http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=1386

"A study published in the open-access journal BMC Medical Informatics
and Decision Making has revealed that surgeons at a London hospital
whose pagers were replaced with PDAs combined with mobile phones
responded to calls more quickly, improving communication between
clinicians."

First Symposium on Health GIS: 1-2 Dec 05; The Montien Riverside Hotel,
Bangkok, Thailand
Please check the event's Web site:
http://www.j-geoinfo.net/HealthGIS/Main.htm
Programme and call for papers:
http://www.j-geoinfo.net/HealthGIS/Symposium.htm

http://www.npsa.nhs.uk/site/media/documents/1246_PSO_Report_FINAL.pdf

Misidentification of patients is a theme that occurs in any analysis of
patient safety. The
NPSA has already released an alert on correct site surgery to address
one specific area of this
source of harm to patients. The NPSA is also working on other areas
which are related to
misidentification such as ensuring compliance with wristband wearing in
acute services and
reducing incidents of incompatible blood transfusions.
The NPSA believes that there is considerable scope in the NHS for
improving patient safety,
both through the development of fail-safe methods of manual
identification and checking and
through applying technologies such as barcodes, radio frequency
identification and biometrics.
A search and analysis of the NRLS data to identify incidents of
mismatching showed that:
• 493 reports of mismatching were found from 45 reporting trusts;
• two-thirds of these reports were from medical, surgical and
diagnostic specialties in
acute hospitals;
• one in every eight incidents specifically related to issues with
identification of patients with
wristbands, and half of these were due to a missing wristband;
• of 32 incidents where the wristband was missing, three led to
patients having
unnecessary x-rays;
• two patients with missing wristbands received treatment intended for
another patient
(one a blood transfusion, one an antibiotic);
• four out of ten reports included discrepancies with information on
the wristbands or where
the information on the wristband differed from other relevant documents;
• of these 26 incidents, there were 22 occasions when the information
on patients’ wristbands
was incorrect and the staff involved would therefore not proceed with
the treatment until
they could confirm the patients’ identity;
• in eight of these cases, a patient had been transferred to theatre
before the error
was discovered.
The data have confirmed that there is a lack of a systematic and
standardised process to
support the identification of patients in a way that allows healthcare
staff to match them to
their care, treatment and records. This work will inform further advice
for the NHS scheduled
for autumn 2005, and additional work to produce a standard for patient
identification.

*** Sorry for cross-posting ***

All,
This is the final call for papers for the HDL 2005: the 3rd Health Digital Libraries Workshop 2005 to be held in conjunction with ECDL 2005: 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries on 22nd September 2005 in Vienna, Austria.

The event is supported by the UK Health Informatics Society.

CFP is available: http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~patty/HDL2005/HDL%202005%20Workshop%20Top.html

Please feel free to forward this invitation to anyone interested.

Important Dates:
Submission Date:  10th, July 2005
Notification Date: 10th, August 2005
Camera Ready Date: 18th August, 2005
Workshop Date: 22nd September, 2005

Looking forward to your submissions and to a challenging workshop.

With best wishes,
Patty Kostkova and Anne Adams
(HDL 2005 Workshop chairs)
________________________________________________________
 

http://www.dh.gov.uk/Consultations/LiveConsultations/
LiveConsultationsArticle/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4114092&chk=l6ggnN

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Olive Goddard <olive.goddard@...>
> Date: 29 June 2005 09:09:37 BST
> To: CEBM-MEMBERS@...
> Subject: Re: Advert
> Reply-To: Olive Goddard <olive.goddard@...>
>
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>
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>
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• The Society is a supporting partner for this event (5-6 July in London)
• Jonathan Kay (member of UKHiS) Executive will be speaking
• UKHiS members are entitled to a 20% discount to your members - to obtain the discount, call directly quoting booking reference UKHiS.
• Please could you could circulate these details in your organisation and through your various networks.  If you do attend, perhaps you could write a report for the newsletter

• The Society is a supporting partner for this event (5-6 July in London)
• Jonathan Kay (member of UKHiS) Executive will be speaking
• UKHiS members are entitled to a 20% discount to your members - to obtain the discount, call directly quoting booking reference UKHiS.
• Please could you could circulate these details in your organisation and through your various networks.  If you do attend, perhaps you could write a report for the newsletter

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Schleyer, Titus" <titus@...>
> Date: 22 June 2005 16:51:25 BST
> To: "John Holmes" <jholmes@...>, <cimino@...>,
> <friedmc1@...>
> Cc: tpt1@..., "Pham, Thomas" <tdp4@...>,
> jeannie@..., pedro@..., "Dugan, Colleen"
> <cod3@...>, humberto@..., heiko@...,
> ed-wg@...
> Subject: [ed-wg] Informatics competencies in medical education
>
> Hi,
>
> Just FYI: In 2002, Germany began requiring informatics competencies as
> a
> precondition for licensing physicians in Germany. A paper about
> operationalizing these competencies in medical school curricula just
> appeared in the journal "GMS Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und
> Epidemiology," which is published by the GMDS (German equivalent to the
> AMIA).
>
> See http://www.egms.de/en/journals/mibe/2005-1/mibe000005.shtml.
>
> Thanks
>
> Titus
>
> --
> Titus Schleyer, DMD, PhD
> Assoc. Professor and Director, Center for Dental Informatics
> School of Dental Medicine
> University of Pittsburgh
> 3501 Terrace Street
> Pittsburgh, PA 15261
> Phone: (412) 648-8886
> Fax: (412) 648-9960
> E-mail: titus@...
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>
> _______________________________________________
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Hi All

Please could you circulate the attached to all your contacts and post on the
relevant message boards for the intake in October. High and low res versions
are attached. Please could you notify the current students and ask them to
forward details to their colleagues.

Thanks very much for your help,
Emily

Emily Brown
Marketing Co-ordinator
School for Health
University of Bath, UK
Tel: (44) 01225 383860
Email: e.brown@...
Web: http://www.bath.ac.uk/health

New Professional Doctorate in Health, commencing Sep 2005, applications now
online: http://www.bath.ac.uk/health/programmes/doctorates

PROGRAMME OF SPEAKERS
AIME 2005 Ontology Engineering Workshop
===================================================
Supported by the EU funded SemanticMining Network of Excellence

We are pleased to announce the draft programme of presentations in the
upcoming biomedical ontology engineering workshop. Full details of the
programme, and any revisions, may be viewed at

http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/mig/projects/current/semanticmining/workshop

Short abstracts of each presentation can also be viewed at this site.

09:30 Extending the Use of Anatomy Ontologies for Cross-Species Data
Integration
           Albert Burger, Stuart Aitken, Gus Ferguson et al.
           Heriot-Watt University,  The University of Edinburgh.

09:50 Transforming Biomedical Terminology Content between OWL and
           Traditional Representational Forms: Early Experiences and Issues
Faced
           Kaustubh Supekar, Harold Solbrig
           Stanford University & Mayo Clinic

10:20 Ontology and terminology in biomedicine : the non dissociable twin
           approach for quality in clinical terminology
           Jean-Marie Rodrigues et al
           University of Saint Etienne

10:40 PLENARY - QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION

11:20 Challenges in Interfacing Terminologies and Information Models:
           A case study of SNOMED and HL7
           Alan Rector, Jeremy Rogers
           University of Manchester

11:40 OntoSearch: Retrieval and Reuse of Ontologies
           Edward Thomas, Yi Zhang, Derek Sleeman et al.
           University of Aberdeen

12:00 PLENARY - QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION

14:00 Panel: Beyond the hype - what I wish I'd known about ontology
engineering before I started
           Panellists: Alan Rector, John Fox, Jean-Marie Rodrigues

15:50 OWL Classification Testing Platform
           Matthew Horridge, Nick Drummon
           University of Manchester

16:30 CLOSE

Key Information
============
Organisers: Jeremy Rogers, Alan Rector, Robert Stevens
Workshop Website:
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/mig/projects/current/semanticmining/workshop/
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
Date: Sunday July 24th 2005
Main Conference and Registration: http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/aime05/

END

http://www.kablenet.com/kd.nsf/Frontpage/
381E596057BB1674802570220059A066?OpenDocument

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Mary Ellen Doran" <maryellen@...>
> Date: 16 June 2005 14:54:16 BST
> To: jonathan.kay@...
> Subject: Health IT Training for Professionals
> Reply-To: maryellen@...
>
> AMIA 10x10 at OHSU
>  
> The AMIA 10x10 program aimes to realize the goal of training 10,000
> health care professionlas in applied health and medical informatics by
> the year 2010. This training will be conducted in a wide range of
> settings across the United states. AMIA 10x10 Web site:
> http://www.amia.org/10x10
>  
>

> The first offering of 10x10 is a partnership with Oregon Health &
> Science University (OHSU). AMIA 10x10 at OHSU current course will
> consist of 12-weeks of on-line training culminating in an intensive
> in-person 2-day session. (One full day of AMIA 2005 Tutorials, and one
> day final project work and networking with classmates and leaders in
> the field)The Web-based portion of the course will be provided through
> lectures, interactive discussions, and self-assessment tests. The
> in-person sessions will bring together attendees to integrate the
> material, allow presentation of course projects, and meet leaders in
> the field as well as other students.
>   
> Topics covered in the program:
>  •  Overview of Discipline and its History
>  •  Biomedical Computing
>  •  Electronic Health Records and Health Information Exchange
>  •  Decision Support: Evolution and Current Approaches
>  •  Standards: Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security
>  •  Evidence-based Medicine and Medical Decision-making
>  •  Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries
>  •  Bioinformatics
>  •  Imaging Informatics and Telemedicine
>  •  Consumer Health, Nursing, and Public Health Informatics
>  •  Organization and Management Issues in Informatics
>  •  Career and Professional Development
>
> The tuition for this program is $2,000. The tuition covers both the
> on-line and in-person sessions. Additionally, 10x10 students will
> receive a one-year membership in AMIA.
>
>  Deadline to sign up for the current offering is July 6, 2005
>
> Complete course information available at: http://www.amia.org/10x10
>
>  
>  
>  
>  

Colleagues

This is to let you know that we will not be publishing a spring issue of
the newsletter.  Due to unforeseen circumstances, the issue editor has been
unable to make the deadline.  The next issue will come out late summer.

best wishes

Jeannette

www.rsm.ac.uk/telemedicine


Preliminary programme
9.00 am Registration

Chair: Professor Frances Mair
	 President, Telemedicine & eHealth Forum

10.00 am Introduction

10.10 am Overview
Richard Smith
Managing Director Evercare UK and former editor of the BMJ

10.35 am The view from Primary Care
Dr David Colin-Thomé
National Clinical Director for Primary Care

11.00 am The role of eHealth NPfIT
Beverley Castleton
Managing Director Evercare UK and former editor of the BMJ

11.30 am Coffee

12.00 pm Making choices - Implications of the White Paper: Choosing
health
Paul Johnson

12.30 pm The Surrey / Sussex approach
Julia Ross
Programme Director, Transforming Chronic Care Programme

1.00 pm Lunch


2.00 pm Telecare and the preventative technology grant
Rachel Denton
Care Services Improvement Partnership

2.20 pm A collaborative partnership for longer term conditions in Newham
Speaker to be confirmed

2.40 pm Monitoring in residential homes
Chorley Wood Surgery

3.00 pm Patient care monitoring
John Bibby

3.20 pm Home support to patients and relatives
Frank Miskelly
Charing Cross Hospital, London

3.40 pm Social care in West Lothian
Speaker to be confirmed

4.00 pm Chronic wound care using shared electronic records
Simon Dodds

	 Summing up
Professor Frances Mair
President, Telemedicine & eHealth Forum

CPD applied for







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** FINAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS **

AIME 2005 Ontology Engineering Workshop

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: May 31st 2005
===================================================
Supported by the EU funded SemanticMining Network of Excellence

Key Information
============

Organisers: Jeremy Rogers, Alan Rector, Robert Stevens

Web: www.cs.man.ac.uk/mig/projects/current/semanticmining/workshop/
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
Date: Sunday July 24th 2005

Main Conference: http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/aime05/

General Information
===============

Medicine has a long tradition of attempting to codify its terminology. The
London Bills of Mortality, compiled weekly from the 1680s through to the
1830s, categorised the cause of all reported deaths in London, with the goal
of monitoring disease prevalence trends generally and outbreaks of plague in
particular. They are recognised as the forerunner of more modern controlled
terminologies and coding systems for epidemiological monitoring such as the
International Classification of Disease (ICD).

Codified medical data is increasingly being put to uses beyond epidemiology,
including financial billing, resource management and (more recently) as the
input to software supporting or directing clinical care. However,
traditional clinical terminologies like ICD are insufficient to support many
of these desired applications . Similarly, the rapid growth of data in the
post-genomic era of biology has seen a concomitant need to share
understanding about those data.

In order to provide the necessary functionality, biomedical terminologies
are increasingly being re-engineered as ontologies such as OpenGALEN , The
Digital Anatomist and SNOMED-CT, The Gene Ontology, Open Biomedical
Ontologies.

This re-engineering is being catalysed and enabled by a very new
technology - description logics - arising out of the knowledge
representation community. More recently it has begun to be informed by much
older methodologies deriving from 2500 years of European philosophy.
However, whilst good logic and philosophy may be necessary to guarantee the
success of this re-engineering, they may not be sufficient.

This AIME 2005 workshop will bring together researchers across biomedical
informatics to discuss a range of other ontology engineering issues. Noting
that the two halves of the biomedical community are increasingly coming
together in the study of phenotype/genotype correlations, the workshop will
consider the extent to which common ontology engineering solutions are
required.

Submissions
==========

This workshop considers issues in biomedical ontology engineering other than
those relating to description logic or philosophy. These issues include but
are not limited to sociological, cognitive and commercial barriers to the
enterprise. Participants are invited from both the medical and
bioinformatics ontology engineering communities.

We invite submissions describing experiences, tools or methodologies in the
following or related areas (topics prefixed with an asterisk are
particularly encouraged):

CONSTRUCTING ONTOLOGIES
* Quality assurance of ontologies
* Re-use of ontologies
* Ontology induction
* Consensus building
* Managing multiple authors
Metamodels & ontology metadata
Work prioritisation
Versioning and change logs
The local update penalty
Models of editorial control
Funding, publishing and licensing

INTERFACING ONTOLOGIES
*..with information models
..with information extraction
..with natural language generation

DELIVERING ONTOLOGIES
* End-user interfaces
* Inter-rater variability
Lexical annotation quality
End-user training
Intermediate representations

Submission Instructions
==================

Submissions should be in the form of abstracts up to 2 page in length and
should use the standard MS-Word template available from

http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/mig/projects/current/semanticmining/workshop/template.do\
t

Alternatively please submit a simple ASCII text file. LaTeX and Acrobat are
strongly discouraged.

If you wish to discuss possible submissions please feel free to send
questions to the organisers.

Successful submissions will be invited to give presentations of between 15
and 30 minutes. We will also accept "News and Views" talks, describing the
current state of existing projects. These presentations will be of up to 15
minutes in length.

Submissions should be emailed to jeremy.e.rogers@.... We will
normally acknowledge within a (working) day or two. If you don't receive
this, please mail the organisers again!

The workshop is an informal meeting. Papers are reviewed by the programme
committee. All accepted papers will be published by the organisers on their
web site and in the main programme booklet. By submitting your paper, you
consent to this publication.

Authors will be informed of acceptance within a few days of the submission
deadline. (Approx 10th June 2005).

Registration
=========

Registration is via the main conference only
(http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/aime05/registration.shtml).

The British Computer Society Nursing Specialist Group has organised an
Open meeting with Heather Tierney-Moore, Nursing Clinical lead for the
NPfIT

Date: Tuesday 14th June 2005

Venue:  Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel 130 Tottenham Court Road,
London W1P 9HP

Format

·       5.30 - 6.00 Registration and refreshments
·       6.00 - 6.45 Heather Tierney Moore - The role of a Clinical
Lead
·       6.45 - 7.30 Question and answer session
·       7.30 Close

For further Information

Richard Hayward, Chair BCS Nursing Specialist Group, Tel: 01227
782240
Email: HYPERLINK "mailto:rjh7@..." rjh7@...

Entry is free but places are limited. Please confirm your attendance
with:
Sue Tueton, BCS HQ, 1 Sanford Street, Swindon, Wiltshire  SN1 1HJ Tel:
01793 417417
Email: HYPERLINK "mailto:STueton@..." STueton@...

http://www.egovmonitor.com/reports/rep11276.pdf

>A request for a placement from a Brazilian nurse

Jeannette


>Dear Friends
>
>Please find here below a request from Brazil. I'll thank you if you could
>answer and give some help to this person.
>
>Best regards
>
>Patrick
>_________________________________________
>Nursing Informatics Europe EFMI
>Patrick Weber Chair
>Nice Computing
>Ch.de Maillefer 37
>CH-1052 Le Mont-sur-Lausanne
>Switzerland
>Tel: +41/21/641.04.20
>Fax: +41/21/641.04.29
>Mobile +41/79/212.88.89
>Email: patrick.weber@...
>URL www.nicecomputing.ch/nieurope
>
>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Fahl Courses [mailto:courses@...]
>Envoyé : samedi, 16. avril 2005 20:58
>À : patrick.weber@...
>Objet :
>
>
>Dear Dr Weber
>I am a Brazilian Nurse, faculty member at Londrina State University and Phd
>Candidate at the University of Sao Paulo , Brazil.  I got my Master´s Degree
>from Case Western Reserve University foccusing  on Decision Support Systems
>and I am working with nursing image on the internet for my PhD Proposal.  I
>am very much interested in participating in a sandwich type program with any
>European country who have advances in nursing uses of the Internet and WWW
>as a communication and documentation environment.  I got acquainted with
>your interest in this area so  I would kindly ask you if you could send me
>information on universitites or independent researchers I could spend a
>semester with in England or any other European country where I could
>communicate in English or Spanish.
>I thank you very much for any information you might be able to send me.
>Regards
>Ligia Fahl Kemmer, Rn, MSN

*** Sorry for cross-posting ***

All,
This is the first call for papers for the HDL 2005: the 3rd Health Digital Libraries Workshop 2005 to be held in conjunction with ECDL 2005: 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries on 22nd September 2005 in Vienna, Austria.

The event is supported by the UK Health Informatics Society.

CFP is available: http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~patty/HDL2005/HDL%202005%20Workshop%20Top.html

Please feel free to forward this invitation to anyone interested.

Important Dates:
Submission Date:  10th, July 2005
Notification Date: 10th, August 2005
Camera Ready Date: 18th August, 2005
Workshop Date: 22nd September, 2005

Looking forward to your submissions and to a challenging workshop.

With best wishes,
Patty Kostkova and Anne Adams
(HDL 2005 Workshop chairs)