Registration is now open for the Southern Institute for
Health Informatics 9th Annual Conference
Friday 21st September, Portsmouth
After eight tremendously successful SIHI conferences, we are holding this
year's event in Portsmouth on Friday 21st September and would like to
invite you to participate. The venue will be the Richmond Building, on
the main University of Portsmouth campus.
The theme for the conference is Collecting information near the patient.
The conference is, additionally, part of a scoping study for the
Department of Health's invention for innovation (i4i) programme into
rapid diagnostic technologies. It is also particularly relevant to
members of the Telecare Knowledge Network.
The speakers include:
- Dr Mike Bainbridge, Clinical Architect, Technology Office, NHS
Connecting for Health, giving a keynote address
- Dr Hugh Sanderson, Head of Clinical Information Development, South
Central SHA, on the Hampshire Clinical Repository
- Lynn Woods, Chief Executive, Adastra Software, on integrated
out-of-hospital services
- Dr Grant Kelly, GP and CfH Clinical Lead for SNOMED, SNOMED Structured
electronic Records Programme, on implementing a clinical terminology
- Dr Marilyn McGee-Lennon, Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow,
on HECTOR evaluating a PDA based clinical handover system
- Prof Gary Smith, Consultant in Critical Care Medicine, Portsmouth
Hospitals NHS Trust, on using technology to identify patient
deterioration and facilitate the response to acute illness
- Lt Cdr Mark Trasler MBE, the Royal Navy lead for the implementation of
electronic clinical records throughout the Defence Medical Services, on
the Defence Medical Information Capability Programme
- James Jackson, SmartSensor telemed Ltd, on the home monitoring service
his company has developed
- Mark Smith, Met Office Consulting, on the COPD home alerting service he
has been involved with
Who should attend?
The conference is aimed at healthcare professionals, senior managers and
system developers both within the NHS and in companies supplying products
and services to it. Academics with research or teaching interests in the
above areas will also find plenty to interest them.
Registration
The cost of early registration (bookings made before 1st September) is
only £85 (with discounts for multiple attendees from the same
organisation), which includes lunch.
Infomart
The conference also features an "Infomart". The Infomart is an
informal information marketplace area that allows vendors and researchers
a low cost method of meeting people and exchanging information.
For more details of the programme and a registration form, go to the
conference website
http://www.chmi.port.ac.uk/sihi/sihi2007/index.htm
Email enquiries to sihi@... or phone Angela Muscat on 023 9284
6445.
Please bring this to the attention of any colleagues that may also be
interested, and if possible display our flyer (downloadable from the
website) on relevant notice boards. Apologies to anyone who receives
multiple copies of this message.
Dr Jim Briggs
Conference chairman
Conference sponsors:
Department of Health
Fujitsu - sponsors of the conference lunch
SEHTA
Telecare Knowledge Network
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