The programme for the Southern Institute for Health Informatics 10th Annual
Conference, sponsored by SEHTA, has been announced. It can be found at
http://www.chmi.port.ac.uk/sihi/sihi2009/programme.htm

Friday 18th September, Portsmouth

The venue will be the Richmond Building, on the main University of Portsmouth
campus.

The theme for the conference is "Patient engagement through innovation".

The speakers are:

- Bob Gann, NHS Choices Head of Strategy and Engagement, on NHS Choices -
engaging the patient
- Manpreet Pujara, National Clinical Lead for GPs, NHS Connecting for Health, on
How the NHS is moving forward with electronic patient records
- Henry Pares, Head of Health Informatics Strategy & Planning, South
Central SHA, on the transformation in citizen's health service experience
- Katrina Brockbank, Patient Information Forum, on using innovative ways to
involve patients
- Flis Henwood, University of Brighton, on supporting self-management using ICT
- Dick Whiddett, Massey University, New Zealand, on patients’ attitudes towards
access to their electronic health records
- Sarah Hamilton-Fairley, Co-founder and Chief Executive of StartHere, on how IT
can help patients access services
- Malcolm Stewart, CEO, Visionradio Ltd, on promoting and prolonging independent
living
- Guy Giles, Operations Manager, Looking Local, on reaching patients other
channels cannot reach
- Tim Benson, Routine Health Outcomes Ltd, on routine measurement of patient
outcome
- Richard Pope, Director of Innovation and Research, Airedale NHS Trust West
Yorkshire, on prison healthcare

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. Patient representatives and those working with them are also welcome.
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. There are still a few
Infomart spaces available.

More details

For more details of the programme and a registration form, go to the conference
website http://www.chmi.port.ac.uk/sihi/sihi2009/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. Apologies to anyone who receives multiple copies of this message.

Jim Briggs

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Dr Jim Briggs
Chair, Southern Institute for Health Informatics Conference
Centre for Healthcare Modelling and Informatics (CHMI)
School of Computing, University of Portsmouth,
Buckingham Building, Lion Terrace, Portsmouth PO1 3HE, UK
Tel: 023 9284 6438
Email: Jim.Briggs@...

Conference sponsors:
South East Health Technologies Alliance

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