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Open Source for Quality Health Care
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
The seminar "Open Source Solutions for more Quality in Health Care" at STC2012 will provide an overview on open source software, open resources and solutions in health care. It is planned to take part on 18 April 2012 also as part of the MedSoft fair (http://www.armit.ru/medsoft/2012/).

Beside a general introduction it will present major, well-established software projects and summarise existing initiatives to support and promote its use. Natural to the characteristics of its subject, the seminar will be collaboratively held asking also the audience to join the discussion, suggest the focus interested in and propose ways to start a partnership for modernisation of health care practice in Europe.

The seminar will among others focus on

  • Pros and Cons of Open Source in Medical Informatics
  • Large scale and other outstanding Open Source projects in health care
  • Working Groups and further organisations and resources in the field of medical free and open source software
  • An additional session during STC2012 will give more insight in LIFOSS.
     
    eHealth 2012 Vienna CfP deadline extended to 25 January 2012
    Friday, 13 January 2012
    Image Health Informatics meets eHealth -
    From Science to Application and back
    Mobile Health & Care – Gesundheitsversorgung immer und überall
    10. - 11. Mai 2012 in Vienna

    The eHealth2012 will take place in the Schönbrunn Palace Conference Centre in Vienna from 10th to 11th of Mai 2011.
    The conference's motto and program target on building a bridge from research to application of information and communication technology in health care. Submitted and invited scientific presentations and posters as well as workshops and an interoperability showcase will contribute to that.
    Although a considerable number of presentations - as well as most parts of the homepage - will be in German, which is the official conference language, papers can be submitted and presented in English as well.

    Deadline: 25 January 2012
    Indexed in ISI Web of Science

    We are looking forward to seeing you in Vienna!

    Günter Schreier and Elske Ammenwerth

    Please visit for more information the eHealth-Portal

     
    MIE2012 deadline for submission extended to 30 January
    Tuesday, 10 January 2012
    ImageThe deadline for submission of papers and posters to the 24th European Medical Informatics Conference - MIE2012 - in Pisa, August 26th -29th, 2012 has been extended from 15.01.2012 to 30.01.2012 23:59 UTC.

    We invite you to submit a broad range of contributions related to the latest achievements in eHealth, biomedical and health informatics. The specific focus for the MIE2012 conference is the various roles of eHealth in pursuing benefits seen in quality of life for patients, health-care personnel, citizens and the society. We encourage you to submit a contribution about methodologies and applications, successful stories or lessons learned from not so successful projects in the health-care domain.

    For more information please consult www.mie2012.it

    Any questions concerning the submission, please use This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

    Kind regards from
    The MIE 2012 SPC-team

    Picture: www.freefoto.com

     
    STC2012 Call for Papers - deadline extended
    Friday, 06 January 2012
    ImageTime for sending papers for oral presentation or poster presentation was too short for some. End of the year and Christmas has its effect.

    Please register at STC2012.eu and send your paper until 17 January

    Rolf Engelbrecht
    Chair Programme Committee

     
    EFMI STC2012 Partnership for Modernisation -new-
    Sunday, 01 January 2012
    Image New: Deadline for submitting papers and posters extended

    The aim of the EFMI special topic conferences (STC) is to provide a forum to discuss achievements and actual experiences on specific topics in Medical Informatics in Europe (MIE). Its basis is innovative methods and approaches. STC enhances the communication among the professional communities of health informatics.

    STC2012 -carrying on the traditional series of EFMI STC conferences- is one of the most important European events in the common sphere of medicine and informatics. Its major goal is to increase interaction and collaboration among professionals from both health and ICT. The STC conferences are organised in close collaboration with EFMI working groups.

    Read more...
     
    Good Evaluation Practice Seminar at STC2012 in Moscow
    Wednesday, 14 December 2011
    ImageGEP-HI, the Guidelines for Good Evaluation Practice in Health Informatics, is a methodology developed by the EFMI-WG EVAL. It is derived from many years of international experience in health information systems.

    The seminar will start the EFMI special topic conference STC2012 on 18 April in Moscow (www.STC2012.eu). It will be continued by a workshop which will demonstrate the GEP-HI approach using a real health information system. A proposal for this workshop can be send to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it in a free format.

    Read more...
     
    IWEEE2012 e-Health in Emerging Economies
    Tuesday, 13 December 2011
    ImageThe International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies (IWEEE) - a biannual meeting held in Europe and in Latin America. The 5th IWEEE http://www.IWEEE.org will take place in Granada, Spain on the 11th of January 2012. The event is organized by GNU Solidario (http://www.gnusolidario.org/)

    EFMI-WG LIFOSS and IMIA OS WG co-organise IWEEE2012 and promote the use of open source software in providing health care in developing countries and emerging economies. More information about the event is available on the website of IWEEE.

    On the 12th and 13th of January the Open Source World Conference http://www.opensourceworldconference.com/en will be held in Granada which will enable participants to visit both events.

     
    Travelers' Electronic Health Record Template standard implemented
    Wednesday, 09 November 2011
    EFMI (European Federation for Medical Informatics, Prof. George Mihalas) started an initiative to link the regional organisations APAMI (Asia) and AMIA (for the Americas) together. It started by organising a panel during a Medical Informatics Conference and resulted in the development of a concept for traveling with health data and was supported by IMIA (International Medical Informatics Association).
    Read more...
     
    Kyriakos A. Kioulafas: a great supporter of medical informatics left us
    Monday, 17 October 2011
    ImageProfessor Kyriakos A. Kioulafas passed away on 17 October 2011

    Kioulafas was born in 1940. He was Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in the Department of Economics and Finance. He served as Dean of the School of Law and Economics and as Head of Department of Economics and Finance at the same University.

    He was the Founder and Director of the private educational and research Institute of the Eastern Aegean (INEAG), an Institutional Member of EFMI, hosting the annual ICICTH Conference (International Conference on Information and Communication Technology in Health Care) on Samos Island 10 times.

    He was full of plans for the next years. Summer schools and conferences on health informatics were discussed and planned last July. There is a hope that his work will be a basis for the future. EFMI will do its best to continue his work.

    Read more...
     
    Health 2.0 Europe 2011
    Sunday, 18 September 2011
    Image

    Following the success of the first event in Paris in April 2010, 2nd annual Health 2.0 Europe will take place in Berlin on October 27-28, 2011. Health 2.0 Europe integrates the best of European web/mobile based technologies, and compares, contrasts and contextualises them with leading examples of Health 2.0 from around the world.

    Please find more information at http://www.health2con.com/europe/

     

    EFMI Publications
    European Notes in Medical Informatics European Notes in Medical Informatics
    A limited number of the first volume of the "European Notes in Medical Informatics" is available from the MIE 2005 conference organisers.
    For more details and information please contact MIE 2005 conference organisers at mie2005@sim.hcuge.ch
    EFMI Journals

    International Journal of Medical Informatics
    International Journal of Medical Informatics
    The International Journal of Medical Informatics provides an international medium for the dissemination of original results and interpretative reviews concerning the field of medical informatics. The Journal is published in print and also electronic format within ScienceDirect.

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    European Journal for Biomedical Informatics
    European Journal for Biomedical Informatics
    The European Journal for Biomedical Informatics (EJBI), an offical journal of EFMI, is reacting on the great European need to share the information in multilingual and multicultural European area. EJBI is publishing in electronic form accepted peer-reviewed papers and other materials from the field of biomedical informatics in English and other languages simultaneously.

    In 2011 EJBI opens calls for papers for the following special issues: P. Wilson and Z. Kolitsi, eds. Support of eHealth Applications by Legal Systems in Europe, J. Mantas and A. Hasman, eds. Education in Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics. Paper submission date is June 20th 2011
    Please click for EJBI Authors instructions.

    STC2012 Moscow

    STC2012
    Welcome to the 11 International Special Topic Conference of the European Federation for Medical Informatics in
    Moscow, Russian Federation
    18-21 April 2012
    Conference theme:
    Large Scale Projects in eHealth
    Partnership for Modernisation

    STC2012

    MIE2012 Pisa

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    Welcome to the 24rd International Congress of the European Federation for Medical Informatics in
    Pisa, Italy
    26-29 August 2012
    Conference theme:
    Quality of Life through Quality of Information

    The XXIV International Congress of the European Federation for Medical Informatics

    MIE2011

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    Welcome to the 23rd International Congress of the European Federation for Medical Informatics in
    Oslo, Norway
    28-31 August 2011
    Conference theme:
    User centered in Networked Health Care

    The XXIII International Congress of the European Federation for Medical Informatics

    Past MIE & STC Conferences

    Oslo, Norway 2011
    Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina 2009
    Gothenborg, Sweden 2008
    Maastricht, Netherlands 2006
    Geneva, Switzerland 2005
    Saint Malo, France 2003
    Budapest, Hungary 2002
    Hanover, Germany 2000
    Ljubljana, Slovenia 1999
    Thessalonica, Greece 1997
    Copenhagen, Denmark 1996
    Lisbon, Portugal 1994
    Jerusalem, Israel 1993
    Vienna, Austria 1991
    Glasgow, Scotland 1990
    Oslo, Norway 1988
    Rome, Italy 1987
    Helsinki, Finland 1985
    Brussels, Belgium 1984
    Dublin, Ireland 1982
    Toulouse, France 1981
    Berlin, Germany 1979
    Cambridge, UK 1978
    Special Topic Conferences
    2011, Lasko, Slovenia
    2010, Reykjavik, Iceland
    2009, Antalya, Turkey
    2008, London, UK
    2007, Brijuni island, Croatia
    2006, Timisoara, Romania
    2005, Athens, Greece
    2004, Munich, Germany
    2003, Rome, Italy
    2002, Nicosia, Cyprus
    2001, Bucharest, Romania
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