| IMIA monthly news bulletin; no. 23, 01 March 2011
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Table of Contents: 1. IMIA Code of Ethics update - 31 March deadline for comment
2. INFOLAC2011; Guadalajara, Mexico
3. Methods celebrates 50 years; archives available online
4. IMIA Wearable Sensors Working Group – new website
5. IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics
6. IMIA social media channels
7. Forthcoming events
a] Regional events
b] National/international events
8. Journals
a] IMIA official journals
b] IMIA Member Society journals
c] Other IMIA-related journals
9. Regional editors and regular contributors sought for IMIA News and Bulletin
10. Next bulletin
1. IMIA Code of Ethics update – 31 March deadline for comment The IMIA Code of Ethics was endorsed at the IMIA GA 2002 and is available on the IMIA website. Dr. Eike-Henner W. Kluge is currently leading an IMIA taskforce (including B. Barber (UK), P. Croll (Australia), K. Ishikawa (Japan) and L. Moura (Brazil)) to explore any updates that may be needed to the Code. The ad hoc committee herewith invites comments and/or suggestions from IMIA members in this regard, with a deadline of March 31, 2011. Comments and/or suggestions should be addressed to the Committee Chair at ekluge@uvic.ca (http://wp.me/pvCUS-BD) The IMIA Code of Ethics is available via http://www.imia-medinfo.org/new2/node/39 in English and some other languages.
2. INFOLAC2011; Guadalajara, Mexico
The INFOLAC2011 conference (Latin American Conference of Medical Informatics) will be held on 17-19 May, 2011 (in conjunction with the IMIA Board meeting on 20 May) in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. The conference website is at http://www.infolac2011.org and further information will be developed. The event is being organised and supported by, among others, the Mexican Medical Informatics Assocaition and IMIA-LAC.
The Call for submissions is currently open – deadline is 10 March – see http://wp.me/pvCUS-Fl Further information is on the conference website at http://www.infolac2011.org/instrucciones-autor.html This page also has link to downloadable instructions for authors (in Spanish). See also https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=194767770535736
3. Methods celebrates 50 years; archive 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)
4. IMIA Wearable Sensors Working Group – new website The IMIA 'Wearable Sensors in Healthcare' Working Group (WG) has launched their new website. Full information about the WG – including contact details for those interested in joining the WG – is available at http://www.wearable-sensors.org This new WG was approved at the IMIA General Assembly meeting in Cape Town in September 2010, with Prof. Dr. med. Dr.-Ing. Michael Marschollek (Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig – Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School, Germany) as Chair. Prof. Dr. Feng Tian, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) is the proposed new vice chair of the WG. Further information at http://wp.me/pvCUS-ER
5. IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics The 2010 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics is available, and copies were distributed at the 2010 IMIA General Assembly in Cape Town, South Africa, as well as to participants in Medinfo2010. The theme of the 2010 issue is 'Biomedical Informatics: Building Capacity Worldwide'. 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. Early work is already well underway on producing the 2011 IMIA Yearbook. Information on the current IMIA Yearbook, and previous years' issues, is at http://www.imiapubs.org
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 will be exploring the potential of Facebook and other social nedia ('Web 2.0') tools to interact with members and the wider health and medical informatics community. Other IMIA social media channels include:
7. Forthcoming events
a] Regional events
The next MIE (Medical Informatics Europe) will be MIE2011 - http://www.mie2011.org - Oslo, Norway on 28-31 August, 2011. The Call for various categories of contribution (except full papers, which is now closed) ends on March 15, 2011; full details are on the MIE2011 website.
The INFOLAC2011 conference will be held on 17-19 May, 2011 (in conjunction with the IMIA Board meeting on 20 May) in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. [see item above] 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
IMIA-LAC - http://www.imia-lac.net Twitter: @IMIA_LAC
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 others that may be of interest.
AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science – TBI (Summit on Translational Bioinformatics) and CRI (Summit on Clinical Research Informatics): 07-11 March, 2011. San Francisco CA, USA. http://jointsummits2011.amia.org
HC2011: 05-07 April, 2011. Birmingham, UK. http://www.hc2011.co.uk
EFMI 2011 STC Special Topic Conference: 14-15 April, 2011. Lasko, Slovenia. http://www.stc2011.org
ANIA-CARING Nursing Informatics Conference: 13-14 May, 2011. Las Vegas, NV, USA. http://www.ania-caring.org PHI 2011: 25-27 May, 2011. Orlando, FL, USA. http://phi2011.amia.org eHealth2011: 26-27 May, 2011. Vienna, Austria. http://www.ehealth2011.at
e-Health 2011: 29 May - 01 June, 2011. Toronto, Canada. http://www.e-healthconference.com/
AIME2011 (Artificial Intelligence in Medicine): 2-6 July, 2011. Bled, Slovenia. http://www.aimedicine.info/aime11/
SINI2011: Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics: 20-23 July, 2011. Baltimore MD, USA. http://nursing.umaryland.edu/sini CALL FOR ABSTRACTS closes 07 March, 2011.
HIC2011: 01-15 August, 2011. Brisbane, Australia. http://www.hisa.org.au/hic2011
Medicine 2.0'11: 16-18 September, 2011. Stanford University, CA, USA. http://www.medicine20congress.com CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS closes on 01 March, 2011.
AMIA 2011 Annual Symposium: 22-26 October, 2011. Washington DC, USA. https://www.amia.org/amia2011 CALL FOR PROPOSALS closes on 17 March, 2011
8. Journals
a] 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 eTOC 2011 2(1) – see http://wp.me/pvCUS-FD
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@mi.unimaas.nl).
Latest eTOC is Vol. 80, Issue 3 – see http://wp.me/pvCUS-Fe
 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 1 - see http://wp.me/pvCUS-Cf
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/publications.html
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
c] Other IMIA-related journals
In addition to the above, 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.
9. Regional editors and regular contributors sought for IMIA News and Bulletin We would like to expand the service that IMIA offers to its members, and to the wider international community, both in this monthly bulletin, and on the IMIA News website. We wish to provide regular updates of information, specially from our regional members. If you would be willing to be a regular contributor, or provide regular updates from your region, please contact us to discuss this further. At present, there is no financial payment for this, but you will receive acknowledgement by being listed appropriately. The commitment can be variable, but would be of the order of a minimum of 1-2 hours per month.
10. Next bulletin – April 2011
The April 2011 bulletin will be published 01 April. For more frequent news updates, and subscription options by email, RSS feeds, etc., see the IMIA News site at http://imianews.wordpress.com
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