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<br><tt><font size=2>15th International Symposium on Health Information
Management Research</font></tt>
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Dear Colleagues,<br>
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On behalf of the ISHIMR 2011 Committee, we invite you to participate in
the<br>
15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research<br>
(ISHIMR), which will take place in Zurich, Switzerland from September 08-09,<br>
2011.<br>
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ISHIMR 2011 will bring together researchers in the general area of e-health,<br>
health information management and health informatics and will provide
a forum<br>
for the presentation and discussion of their research activities.
We therefore<br>
welcome paper (oral presentation) / abstract (poster) submissions and delegates<br>
from the health and research community, particularly those with<br>
teaching/research responsibilities in health information management
and health<br>
informatics, those with clinical responsibilities, and those involved
in<br>
provision of health information and knowledge services.<br>
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The topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:<br>
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Clinical informatics:<br>
* Bioinformatics<br>
* Clinical & outcomes based informatics<br>
* Decision support systems<br>
* Electronic Patient Records<br>
* Imaging (diagnostic & therapeutic)<br>
* Learning and training technologies<br>
* Nursing & Pharmacy informatics<br>
* Online training systems<br>
* Registries / Administrative databases<br>
* Robotics<br>
* Telehealth/telemedicine<br>
* Translational informatics<br>
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<br><tt><font size=2>E-Health:<br>
* Economics of E-Health<br>
* Evaluation of E-Health<br>
* E-Health Marketing<br>
* E-Health Architectures, Service Models and Business Cases<br>
* Design and Delivery of E-Health Services<br>
* Service Use Cases (e.g. E-Logistics and E-Commerce in Healthcare)<br>
* Security in E-Health<br>
* Interoperability in E-Health<br>
* Evolution of E-Health<br>
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Knowledge strategies:<br>
* Knowledge sharing and transfer<br>
* Communities of practice<br>
* Evidence based decision-making and practice.<br>
* Health information services management.<br>
* Health librarianship<br>
* Business intelligence in the health sector<br>
* Data mining, data warehousing, and data analysis<br>
* Information governance<br>
* Archiving health data<br>
* Coding and classification<br>
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Health information behaviour:<br>
* Information seeking by patients and carers<br>
* Information needs of health care professionals<br>
* Evaluation of web-based sources of patient information<br>
* Online discussion forums for patients<br>
* Web-based medical records for patients<br>
* Information for empowering patients and increasing patient choice<br>
* Telephone health information and advice services<br>
* Information use by health service mangers and planners<br>
* Information for preventing disease and illness<br>
* Communication between health care consumers and health care professionals<br>
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=== Paper Submission ==========================================================<br>
Authors are invited to submit their research contributions or practical<br>
experience reports. All types of research methodologies are welcome.
All papers<br>
will be peer reviewed by at least two members of the programme committee,
which<br>
will be chaired by Peter Bath and Barbara Sen (Centre for Health Information<br>
Management Research, University of Sheffield, UK).<br>
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=== Submission Deadline =======================================================</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>The deadline for submission of papers and poster abstracts
is 30 April 2011.<br>
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The Symposium Proceedings, including all papers presented and abstracts
for<br>
posters, will be published in print. In addition, the best papers will
be<br>
published in a special issue of the Health Informatics Journal (PubMed
listed),<br>
and other selected papers will be published in a new online Open
Access<br>
journal.<br>
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Please circulate this CFP to your colleagues and fellow researchers. Further<br>
information is available at </font></tt><a href=http://www.ishimr2011.com/><tt><font size=2>http://www.ishimr2011.com/</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2><br>
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We look forward to seeing you at ISHIMR 2011,<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Dimitri Raptis<br>
Tobias Mettler<br>
Barbara Sen<br>
Peter Bath<br>
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Co-Chairs, ISHIMR 2011 Committee</font></tt>