MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'imia'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:48:06 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2814505&cid=t_99749_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fmedinfo-paper-deadline-extended.html The deadline for submitting papers for the 13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, also known as MedInfo 2010, has been extended to Oct. 15. MedInfo 2010, the triennial meeting of the International Medical Informatics Association, is scheduled for Sept. 12-15, 2010, in Cape Town, South Africa. This will mark the first time a global health IT conference has been held in Africa, and it comes just a few months after South Africa also becomes the first African nation to host the FIFA World Cup next June and July (you know, winter in the Southern Hemisphere). I covered the last two MedInfos, in Brisbane, Australia, in 2007, and in San Francisco in 2004. I had stories to write for months after the fact. I also was the only professional journalist from either North America or Europ... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2814505 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:53:00 +0100 2814505 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2380920&cid=t_99749_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F04%2Fpeter-murray-named-acting-director-of.html The International Medical Informatics Association has named Peter J. Murray as acting executive director. The appointment follows the April 12 death of Executive Director Steven Heusing. (I posted an obituary for Heusing earlier this month.)Murray, who had been serving as IMIA associate executive director for the last few months, also was the organization's vice president for strategic planning. He is an independent health informatics and telematics consultant in Nocton, England. He holds a Ph.D. in nursing informatics and educational technology and teaches health informatics at both the University of Winchester (UK) and Walter Sisulu University in Mthatha, South Africa. (Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog) Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2380920 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:14:00 +0100 2380920 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2348809&cid=t_99749_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F04%2Fmemorial-for-steven-heusing.html COACH, Canada's Health Informatics Association has announced a memorial service for founder Steven Heusing, who died April 12 at the age of 64. Heusing also was executive director of the International Medical Informatics Association.The service will take place Wednesday at 2 p.m. MDT in Edmonton, Alberta. The COACH site has details. Dr. Peter Murray, IMIA representative in the UK, informs me that an IMIA announcement about commemorating Heusing is forthcoming. (Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog) Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2348809 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:42:00 +0100 2348809 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2348815&cid=t_99749_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F04%2Fsteven-heusing-imia-executive-director.html Canadian medical informaticist Steven Heusing, executive director of the International Medical Informatics Association, died Sunday. He was 64. Mr. Heusing had been in declining health for a number of years and reportedly had had two kidney transplants.Mr. Heusing, a resident of Edmonton, Alberta, was founding president of COACH, Canada's Healthcare Informatics Association and co-founder of the Canadian Healthcare Information Technology Trade Association (CHITTA), now called ITAC Health. He was editor and publisher of Healthcare Information Management & Communications Canada, the official journal of COACH and ITAC Health.To recognize his service, COACH established the Steven Heusing Scholarship in 1999 for students in Canadian health informatics or healthcare information management program... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2348815 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:04:00 +0100 2348815 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2021293&cid=t_99749_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F12%2Fgates-foundation-to-fund-global.html The American Medical Informatics Association will announce Monday that it has received a $1.2 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to promote health informatics and biomedical education and training worldwide, particularly in developing countries.This will be the first project of a new program called 20/20, in which the International Medical Informatics Association and its regional affiliates, including AMIA, will attempt to train 20,000 informatics professionals globally by 2020. This is an outgrowth of the AMIA 10x10 program to train 10,000 people in informatics in the U.S. by 2010. IMIA and its partners will discuss details of 20/20 this week at the Wellcome Trust in London.AMIA will use the Gates Foundation money to develop "scaleable" approaches to e-health educati... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2021293 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:40:00 +0100 2021293 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1279386&cid=t_99749_113_f&fid=34636&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rodspace.co.uk%2Fblog%2F2008%2F03%2Fmedicine-20-congress-in-toronto-sept.html (Source: Informaticopia) Informaticopia blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1279386 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:34:00 +0100 1279386 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1274762&cid=t_99749_113_f&fid=34636&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rodspace.co.uk%2Fblog%2F2008%2F03%2Fhelp-needed-classifying-keywords-for.html (Source: Informaticopia) Informaticopia blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1274762 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:58:00 +0100 1274762 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1130882&cid=t_99749_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F01%2Fglobal-health-20.html I don't want to jump on any bandwagons just yet, since plenty of what I've seen in health 2.0 so far is bluster. Sure, there are some interesting ideas, but whether they actually help in the provision of care remains to be proven. I am a big fan of disclosure, however, and I am becoming a big fan of social networking. The latter has helped me reconnect with several people I'd lost touch with.On that note, here are a couple of interesting links I picked up recently:A hospital rating site in Ireland called RateMyHospital.ie seems to be attracting a lot of activity. As of this writing, the counter indicates that 9,896 surveys have been completed. I'm not sure when the site started, but we're talking about a country with just 4.2 million people. RateMyHospital is part of a privately run site c... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1130882 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:05:00 +0100 1130882 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1811743&cid=t_99749_113_f&fid=38059&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchirad-at.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F09%2Fafter-medinfo2007.html All too quickly, medinfo2007 has been and gone. Blogging from the event proved to be more challenging than we had expected - Internet access in Australia is nowhere near as cheap and readily available as we have come to expect in other places we have travelled to, or here in the UK. CHIRAD members did contribute various blog posts, which can be found on Informaticopia and the hi-blogs.info blog. If anyone has additional comments, please feel free to add them to the existing posts. If you have photos you would like to share, then contact us about how to do this (ie, don't just email them to us). (Source: The CHIRAD blog) The CHIRAD blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1811743 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:48:00 +0100 1811743 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=853405&cid=t_99749_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F09%2Fmedinfo-coverage.html After a week of pressing deadlines and erratic sleep courtesy of the worst case of jet lag I've ever encountered, I've finally collected my thoughts and my wits, and am ready to post a few things from MedInfo 2007 and related conferences.I thought I'd start by posting links to some of the stories I've written from my trip to Australia. I have a couple of podcasts to post as well, plus some more writing to do, but here's something. I was the only full-time journalist from either North America or Europe at MedInfo, so I'm using that to my advantage. (If there's any editor out there still interested in coverage, I'm listening. I have nearly 500 poster presentations to draw on, to give you an idea of the breadth of material available.)From Digital HealthCare & Productivity "Optimism Marks ... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=853405 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:38:00 +0100 853405 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1811744&cid=t_99749_113_f&fid=38059&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchirad-at.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F08%2Fgreat-trek-to-medinfo2007.html has started. Some CHIRAD members set off on their journeys today, and others will be setting off over the next week or so. We hope to blog here, and elsewhere, about the event and share experiences with those not fortunate enough to be able to get to medinfo2007. More later.See www.medinfo2007.org (Source: The CHIRAD blog) The CHIRAD blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1811744 Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:36:00 +0100 1811744 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1811745&cid=t_99749_113_f&fid=38059&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchirad-at.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F07%2Fimia-oswg-meeting-at-medinfo2007.html The 2007 business meeting of the IMIA Open Source Working Group ( >>>) will take place as follows:Sunday, 19 August 2007, from 5:30 - 7:30pmVenue: Room P3, Brisbane Convention Centre, Australia (in conjunction with medinfo2007) Agenda to be advised later.Apologies to colleagues who won't be at medinfo2007.All queries to imia.oswg[at]gmail.com (Source: The CHIRAD blog) The CHIRAD blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1811745 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:10:00 +0100 1811745 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=462715&cid=t_99749_113_f&fid=34636&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rodspace.co.uk%2Fblog%2F2007%2F02%2Fcuba-congress-imia-blogs-et-al.html We start today (Thursday) with reports from yesterday, as I was too tired last night after a full day to try and post anything. Yesterday did not start over-well - we arrived early to hear Richard Stallman (as did many other people), only to find that her had been moved to an afternoon slot, ie the same time I was speaking. However, I hope one of our colleagues will provide a report.My first presentation of the day was about IMIA, its Working Groups and Nursing Special Interest Group, and its Strategic Plan. I included materials and comments sent by Nancy Lorenzi, IMIA President, which were well-received and appreciated. The session was focused on how Cubans in particular, and people in any other country, can become more involved in IMIA's WG/SIG and wide range of other activities. Some in... Informaticopia blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=462715 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:00:00 +0100 462715 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=462717&cid=t_99749_113_f&fid=34636&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rodspace.co.uk%2Fblog%2F2007%2F02%2Fcuba-congress-and-imia-lac.html The Tuesday afternoon session began with a presentation by Dr Alvaro Margolis, from Uraguay, in his role as President of IMIA-LAC, the Latin-America and Caribbean region of IMIA (www.imia.org). IMIA-LAC was established in 1983, with representatives from Argentina, Brazil, Cuba (the Cuban Society for Medical Informatics, founded in 1970) and Mexico. He outlined the strategic objectives of IMIA-LAC for 2006-09, which include strengthening the network of societies in the region, through both the national societies and through universities and other institutions. He talked of the need to try and encourage the development of health informatics societies in the various countries that do not have one. Other objectives include identifying specific areas (and related groups) where health informatic... Informaticopia blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=462717 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:00:00 +0100 462717 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=462716&cid=t_99749_113_f&fid=34636&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rodspace.co.uk%2Fblog%2F2007%2F02%2Fcuba-congress-education.html The second part of Tuesday afternoon was a round-table devoted to various aspects of health informatics and education. It began with a presentation by Graham Wright titled 'Exploring the knowledge base for health informatics: the Otley duckfest and beyond'. He briefly discussed the background to the project, from the original 'Education Steps' project at Otley in early 2005, including the origin of the research methods used and the rationale for using Bloom's taxonomy for focusing on the cognitive, rather than psychomotor, aspects of health informatics.He described the process of participants identifying the elements of health informatics and then grouping them, by use of post-it notes for smaller elements and tables for the larger themes, so that people could walk around and get a feel fo... Informaticopia blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=462716 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:00:00 +0100 462716