IMIA News

All IMIA Academic Institutional Members are invited to attend the Workshop: “Education in Health and Biomedical Informatics (H&BI): the perspective from academic and research institutions” to be held on Monday September 13th 2010, from 19h to 20’30h in Room 2.2.6 at the MEDINFO 2010 Conference Venue, i.e. the Cape Town International Convention Centre in Cape [...]

For the first time in its 24 year history, the Information Technology and Communications in Health (ITCH 2011) conference will include a Professional (non-student) Poster Session. An abstract, no longer than 500 words, that describes each poster presentation must be submitted for review by November 1, 2010. Full details are at http://itch.uvic.ca/Postersession.php Information on the [...]

Blog posts reporting on some of the sessions at SINI2010, the 20th (Anniversary) Annual Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics, are available at http://www.hi-blogs.info SINI2010 was organised by and delivered at the University of Maryland School of Nursing – Baltimore. This year’s theme was “Nursing Informatics: From First Use to Meaningful Use”, and the main conference [...]

The World Health Organization’s Global Observatory for eHealth (GOe) has announced the launch of its first photography competition in collaboration with the eHealth Strategy Office of the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine in preparation for its telehealth and mobile Health (mHealth) publications for the eHealth series 2010. The deadline for submission of entries [...]

Two IMIA official journals, ACI and Methods of Information in Medicine, both published by Schattauer, have eTOC (electronic tables of contents). To keep up to date on the latest changes, new articles, etc., you can subscribe to these. We also publish the eTOCs on this site. A logo-link to the eTOC subscription page is in [...]

AMIA2010 AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association – www.amia.org) have announced that registration is now open for the AMIA 2010 Symposium (http://symposium2010.amia.org). AMIA2010 will be the 34th consecutive year for the event, which will present cutting-edge scientific research on biomedical and health informatics. Scientific Program Committee chair is Gil Kuperman, MD, from Columbia University. The AMIA2010 [...]

The Argentine Congress of Informatics and Health 2010 (Congreso Argentino de Informática y Salud – CAIS2010) will take place on 30 August -1 September 2010, at the University Argentina de la Empresa (UADE), Buenos Aires, Argentina. The programme and organising committees include members of the Argentine Association of Medical Informatics, Universidad Austral and University of [...]

The publishers, Schattauer, announce that three additional new articles are now available for the second issue of the eJournal ACI – Applied Clinical Informatics – an official eJournal of IMIA and AMDIS. The Table of Contents and individual articles (for these and the other articles in the issue) are online at www.aci-journal.org Innovative telemonitoring system [...]

Anyone interested in attending the MIE2011 conference (XXIII International Conference of the European Federation for Medical Informatics – www.mie2011.org), to be held on August 28-31, 2011 in Oslo/Akerhus, Norway, is invited to ‘pre-register’ to be kept updated with information. Pre-register by sending an mail to info@mie2011.org marked “pre-register”. By pre-registering, you express your interest in [...]

COACH: Canada’s Health Informatics Association (www.coachorg.com) has made many of the presentations from its recent e-health 2010 conference available online. Materials from many of the Concurrent Session and Round Table Session are available as PDFs of the PowerPoint presentations at http://www.e-healthconference.com/presentations.html Among the many excellent presentations are: eLearning In Health: An African Experience by Maurice [...]

There is a new Medinfo2010 group on LinkedIn; anyone who uses this social networking site for professionals is welcome to join the group. The group is at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3175343 (URL will only work properly if you are a LinkedIn member and signed in) or you can search the groups directory. The purpose is to provide another [...]

The preliminary programme, including keynote speakers and chairs, for IFHRO 2010 has been announced. Information is available in the downloadable pdf file >>> or via the conference website at http://www.ifhro2010.it IFHRO 2010 is the XVI Congress of International Federation of Health Records Organizations. It will take place in the “Stella Polare” Convention Centre, Milan, Italy [...]

Health Informatics Forum (http://www.healthinformaticsforum.com) is a social network for health informatics professionals, students and academics. Set up by Dr Chris Paton in New Zealand (http://chrispaton.org), the forum now has about 4,000 members from all around the world. While the forum is not an IMIA activity, many IMIA members are also members of the forum; Chris [...]

COACH: Canada’s Health Informatics Association (http://www.coachorg.com) has announced its new, 2010-2011, Board of Directors, who took office earlier this month. The new President and Board Chair is Lydia Lee, VP & Chief Information Officer (CIO), of University Health Network, and Integrated CIO, Shared Information Management Services (SIMS) in Toronto, Ontario. Other Board members are: Neil [...]

IDAMAP 2010: Intelligent Data Analysis in bioMedicine And Pharmacology (http://idamap.org/idamap2010) is a one-day colloquium, to be held  in Washington, DC, USA on Friday November 12, 2010 (immediately preceding the AMIA2010 Annual Symposium). IDAMAP 2010 is organized in collaboration with the Intelligent Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining Working Group of the American Medical [...]

Two health informatics events take place close together in time, in September 2010, but at opposite ends of the country. The BCS Health Scotland Conference 2010 takes place on 22 – 23 September 2010 at the prestigious Glasgow Science Centre. Three themes for this year’s event are Quality, Innovation, and Efficiency.  International speakers from Australia, [...]

The Call for Presentations has been announced for the “MMVR18 / NextMed” (Medicine Meets Virtual Reality) conference. The submission deadline is July 15, 2010. Guidelines are posted at http://www.NextMed.com The Organizing Committee extends a warm and broad invitation to researchers who are seeing initial success with tools that possess unique potential to revolutionize the future [...]

Medinfo2010, the 13th International Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, starts in just 100 days time, on 12th September 2010, in Cape Town, South Africa. Lyn Hanmer, Chair of the Local Organising Committee, and all her South African colleagues look forward to welcoming everyone to the first ever Medinfo on African soil, with the conference [...]

The Board of Directors of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has announced the selection of Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD, FACMI, as the new Editor-in-Chief of JAMIA. She is Professor and founding chief of the Division of Biomedical Informatics at the University of California San Diego, has been an AMIA member since 2001 and is [...]