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The electronic Journal of Health Informatics (eJHI) has just published its latest issue at http://www.ejhi.net (Vol 5, No 1, 2010), write Evelyn JS Hovenga, Editor-in-Chief and Sebastian Garde, Managing Editor. This special issue focuses on Systemic Interoperability, and is guest-edited by W. Ed Hammond, Director of the Duke Center for Health Informatics, USA. The papers [...]

CRONIA 2010: International Nursing Conference on Health in Community will take place from May 12 to 13, 2010 as a physical event, Further online parts to the conference will be facilitated until May 30, 2010 through about 50 online webinars. The event will take place at the Sheraton Zagreb Hotel, Zagreb, Croatia – full information [...]

Thomas Karopka, vice chair of the IMIA Open Source Health Informatics Working Group and Chair of the EFMI LIFOSS WG, announces that the two groups are co-organising a track that is dedicated specifically to Free/Libre Open Source Software in Health Care (FLOSS-HC) at the 8th annual Med-e-Tel conference (14-16 April 2010) (see  http://www.medetel.eu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=benefits_of_open_source_software_in_health_care) The FLOSS-HC track [...]

Submit your high-quality review articles to Methods of Information in Medicine. In a recent editorial [1] the journal Methods of Information in Medicine (www.methods-online.com) revised its structure and announced that it will publish the following types of articles: original articles; original articles devoted to a special topic; review articles; white papers, and editorials. Methods of Information in Medicine is an official journal [...]

A new two-year international Masters Programme in Health Informatics will be offered at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, commencing in September 2010. The interdisciplinary nature of health informatics will be met by collaboration between the medical university of Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University to provide faculty expertise from areas ranging from clinical medicine to information systems [...]

The 2010 Edition of the Summer School on Modern Methods in Epidemiology and Biostatistics (www.biostatepi.org) will take place from June 13 – 26, 2010 at Castle Brandolini Colomban, Cison Di Valmarino, Treviso, Italy. The School aims to provide introductory and advanced courses in medical statistics and epidemiology, and their application in etiology research and public [...]

There are now only 200 days to go the start of Medinfo2010 in Cape Town, South Africa (www.medinfo2010.org) – at least, that is what the app on my iPod Touch tells me, and Wolfram Alpha concurs. Many of you will have been receiving emails in the last 7-10 days about the outcomes of your submissions to [...]

IMIA will be at the HIMSS10 event that takes place at the Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA on 1-4 March (http://www.himssconference.org) . IMIA is pleased to be a HIMSS10 Conference Collaborator (http://www.himssconference.org/general/collaborators.aspx) and will have a booth (CS8) in Lobby C (next to ITAC, Canada); Dr Peter Murray, IMIA Executive Director will be on [...]

The latest of our irregular round-ups of health and biomedical informatics news items culled from a range of sources.  The following is an idiosyncratic and serendipitous collections of items taken from recent weeks’ RSS feeds and Twitter streams dealing with various aspects of health and informatics. (All links are for information only, and do not [...]

The AMIA 2010 Annual Symposium call for proposals (submissions of papers, posters, panels and other categories) is currently open, and closes on March 15. AMIA 2010 will take place from Saturday, November 13 to Wednesday, November 17 at the Hilton Washington & Towers, 1919 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. Full information on how to submit proposals, [...]

Carrie Dundas-Lucca, a master’s degree student at the University of North Carolina’s School of Information & Library Science, is conducting a research study on the future of Personal Health Records and what additional functionality could maximize the potential of this tool to assist patients in managing all of their personal health information. The study is titled [...]

New articles are now available in ACI – Applied Clinical Informatics (2010 Volume 1 (1)). ACI is an official journal of IMIA. The Table of Contents is online at www.aci-journal.org Interest in Health Information Exchange in Ambulatory Care: A Statewide Survey E. Tham, S. E. Ross, B. K. Mellis, B. L. Beaty, L. M. Schilling, A. [...]

The deadlines for submissions of scientific papers and other contributions to several conferences are approaching during February and March. A few of those that we have listed, and that IMIA has specific links to, include: IMIA-IFIP at WCC2010 – 20-23 September, 2010. Brisbane, Australia. http://www.wcc2010.com/migrated/EHEALTH/ IFIP and IMIA will hold a joint E-Health conference as part [...]

The latest of our irregular round-ups of health and biomedical informatics news items culled from a range of sources.  The following is an idiosyncratic and serendipitous collections of items taken from recent weeks’ RSS feeds and Twitter streams dealing with various aspects of health and informatics. (All links are for information only, and do not [...]

The January 2010 newsletter from the Medinfo2010 Local Organising Committee (LOC) is now available. Among news items to note: - IBM have been confirmed as a Gold level sponsor. They should also have Medinfo2010 materials on their booth at the HIMSS10 conference (as will the IMIA booth); - Dr Najeeb Al-Shorbaji, Director, Department of Knowledge Management and Sharing [...]

HEALTH INFORMATICS: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES – an international conference addressing Information Technology and Communications in Health (ITCH). ITCH 2011 will take place on February 24 – 27, 2011 at the Inn at Laurel Point, Victoria, BC, Canada. Persons interested in presenting should submit completed papers to the ITCH 2011 Steering Committee no later than June 30, [...]

IMIA has three official journals: Methods of Information in Medicine (http://www.methods-online.com/) (Schattauer Publishers Stuttgart); Applied Clinical Informatics (http://www.aci-journal.org/) (Schattauer Publishers Stuttgart); International Journal of Medical Informatics (http://www.ijmijournal.com/home) (Elsevier). IJMI has RSS feeds to allow easy following of updates on contents, etc. – see http://www.ijmijournal.com/rss for further information. Methods and ACI have eTOC (electronic Table of Contents) options on the journal [...]

NI2012 – the 11th International Congress on Nursing Informatics – will be held in Montréal, Canada on June 23 – 27, 2012. Full information will be provided on the NI2012 website as it becomes available – www.ni2012.org The Congress provides a forum for nurses and other health care professionals to inform, study, evaluate, innovate, and create [...]

SINI2010 will be the 20th Anniversary Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics, offered by the University of Maryland School of Nursing’s Office of Professional Development and Continuing Education. Keynote and featured speakers include Connie Delaney, Patricia Flatley Brennan and Judy Murphy. The Call for Abstracts is open, and closes on 15 March, 2010. SINI2010 will take place on [...]

Call for papers: 1st IFIP-IMIA International e-Health Joint Conference. The deadline for submissions has been extended to 15 February, 2010. For details, see http://www.wcc2010.com/EHEALTH, or direct at http://www.wcc2010.com/call-for-papers For the first time, IFIP and IMIA (International Medical Informatics Association) will hold a joint E-Health conference as part of “Treat IT” stream of the IFIP World Congress [...]