[AISWorld] 3rd CfP: 15th International Symposium on Health Information Management Research

[Anne Cleven]

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3rd Call for Papers

15th International Symposium on Health Information Management Research


Dear Colleague,

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.

We are also pleased to announce the OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) 
Award to be offered to the author of the most highly rated paper and cover 
the registration fees for ISHIMR 2011.

Topics of Interest:

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
- Case Studies

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:
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).

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 and indexed. 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
Christiane Brockes
Barbara Sen
Peter Bath

Co-Chairs, ISHIMR 2011 Committee
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