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<DIV>ich darf den Monthly Newsletter der International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) zur Information weiterleiten</DIV>
<DIV>und dabei die Gelegenheit nutzen, besonders auf TOP 5 hinzuweisen: Die Submission Deadline für die eHealth2014-Konferenz im Mai 2014 in Wien endet am 27.1.2014, weitere Informationen hierzu finden Sie unter <A href="http://www.ehealth2014.at">www.ehealth2014.at</A>. </DIV>
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<DIV> Elske Ammenwerth<BR><BR>>>> <info@gmds.de> 16.12.2013 12:55 >>><BR>Sehr geehrte Frau Dr. Ammenwerth,<BR><BR><BR>wir möchten Sie auf den monatlichen Newsletter der IMIA aufmerksam machen:<BR><BR>IMIA Monthly Newsletter<BR>December 2013: Issue 56<BR><BR>In This Issue<BR>1. Season's Greetings to the IMIA Family<BR>2. Student Editorial Board of Methods, 2014-15 - Applications Invited<BR>3. EFMI STC 2014, MIE2014 - Submission Deadlines<BR>4. NI2014 - 12th International Congress of Nursing Informatics (IMIA-NI SIG)<BR>5. eHealth 2014 (Vienna, Austria): Submission Deadline 27 January<BR>6. Second International Conference on Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare<BR>7. Please ensure your information is up to date; reminder on IMIA fee<BR>8. Updates From IMIA Journals - ACI and Methods<BR>9. Miscellany: short items<BR>10. Forthcoming events<BR> a] Regional events<BR> b] National/global events<BR>11. Next newsletter: January 2014<BR> <BR>Season's Greetings to the IMIA Family<BR>On behalf of the IMIA President, Dr Lincoln de Assis Moura Jr., and the IMIA Board, we extend season's greetings to the whole IMIA family. We thank everyone for all their contributions to IMIA and its activities in 2013, and we wish you and your colleagues, friends and family an even more productive and interactive 2014. One of the major highlights of 2014 will be the first ever IMIA General Assembly meeting in New Delhi, India; we look forward to meeting many colleagues there.<BR><BR>Student Editorial Board of Methods of Information in Medicine, 2014-15 - Applications Invited<BR>The journal Methods of Information in Medicine invites applications from trainees who wish to be considered for the Student Editorial Board for the period 2014-15. The goal of the Student Editorial Board is to learn, understand, and participate in the peer review process of submitted manuscripts that are considered for publication. The Student Editorial Board will provide outstanding trainees with a mentored opportunity to learn and experience the various aspects of the peer review process. During the appointment period members of the Student Editorial Board will receive educational material, instruction, and feedback about peer review, and actively participate in the review of 3-5 manuscripts per year. Applicants from all countries are eligible if they are enrolled as a trainee in a graduate degree granting or post-doctoral training program. Full information is available in a zip file via the Methods website >>> The closing date for applications is 18 December, 2013. If you have any questions please direct them to Ms. Ina Hoffmann, email: ed[at]MethodsInfMed.org Methods of Information in Medicine is an official journal of IMIA.<BR> <BR>EFMI STC 2014 and MIE2014 - Submission Deadlines 03 January<BR>The submission deadlines have been announced for two important European events in 2014 - the EFMI Special Topic Conference (STC) 2014 and MIE2014.<BR><BR>For the EFMI STC 2014, the deadline for all submissions is now extended to 03 January, 2014. See <A href="http://www.stc2014.org">http://www.stc2014.org</A> for this and more information as it becomes available. The EFMI STC 2014 will be held in Budapest, Hungary on 26-29 April.<BR>For MIE2014 (Istanbul, Turkey), the deadline for submissions is 31 January, 2014 - see <A href="http://www.mie2014.org/?page=Call_for_Submissions">http://www.mie2014.org/?page=Call_for_Submissions</A><BR><BR>We encourage all colleagues - especially, but not limited to, those within Europe - to submit to and participate in these events.<BR> <BR>NI2014 - 12th International Congress of Nursing Informatics<BR>NI 2014, the 12th International Congress on Nursing Informatics, will be held at the Taipei International Convention Center (very near to Taipei 101) on June 21-25, 2014 - see <A href="http://wp.me/pvCUS-1IM">http://wp.me/pvCUS-1IM</A> and <A href="http://www.ni2014.org">http://www.ni2014.org</A><BR><BR>We ask all IMIA Member Societies and other members, and nursing/informatics organisations, to promote this event, which is held under the auspices of the IMIA-NI SIG (Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group). The theme of the conference is “eSmart + ” where “e” stands for eHealth, “S” implies simplicity, “m” represents mobility and meaningful use, “a” denotes advanced leadership, “r” indicates revolution, “t” means translational technologies, and “+” symbolizes People Leading uCare Safely. The acronym is also used to convey the idea of adopting smart technology to help health providers deliver higher quality care.<BR><BR>Online registration will open on 15 December, and the deadline for early advance registration is 15 February, 2014. Full details are at <A href="http://www.ni2014.org/RegistrationInformation.html">http://www.ni2014.org/RegistrationInformation.html</A><BR> <BR> <BR>eHealth 2014 (Vienna, Austria) Conference: Submission Deadline 27 January<BR>The Call for Participation is open for eHealth 2014: Health Informatics meets eHealth (8th annual conference). The event is organised by, among others, IMIA's Member Society in Austria, the Working Group Medical Informatics and eHealth of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) and the Austrian Society for Biomedical Engineering (ÖGBMT) (http://iig.umit.at/akmi/akmi.htm). Conference dates: May 22-23, 2014. Location: Schloss Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria.<BR>Submission deadline: January 27, 2014 - Website: <A href="http://ehealth2014.at/">http://ehealth2014.at/</A><BR>Proceedings will be published with IOS Press, and submission and presentations are possible both in English and German.<BR> <BR>Second International Conference on Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare<BR>The International Conference on Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare (BDAH 2014) - organised by the National University of Singapore, Centre for Health Informatics - provides a leading forum for researchers, healthcare administrators, care-providers, and policy makers to disseminate and share cutting-edge research and practice, and gain insights into the challenges, opportunities, novel strategies, and analytic tools and techniques for dealing with big data in healthcare. The Call for Papers is open, with submissions due on 31 January (workshop proposals) and 14 February (papers). Full information is available at <A href="http://www.bdah.org">http://www.bdah.org</A> The event will be held on 22-24 July, 2014 in Singapore.<BR><BR>Please ensure your information is up to date; reminder on IMIA fees<BR>If you are an official representative to IMIA, or administrative contact, of an IMIA Member Society, Institutional Member, WG/SIG, or any other category, please check your page on the IMIA website and provide any necessary information updates. It is especially important that we have correct contact details for representatives to the IMIA General Assembly. Thank you to all members who have paid their IMIA membership fees. If you have not, we should be grateful if you would arrange payment as soon as possible. <BR> <BR>Updates From IMIA Journals - ACI and Methods<BR>ACI Editor Prof. Chris Lehmann and publishers Schattauer are pleased to announce that the all papers from the first 13 issues of ACI (up to and including Vol 3, Issue 3, totaling almost 120 articles) are now free and openly available for download. They are available via the Journal Archive at www.aci-journal.org<BR><BR>The latest issue of Methods of Information in Medicine (Volume 52, Issue 6) contains several important freely available items for download. There is an Editorial titled "The World Health Assembly Resolutions on eHealth: eHealth in Support of Universal Health Coverage" authored by Najeeb Al-Shorbaji, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (download). The other three free downloads are linked: a discussion paper titled “Biomedical Informatics: We are what we publish“ (Elkin, Brown and Wright - download), which is introduced by an editorial (Beuscart: "Know thyself" - download), and followed by a commentary paper (Geissbuhler et al, with contributions from colleagues in Switzerland, Spain, Netherlands, USA, Egypt, Argentina and Australia - download) which collates invited comments. Methods invites colleagues to continue the discussion in subsequent issues through letters to the editor.<BR> <BR>Miscellany of Short Items (from news.imia.info)<BR>Call for Papers - International Workshop on Pattern Recognition for Healthcare Analytics<BR>The purpose of this workshop is to bring together pattern recognition and healthcare researchers interested in healthcare analytics and applications of pattern recognition in this field. See <A href="https://sites.google.com/site/iwprha2/home">https://sites.google.com/site/iwprha2/home</A> for full information and dates. Abstract submission deadline is 01 March, 2014 and full paper submission deadline is 01 April, 2014. The workshop is co-located with ICPR2014, the 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition, on 22-24 August 2014 in Stockholm, Sweden (http://www.icpr2014.org). For information, please contact Jianying Hu, IBM T.J. Watson Research (jyhu[at]us.ibm.com). <BR><BR>HIMSS14 - Orlando, FL, USA; 23-27 February, 2014<BR>The HIMSS14 Annual Conference and Exhibition will be held in Orlando, Florida on 23-27 February, 2014. Full information is at <A href="http://www.himssconference.org">http://www.himssconference.org</A> IMIA is pleased to continue to endorse the event and encourages members to participate. One of the keynote speakers will be Hillary Rodham Clinton, Former Secretary of State and Former U.S. Senator from New York. Registration is now open.<BR><BR>AMIA events in early 2014<BR>- iHealth2014: January 30 - February 01, 2014 in Orlando, FL, USA. <A href="http://www.ihealthconference.org">http://www.ihealthconference.org</A><BR>- AMIA 2014 Joint Summits on Translational Science: April 07-11, 2014 in San Francisco, CA, USA. <A href="http://www.amia.org/jointsummits2014">http://www.amia.org/jointsummits2014</A><BR>IFHIMA Global News<BR>The latest issue of IFHIMA's Global News (Number 14, December 2013) is a 48-page special issue reporting and reflecting on the IFHIMA Congress held in Montreal, Canada in May 2013.<BR><BR>Forthcoming Events: Regional<BR>APAMI (Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics)<BR>The 2014 APAMI conference will be hosted by IAMI, the Indian Association for Medical Informatics, and held in New Delhi, India on 01-02 November, 2014. Further information is available at www.apami2014.com<BR><BR>EFMI (European Federation for Medical Informatics)<BR>The EFMI STC 2014 will be on 26-29 April, 2014 in Budapest, Hungary - <A href="http://www.stc2014.org">http://www.stc2014.org</A> The next MIE (Medical Informatics Europe) will be MIE2014 in Istanbul, Turkey. The dates are 31 August - 03 September, 2014. See <A href="http://www.mie2014.org">http://www.mie2014.org</A> and follow on Twitter @MIE2014 (https://twitter.com/MIE2014) MIE2015 will be held in Spain.<BR><BR>IMIA-LAC (Latin America and Caribbean)<BR>The next INFOLAC conference will be held in Montevideo, Uruguay on 16-17 October, 2014. See <A href="http://www.infolac2014.org">http://www.infolac2014.org</A><BR><BR>Forthcoming Events: national and Global<BR>iHealth 2014: 31 January-01 February, 2014. Orlando FL, USA. [AMIA] <A href="http://ihealthconference.org">http://ihealthconference.org</A><BR><BR>HIMSS14: 23-27 February, 2014. Orlando FL, USA. [HIMSS] <A href="http://www.himssconference.org">http://www.himssconference.org</A><BR><BR>Big Data 2014: 03-04 April, 2014. Melbourne, Australia. [HISA] <A href="http://www.hisa.org.au/page/bigdata2014">http://www.hisa.org.au/page/bigdata2014</A><BR><BR>AMIA 2014 Joint Summits: 07-11 April, 2014. San Francisco, CA, USA. [AMIA] <A href="http://www.amia.org/jointsummits2014">http://www.amia.org/jointsummits2014</A><BR><BR>EFMI STC 2014: 26-29 April, 2014. Budapest, Hungary. [EFMI] <A href="http://www.stc2014.org">http://www.stc2014.org</A><BR><BR>eHealth 2014 (Austria): 22-23 May, 2014. Vienna, Austria. [AKMI] <A href="http://ehealth2014.at">http://ehealth2014.at</A><BR><BR>e-Health 2014 (Canada): 01-04 June, 2014. Vancouver, BC, Canada. [COACH] <A href="http://www.e-healthconference.com">http://www.e-healthconference.com</A><BR><BR>NI2014: 21-25 June, 2014. Taipei, Taiwan. [IMIA-NI] <A href="http://www.ni2014.org">http://www.ni2014.org</A><BR><BR>HIC 2014: 11-14 August, 2014. Melbourne, Australia. [HISA] <A href="http://www.hisa.org.au/page/hic2014">http://www.hisa.org.au/page/hic2014</A><BR><BR>MIE2014: 31 August - 03 September, 2014. Istanbul, Turkey. [EFMI] <A href="http://www.mie2014.org">http://www.mie2014.org</A><BR><BR>APAMI2014: 01-02 November, 2014. New Delhi, India. [APAMI] <A href="http://www.apami2014.com">http://www.apami2014.com</A><BR><BR>AMIA2014: 15-19 November, 2014. Washington, DC, USA. [AMIA] <A href="http://www.amia.org/amia2014">http://www.amia.org/amia2014</A><BR><BR><BR>Next Newsletter: January 2014<BR>The next monthly newsletter will be published on approx. 02 January. For more frequent news updates, and subscription options by email, RSS feeds, etc., see the IMIA News site at <A href="http://news.imia.info">http://news.imia.info</A> If you have items to be included in the newsletter, please submit to news@imia-services.org by 5 days before the publication date.<BR><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>