[AK-MI] IMIA Monthly News Bulletin - No. 45, January 2013

[Elske Ammenwerth]

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IMIA Monthly News Bulletin - No. 45, January 2013

In This Issue
1. Medinfo2013: Deadline for Submissions
2. MEAHI Conference - Dubai, UAE
3. HIMSS13 in New Orleans
4. EFMI STC 2013 - Prague, Czech Republic
5. HINZ Update
6. IMIA Strategic Plan Update
7. IMIA Award of Excellence 2013: Nominations Invited
8. 2013 European Summit on Trustworthy Reuse of Data; IJMI Paper from
2012 Summit
9. HISA (Australia) and SAHIA (South Africa) Events in 2013
10. IMIA History and Archives Project - Seeking Materials
11. Inventory of Evaluation Studies (IMIA/EFMI WGs)
12. Miscellany: short items
13. Forthcoming events
  a] Regional events
  b] National/global events
14. Next newsletter: February 2013

We extend best wishes to all colleagues, friends, and IMIA members and
representatives for a happy and prosperous new year. We look forward to
seeing many of you at IMIA events and associated activities during 2013
and beyond. The highlight, of course, will be Medinfo2013 - but don't
forget regional events such as those organised by MEAHI and EFMI,
activities of Member Societies such as HISA in Australia, HINZ in New
Zealand, AMIA in the USA, COACH in Canada, SAHIA in South Africa, and
events offered by Institutional Members such as HIMSS and our academic
members.

Medinfo2013: Call for panels, workshops, tutorials etc. - Deadline 10
January 2013 
    
MEDINFO2013, the 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics,
will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark: August, 2013 - see
http://www.medinfo2013.dk

The full Call for Submissions is available on the Medinfo2013 website -
see http://www.medinfo2013.dk/node/13  The closing date for submission
of proposals for panels, tutorials, workshops, and demos and Care for
the World proposals will be: 10 January 2013

SPC co-chairs Tze-Yun Leong and Domink Aronsky highlight that: The
theme for MEDINFO 2013 is “Conducting medical informatics by Converging
technologies, Conveying sciences and Connecting people,” with an
emphasis on how human-centered, integrative approaches can contribute to
usable, adaptive, and cost-effective e-Health solutions for the world.
The congress welcomes a broad range of 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. The program will also feature a
special “Care for the World” mini-symposium of global, regional, and
national initiatives and programs, which highlights the visions,
challenges, and opportunities for research and/or industry collaboration
and innovation in biomedical and health informatics. See also the SPC
co-chairs' editorial (free download) in
the latest issue of 'Methods'.

We ask all IMIA colleagues to cascade the information within their
organisations, networks and contacts. We also ask that IMIA Member
Societies and others help to promote Medinfo2013 with links from their
websites. Many thanks to AMIA, HISA and ACHI (Australia), IAMI (India),
CMIA (China), APAMI, SAHIA (South Africa), University of Melbourne, ACI
Journal, and all other colleagues, collective and individual, that we
have not specifically mentioned for their support in distributing the
information.

Lene Vistisen, LOC Chair, invites you to join the LinkedIn group for
Medinfo2013 – http://www.linkedin.com/groups/medinfo-2013-4432894



MEAHI Conference - Dubai, 22-24 April 2013
The 4th Middle East Conference on Healthcare Informatics, with the
theme "Applied Health Informatics: A Regional Trend or a Priority?" will
be held on 22 - 24 April 2013 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The event
is being organised by the Middle East Association for Health Informatics
(MEAHI - www.meahi.org), which brings together IMIA members in the
region. In su
pport of the event, the IMIA Board will meet in Dubai.
Information on the Call for Submissions is on the MEAHI website (and on
IMIA News at http://wp.me/pvCUS-1uT) - the deadline for submissions is
01 March, 2013. Dr. Ramin Moghaddam, Conference Chair and MEAHI Founding
President, invites all colleagues to participate in this event.
This is the fourth periodical health informatics conference in the
Middle East region since October 2002; the conference aims to explore
further the role of informatics in healthcare, and pragmatic
informatics-driven approaches to enhance healthcare quality services
based on regional needs and an inspired strategy : “Better Health
Through Better Information". Themes will include 'From eHealth policy to
practice', education and research, public health informatics, clinical
informatics, and nursing informatics. A Facebook event page is available
at https://www.facebook.com/events/236490406484455/

HIMSS13 Annual Conference and Exhibition
HIMSS13, the Annual Conference and Exhibition of Healthcare Information
and Management Systems Society (HIMSS - www.himss.org) will be held in
New Orleans on 03-07 March, 2013, at the Ernest N Morial Convention
Center. Full information on the schedule, registration, hotel booking
etc is available through the event website at
http://www.himssconference.org  Keynote speakers will include President
Bill Clinton, Founder of The William J. Clinton Foundation, 42nd
President of the United States of America; Karl Rove, Fox News
Contributor & Wall Street Journal Columnist, Former Deputy Chief of
Staff and Senior Advisor to President Bush; and Eric J. Topol, West
Endowed Chair of Innovative Medicine, Scripps Health and Professor of
Genomics, The Scripps Research Institute.

IMIA is pleased to continue as a Collaborator for HIMSS13, and
encourages its members to attend the event.
EFMI STC 2013 
The Czech Society of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Informatics and
the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI) will host the next
EFMI Special Topic Conference (STC), “Data and Knowledge for Medical
Decision Support”, in Prague, Czech Republic, on April 17 – 19, 2013.
The EFMI STC 2013 is continuing the series of successful EFMI STC
conferences. It is one of the most important European events in the
domains of biomedicine including health care and informatics covering
information science and technology. Full information is on the STC
website at http://stc2013.org
Health Informatics New Zealand (HINZ) Update
Health Informatics New Zealand (HINZ - http://www.hinz.org.nz) is a
national, not-for-profit organisation whose focus is to facilitate
improvements in business processes and patient care in the health sector
through the application of appropriate information technologies. In
November 2012, HINZ hosted it's 11th annual conference which brought
together more than 350 professionals, respected international presenters
, and vendors representing the latest in eHealth technology. Content
presented at the event, including videos of the plenary sessions, can be
found at http://www.hinz.org.nz/page/conference/conference-2012-post

Featuring at the HINZ conference was a mobile application providing
delegates with the ability to view the conference program, provide live
feedback and answer any questions that came from the floor.  At the
event, several awards were given including the Robyn Carr Spirit Cup to
Ann Browett, founding Chair of HINZ for displaying steadfast commitment
and determination in furthering the goals and achievements of nursing
informatics. Julie Lucas received the best student paper award.  The
Clinicians Challenge once again provided a unique opportunity for
clinicians and vendors to identify information technology solutions to
solve an important and recurring problem that health professionals face
in their ‘day-to-day' practice. The third annual Clinicians’ Challenge
was won by Dr. Jo Scott-Jones for his case on the role that standing
orders could play in the development of pra
ctice teams and their
facility to improve access for patients to safe, acceptable and
effective care. 
Congratulations to CSC who were this year's Clinicians’ Challenge
winning vendor.

After serving two years, Tom Bowden stepped down as HINZ chair and was
succeeded by Liz Schoff.  In her term as chair, Liz will apply increased
focus on patient self-management and citizen engagement in the health
system as well as the technical and non-technical changes that will be
needed to enable this.  A new IMIA representative was appointed. Dr.
Inga Hunter has practised medicine for more than 20 years in Ireland,
Australia and New Zealand, and has extensive experience in a variety of
clinical settings in general practice, primary, secondary, and tertiary
care. Inga looks forward to meeting the IMIA team at the next
international meeting. 

The HINZ 2013 conference will be held in Rotorua and we invite all our
international colleagues to join us in one of the most beautiful places
in the world - New Zealand.  The HINZ Executive wishes all our
international friends a safe and happy festive season and New Year.

[Note: we welcome updates on activity from other IMIA Member Societies
for publication here or on IMIA News. Please remember to make sure the
information about your society on the main IMIA website is updated]
IMIA Strategic Plan Update - Final Request for Round 1 Replies
Thank you to those IMIA members and colleagues who completed, or
provided initial thoughts on, the first round survey sent in August
2012. We received very useful material, which has been analysed, but
would like to have input from a greater number and wider range of IMIA
members - in particular IMIA Member Societies. The survey has been
slightly updated to add some new questions. If you have already
completed this survey, there is no need to complete this new version in
full - but you may wish to respond to the additional questions about
progress on the existing IMIA Strategic Plan. The new/updated survey is
downloadable (MS Word document) at
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20289142/IMIA-Strategy-2013/IMIAStrategicPlanUpdate-MemberSurveyandRequestforResponses.doc

Please email your completed survey questions, or any other comments, to
imia-virtual-office at vodamail.co.za  and copy to imia at imia-services.org
In addition, please indicate whether the reply is a personal view, or on
behalf of an IMIA Society/Institution/WG, etc. The deadline for
responses is 20 February, 2013 - this will allow us to do analysis and
present an initial report to the IMIA Board at its April meeting.
IMIA Award of Excellence 2013: Nominations Invited
IMIA invites nominations for the fourth IMIA Award of Excellence, to be
presented at Medinfo2013 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Full details will be
posted on the IMIA website and IMIA News within the next few days. The
closing date for nominations will be 10 March, 2013.

The IMIA Award of Excellence is given in conjunction with Medinfo. The
criteria for a potential recipient of the Medical Informatics Award of
Excellence are: “an individual whose personal commitment and dedication
to medical informatics has made a lasting contribution to medicine and
healthcare through her or his achievements in research, education,
development or application in the field of medical informatics.” The
first award was given at MedInfo2004 in San Francisco to Dr. François
Grémy. The recipient the second award, made at Medinfo2007 in
Brisbane, was Dr. Jan H. van Bemmel. The third award was made at
Medinfo2010 in Cape Town, jointly to Dr Marion Ball and Dr Hans
Peterson.
2013 European Summit on Trustworthy Reuse of Data; IJMI Paper from 2012
Summit
IMIA is pleased to announce that it will host the 2013 European Summit
on the Trustworthy Reuse of Health Data
(http://euhealthdata2013.imia.info). The Summit will build on the
discussions and activities initiated at the 2012 Summit.

The 2013 Summit will occur on 3-4 June 2013 in Brussels Belgium at the
Le Plaza Hotel (http://www.leplaza-brussels.be). S
ummit participation
will by invitation only. If you would like to express interest, and
receive future communications and information regarding the
Transnational Health Data Reuse Initiative and the 2013 European Summit
on Trustworthy Reuse of Health Data, please complete and submit your
contact information using this link:
http://bit.ly/2013_EU_SummitonTrustworthyReuseofHealthData 

The 2013 Summit is part of IMIA’s broader Transnational Health Data
Reuse Initiative. This Initiative is focused on stimulating robust
discussions about health data reuse at the global level. Several
stakeholder-specific engagements and events are being planned throughout
2013. Additional information about the Initiative and its calendar will
be published on the IMIA website at a later date.

Summaries of the 2012 Summit’s proceedings and output have been
documented via a publication and through video. A journal article about
the Summit, “Trustworthy reuse of health data; A transnational
perspective” by A. Geissbuhler, C. Safran, I. Buchan, R. Bellazzi, S.
Labkoff, K. Eilenberg, A. Leese, C. Richardson, J. Mantas, P. Murray, G.
De Moor was published in the International Journal of Medical
Informatics (IJMI - Vol 82:1, pp. 1-9) and is available for free
download. The Summit’s YouTube channel with all of the plenary sessions
may be accessed via the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/user/EUSTRHD Other material from the 2012 Summit
remains available at: http://euhealthdata2012.imia.info
HISA (Australia) and SAHIA (South Africa) Events in 2013
HISA, the Health Informatics Society of Australia, (www.hisa.org.au)
has announced calls for papers for two important events in 2013 – their
annual HIC conference and their Big Data 2013 event. HIC 2013 - Health
Informatics: Digital Health Service Delivery – the Future is Now! will
be held on July 15-18, 2013 in Adelaide, Australia. Full information on
the Call for Papers, expressions of interest, etc is available via the
HIC 2013 website at http://www.hisa.org.au/page/hic2013  Paper
submission deadline is Monday 18 February.

Big Data 2013 will follow on from the success of HISA’s Data Governance
conferences of 2011 and 2012. Big Data 2013 is Australia’s first Big
Data in biomedicine and healthcare conference. The conference will focus
on issues around big data, biomedical informatics, personalised
medicine, genomics, health 2.0 and data governance. The event will be
held on 18-19 April, 2013 at Rydges, Melbourne, Australia. Paper
submission deadline is Monday 14 January 2013. Full information is at
http://www.hisa.org.au/page/bigdata2013

SAHIA, the South African Health Informatics Association, is holding
their conference on 03-05 July, 2013 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. A
Facebook event page is available at
https://www.facebook.com/events/278531035589745/   The conference theme
will be "Empowering patients and healthcare professionals with
information and technologies". The conference website
(http://hisa.nmmu.ac.za) will go live on Monday, 21 January 2013;
registration will open and the call for submissions will be formally
launched. Submissions in the form of research papers, case study
presentations, posters, and workshops will be invited.information will
follow.

IMIA History and Archives Project - Seeking Materials
IMIA has a project to develop a "History of International Medical
Informatics". The project proposal and taskforce have been lead by Prof.
Casimir Kulikowski, who will continue to lead the activities. As part of
this project, and linked to developing and securing IMIA's archives, we
are seeking materials relevant to IMIA and international health, medical
and biomedical informatics over the past 50 years. If you have materials
that you think might be relevant, and are willing to donate, or allow us
to scan and archive, please contact the IMIA Office via
imia at imia-services.org to discuss further. We will say more about this
project in future newsletters and via other IMIA communications
channels. W
e are very grateful to past IMIA Secretary Diarmuid UcConaill
who has already scanned many of his papers from the 1980s onwards to
help provide archive materials.
Inventory of Health IT Evaluation Studies
The IMIA WG Health Technology and Quality Assessment and EFMI WG
Assessment of Health Information Systems
(http://www.imia-medinfo.org/new2/node/154  http://iig.umit.at/efmi/)
provide and maintain the Inventory of Health IT Evaluation Studies and
Systematic Reviews.  Dr Nicolette de Keizer, Chair of the IMIA Working
Group writes: This repository was created to help researchers to
identify evaluation studies that have been conducted in defined
settings. It now contains more than 1700 references to published
evaluation studies and reviews of evaluation studies of health
information systems. The repository is the result of a systematic
literature search, first conducted in 2003 and updated in 2006, 2009 and
2012. Since 2009, the repository is also updated based on input from
researchers from all over the world. To support this, the repository
website offers the possibility to propose studies that should be entered
into the database.The inventory is available for free at:
http://evaldb.umit.at

Miscellany of short items (from news.imia.info)
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 13-15, 2013, in
Montréal, Québec, Canada. See http://www.ifhimacongress2013.com/  IFHIMA
(http://www.ifhima.org/) is an Affiliate Member of IMIA.

Context Sensitive Health Informatics Pre-Medinfo2013 Conference: Call
for Papers
The Call for Papers is available for the "Context Sensitive Health
Informatics" event, a pre-Medinfo conference jointly organized/supported
by several IMIA WG (Human Factors Engineering for Healthcare
Informatics, Organizational and Social Issues, Health Informatics for
Patient Safety). The event will be held on 17 and 18 August, 2013 at the
ITX Lab at Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.  For more information
about the conference and the call please see the conference web site: 
www.cshi2013.org (under construction). Submission deadline for papers: 1
February 2013. See http://wp.me/pvCUS-1ql

Forthcoming Events: Regional
APAMI (Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics)
The 2014 APAMI conference will be hosted by IAMI, the Indian
Association for Medical Informatics. Further details in due course.

EFMI (European Federation for Medical Informatics)
The next EFMI Special Topic Conference (STC2013) will be in Prague,
Czech Republic on 17-19 April, 2013. See www.stc2013.org and
http://wp.me/pvCUS-1l1
The next MIE (Medical Informatics Europe) will be MIE2014 in Istanbul,
Turkey. The dates are 31 August - 03 September, 2014.  MIE2015 will be
held in Spain.
MEAHI
The 4th Middle East Conference on Healthcare Informatics will be held
on 22 - 24 April 2013 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. See www.meahi.org

Forthcoming Events: National and Global
ITCH 2013: 21-23 February, 2013. Information Technology and
Communications in Health. Victoria, BC, Canada.
http://www.uvic.ca/hsd/itch

HIMSS13: 03-07 March, 2013. HIMSS  Annual Conference and Exhibition.
New Orleans, USA. http://www.himssconference.org

Informatica Salud 2013: 18-22 March, 2013. IX International Congress on
Informatics for Health (el IX Congreso Internacional de Informática en
Salud). Havana, Cuba.
http://www.informatica2013.sld.cu/index.php/informaticasalud/2013

AMIA  2013 Joint Summits on Translational Science: 18-22 March, 2013.
San Francisco, CA, USA. http://www.amia.org/jointsummits2013

Rutgers 31st Annual Interprofessional International Technology
Conference: 05-07 April, 2013. Atlantic City, NJ, USA.
http://nursing.rutgers.edu/conferences/april-5-7-2013-31st-annual-rutgers-interprofessional-international-technology-conference

EFMI Special Topic Conference (STC2013): 17-19 April, 2013. Prague,
Czech Republic. http:/
/www.stc2013.org

Big Data 2013 (HISA): 18-19 April, 2013. Melbourne, Australia.
http://www.hisa.org.au/page/bigdata2013 Paper submission deadline 14
January

4th Middle East Conference: 22-24 April, 2013. Dubai, UAE.
http://www.meahi.org Submissions deadline 01 March

17th IFHIMA Congress: 13-15 May, 2013. Montréal, Québec, Canada.
http://www.ifhimacongress2013.com

ehealth2013 (Austria): 23-24 May, 2013. Vienna, Austria.
http://www.ehealth2013.at Paper submission deadline 20 January;
workshops etc 28 February

e-health 2013 (COACH): 26-29 May, 2013. Ottawa, Canada.
http://www.e-healthconference.com

AIME 2013: 29 May - 01 June, 2013. Murcia, Spain.
http://www.aimedicine.info/aime13/

ISHIMR2013: 26-28 June, 2013. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
https://www.ishimr2013.com/ Submission deadline 28 February

HISA 2013 (SAHIA, South Africa): 03-05 July, 2013. Port Elizabeth,
South Africa. https://www.facebook.com/events/278531035589745/

HIC 2013 (HISA, Australia): 15-18 July, 2013. Adelaide, Australia.
http://www.hisa.org.au/page/hic2013 Paper submission deadline 18
February

Medicine 2.0'13: 23-24 September, 2013. London, UK.
http://www.medicine20congress.com Abstract submission deadline 07 March


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