Healthcare Administration calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Presentations: 12th World Congress on Stress, Trauma & Coping

February 19-24, 2013 Baltimore, Maryland

Submission Deadline: June 15, 2012

The 12th World Congress on Stress, Trauma and Coping is the premier forum for multidisciplinary exchange of ideas and information among those who provide crisis and disaster mental health services.

Sessions during the 12th World Congress have been designed to provoke critical thinking challenge current convention offer innovative ideas and insights & fully explore the many applications of critical incident response in various industries, settings and situations.

World Congress participants will identify the tools needed to solve current problems and explore the future direction of the crisis intervention field. The 6 day World Congress will include a variety of presentation formats ideally suited to exploring concepts, practical applications and results in sessions designed for professionals in all practice settings and experience levels.

World Congress Major Content Themes
Over 125 presenters will cover the spectrum of crisis intervention in these and other areas:

Research / Innovations Military Disaster Response Healthcare Settings Faith Based Applications Emergency Services, Public Safety Corporate / Industry / EAP Specialty Populations Team Development and Care Schools, Children

Who Should Attend

The ICISF 12th World Congress is a “must attend” experience for anyone working in the fields of crisis intervention, traumatic stress, emergency services & disaster mental health, including:

Disaster response personnel Psychiatrists Humanitarian aid workers Counselors Law-enforcement officers Social workers Firefighters Faith-based providers EMTs / Paramedics Employee representative organizations & Unions Military personnel First response support agencies Homeland security personnel Media correspondents / journalists Emergency service administrators Grief counselors Emergency operations administrators & managers Employee assistance professionals Corrections officials Commercial & industrial organization employees Healthcare professionals & administrators Airline & other transportation industry personnel Educators, school employees Communication officers & dispatch personnel Crisis workers Security professionals Suicidologists Victim's advocates Psychologists Risk managers

Why Attend?
The Crisis Intervention field continues to grow, building on excellent proven programs and strategies while incorporating innovations that meet the needs and challenges of the diverse populations we serve. As crisis interventionists we must learn from one another to continually improve the services provided to the level of best practices.

At the 12th World Congress, you'll have an incomparable opportunity to interact with experts in the field and hundreds of your peers from around the U.S. and world who, like you, are committed to providing assistance to those affected by critical incident stress. Choose from over 70 presentations that will explore how the practice of crisis intervention is evolving and adapting to meet the needs and challenges of the future.

Please address any questions to:

Shelley Cohen
World Congress Program Manager
scohen@icisf.org
(410) 750-9600

Call for Papers: World Congress Leadership Summit on Optimizing Oncology Management

August 2-3, 2012 Boston Massachusetts

The Annual World Congress Leadership Summit on Optimizing Oncology Management provides best practices and updates to the entire oncology industry, specially focusing on the payer and how they are to handle policy and program formation.

With the influx of oncology products in manufacturer pipelines and the rising cost of treatment, it is now more imperative than ever for plans to properly contain spending while providing the best possible quality of care. As more drugs and therapies start target similar molecular pathways, competition is bound to increase. This conference will help plans evaluate the jungle of treatments out there to pin point the best coverage for their members.

New for 2012:

What new developments are in the manufacturer pipelines and how to properly prepare for them
Case Studies of oncology benefit programs that enhance member experience and quality of life
Realize cost savings by comparing and analyzing current treatments to determine efficiency
Discuss how different future models of health care delivery will affect oncology treatment access
Learn what employers are concerned about in regards to oncology benefits for their employees

Call for Papers: Submit Abstract for Presentations

The World Congress Leadership Summit on Optimizing Oncology Management is now accepting abstract submissions for 2012! Due: June 20th, 2012.

Who Can Submit

World Congress welcomes submissions from employers, providers, health plans, public purchasers, pharmaceutical companies, researchers and analysts. Presenters are encouraged to submit abstracts on current and emerging issues related to the conference theme.

Call for Papers: 2nd International Conference on Global Telehealth - GT2012

“Delivering Quality Healthcare Anywhere Through Telehealth”

25 - 28, 2012 November Sydney, Australia

Telehealth, including telemedicine, patient monitoring and associated eHealth considerations, is currently experiencing a rapid expansion in adoption worldwide. Deployment of new information and communications technologies, and their enabling systems and infrastructure, offer many emerging avenues for implementation of Telehealth solutions. Widespread initiatives by public and private sector health providers with government reimbursement and regulatory support are transforming previously small scale activities into widespread adoption. This situation provides a great opportunity to raise levels of access and increase quality of healthcare globally.

The Telehealth domain of interest covers a broad scope: from enabling direct clinical interventions and interactions by real-time or store-forward processes, to communicating and managing health information in electronic formats, to patient centred care needs such as personal monitoring and care team support, and to education, policy and professional aspects. Mainstream activities in healthcare systems internationally address these areas, and so this conference provides a platform for sharing of best practice and directions.

Telehealth is also acting as a major change driver in global health, particularly in underserved regions and emerging countries. This is aided by the rapid uptake of leapfrog technologies such as mobile wireless communications and portable computing devices, and the deployment of new models and processes of healthcare. The conference will give special emphasis to this sector and particularly invites participation by representatives from Asia-Pacific, Africa and Latin America.

Contributions are sought addressing current research and practice in Telehealth, including (but not limited to):

• clinical applications of telemedicine
• teleconsultation and telecollaboration
• teleprocedures and robotic surgical methods
• telecare and remote patient monitoring
• tele-education and clinical training
• evaluation and benefits of telehealth
• web services for telehealth
• mobile telehealth and wireless applications
• telehealth software and systems
• telehealth technologies and methodologies
• telehealth for remote areas
• telehealth in emerging countries
• telehealth policy and governance
• international trends and perspectives for telehealth

Original unpublished contributions in all fields of Telehealth (and closely related areas of eHealth) are invited. These may be offered as Full Papers (maximum 8 pages or approx 4000 words, not previously published) subject to expert peer review by an international program committee of technical experts, or as extended abstract Short Papers (maximum 2 pages or approx 1000 words) also subject to peerl review. Full Papers will appear in a commercially published and indexed monograph or may be considered for invited journal publication. Short Papers will appear in proceedings to be distributed to delegates at the event.

Submissions must contain a clear statement of aims, methods, results and conclusions for the work reported. Papers will be judged on originality, significance, technical quality, relevance to the conference, and presentation. Submission of a Full Paper or Short Paper will imply an undertaking that, should it be accepted, at least one author will register and attend the conference to present the work. Submissions should be made by following the instructions on the conference website, using the style guide provided.

Submission of Full and Short Papers: Friday 28 July 2012
Notification of acceptance to authors: Friday 25 August 2012
Camera-ready copy for proceedings: Friday 8 September 2012
Author & Early-bird registration deadline: Friday 8 September 2012

The conference will offer a limited number of half-day Workshops, for presentation of “work-in-progress” on thematically related sets of current Telehealth projects, and half-day Tutorials, for experts to provide concentrated overviews on topics of contemporary interest. These associated events will be available to delegates at very modest fees. Persons interested in offering to organise either a Workshop or a Tutorial should e-mail a 1 page summary of their proposal (including details of coverage, and names and affiliations of any intended presenters) to the organisers by the above Submission date. Other satellite events may be organised on the first day.

General Co-Chairs: Prof Anthony Maeder, University of Western Sydney & Prof Mohamed Khadra, University of Sydney
Program Co-Chairs: A/Prof Anthony Smith, University of Queensland & Dr Robert Eikelboom, University of Western Australia
Organising Co-Chairs: Dr Laurie Wilson, CSIRO ICT Centre & Dr David Allen, Quality Occupational Health

More Information: http://www.aths.org.au/GT2012/

Call for Papers: Third International Conference on Global Trends in Biomedical Informatics, Research Education and Globalization

Organized by the Department of Health Informatics, School of Health Related Professions, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)

It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the Third International Conference on Global Trends in Biomedical Informatics, Research Education and Globalization which will take place on November 15th, 2012 in Newark, NJ, USA.

This conference will provide a unique opportunity for disseminating the latest advances, applications and future trends in the area of Biomedical Informatics. The conference will meet the diverse interests of the delegates - from conceptual, theoretical, practical applications to commercialization. It will be the center of action for health informatics professionals to interact with their peers, meet leaders in the field, learn about new products, and see demonstrations from top healthcare systems and services vendors.

We are inviting original, unpublished research manuscripts in the following areas of interest, but not limited to

Electronic Health Records and Meaningful Use
Healthcare Outcomes Research
Personalized Medicine, Genetic Testing & Biomarkers
Interoperability and Standards in Healthcare
Public Health Informatics, GIS Applications, Disease Mapping & Surveillance
Clinical Informatics including Decision Support & Intelligent Systems
Healthcare Marketing and Outsourcing
Molecular Imaging & Nanomedicine
Privacy, Security and Confidentiality
Healthcare System Intrusion including Bio- and Cyber-Terrorism
Healthcare Disparities Research
Drug Discovery and Clinical Trials
Bio-computations
Nursing Informatics
Modelling and Simulation in Biomedical Research.
Translational Research in Healthcare including Bioinformatics Applications
Controlled Medical Terminologies & Ontologies
Healthcare Quality Research
Intelligent Systems
Mobile devices in Health care
Biomedical Instrumentation, Devices and Signal processing
Telemedicine Applications including Mobile Devices, Health Information Exchange & Service Oriented Architecture for Healthcare

Selected papers will be submitted for publication in the

International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications
International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics
International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Consumer Health Informatics
International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Healthcare Informatics

Highlights of the Conference

State-of-the-Art Overviews by Renowned Experts
Presentation of Scientific and Application Papers
Panel Discussions Exploring Critical Issues of the Day
Demonstrations of Advanced Health Informatics Systems
In-depth Tutorial Sessions in Current State of Art Biomedical Informatics by Eminent Speakers

We are looking forward for your participation to make this event a grand success

Important Deadlines:

Manuscript Submission: September 1, 2012
Decision on Paper Acceptance: September 30, 2012
Submission of Final Manuscript: October 30, 2012

CONTACT DETAILS
Dr. Syed Haque
Chair & Program Director

Ms. Yvonne Rolley
Conference Coordinator
Department of Health Informatics
UMDNJ-School of Health Related Professions
65 Bergen Street, Rm.350
Newark, NJ 07107-3001
Phone: 973 972 6871, Fax: 973 972 8540

Call for Abstracts for Workshop Presentation: International Association of Medical Regulatory Authorities 10th International Conference on Medical Regulation

Medical Regulation in the Real World: Bringing Evidence to Bear

October 2 - 5, 2012 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

You are invited to submit abstracts for workshop presentation at IAMRA's 10th International Conference on Medical Regulation.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Notification Date: Friday, June 29, 2012

Conference / Abstract Themes

The program focuses on developing principles and best practices in four important content areas relevant to medical regulation:

Registration / licensure
Complaints / resolution
Quality Assurance
Professionalism

This is not a forum for commercial purposes, i.e., marketing or selling of products or services. Posters will be for display and interactive discussion purposes only.

Presentation Format

Abstracts should report on completed or in-progress initiatives or projects that align with the conference theme. Presentations should provide a forum to share research, innovations and projects with members and staffs of medical regulatory authorities and other organizations interested in the licensing and regulation of medical doctors.

Workshop presentations will occupy their own time-slot, which will be identified in the advance program. Presentations will be 90 minutes in length.

For More Information

IAMRA 2012 Conference Secretariat
BUKSA Strategic Conference Services
Suite 307, 10328 - 81 Ave
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6E 1X2
Tel: +1.780.436.0983 ext. 229
Fax: +1.780.437.5984
E-mail: IAMRA@buksa.com

Call for Abstracts for Poster or Oral Presentation: International Association of Medical Regulatory Authorities 10th International Conference on Medical Regulation

Medical Regulation in the Real World: Bringing Evidence to Bear

October 2 - 5, 2012 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

You are invited to submit abstracts for poster or oral presentation at IAMRA's 10th International Conference on Medical Regulation.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Notification Date: Friday, June 29, 2012

Conference / Abstract Themes

The program focuses on developing principles and best practices in four important content areas relevant to medical regulation:

Registration / licensure
Complaints / resolution
Quality Assurance
Professionalism

This is not a forum for commercial purposes, i.e., marketing or selling of products or services. Posters will be for display and interactive discussion purposes only.

For More Information

IAMRA 2012 Conference Secretariat
BUKSA Strategic Conference Services
Suite 307, 10328 - 81 Ave
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6E 1X2
Tel: +1.780.436.0983 ext. 229
Fax: +1.780.437.5984
E-mail: IAMRA@buksa.com