saving capacity of quality information and the appropriate use of information and technology has inspired this year’s conference theme. At HIC, government, health practitioners, industry and researchers come together to share knowledge and tackle problems facing healthcare in Australia from a health information perspective.

For more information about HIC 2012, please visit www.hisa.org.au/hic2012

IMIA Working Group Security in Health Information Systems (SiHIS) Event: 03-05 August, Australia
The next meeting/event of the IMIA Working Group ‘Security in Health Information Systems (SiHIS) will be held on 03-05 August, 2012 in the Gold Coast, Australia. This will immediately follow the HISA (Health Informatics Society of Australia) conference, which is being held on 30 July to 02 August in Sydney - http://www.hisa.org.au/page/hic2012

The theme of the SiHIS meeting will be: Global Citizens - Accessing and Sharing Health Data Across International Borders. For further information, see http://wp.me/pvCUS-1bP or contact the WG Chair and Vice Chair (see http://www.imia-medinfo.org/new2/node/150)

HINZ2012 - Call for Submissions
Health Informatics New Zealand (HINZ) is pleased to invite submissions for their 2012 Health Informatics Conference – see http://www.hinz.org.nz/page/conference/conference-2012-cfp for further information and links to the submission system and other information on submission of papers, posters, workshops and other formats. This year’s theme, “Health Informatics into Clinical Practice“, acknowledges how critical health informatics is and can be in everyday care. HINZ are looking for stories, research, and leadership to make 2012 the Year of Health Informatics in New Zealand.

Papers:  Submissions close 30 June 2012
Workshop proposals must be submitted by 31 August 2012
Clinicians’ Challenge proposals must be submitted by 1 September 2012

MIE2012 - Pisa, Italy; August 26-29

MIE2012, the XXIV Conference of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI), will be held in Pisa, Italy. MIE2012 will be organised by the Italian Association for Medical Informatics (AIIM), the Italian eHealth Community, and EFMI and held from August 26th to 29th, 2012. The theme is "Quality of Life through Quality of Information" and the event website at http://www.mie2012.it
Three main streams have been identified for the Conference programme:
Papers, Posters, Panels, Workshops, Short Communications, and Tutorials. 
'Village of the Future' which will try to mash-up developments to empower citizens, patients and care providers. 
Commercial stream for Industrial and SME participants with the exhibition and other contributions. 
Registration to the conference is open. 

IMIA Strategic Plan Update
IMIA will be starting work in July on a process to update the IMIA Strategic Plan. The taskforce to co-ordinate this work has been approved by the IMIA Board, and further information will be provided in the August newsletter. In the interim, we invite IMIA members (in particular Member Societies and Institutional members) to read the current Strategic Plan, and consult within their organisations on ideas as to how it should be re-focused and updated. We wil be consulting widely (and virtually) among IMIA member organisations, as we wish as many members as possible to contribute, and plan for a first report and discussion on the process at the 2012 IMIA General Assembly meeting.

IMIA-NI SIG and NI Congresses - from 2012 to 2014
NI2012 (www.ni2012.org), the 11th International Congress on Nursing Informatics in Montreal, Canada is now finished. IMIA wishes to thank the IMIA-NI SIG, AMIA, the committee chairs, the participants, and eveyone who has made the event such a success, with 601 participants. Work is already well advanced for the 12th International Congress on Nursing Informatics, NI2014, to be held in Taipei in June 2014. Further information will be forthcoming.

A new leadership team has been elected by IMIA-NI, and was announced at the close of NI2012. Serving 4 year terms (2012-2016), they are Prof. Hyeoun-Ae Park (Chair - Korea), and vice chairs Lucy Westbrooke (New Zealand), Kaija Saranto (Finland), Joanne Foster (Australia) and Susan Newbold (USA). We wish them all success in their new roles.

Miscellany of short items (from news.imia.info)

ITCH 2013 Call for Papers:
The Call for Papers is available for the ITCH 2013 conference, to be held on February 21 – 23, 2013, venue the Inn at Laurel Point, Victoria, BC, Canada. The themes of ITCH 2013 will be "Available, tailored and closer: enabling health and healthcare through ICT". See http://wp.me/pvCUS-1cT  Submission deadline is 10 September, 2012.

IX International Congress on Informatics for Health (Cuba) Call for Papers:
The IX International Congress on Informatics for Health (el IX Congreso Internacional de Informática en Salud) will be held from March 18 -22, 2013 in Havana, Cuba. The conference will be held as part of the XV edition of the 2013 International Informatics Convention and Fair, which will be held at the Palace of Conventions in Havana and at the fairgrounds PABEXPO. There will also be a virtual congress from March 18th to April 18th, 2013. See http://wp.me/pvCUS-1eH
See http://www.informatica2013.sld.cu/index.php/informaticasalud/2013 for further information – you are able to toggle between Spanish and English versions of the page. Submissions of abstracts and papers: October 30th , 2012.

IFHIMA 2013 Congress:
CHIMA (Canadian Health Information Management Association) will be hosting the 17th Congress of International Federation of Health Information Management Associations (IFHIMA) on May 13th - 15th, 2013, in Montréal, Québec, Canada. See http://www.ifhimacongress2013.com/
The IFHIMA ‘Call for Abstracts’ is now open (closes September 28, 2012) and health care professionals from around the world are encouraged to respond to this call. This is a great opportunity for health information, health informatics, and industry-related professionals and stakeholders to showcase achievements, experiences, challenges, and strategies. IFHIMA (http://www.ifhima.org/) is an Affiliate Member of IMIA.

Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI) - New Open Archive
Edward H. Shortliffe, MD, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-biomedical-informatics/) has announced that JBI now features free access to all of its articles after 12 months. See http://wp.me/pvCUS-1gM
The entire pre-2011 archive of JBI is now available in the JBI Open Archive, without limitation, through ScienceDirect. The direct link is http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-biomedical-informatics/open-archive/

Forthcoming Events: Regional
APAMI (Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics)
The 2012 APAMI conference will be hosted by CMIA, China Medical Informatics Association in Beijing, China, on 24-25 October, 2012. Accordingly, the IMIA Board is scheduled to meet on October 22, and the IMIA GA on October 23. See http://wp.me/pvCUS-16Z and http://www.apami2012.org

EFMI (European Federation for Medical Informatics)
The next MIE (Medical Informatics Europe) will be MIE2012 in Pisa, Italy on 26-29 August, 2012 - http://www.mie2012.it
The next EFMI Special Topic Conference (STC2013) will be in Prague, Czech Republic on 17-19 April, 2013. MIE2014 will be in Istanbul, Turkey.

Forthcoming Events: National and Global
We should be pleased for Member Societies and others to send information about their events, so that we can share this widely.

21st Biennial International Conference, Biosignal 2012: 28-30 June, 2012. Brno, Czech Republic. http://www.biosignal.cz

7th BSI2012 (BioSignal Interpretation) Workshop: 02-04 July, 2012. Como, Italy. http://www.biomed.polimi.it/BSI2012/home.php

Surrey Informatics Summer School (SISS-2012): 09-14 July, 2012. University of Surrey, UK. http://www.clininf.eu/projects/siss/siss2012

22nd Annual SINI (Nursing Informatics): 18-20 July, 2012. Baltimore MD, USA. http://nursing.umaryland.edu/sini/

HIC2012: 30 July - 02 August, 2012. Sydney, Australia. http://www.hisa.org.au/page/hic2012

MIE2012: 26-29 August, 2012. Pisa, Italy. http://www.mie2012.it

Medicine 2.0'12: 15-16 September, 2012. Boston, MA, USA. http://www.medicine20congress.com/ocs/index.php/med/med2012

GMDS 2012: 16-21 September, 2012. Braunschweig, Germany. http://www.gmds2012.de

HIMSS AsiaPac12 Conference and Exhibition: 17-19 September, 2012. Singapore. http://www.himssasiapac.org/12/

APAMI-2012: 22-25 October, 2012. Beijing, China. http://www.apami012.org Paper submission deadline 10 July, 2012

WCIT 2012 (World Congress on Information Technology): 22-24 October, 2012. Montreal, Canada. http://www.wcit2012.org/en/

AMIA2012 Annual Symposium: 03-07 November, 2012. Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.amia.org 

HINZ 2012: 07-09 November, 2012. Rotorua, New Zealand. http://www.hinz.org.nz/page/conference Submission deadline for papers 30 June, 2012

HISI 17th Annual Symposium: 14-15 November, 2012. Dublin, Ireland. http://www.hisi.ie Submission deadline 30 September, 2012

CBIS 2012: 19-23 November, 2012. XIII Brazilian Congress on Health Informatics (XIII Congresso Brasileiro de Informática em Saúde). Curitiba, Brazil. http://www.sbis.org.br/site/site.dll/view?pagina=197

Next newsletter: August 2012 - and Feedback Welcome

The August newsletter will be published on 01 August. For more frequent news updates, and subscription options by email, RSS feeds, etc., see the IMIA News site at http://news.imia.info
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IMPORTANT 2012 DEADLINE DATES

July 10: Submission deadline for APAMI-2012
June 30: Submission deadline for HINZ 2012
December 10: Paper/poster submission deadline for Medinfo2013

FEATURED EVENTS

HIC 2012: 30 July - 02 August, 2012. Sydney, Australia. http://www.hisa.org.au/page/hic2012/

MIE2012 - August 26-29, 2012: Pisa, Italy
http://www.mie2012.it

IMIA PUBLICATIONS

The theme is of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics (2011) is "Towards Health Informatics 3.0". Several articles in the IMIA Yearbook are available as free downloads.

The 2012 IMIA Yearbook will be published soon, and will be available at MIE2012. The theme will be "Personal Health Informatics".

IMIA also has 3 official publications:

ACI

Applied Clinical Informatics (http://www.aci-journal.org/) Published by Schattauer; editor-in-chief Christoph U Lehmann (email: clehmann at jhmi.edu).
ACI has an electronic Table of Contents (eTOC) facility. and can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.
Volume 3: Isue 2 has started and currently has 7 articles - see http://wp.me/pvCUS-1g2

International Journal of Medical Informatics (IJMI)

International Journal of Medical Informatics (http://www.ijmijournal.com/home) Published by Elsevier; editors Charles Safran (email: csafran at gmail.com) and Jan Talmon (email: talmon at maastrichtuniversity.nl).
Latest eTOC is Vol. 81, Issue 7 (July 2012) - see http://wp.me/pvCUS-1hu

Methods of Information in Medicine

Methods of Information in Medicine (http://www.methods-online.com/) Published by Schattauer; editor-in-chief Reinhold Haux (email: ed at MethodsInfMed.org).
Methods has electronic Table of Contents (eTOC) facility.
Latest eTOC is Vol. 51, Issue 3 (inc. two free downloadable editorials, one by the IMIA Teasurer and President-elect, L.A. Moura Jr, and one by IMIA VP Services, C. Kulikowski)- see http://wp.me/pvCUS-1gf

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