IMIA INFORMATICS

1. IMIA Interim CEO; Recruitment for Substantive Post

   The first phase of the transition period for the IMIA CEO post is completed. Following the retirement of Dr Peter Murray as IMIA CEO, Elaine Huesing is now Interim IMIA CEO, and has assumed all the responsibilities of the post. Elaine can be contacted for all IMIA issues at the normal email address, ie imia@imia-services.org […]

2. Dr Lyn Hanmer Receives Inaugural Sedick Isaacs Award

   Dr Lyn Hanmer received the inaugural Sedick Isaacs Award at a ceremony on 09 March 2015, at the recent HELINA conference in Accra, Ghana. As part of the award, she gave a keynote presentation “The importance of partnerships for Health Informatics development in HELINA and other low-resource settings” at the HELINA conference, and her presentation […]

3. Global Telehealth 2015 Conference – Toronto, Canada; 29-30 May, 2015

   The 4th International Conference on Global Telehealth (GT2015) will be held on May 29-30, 2015 at the Delta Toronto Hotel, 75 Lower Simcoe Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Full information is on the event website at www.GT2015.org The theme for GT2015 is “Serving the Underserved: Integrating technology and information for better healthcare”. COACH: Canada’s Health Informatics Association […]

4. Nursing Knowledge: 2015 Big Data Science Conference

   On behalf of Bonnie Westra and Diane Skiba, we are pleased to provide information on this event, which may be of interest to nursing colleagues and others with a specific interest in big data issues. The 2015 Nursing Knowledge: Big Data & Science Conference for Transforming Health Care conference will be held on June 3 […]

5. eTOC for ACI eJournal: 2015 Volume 6 (1); New Volume, Further New Articles Available

   New articles of ACI – Applied Clinical Informatics (2015, Volume 6 (1)) are available. There are five new articles below, making currently nine articles available in this issue, including two free downloads. +++ ACI now has an IMPACT FACTOR of 0,386. Looking forward to your submissions! +++ The Table of Contents below is online at […]

6. New name for “Informatics in Primary Care”; latest issue published

   After 20 years as “Informatics in Primary Care”, the BCS Health’s house journal has been renamed “Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics”. In a media release, BCS writes: Informatics is an innovative science, and informaticians need to innovate across professional and discipline boundaries. The title was carefully selected to reflect that (1) informatics provides the […]

7. HELINA Conference: Accra, Ghana on 7 – 11 March 2015

   The delayed HELINA2014 conference will be held in Accra, Ghana at the University of Ghana, ISSER Conference Centre from March 7 – 11, 2015. See  http://conf.helina-online.org/index.php/2014/index/ for latest updates. The conference theme is Informatics for Universal Health Coverage in Africa: From Point of Care Systems to National Strategies. This year’s conference is supported by the […]

8. HIC 2015 Call for Submissions – Deadline 16 March

   HISA (http://www.hisa.org.au) is pleased to invite you to respond to the Call for Submissions for HIC 2015, Australia’s premier digital health and health informatics conference – see https://hisa.site-ym.com/page/hic2015papers for the HIC 2015 Call for Papers, and https://hisa.site-ym.com/page/hic2015nia for the NIA (Nursing Informatics Australia) Call for Papers. HISA 2015 will be held in Brisbane, Australia on […]

9. eTOC for ACI eJournal: 2015 Volume 6 (1); New Volume, New Articles Available

   New articles of ACI – Applied Clinical Informatics (2015, Volume 6 (1)) are available. There are currently four articles available in this issue. +++ ACI now has an IMPACT FACTOR of 0,386. Looking forward to your submissions! +++ The Table of Contents below is online at www.aci-journal.org Leveraging Electronic Tablets for General Pediatric Care – […]

10. NI2016 – Student Wearable Design Contest; Submission Deadline 01 April, 2015

    The purpose of the NI2016 Student Wearable Contest is to encourage collaborative teams to develop and share innovative ideas in wearable or ubiquitous technologies to promote mobile-health, connected health or ubiquitous computing in health care. The goal is to allow the next generation of interprofessional collaborative teams to showcase how technologies can transform nursing and […]