| IMIA monthly news bulletin; no. 27, 01 July 2011
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Table of Contents: 1. Bulletin of the World Health Organization - Call for Papers and Letters of Intent [UPDATED]
2. IMIA General Assembly Notice - 28 August, 2011
3. NI2012 and IMIA-NI
4. HELINA2011 Conference
5. TIGER Initiative
6. Fifth International Symposium on Human Factors Engineering in Health Informatics
7. MIE2011
8. IMIA social media channels
9. Forthcoming events
a] Regional events
b] National/international events
10. 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
11. Regional editors and regular contributors sought for IMIA News and Bulletin
12. Next bulletin
IMPORTANT DEADLINE DATES
August 01, 2011 - Deadline for submissions for Methods Special Topic Section (see http://wp.me/pvCUS-FU)
August 31, 2011 - Deadline for submissions for NI2012 (see item 3)
November 20, 2011 - Deadline for WHO Bulletin submissions (see item 1)
1. Bulletin of the World Health Organization - Call for Papers and Letters of Intent [UPDATED] This item has been updated since the June newsletter. We ask all members and recipients of this email bulletin to publicise this as widely as possible to their members, contacts, networks, etc. We also ask all IMIA members and friends, especially those in low and middle income countries, to consider contributing to this call.
Letters of Intent: As part of developing content for this Bulletin Special Theme Issue, we are seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified authors interested in contributing to Review Papers on the six themes identified below. The purpose of these thematic reviews is to generate peer-reviewed papers on critical issues in e-Health and its implications for health systems strengthening. The authors selected through this Letter of Intent (LoI) process will collectively discuss, analyse and compose critical analysis of selected thematic issues.
The thematic review papers will provide an opportunity to convene a team of authors representing diverse disciplinary, geographic and experiential backgrounds with regards to e-Health and health systems strengthening research.
The deadline for submitting a Letter of Intent (LoI) is JULY 15, 2011. Full information on content and format is in each LoI, together with more detail on the issues to be addressed within each theme is available at http://www.imia-medinfo.org/new2/node/320
A LoI is available for each topic:
Capacity building
National eHealth policy
Sustainability and economic models
Impacts of e-Health on health outcomes, services and systems
Equity and e-Health
Standards for Interoperability
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). In addition to the open call, a project team will also be commissioning papers on specific topics from within IMIA and from among the wider global health informatics community (see LoI item above).
As Antoine and Najeeb note: "Evidence is needed to promote equity of access to information and health services, and to strengthen activities and programmes that support local, regional, national and global health communities. There is a critical need to communicate evidence and to provide examples of best practice in the development of effective and efficient solutions to major health challenges." 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
2. IMIA General Assembly Notice - 28 August, 2011
The 2011 IMIA General Assembly will be held on Sunday, 28 August in Oslo, Norway. The start time will be 08:00hrs, as we will need to finish by 14:00hrs at the latest to allow people to get to the MIE2011 opening. One main item of business will be the selection of the host society for Medinfo2015.
Attendance at the IMIA General Assembly is by invitation only, and is open to official representatives of IMIA Member Societies, WG/SIGs chairs, Honorary Fellows, Academic and Corporate members and Corresponding Members. Due to possible space limitations, and for catering purposes, we ask that all eligible attendees inform us as soon as possible whether they will be attending. If the representative of your organisation has changed, please let us know as soon as possible. Further information will be provided in due course, including how to access documents (which are expected to be available by mid August). The IMIA Board (invitation only) will meet on 27 August.
3. NI2012 and IMIA-NI - Call for Submissions Open
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 is August 31, 2011. NI2012 will also be offering a submission mentorship program (similar to that used for Medinfo2010), which will offer the opportunity for those that need assistance in submitting. The deadline for submissions with mentoring is July 31, 2011. Full information about submission is on the NI2012 website at http://www.ni2012.org/submissions
4. HELINA2011 Conference
HELINA 2011, the seventh HELINA conference, will be held at 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).
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." Call for Abstracts: 15 June 2011 – 30 September 2011. Submission website is at http://conf.helina-online.org/
5. TIGER Initiative Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER - http://www.thetigerinitiative.org) will become the TIGER Initiative Foundation, from July 1, 2011 (a 501(c)(3) organization operating for charitable, educational and scientific purposes, and with new resources, including the necessary infrastructure and staff, marketing, and web development). TIGER began as a grassroots initiative in 2006, with support from over 70 contributing organizations and a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to engage and prepare the clinical workforce - in particular nurses - to use technology and informatics to improve the delivery of patient care. Leaders from the TIGER Phase III Executive Committee, HIMSS and collaborative partners will help with the process to establish and maintain the TIGER Initiative Foundation. See http://wp.me/pvCUS-P5
6. Fifth International Symposium on Human Factors Engineering in Health Informatics
The Fifth International Symposium on Human Factors Engineering in Health Informatics will be held in Trondheim, Norway, August 26-27, 2011. This immediately precedes MIE2011 (www.mie2011.org). Full information about the event, including the Call for Submissions, can be found at http://sites.google.com/site/hfehi2011 See also information at http://wp.me/pvCUS-FP
7. MIE2011 - Oslo, Norway
MIE2011 takes place in Oslo, Norway on 28-31 August, 2011. Full information is at http://www.mie2011.org We encourage all IMIA members and friends to attend. Standard registration fee is available until 15 July. The preliminary programme is available on the conference website.
8. 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 media ('Web 2.0') tools to interact with members and the wider health and medical informatics community. Other IMIA social media channels include: Facebook group (which may be superseded by the new page) – http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5675909898
9. 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 MIE2011 - http://www.mie2011.org - Oslo, Norway on 28-31 August, 2011. Full details are on the MIE2011 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 others that may be of interest.
IDAMAP Special Topic Confnerence and AIME2011 (Artificial Intelligence in Medicine): 2-6 July, 2011. Bled, Slovenia. http://idamap.org/idamap2011 and http://www.aimedicine.info/aime11/
SINI2011: Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics: 20-23 July, 2011. Baltimore MD, USA. http://nursing.umaryland.edu/sini
HIC2011: 01-05 August, 2011. Brisbane, Australia. http://www.hisa.org.au/hic2011
Public Health Informatics 2011 Conference: 21-24 August, 2011. Atlanta, GA, USA. http://www.cdc.gov/phiconference
HISA 2011: 29-30 August, 2011: Johannesburg, South Africa. http://www.hisa.co.za
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
HINZ2011: 23-25 November, 2011. Auckland, New Zealand. http://www.hinz.org.nz Call for Submissions open until 15 August
HELINA 2011: 28-30 November, 2011. Yaoundé, Cameroon. http://www.helina-online.org/en/conferences.html Call for Submissions open until 30 September
10. IMIA Publications: Yearbook and Journals
a] IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics - 2010 and 2011
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. Work is well underway on producing the 2011 IMIA Yearbook. 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(2) is at http://wp.me/pvCUS-PE Last complete issue eTOC is 2011 2(1) – see http://wp.me/pvCUS-HI
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 7 – see http://wp.me/pvCUS-MT
 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 3 - see http://wp.me/pvCUS-KX
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/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
We are grateful to our colleague Prof. Dr. Jana Zvarova for pointing out the following conference publication that 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.
11. 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.
12. Next bulletin – August 2011
The August 2011 bulletin will be published on 01 August. For more frequent news updates, and subscription options by email, RSS feeds, etc., see the IMIA News site at http://imianews.wordpress.com
If you have items to be included in the bulletin, please submit to news@imia-services.org by 28 July.
END OF IMIA News Bulletin, July 2011
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NI2012 - Montreal, Canada - June 23-27, 2012 - http://www.ni2012.org
Medinfo2013 - Copenhagen, Denmark - August 20-23, 2013 - http://www.medinfo2013.dk |
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