MIE2011 in Oslo, Norway attracted more than 650 participants. The new program initiatives "Partnership in Innovation" and "Village of the Future"" added the important dynamics of the application oriented aspects of our field that has been missed in the most recent conferences. In addition to the MIE2011 scientific program based on 215 accepted peer-reviewed full papers and the new invited activities, MIE2011 delegates enjoyed very active participation from the EFMI working groups present at MIE2011. Many of the 25 accepted, peer-reviewed workshops proposals and 5 accepted, peer-reviewed panels were hosted by EFMI-Working Groups.

In addition, 7 of the EFMI-WGs held business meetings, either focusing on WG affairs or to discuss pressing issues pertaining to the interest of the particular WG with a broader audience. Further conferences should keep an eye on how this is productive for and can help develop the WGs activities further.

The important, affiliated events, "national eHealth Day" and the "Scandinavian conference on Health Informatics (SHI)", contributed significantly to the number of participants, and helped mobilize locally. As a continuation, the Norwegian society for medical informatics (FDH) is in very interesting, promising and fruitful discussions with the Norwegian Computer Society (DND) to re-join efforts in the field of health informatics. FDH and DND also had a formally announced national meeting about this during the conference.

At www.mie2011.org you can access the MIE2011 blog with more highlights from the conference.