Informatics meetings & conferences

BIOIMAGING 2014--1st International Conference on Bioimaging

3 - 6 March 2014 ESEO, Angers, Loire Valley, France

BIOIMAGING is part of BIOSTEC, the International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies. Registration to BIOIMAGING allows free access to all other BIOSTEC conferences

Bioimaging is a term that collectively refers to tools used to create structural or functional images of living objects or systems. Examples are many, including: PET and HRRT PET, MRI and fMRI, MEG, SPECT and so on. Medical imaging is an important case of bioimaging referring to the technique and process used to create images of the human body, anatomical areas, tissue, and so on, down to the molecular level, for clinical purposes, seeking to reveal, diagnose, or examine diseases, or medical science, including the study of normal anatomy and physiology. Another field closely related to bioimaging is structural biology, a branch of molecular biology, biochemistry, and biophysics concerned with the spatial and temporal arrangement of biological macromolecules.

Conference Topics:

• Medical Imaging and Diagnosis

• Biomechanical Imaging

• Image Archiving and Communication

• Telemedicine and Virtual Environments

• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

• Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Fmri)

• Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT)

• Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

• High Resolution Research Tomography (HRRT)

• Magnetoencephalography (MEG)

• Ultrasound and Optical Imaging

• Optical Elastography

• X-ray Microscopy

• Biophotonics

• Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transferv (FRET)

• Fluorescent Microscopy

• Quantitative Bioimaging

• Structural Biology

• Brain Function Analysis

• Hemodynamics Imaging

• Histology and Tissue Imaging

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

http://www.bioimaging.biostec.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx

BIOIMAGING Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 100 033
Fax: +44 203 014 8813
e-mail: bioimaging.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.bioimaging.biostec.org

Bio-IT World and Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Fifth International Clinical Genomics & Informatics Europe

4-6 December 2013 Lisbon, Portugal

Bio-IT World and Cambridge Healthtech Institute are proud to announce the Fifth International Clinical Genomics & Informatics Europe conference. This year’s meeting will be held 4-6 December 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference will feature four main tracks on Clinical Exome Sequencing, High-Scale Computing, RNA Sequencing and Genome Informatics. In addition, we will be featuring two pre-conference Symposia on Tuesday, 3 December on Clinical Epigenetics and Digital Detection Techniques and Applications.

International Society for Disease Surveillance 2013 Conference

December 12-13, 2013 New Orleans, Louisiana

The International Society for Disease Surveillance twelfth annual conference will be held December 12-13, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Sheraton New Orleans, with Pre-Conference Workshops on Wednesday, December 11th. The theme for this year's conference— Translating Research and Surveillance into Action— highlights one of the salient topics voiced by the biosurveillance community, and will focus on strategies for incorporating the latest in biosurveillance approaches, methodologies, and results into data-driven public health practices, programs, and policies.

Both the 2013 ISDS Pre-Conference Workshops and Conference are designed help to build capacity for public health surveillance at multiple levels— from the local to global— by addressing a need for information about the most up-to-date practices, tools, and research results. By convening professionals from across the spectrum of biosurveillance, including public health practitioners, academic researchers, healthcare providers, and policymakers, ISDS harnesses the extensive and collective expertise of ISDS members, as well as other stakeholders, to advance surveillance through the integration of research and practice. This unique gathering has resulted in past attendees consistently reporting making positive changes in their work based on what they learned at a pre-conference workshop and the conference.

Do not miss this opportunity to collaborate, innovate, and build upon the knowledge base developed by the attendees — join us in the historic French Quarter of New Orleans!

NGS 2013 Manchester: Applications & Bottlenecks

5th – 6th November 2013 Manchester, United Kingdom

The aim of our NGS conferences is to address key issues being faced by laboratories that are implementing Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) into their workflows. Whilst NGS is a very powerful technology that holds the promise of unlocking the secrets of DNA sequences on a large scale, its implementation has not been as smooth as anticipated.

Our previous co-organized event in this area – NGS2013 Oxford Workshop & Symposium – focussed on bioinformatics, but with the current NGS conference in Manchester we want to take the theme a step further by broadening the discussion areas

Whether your laboratory is working in the area of clinical genetics, animal, plant or microbial genetics you will be aware that there are common issues that unite researchers in all of these fields when it comes to establishing workflows for NGS. These issues which have become recognized bottlenecks across all areas of NGS based research include but are not limited to Library generation, Data analysis and Data storage. Whilst these issues are now being addressed by start-up as well as established biotech companies, they are being tackled in isolation of the entire NGS workflow.

The NGS 2013 Manchester conference will bring together leading experts from widely diverse backgrounds to tackle these issues by networking, discussing the common bottlenecks and working with biotech companies to try and mitigate these issues. We strive to keep our conferences informal and create a good personal atmosphere so as to facilitate dialogue and networking amongst all participants.

The result is an NGS conference that gather researchers from Pharma, Biotech, Hospitals and Universities who are working in areas and applications that benefit each other when discussed in the context of common NGS bottlenecks. Researchers working in the areas of micro RNA’s, Exome & Genomic sequencing, NGS panels, inherited diseases, expression analysis, viral genomics to name but a few areas can now listen to each other and find effective strategies and partners that will help in ironing out the bottlenecks.

Who should attend:

1. All NGS users, researchers and students

2. Bioinformaticians

3. NHS Labs and private companies, Pharma, Biotech and Agro Companies

Geneticists interested in the latest developments of:

• Bioinformatics

• Biomarkers

• Computational Biology

• Data Analysis

• Data interpretation

• DNA Sequencing

• Genetics/Genomics

• Infectious and inherited Diseases

• Informatics

• Molecular and Cell Biology

• Molecular Diagnostics

• Next Generation Sequencing

First International Conference on ICTs for Disaster Management

March 24-25, 2014 Algiers, Algeria

ICT-DM'2014 is the inaugural edition for a new conference event on the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Disaster Management. The conference aims to bring together academics and practitioners who are involved in the emergency services, emergency planning, disaster management and allied professions, to learn about latest developments, share research, experiences and information about this area.

Disasters are events that cause dramatic losses of life and property and disrupt the normal functioning of the economy and society on a large scale. Disaster management is multifaceted process for developing strategies to reduce the impact of disasters and provide assistance to affected populations. Disaster management involves information- and communication-intensive activities before, during and after disaster strikes. The revolutionary potential of ICTs lies in their ability to instantly and continuously facilitate rapid communication and flow of information, capital, ideas, people and products. Because of this potential, ICTs have made incredible leaps in their usefulness for many application areas and this makes everyone agrees to consider that they have the potential to revolutionize the disaster management area too.

The conference will include paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research and practices in technologies and systems for prevention, preparation, response and recovery of disasters. The themes include (but not limited to) emergency communication, collaboration and coordination, decision enhancement systems, security and privacy, geo-information and space technologies, multi-sensor data collection, information dissemination and early warning and standardization efforts.

There will also be invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as special sessions dedicated to case studies, demonstrations and experiences based on pragmatic approaches. This way, the conference will provide a forum for supporting and encouraging both academic researchers, as well as practitioners involved in practice-focused research.

Requests can be sent to:

E-Mail: ictdm2014@gmail.com

Fax: +213 (0) 21 91 21 26

2013 Health Data Users Conference

Methods, Measures and Meaning: Making the Most of Health Data

September 23 and 24, 2013 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

The 2013 Health Data Users Conference provides a forum to highlight data relevance and showcase how data are used to inform decisions in today’s world of shrinking resources. The conference will take place at the Delta Hotel, in the heart of downtown Ottawa, September 23 and 24, 2013.

Our theme this year is Methods, Measures and Meaning: Making the Most of Health Data.

Global Health 2013, The Second International Conference on Global Health Challenges

November 17 - 22, 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal

Colocated with other events part of DataSys 2013

Tracks:

FUNDAMENTALS
Foundations in global health informatics; Computational health; Software for health; Independent living technologies; ICT and health; Platform interoperability; Semantic interoperability; Diagnosis systems; Applied health informatics; User interfaces and visualization

TECHNOLOGY
Bio-medical semantics; Bio-medicine; Disease biomarker prediction; Applications of bio-nano technology; Body networks; Mobile healthcare; Ubiquitous healthcare

TRENDS
Clinical epigenetic; Long term health conditions; Ambient assisted; Genetics; Virtual reality in medicine surgery; Clinical trials; Computational and knowledge management on proteomics and genomics; Drug design, disease diagnosis and control

PRACTICE
Nursing; Patient-centered care; Personalized medicine; Pervasive health; Homecare; Pharmaceutical services

ALTERNATIVE
Biomedicine; Natural medicine; Preventive medicine; Chronic diseases following; Home surveillance

CHALLENGES
Security aspects and access control on medical data; Data management in pervasive context; Data quality assurance and provenance; Patient flow models in hospitals; Clinical data analysis; Information visualization of medical data

GLOBAL
eHealth initiatives; Social medicine; Health global accessibility; Epidemic spreading and control; Health Education; Providing health in remote areas; Decision support within healthcare; Ethical aspects in eHealth; Healthcare plans and patient benefits; Synchronization of federal regulations; Availability of medication; Community health services

Second National Forum on Data and Analytics in Healthcare

The eHealth Initiative Second National Forum on Data and Analytics in Healthcare will be held July 31st - August 1st, 2013 at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention Center in Washington D.C.  The two-day event will feature a series of brief case studies and interactive multi-stakeholder panels on integrating different systems and transforming data into actionable healthcare intelligence. Last year, the inaugural Forum hosted more than 350 experts from across the country – and we look forward to more people attending this important conference in 2013!

Who Should Attend?

- Hospital, Health System and Clinic executives

- Health Information Managers

- Health Plans/Payers executives

Titles include:

• Chief Executive Officers

• Chief Operating Officers

• Chief Medical Officers

• Chief Financial Officers

• Chief Quality Officers

• Chief Information Officers

• Medical Directors

-VPs, Directors, Officers, Managers of

• Quality Analysis/Improvement/Management

• Risk Management

• Analytics/Data Analytics/Clinical Analytics

• Clinical & Medical Informatics

• Health Information Technologies

• Medical Operations

• Medical Directors

• Medical Officers

• Medical Economics

• Data Analysts

• Performance Management

• Underwriting

• Claims

• Case Management

• Disease Management

• Clinical Outcomes

• Utilization Management

• Decision Support Analysts

• Senior Nursing Staff

• Directors of Public Health Programs

• Researchers/Scientists/Epidemiologists 

BioCAS 2013--IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference

October 31-November 2, 2013 Rotterdam, the Netherlands

At the crossroads of medicine, life sciences, physical sciences and engineering, exciting interdisciplinary research and development activities are taking place that will shape tomorrow’s healthcare and wellbeing. The IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS) serves as a premier forum for these activities. It brings together researchers, designers and engineers from industry, academia and government to present and share the latest cutting-edge research results and innovative solutions for today’s complex health problems at the frontiers of biomedical engineering and circuits and systems.

Wireless Health 2013

November 1-3, 2013 John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

The Wireless Health annual conference series convenes the vanguard international research communities in Wireless technologies and mobile health research. Wireless Health 2013, hosted this year at Johns Hopkins University, invites cutting edge wireless, connected and mobile health research from engineering, computer science, biomedical and health disciplines.

The fourth annual Wireless Health conference will build upon the successes of Wireless Health 2010, 2011 and 2012, each of which included up to 400 attendees. The mission of the Wireless Health conference is to provide the highest‐quality academic, health and industrial research forum to develop an international community that will accelerate the development and adoption of new technologies for improving health and lowering costs. Central to this mission is the creation of a nurturing research forum that communicates the latest developments in the field, creates an opportunity for transdisciplinary collaboration, and provides an archival venue for the progress being achieved. This unique meeting brings together members of the medical and health research community, device manufacturers, clinical and health service providers, government leaders, and policy makers. Wireless Health 2013 will offer an outstanding set of peer‐reviewed papers and abstracts, interactive workshops, emerging application demonstrations, and world‐renowned invited speakers.