Healthcare IT meetings & conferences

Managing Interoperability & compleXity in Health Systems

held in conjunction with the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM’12

October 29 to November 2, 2012, Maui, Hawaii, USA

Topics of interest, include but are not limited to:

-- Bio-medical Data-Mining, Information retrieval and extraction and NLP on biomedical text

-- Inference and statistical Models of diseases & Multimorbidity

-- Clinical Information Retrieval, Management and Normalization

-- Medical Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Expert and Clinical Decision Support Systems -- Interoperability in Distributed healthcare Systems

-- Clinical Information and Interoperability Standards (e.g. HL7) Clinical Terminologies, Classifications (e.g. ICD 10) and
biomedical ontologies (e.g. SNOMED - CT)

-- Hospital Enterprise Information Management Systems, Electronic Health Record, (EHR), Clinical Document Architecture

Diabetes Technology Meeting

November 8-10, 2012 Bethesda, Maryland

Major topics of the meeting:

Glucose monitoring
Insulin and metabolic peptide delivery
Artificial pancreas
Bioartificial pancreas
Cell phone management
Bolus dose calculation
Information technology
Physiologic monitoring
Software for modeling
Hypoglycemia detection
Diagnostic tests of glycation
Insulin pump and pen therapy
Diabetes telemedicine
Improving adherence to therapy using technology
Tests for complications
Technology for managing obesity

2nd International Conference on Global Telehealth - GT2012

“Delivering Quality Healthcare Anywhere Through Telehealth”

25 - 28, 2012 November Sydney, Australia

Following on from the success of Global Telehealth 2010, the Australasian Telehealth Society is pleased to announce Global Telehealth 2012, an international scientific meeting covering the full breadth of Telehealth with tutorial sessions, peer reviewed paper presentations on current topics of interest, and a range of invited international experts as keynote speakers.

The 2nd International Conference on Global Telehealth will held 26-28 November 2012 in Sydney, Australia.

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

34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making

October 17 - 20, 2012 Phoenix, Arizona

"Designing Health Information Technology for Better Health Decisions"

The theme focuses on presenting current state-of-art health information techniques (HIT) aimed at improving the delivery of health care services. In addition, the meeting will host several symposia which will enable attendees to gain an in depth understanding of the methods needed to develop and implement innovative HIT interventions.

Meeting attendees will have the opportunity to interact with the international leaders in HIT and be exposed to the latest research methods and medical decision making.

 

ITBAM '12 3rd International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics

Vienna (Austria) September 3 - 7, 2012

Data intensive disciplines, such as life sciences and medicine, are promoting vivid research activities in the area of databases. Modern technologies, such as high-throughput mass-spectrometry and sequencing, micro-arrays, high-resolution imaging, etc. produce enormous and continuously increasing amounts of data. Huge public databases provide access to aggregated and consolidated information on genome and protein sequences, biological pathways, diseases, anatomy atlases, and scientific literature. There has never been more potentially available information to study biomedical systems, ranging from single cells to complete organisms. However, it is a non-trivial task to transform the vast amount of biomedical data into actionable information triggering scientific progress and supporting patient management. Major biomedical application scenarios for research in the database community include but are not limited to:

Systems biology
Genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics
Genome-wide association studies
Drug target discovery and personalized medicine
Neuroscience and neuroinformatics
Electronic patient records
Patient monitoring
Surgery planning and support
etc.

Various emerging database technologies for coping with the challenges of these application scenarios have been developed and are an active area of research in information technology:
Administration of vast amounts of data
Integration of heterogeneous data sources
Federated and distributed databases
Data warehouses
Data mining techniques such as classification, clustering, association rule mining, etc.
Decision support systems
Information and image retrieval
Signal processing and streaming databases
Privacy protection and data security
Data quality assurance
Process management and collaborative work
User interfaces and visualization
Interoperability and standardization
etc.

Designing database technology to support applications in life sciences and medicine is an inspiring field of interdisciplinary research. The path from an idea to a practical application is often long and laborious, involving intensive interactions between experts in information technology, life sciences and the medical field. ITBAM accompanies and supports this path by providing an excellent venue for the exchange of ideas, fruitful discussion, and effective interaction among interdisciplinary researchers.

14th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE Healthcom2012)

The 14th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE Healthcom2012) will be held in Beijing, the capital city of China, from Oct. 10 to Oct. 13, 2012.

Healthcom 2012 is fully sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society. It aims at bringing together interested parties from around the world working in the health care field to exchange ideas, to discuss innovative and emerging solutions, and to develop collaborations. eHealth is defined as the cost-effective and secure use of information and communications technologies in support of health and the related fields, including health-care related services, surveillance, literature, education, knowledge, and research, both at the local site and at a distance. It will make personalized medicine possible and affordable in the near future. The adoption of eHealth technologies in medical fields creates huge opportunities yet lots of challenges still need to be resolved to build reliable, secure, and efficient networks or platforms with great flexibility.

The topics include but are not limited to

Biomedical and biosensors engineering
Body sensor networks and wearable sensor systems
Clinical biofeedback, decision support systems, and tools
eHealth information and network Infrastructure
eHealth for public health (including disease prevention, emergency preparedness, epidemiologic interventions)
eHealth for ageing (to support quality of life for older adults, aging in place and independence)
Emerging eHealth applications
Health grid and health cloud
Health monitoring, traffic characterization, & management
ICT-enabled personal health system
Image and video processing on eHealth
Network/Communications Infrastructures and Architectures for Healthcare
New IT-enhanced Models for Healthcare delivery
Pervasive and ubiquitous computing on eHealth
Practical Applications of e-Health
Security and privacy on eHealth
Storage and Display Devices for eHealth
Telemedicine and mobile telemedicine

Workshop I: Traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is an important part of medical science in the world. Chinese Medicine is good at prevention and prediction of diseases. But the typical methods of TCM mostly rely on doctors’ empirical experience, and a sophisticated collection of theories in a seemingly different paradigm from today’s mainstream western medicine. This might greatly restrict its applications and promotions. The development of information technologies has promoted the development and applications of TCM. It is becoming a revolutionary research method and technology development for data collection and management, data mining and analysis. This workshop will bring together researchers all of world who are interested in TCM to share research results, advances and practical experience, with the focus on using information technologies to solve issues on TCM. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

Modeling and Information standardization in TCM
Information management and sharing in TCM hospitals
Informationalization of health management and services in TCM
Architecture of healthcare information system for TCM
Development and applications of digital TCM techniques and equipments
Methods of diagnosis and treatment evaluation system in TCM
Prediction and monitoring modeling in TCM
Data gathering techniques in TCM
Analysis techniques for the clinical TCM data
Information techniques for the evaluation of personalized TCM treatment

Workshop II: Industrial Applications and Services on eHealth

Information technologies are becoming an ever-increasingly important part in the healthcare industry. Many companies around the world have successfully developed proprietary systems, tools and devices for their targeted applications in eHealth. But from an industry point of view, technologies alone are not enough for a significant advancement in an emerging market. How to combine government, medical institutions、insurance and other healthcare service providers together is a challenging issue. In particular, how to provide eHealth services with new service models to special demographic people, such as aging, maternal and children, disabled and rural people, are especially challenging. The goal of this workshop is to bring industrial partners together to share their experiences and exchange ideas in their practice of providing eHealth services. Topics include, but not limited to

eHealth service models for aging, maternal and children, disabled, and rural people
eHealth service deployment case study
eHealth and the Internet-of-Things
Person Health Records (PHRs) management and its applications
Chronic disease management through eHealth
Information sharing and interaction between different institutions, such as insurance, bank, government, hospitals for eHealth

29th International Conference of the International Society for Quality in Health Care

October 21-24, 2012 Geneva, Switzerland

The International Society for Quality in Health Care is a non profit, independent organisation with members in over 70 countries, ISQua's conference offers a unique opportunity for delegates to share expertise and knowledge via a multidisciplinary forum including;

6 Plenary Presentations
Over 1,000 delegates
Representatives from 70 countries
In excess of 250 presentations
500 posters
Over 100 expert speakers
25 hours of networking
Major social events

The Geneva 2012 Conference Programme will be structured around the following sub-themes:

Patient Centered Care
Education in Safety and Quality

Governance, Leadership and Health Policy

Patient Safety Systems
Measuring Service Performance and Outcome

Integrated Care and Interface with Primary and Social Care
Innovative Technologies using e-health and Health Technology Assessment

Quality and Safety in Transitional and Developing Countries
Accreditation and Regulation of Systems and Professionals

AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting

June 24-26, 2012 Orlando, Florida

Conference Themes

Behavioral Health
Delivery System Innovations
Measurement of Quality and Value

Care of Chronic and Complex Patients
Disparities
Medicare

Child Health
Health Care Workforce
Methods

Comparative Effectiveness Research/Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
Health Information Technology
Organizational Behavior and Management

Consumer Choice, Decision-Making, and Behavior
Long-Term Care
Public Health, Prevention, and Population Health Improvement

Coverage Dynamics and Access
Market Dynamics
Science of Quality Improvment

17th Annual CyberPsychology & CyberTherapy Conference (CYBER17)

This year the Interactive Media Institute, in collaboration with the Virtual Reality Medical Institute, is organizing the International Association of CyberPsychology, Training, & Rehabilitation’s (iACToR) 17th Annual CyberPsychology & CyberTherapy Conference (CYBER17), scheduled for September 25-28, 2012 in Brussels, Belgium. We would like to invite you to join us!

The Annual CyberPsychology & CyberTherapy Conference began as a symposium that featured presentations dealing mostly with conceptual matters and future possibilities at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference. CYBER17 has now grown to a full-scale conference with presentations that demonstrate controlled clinical trials with unique applications of cutting edge technologies that improve the access and increase the quality of healthcare.

CYBER17 will continue to build upon this 17-year legacy, which includes the 2011 conference just completed in Gatineau, Canada, which attracted 200+ participants from 25 countries. Locating this year’s conference in Europe’s capital, Brussels, provides a unique opportunity to raise the conference’s visibility and highlight the importance of technology and healthcare research. Prominent academic representatives from Europe, North America, and Asia will serve as Scientific Chairs and on its Scientific Committee. iACToR’s Secretary General, Professor Brenda K. Wiederhold, who divides her time between the U.S. and Europe (http://iactor.ning.com), will serve as the conference’s chief organizer and host.

CYBER17’s focus is three-fold:

1. The Impact of Technologies as Tools
CYBER17 will continue its examination of the exciting applications of advanced technologies being used in training, therapy, rehabilitation, and education for the improvement of the quality and availability of healthcare for people around the globe.

2. The Influence of New Technologies
CYBER17 will further its investigation into how new technologies are influencing behavior and society through the use of positive technology, healthy ageing, well?being, cyberadvertising, cyberfashion, and cyberstalking to name a few.

3. The Imprint of Social Networking
CYBER17 will embrace, as it did in 2011, the exploration of social networking tools on individual behavior and societal relations.

Encouraged topics include but are not limited to:
• Virtual Environments
• Advanced Interaction Training
• Video-conferencing
• Robotics
• Brain Computer Interfaces
• Cognitive Rehabilitation & Therapy
• Wearable computing
• Non---invasive physiological monitoring devices
• Positive Technology
• Social Networking in Healthcare
• Information Technologies
• Videogames
• Telehealth & Telepresence
• Social implications of Facebook, Twitter, etc.
• Neurorehabilitation
• Mobile healthcare
• Cyberbullying
• Health Applications
• Healthy Ageing
• Games for Health
• Serious Games
• Apps for Kids

Because of the international nature of CYBER17 and the expanded focus of its theme, we recognize the importance of extending our invitation to participants around the world interested and dedicated to enhancing public awareness of how technology can overcome obstacles and increase access to top quality healthcare for all citizens.
 

Annual Global Healthcare Conference (GHC 2012)

August 27-28, 2012 Singapore

Paper (Full Paper) Submission Deadline 4 May 2012

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Affective Computing
Bioinformatics
Clinical Problems and Applications
Cognitive Informatics
Confidentiality and Data Security
Critical Care Management
Decision Support Systems
Dental Informatics
Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare IT
Development of Assistive Technology
eHealth
e-Health for Public Health
Electronic Health Records and Standards
Electronic Patient Records
Evaluation and Use of Healthcare IT
Healthcare Administration
Healthcare financing
Healthcare Management Systems
Healthcare professionals versus social illness
ICT, Ageing and Disability
Interoperability
Management of Infectious disease
Managing Common Health Problems in Older People
Medical Informatics
Nursing Informatics
Online medical applications
Paediatric care & management
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
Pervasive Health Systems and Services
Physiological Modeling
Practice-based Research Methods for Healthcare IT
Public Health
Semantic Interoperability
Software Systems in Medicine
Stress management amongst healthcare professionals
Telemedicine
Therapeutic Systems and Technologies
Wearable Health Informatics

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