| IMIA monthly news bulletin; no. 29, 07 September 2011
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Table of Contents: 1. News from the 2011 IMIA General Assembly
2. IMIA Honorary Fellowship Awarded to Ed Hammond
3. Bulletin of the World Health Organization - Call for Papers
4. NI2012 and IMIA-NI
5. HELINA2011 Conference
6. IMIA social media channels
7. Forthcoming events
a] Regional events
b] National/international events
8. IMIA Publications: Yearbook and Journals
a] IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics
b] IMIA official journals
c] IMIA Member Society journals
d] Other IMIA-related journals
9. Next bulletin
IMPORTANT DEADLINE DATES
September 12, 2011 - Deadline for submissions to NI2012 (see item 4)
September 30, 2011 - Deadline for submissions to HELINA 2011 (see item 5)
November 20, 2011 - Deadline for WHO Bulletin submissions (see item 3)
1. News from the 2011 IMIA General Assembly
The 2011 IMIA General Assembly was held on Sunday, 28 August in Oslo, Norway. Among news highlights are: - three new IMIA Member Societies were admitted, specifically the eHealth Association of Pakistan (eHAP) (http://www.ehap.net.pk), the Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka (HISSL) (http://www.hissl.org) and the Peruvian Association of Biomedical Informatics (Asociación Peruana de Informática Biomédica) (http://www.apib.pe/)
- two new Academic institutional members were accepted, the National Institutes of Health (NIHI), Canada (replacing University of Waterloo) and the University of Surrey, Department of Health Care Management and Policy, UK.
- several organisations (Member Societies and Institutional Members) had their membership of IMIA ended, due to non-payment of fees, as per IMIA Statutes.
- IMIA now has 56 Member Societies, 45 Academic and 7 Corporate Institutional Members, and Corresponding Members in an additional 35 countries.
- following the submission of two high quality bids, after presentations from the two bid teams, the GA voted to hold Medinfo2015 in Sao Paolo, Brasil in late August 2015. Bids for Medinfo2017 will open in early 2012, and a decision be made at the 2012 GA meeting. Thereafter, the process will be every two years.
- a modest rise in IMIA membership fees was approved, and the details will be communicated to all members, to be implemented from January 2012. In order to avoid another lengthy interval between rises, IMIA will aim to review membership fees every two years (although this does not mean there will be increases this frequently, as the review decision may be to hold fees).
- a new access model and related business plan for the IMIA Yearbook will be developed in the coming year, to be presented at the 2012 General Assembly meeting
- a new 'Working Group of the Year' award will be instituted, commencing at the 2012 GA meeting. Performance criteria for WGs have been developed, to measure activity and to ensure that WGs continue to represent IMIA as the foci for scientific activity.
New IMIA Board members were approved, specifically: - Lincoln de Assis Moura Jr as President-elect (2011-13) and President from 2013-15;
- Lyn Hanmer as Secretary for a second term (2012-15);
- Sabine Koch as Treasurer (2012-15);
- Michio Kimura as VP Membership (2012-15);
- Chris Lehmann as VP Services (2012-15).
IMIA Honorary Fellowship was awarded to Ed Hammond.
News items with further details will be posted on the IMIA News website in the coming weeks - http://imianews.wordpress.com
2. IMIA Honorary Fellowship Awarded to Ed Hammond
At the 2011 IMIA GA, Ed Hammond was made an IMIA Honorary Fellow in recognition of his being an ambassador for the field of health and medical informatics for over 40 years. In particular through AMIA’s International Committee, Dr. Hammond has worked internationally throughout the Asia-Pacific region, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Africa spearheading numerous efforts to advance the field of medical informatics. He has worked tirelessly to advance the development of electronic health records, health data standards, and integrate medical informatics into the domains of biomedical research and clinical care. He has worked across many differing health care organizations, many of the medical specialties and with institutions, healthcare enterprises and regional health care systems throughout the USA and internationally.
3. Bulletin of the World Health Organization - Call for Papers
We encourage all IMIA members to consider developing submissions for this Call, and we ask that readers cascade the information to their colleagues and contacts.
Call for Papers: IMIA President Antoine Geissbuhler and Najeeb Al Shorbaji (WHO Department of Knowledge Management and Sharing) have published an Editorial and Call for Papers in the current (June 2011) edition of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Titled "Establishing an evidence base for e-health: a call for papers", the editorial is an open call for contributions to a Special Theme Issue of the Bulletin. The Editorial/Call can be found at http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/89/6/en/index.html (HTML version) or downloadable PDF file at http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/89/6/11-090274.pdf
This is part of a joint project between IMIA and, among others, a range of US government agencies (including PEPFAR, CDC, and USAID), IDRC, as well as the Global Health Informatics Partnership (GHIP). Author teams have been developed for a number of specific review papers and regionally-based papers are being developed through the work of IMIA's Regions. The objectives of the theme issue of the Bulletin are [1] to provide an authoritative, critical and independent overview of knowledge about the appropriate, transdisciplinary methods and applications in e-health; [2] to include contributors from developing countries who typically do not have the opportunity to publish in international journals; and [3] to disseminate the key findings of this theme issue to high-level decision-makers, to promote a stronger commitment on e-health interoperability issues and its wider application.
The deadline for submissions is 20 November 2011. Manuscripts should respect the Guidelines for contributors and mention this call for papers in a covering letter.
NOTE: All submissions will go through the Bulletin’s peer review process. Please submit to: http://submit.bwho.org
4. NI2012 Nursing Informatics Conference - Deadline for Submissions is 12 September
NI2012, the 11th International Congress on Nursing Informatics, will be held in Montreal, Canada on 23-27 June, 2012. The Call for Submissions is now open on the website at http://www.ni2012.org
The submission deadline for NI2012 has been extended to 12 September, 2011. Full information about submission is on the NI2012 website at http://www.ni2012.org/submissions
5. HELINA2011 Conference - Call for Submissions
HELINA 2011, the seventh HELINA conference, will be held at the Hotel Aurelia Palace, Yaoundé, Cameroon on 28-30 November. It will be hosted by the Cameroonian Health Informatics Society (CAHIS). CAHIS is the national platform for health informatics activities in Cameroon, with membership drawn from corporate bodies, professionals and researchers involved in health and medical informatics in Cameroon, from within and outside the country. CAHIS is a member of IMIA and the Pan African Health Informatics in Africa Association (HELINA).
Call for Abstracts: open until 30 September 2011. Submission website is at http://conf.helina-online.org/
Full information on the event will be available at http://www.helina-online.org/en/conferences.html The conference theme is “Health Information Systems: Scaling up solutions to transform healthcare delivery in Africa.”
6. IMIA social media channels
If you are on Facebook, you can find (and ‘like’) IMIA at http://www.facebook.com/pages/IMIA/191053744240749 We have more than 200 people who 'like' IMIA on Facebook. Other IMIA social media channels include: We will be exploring the potential of a range of social media ('Web 2.0') tools to interact with members and the wider health and medical informatics community.
7. Forthcoming events
CALL: We should be grateful if IMIA Member Societies, Working/Special Interest Groups and others who are organising events could provide us with information on them, so that we can help promote them through IMIA channels. We also welcome suggestions on events that might be of interest to IMIA members. Advance notice of submission deadlines, deadline extensions, etc., is also of value.
a] Regional events
The next MIE (Medical Informatics Europe) will be MIE2012 - http://www.mie2012.it - on 26-29 August, 2012 in Pisa, Italy. Full details will be on the MIE2012 website. The APAMI (Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics) 2012 conference will be hosted by CMIA, China Medical Informatics Association. Further details on date and venue will be announced.
Regional websites and social media:
APAMI - http://www.apami.org
EFMI - http://www.efmi.org
HELINA - http://www.helina-online.org
IMIA-LAC - http://www.imia-lac.net Twitter: @IMIA_LAC Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/IMIA-LAC/142030045856699
b] National/international events
A selection of forthcoming events; more information is on the IMIA and IMIA News websites, and in the Methods Calendar of Events. Most of these are offered by IMIA Members and Member Societies, although we also include other events that may be of interest, and/or that IMIA may be supporting.
2011 Events
Medicine 2.0'11: 16-18 September, 2011. Stanford University, CA, USA. http://www.medicine20congress.com
NETTAB2011: 12-14 October, 2011. Pavia, Italy. http://www.nettab.org/2011 Call for Submissions open - http://wp.me/pvCUS-MD
Fifth Congress on Health Informatics Standards in Latin America: 13-14 October, 2011. Montevideo, Uruguay. http://www.sueiidiss.org and http://www.suis.org.uy
AMIA 2011 Annual Symposium: 22-26 October, 2011. Washington DC, USA. https://www.amia.org/amia2011
HISI (Health Informatics Society of Ireland) 16th Annual Conference: 16-17 November, 2011. Stillorgan Park Hotel, Stillorgan Road, Co. Dublin, Ireland. http://www.hisi.ie
HINZ2011: 23-25 November, 2011. Auckland, New Zealand. http://www.hinz.org.nz
HELINA 2011: 28-30 November, 2011. Yaoundé, Cameroon. http://www.helina-online.org/en/conferences.html Call for Submissions open until 30 September
2012 Events
Innovations in Healthcare Management and Informatics 2012: 13-14 March, 2012. Bangkok, Thailand. http://www.healthcareinformaticsasia.com/Event.aspx?id=567330
HIMSS12: 20-24 February, 2012. Venetian-Palazzo-Sands Expo Center, Las Vegas NV, USA. http://www.himssconference.org/
NI2012, 11th International Congress on Nursing Informatics: 23-27 June, 2012. http://www.ni2012.org Call for Submissions open until 12 September, 2011
MIE2012: 26-29 August, 2012. Pisa, Italy. http://www.mie2012.it
8. IMIA Publications: Yearbook and Journals
a] IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics - 2011
The 2011 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics has now been published. The theme is "Towards Health Informatics 3.0". For further detail, see http://www.schattauer.de/de/magazine/uebersicht/zeitschriften-a-z/imia-yearbook/imia-yearbook-2011.html Several articles in the IMIA Yearbook are available as free downloads.
Full electronic access is available to IMIA Member Societies who wish to subscribe to this facility, and access information has been sent to all subscribing societies. The current price is an additional 150% of the subscribing society's IMIA membership fee. Any IMIA Member Society that does not currently subscribe to the full electronic access, and wishes to do so, should contact IMIA to discuss arrangements further. Information on the current IMIA Yearbook, and previous years' issues, is at http://www.imiapubs.org
b] IMIA Official Journals
IMIA has three official journals:
Applied Clinical Informatics (http://www.aci-journal.org/) Published by Schattauer; editor-in-chief Christoph U Lehmann (email: clehmann@jhmi.edu).
ACI has electronic Table of Contents (eTOC) facility (http://aci.schattauer.de/en/contents/register-for-etoc.html) and can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.
Latest information on eTOC 2011 2(3) is at http://wp.me/pvCUS-R3 Last complete issue eTOC is 2011 2(2)
International Journal of Medical Informatics (http://www.ijmijournal.com/home) Published by Elsevier; editors Charles Safran (email: csafran@gmail.com) and Jan Talmon (email: talmon@maastrichtuniversity.nl).
Latest eTOC is Vol. 80, Issue 9 – see http://wp.me/pvCUS-RC
 Methods of Information in Medicine (http://www.methods-online.com/) Published by Schattauer; editor-in-chief Reinhold Haux (email: ed@MethodsInfMed.org).
Methods has electronic Table of Contents (eTOC) facility (http://www.schattauer.de/en/magazine/subject-areas/journals-a-z/methods/contents/register-for-etoc.html)
Latest eTOC is Vol. 50, Issue 4 - see http://wp.me/pvCUS-RJ
Methods celebrates 50 years; archives available online
Methods of Information in Medicine, an official journal of IMIA, publishes its 50th volume in 2011. Methods, in a joint effort between the Schattauer Publishing Company and the Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, announces that, from 2011 onwards, all articles of Methods from 1962 to the present can be accessed online. In addition, all articles up to (currently) Volume 49, Issue 1 (2010) are now available as free downloads (http://www.schattauer.de/en/magazine/subject-areas/journals-a-z/methods/contents/archive.html). (http://wp.me/pvCUS-Co)
eTOC are made available for each journal on the IMIA News website as they become available.
b] IMIA Member Society journals
Many IMIA Member Societies produce their own journals, often in local languages to meet the needs of local members. We wish to compile a complete list, and to add the information to societies' entries on the IMIA website; we request Member Societies to send us details of their journals.
The current partial list includes:
Acta Informatica Medica: journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Academy of Medical Sciences in Bosnia and Herzegovina
http://www.amn.ba and follow 'Publications' link (or directly here)
Clinical Informatics and Telemedicine (Ukraine): official journal of the Ukrainian Association for Computer Medicine
http://www.uacm.kharkov.ua/eng electronic Journal of Health Informatics (eJHI): official journal of Health Informatics Society Australia (HISA) and Australasian College of Health Informatics (an IMIA Academic Institutional Member)
http://www.ejhi.net
The Finnish Journal of eHealth and eWelfare (FinJeHeW)
http://ojs.tsv.fi/index.php/stty/
Indian Journal of Medical Informatics:
http://ijmi.org/index.php/ijmi/index
JAMIA – Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association:
http://www.jamia.org
The Journal of Health Informatics (JHI): an official publication of the Brazilian Health Informatics Society:
http://www.jhi-sbis.saude.ws
The following conference publication provides a list and analysis of EFMI member countries' journals:
Task Force of the EFMI Journals: Background, Rationale and Purpose by Izet MASIC, Josipa KERN, Jana ZVAROVA, Simon de LUSIGNAN.
Published in: Medical Informatics in a United and Healthy Europe (MIE2009 Proceedings), K.-P. Adlassnig et al. (Eds.), IOS Press, 2009.
© 2009 European Federation for Medical Informatics. doi:10.3233/978-1-60750-044-5-946
c] Other IMIA-related journal and journals of interest
Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI) (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/yjbin). Published by Elsevier; editor-in-chief Edward H. Shortliffe. The journal has intentionally focused on informatics methodology, largely to avoid direct competition; JBI does not publish applications papers, evaluations, surveys, etc., but papers that introduce and assess an innovative methodology that may generalize broadly for application in the field. See also http://wp.me/pvCUS-O2
Informatics in Primary Care (http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rmp/ipc;jsessionid=188tj84krna9n.alice) is a journal of the IMIA Primary Care Informatics Working Group. Published by Radcliffe Publishing; editor-in-chief Simon de Lusignan.
9. Next bulletin – October 2011
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If you have items to be included in the bulletin, please submit to news@imia-services.org by 28 September.
END OF IMIA News Bulletin, September 2011
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