[AISWorld] CfP - 15th International Symposium on Health Information Management Research

[Anne Cleven]

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15th International Symposium on Health Information Management Research
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Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the ISHIMR 2011 Committee, we invite you to participate in 
the
15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research
(ISHIMR), which will take place in Zurich, Switzerland from September 
08-09,
2011.

ISHIMR 2011 will bring together researchers in the general area of 
e-health,
health information management and health informatics and will  provide a 
forum
for the presentation and discussion of their research  activities. We 
therefore
welcome paper (oral presentation) / abstract (poster) submissions and 
delegates
from the health and research community, particularly  those with
teaching/research responsibilities in health information  management and 
health
informatics, those with clinical responsibilities,  and those involved in
provision of health information and knowledge  services.

The topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

Clinical informatics:
   * Bioinformatics
   * Clinical & outcomes based informatics
   * Decision support systems
   * Electronic Patient Records
   * Imaging (diagnostic & therapeutic)
   * Learning and training technologies
   * Nursing & Pharmacy informatics
   * Online training systems
   * Registries / Administrative databases
   * Robotics
   * Telehealth/telemedicine
   * Translational informatics

E-Health:
   * Economics of E-Health
   * Evaluation of E-Health
   * E-Health Marketing
   * E-Health Architectures, Service Models and Business Cases
   * Design and Delivery of E-Health Services
   * Service Use Cases (e.g. E-Logistics and E-Commerce in Healthcare)
   * Security in E-Health
   * Interoperability in E-Health
   * Evolution of E-Health

Knowledge strategies:
   * Knowledge sharing and transfer
   * Communities of practice
   * Evidence based decision-making and practice.
   * Health information services management.
   * Health librarianship
   * Business intelligence in the health sector
   * Data mining, data warehousing, and data analysis
   * Information governance
   * Archiving health data
   * Coding and classification

Health information behaviour:
   * Information seeking by patients and carers
   * Information needs of health care professionals
   * Evaluation of web-based sources of patient information
   * Online discussion forums for patients
   * Web-based medical records for patients
   * Information for empowering patients and increasing patient choice
   * Telephone health information and advice services
   * Information use by health service mangers and planners
   * Information for preventing disease and illness
   * Communication between health care consumers and health care 
professionals

=== Paper Submission 
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Authors are invited to submit their research contributions or practical
experience reports. All types  of research methodologies are welcome. All 
papers
will be peer reviewed  by at least two members of the programme committee, 
which
will be chaired by Peter Bath and Barbara Sen (Centre for Health 
Information
Management Research, University of Sheffield, UK).

=== Submission Deadline 
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The deadline for submission of papers and poster abstracts is 30 April 
2011.

The  Symposium Proceedings, including all papers presented and abstracts 
for
posters, will be published in print. In addition, the best papers will  be
published in a special issue of the Health Informatics Journal (PubMed 
listed),
and other selected papers will be published in a new  online Open Access
journal.

Please circulate this CFP to your colleagues and fellow researchers. 
Further
information is available at http://www.ishimr2011.com/

We look forward to seeing you at ISHIMR 2011,
Sincerely,

Dimitri Raptis
Tobias Mettler
Barbara Sen
Peter Bath

Co-Chairs, ISHIMR 2011 Committee
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