Southern Institute for Health Informatics
8th Annual Conference
Friday 22nd September 2006, Richmond Building, University of
Portsmouth
After seven tremendously successful SIHI conferences, we are holding this
year's one in Portsmouth on Friday 22nd September and we would like to
invite you to participate.
The theme for the conference is the contribution that health informatics
can make to the management of chronic conditions.
Conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, asthma, cancer and mental
health problems impose severe demands on the resources of the health
service. For example, according to the Wanless Report, 9% of NHS costs
were spent on diabetes related care in 2000. With people living longer,
the incidence of these conditions is rising, and consequently the NHS
must rise to meet their challenges.
The conference will consist of a number of keynote speakers and other
oral presentations. In addition, the "Infomart", an informal
information marketplace area, will allow vendors and researchers to set
out a stall to meet people and exchange information.
The speakers so far confirmed include:
Sir Muir Gray (Programmes Director of the UK National Screening
Programme, and also Director of Clinical Knowledge, Process and Safety
for the National Programme for IT)
Barbara Stuttle CBE (director of primary care and modernisation at
Thurrock PCT and one of the nursing clinical leads at NHS Connecting for
Health)
Professor Martin Severs (chairman of the NHS Information Standards
Board)
If you would be interested in attending or participating in any way,
please email us at SIHI@..., write to us at the address below or
telephone us on 023 9284 6445. Proposals for presentations should be
accompanied by a 100-150 word outline and reach us by 29th May.
More details can be found on the conference website:
http://www.disco.port.ac.uk/hcc/sihi/sihi2006/
Please forward this message on to colleagues who may not have seen
it. Apologies if you receive multiple copies of it.
Dr Jim Briggs
Conference Chairman
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