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IMIA monthly news bulletin; no. 17, 01 September 2010
"The Medinfo2010 Edition"

Medinfo2010 is almost here - it starts in 11 days time - www.medinfo2010.org
We hope to see may colleagues and friends there.

IMIA General Assembly - if you are an official representative or member and you have not already done so, please inform us immediately whether you will be attending the GA meeting (see item 2a below).


1. MedInfo2010
   
a] General information, registration

MEDINFO 2010 - 13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics; 12 to 15 September 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa - see the event website for the latest information, including links to social events, accommodation booking, etc. - http://www.medinfo2010.org
   
Registration via the website closes today, 01 September. After today, on-site registration will be the only option.

b] Programmes; tutorials and workshops

The programmes for Medinfo2010 are available on the website. They contain information on pre-conference tutorials, plenary sessions, major meetings, parallel sessions and social events. Tutorials will take place 11 and 12 September; workshops will take place from 11 September. Tutorial registration is open via the Medinfo2010 website.

c] Social networking

We would like as many people as possible to attend Medinfo2010 in person. For those unable to be there, we have various social networking options via which they will be able to follow the event and interact. We hope that many of those attending will also use these facilities to provide interaction.

Medinfo-AMIA bridge http://grou.ps/medinfo2amia2010
This collaborative space is designed to serve several purposes:
1. to provide a 'one-stop' virtual interactive space around and linking the Medinfo2010 and AMIA 2010 conferences, in particular in relation to the global health informatics issues that are common to both;
2. to facilitate virtual interactions between those who can physically be at the events, and with those who can only participate vicariously and virtually;
3. to foster discussion around each event individually, and explore common themes;
4. to allow discussion around presentations, posters, workshops and tutorials, especially at Medinfo2010, and so help to identify important themes and issues for the global health informatics community.

We particularly wish to focus on discussion of several major themes around experience exchange between developing/developed countries global challenges in education and public health informatics, and use of IT to improve quality and safety.

If you wish to actively participate, or have us link to your blog, Twitter stream, etc, then contact imia@imia-services.org
The site is still under active development and will only fully 'spring to life' once people actively use it to discuss Medinfo2010 activities.

Medinfo2010 currently also has:
Medinfo2010 Facebook event page - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=227856279989
Medinfo2010 Twitter stream - http://twitter.com/medinfo2010
Medinfo2010 LinkedIn group - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3175343


d] IMIA Academic members meeting

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 2.6.6 at the MEDINFO 2010 Conference Venue. The agenda is available at http://wp.me/pvCUS-qQ

e] IMIA Working Group activities

Many IMIA WGs and the IMIA-NI SIG have business meetings at Medinfo2010. Dates and times are available on the Medinfo2010 website - http://www.medinfo2010.org/docs/Working_and_Special_Interest_Group_Meetings.pdf

The IMIA Health Information Systems Working Group (IMIA HIS WG) - Chair, Christian Lovis, Vice-chair Dominik Aronsky - has a two day workshop on Health Information Systems – 30 Years of Evolution, on September 10-12, 2010 in Franschhoek, near Stellenbosch, South Africa. The event explores the evolution and history of HIS concepts and architectures, lessons learned and will look forward to the challenges of the coming decade(s). Full information on the event is available via http://wp.me/pvCUS-nq or directly at http://www.hiswork2010.com


f] IMIA Senior Officers Club meeting

The IMIA Senior Officers Club meeting and reception (by invitation only) will take place on Tuesday, 14 September, from 18:00 in The Roof Terrace, Cape International Convention Centre, Cape Town. Members who have not receive invitations, or have not replied, should contact the IMIA Executive Director.

g] AMIA - Health Information Building Blocks (HIBBs)

HIBBs are open source training modules designed to help users in low resource settings gain proficiency in the use of health information and communication technology applications such as electronic health records. The HIBBs Project, part of the Global Health Informatics Partnership (GHiP), will be rolling out its first HIBB prototypes at the MedInfo2010 Conference in Cape Town. Attendees can stop by Booth #5 to test a HIBB and then enter a contest to win a VISA gift card. A news item about GHIP and HIBBS will be on the IMIA News site later today.


2. 2010 IMIA General Assembly meeting

a] Date for 2010 GA meeting

The IMIA General Assembly meeting for 2010 will take place:

DATE & TIME: SUNDAY 12 SEPTEMBER  - start time will be 08:30, due to the full agenda; it will finish at approx. 16:00, in time for people to attend the Medinfo2010 Opening Ceremony.

VENUE: The Roof Terrace, Cape International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa.

The formal invitation and notice of the meeting has been sent to all General Assembly members via the General Assembly email list. If you are an official representative or other category of GA member, and you have not received this (sent on 07 June), please email the IMIA Executive Director (on imia@imia-services.org)

***Please let us know as soon as possible whether you will be attending the GA meeting. If you cannot attend and wish to nominate a proxy to vote on your behalf, please provide their details, in writing, as soon as possible, to the IMIA Secretary, Dr Lyn Hanmer (Lyn.Hanmer@mrc.ac.za) and copied to the IMIA Executive Director. If you have already contacted us, you do NOT need to re-confirm.***

b] IMIA General Assembly documents

Most documents for the IMIA Board and GA meetings are available on the Member Services (password protected) area of the IMIA website, as per the arrangements for recent GA meetings. If GA members or their proxies do not have the URL, username and password, then contact imia@imia-services.org
The remaining few documents will be uploaded as soon as they are available.
Please bring you laptop, PDA, iPad, smartphone or whatever with the documents - we will NOT be providing paper copies.

c] IMIA Statutes revisions: IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR IMIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEMBERS

One of the key items of business to be transacted at the 2010 IMIA General Assembly meeting will be discussion and voting on adoption of the proposed revised IMIA Statutes. The IMIA Statutes are an important legal document. We have been working to bring them up to date, and to 'future proof' them. 

It is therefore important that GA members read and comment on the documents, and that we have as many IMIA Member Societies and others as possible attending the GA meeting or represented by formal proxy.

We ask that you:
1. read the document carefully (available on Member Services area of IMIA website for IMIA GA members) - and consult your organisation where appropriate;
2. provide any comments, questions, or proposed amendments immediately (so that all comments, etc can be collated for presentation and discussion at the General Assembly meeting in Cape Town, South Africa on 12 September, 2010).

A significant part of the Cape Town GA meeting will be devoted to discussion of the proposed new Statutes.

If you are a GA member or proxy and have not yet received or unable to access this document, then contact imia@imia-services.org


3. Forthcoming events
  
We will generally only here mention those in 2010, unless calls for submissions for 2011 events are open.

a] Regional events

The next APAMI General Assembly will be held at Daegu, Korea, where HIMSS AsiaPAC 2010 is going to be held on 26-28 October, 2010. The meeting will include selection of the venue for the APAMI2010 conference. See http://www.apami.org

The next MIE (Medical Informatics Europe) will be MIE2011 - http://www.mie2011.org/ - Oslo, Norway on 28-321 August, 2011. Call for papers opens October 15, 2010 and closes January 30, 2011.

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.

IMIA-IFIP at WCC2010 - 20-23 September, 2010. Brisbane, Australia. http://www.wcc2010.com/treat-it   IFIP and IMIA will hold a joint E-Health conference as part of "Treat IT" stream of the IFIP World Congress 2010 Program.

XII Brazilian Health Informatics Conference - 18-22 October. Pernambuco, Brazil. http://www.sbis.org.br/cbis2010 

HINZ2010 - 2-4 November, 2010. Wellington, New Zealand. http://www.hinz.org.nz/page/conference  - see IMIA News at http://wp.me/pvCUS-rg

AMIA2010 - 13-17 November, 2010. Washington DC, USA. http://symposium2010.amia.org/
 
IFHRO 2010 - 15-19 November, 2010. Milan, Italy. http://www.ifhro2010.it  Preliminary programme at http://wp.me/pvCUS-pE

Medicine 2.0'10 - 29-30 November. Maastricht, The Netherlands. http://www.medicine20congress.com

ITCH 2011 - 24 - 27 February, 2011. Victoria BC, Canada. http://itch.uvic.ca/index.php 


c] Calls for Papers/Submissions

ITCH2011 - 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



4. Journals and eTOC

IMIA has three official journals: Methods of Information in Medicine (http://www.methods-online.com/) and Applied Clinical Informatics (http://www.aci-journal.org/) (Schattauer Publishers Stuttgart) and Elsevier Science's International Journal of Medical Informatics (http://www.ijmijournal.com/home).

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  - http://bit.ly/diZQse

You can choose to subscribe to the ACI eTOC, the Methods eTOC, or both – and similar listings for other journals. The websites of both journals also have full information on subscribing, and for authors interested in publishing.

ACI - the third issue of ACI (vol 1. issue 3) is now available on the journal website. See http://www.aci-journal.org The articles of  first two issues (Vol. 0, issue 1, 2009 and Vol. 1, issue 1, 2010) remain freely accessible for download - via 'Archive' link on ACI website.

IMIA members' benefits:
- 50% discount on subscription rate for Individuals; US$ 17,48 instead of US$ 34,45
- 50% discount on subscription rate for Institutions, US$ 401,70 instead of US$ 803,40.

See fuller item at http://wp.me/pvCUS-r1

ACI has a Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/ACIJournal


METHODS - Volume 49, Issue 4 is available at: http://www.methods-online.com There are several free downloads.

A number of IMIA WGs also have official journals. Informatics in Primary Care, published by Radcliffe Publishing is the journal of the IMIA Primary Health Care Informatics WG: http://www.radcliffe-oxford.com/journals/j12_informatics_in_primary_care/  The Editor is Simon de Lusignan. Full text articles from the May 2009 issue and earlier issues are freely available. Many articles will be of interest to a wide audience, not just those working in primary care.

JAMIA, the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is published by the BMJ Group - http://jamia.bmj.com/  AMIA members must access JAMIA from myamia.org. Non-members must gain access to the journal by purchasing an annual subscription for both online and print editions.


5. October 2010 bulletin

The October 2010 bulletin will be published on 04 October (due to post-Medinfo holiday time). For more frequent news updates, and subscription options by email, RSS feeds, etc., see the IMIA News site at http://imianews.wordpress.com/

Please feel free to redistribute this bulletin, or selected contents, among your members and colleagues (quoting the origin to help promote IMIA). We thank all those members who are already using and re-using the materials.


IMIA website: http://www.imia.org   IMIA News site: http://imianews.wordpress.com/
MedInfo2010 website: http://www.medinfo2010.org
For all official IMIA communications, please use imia@imia-services.org

END OF IMIA News Bulletin, September 2010