For those of you with interests in Public Health Informatics:

http://www.asprs.org/gis_manual/index.html

I am honoured to be one of the contributors to this volume (Chapter 49) and its
companion DVD. This volume is designed to be a comprehensive resource on GIS for
students, researchers and practioners who are interested in asking spatial
questions, assessing landscapes, building geodatabases and envisioning a world
of integrated geospatial technologies. Top researchers in GIS from around the
world, along with emerging scholars, have told the story of a discipline that
originated alongside advances in computer technology and is increasingly
incorporated into our daily lives.

Dear All,



A few months ago I sent you a call for papers for a special issue of
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public
Health<http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph> http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/
(ISSN 1660-4601 - indexed in MEDLINE/PubMed) on the theme of Public Health
Informatics. We have now extended the deadline to 31 December 2009 to allow
those of you who are interested to prepare and submit their manuscripts for
consideration/publication in this special issue.



We are using the broadest definition of Public Health Informatics, which also
covers applications, systems, services and solutions with noticeable impacts on
communities (including patient communities, older populations, etc.) and/or on
health and social care systems and services.



Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts on related topics,
including, but not limited to, Internet-based public education and outreach;
telehealthcare and domotic services for populations with special needs;
real-time outbreak and disease surveillance; Internet-based engagement and
empowerment of citizens and communities, including Social Web applications;
e-epidemiology; privacy-preserving solutions for public health studies that
involve person-identifiable data (e.g., home addresses); etc.

  *   Open Access - free for readers, with low publishing fees paid by authors or
their institutions
  *   Rapid publication: accepted papers are immediately published online (we
started to publish papers quickly since September 2008). The printed edition
will only be continued for the Proceedings of the yearly International
Symposiums on Recent Advances in Environmental Health Research starting 2009.

Submission



Deadline: 31 December 2009

The Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health<http://mdpi.org/journal/ijerph> (ISSN
1660-4601) was launched in 2004 and is an Open
Access<http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess> journal, with the main Editorial
Office located in Basel, Switzerland. It has been accepted for coverage in
Science Citation Index Expanded<http://www.mdpi.com/about/journals/sci>,
available as the Web of Science and in Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology,
and Environmental Sciences. Coverage will begin with the 2009 issues. This
journal is also abstracted and indexed very rapidly by Chemical Abstracts,
MedLine<http://www.mdpi.com/about/journals/pubmed>/PubMed<http://www.mdpi.com/ab\
out/journals/pubmed> and EMBASE. The IJERPH<http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph>
maintains a rapid editorial procedure and a rigorous peer-review system. Well
written papers have been peer-reviewed and published in less than 4 weeks from
manuscript submission. All papers published in
IJERPH<http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph> have DOI numbers.

All papers should be submitted to
ijerph@...<javascript:location.href='mailto:'+String.fromCharCode(105,106,1\
01,114,112,104,64,109,100,112,105,46,111,114,103)+'?'> with copy to the guest
editor mnkamelboulos@...<mailto:mnkamelboulos@...> . To be
published continuously until the deadline and papers will be listed together at
this special issue website.

Please visit the Instructions for
Authors<http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/instructions> page before submitting
a paper. Open Access publication fees are 300 CHF per paper. English correction
fees (250 CHF) will be added in certain cases (550 CHF per paper for those
papers that require extensive additional formatting and/or English corrections).



As always, if you have any queries I can help with, please do not hesitate to
contact me or Ms. Gardenia You [ijerph@...] of IJERPH's Editorial Office.



With kind regards,

--Maged N. Kamel Boulos

Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Informatics

University of Plymouth

Southern Institute for Health Informatics

2009 Annual Conference

Friday 18th September 2009, Richmond Building, University of Portsmouth

After nine tremendously successful SIHI conferences, we are holding this year's
event in Portsmouth on Friday 18th September and we would like to invite you to
participate.

The theme for the conference is how information and communication technologies
(ICT) can provide innovative ways to engage patients in their health and social
care.

Increasingly, patients are taking a more and more active role in their care.
This includes:
- choosing their healthcare provider
- monitoring their existing conditions
- self-diagnosis of new conditions
- using over-the-counter medicines
- making lifestyle changes to improve their health
- purchasing equipment to facilitate their lifestyle
- referring themselves to expert services

Support mechanisms need to be in place for this sort of thing to happen safely
include:

- access to comprehensive and quality-assured information (online and via
different healthcare providers, such as pharmacies)
- access to pathways to follow when their self-care doesn't achieve its desired
goal (and pathways that don't necessarily end up in the GP's surgery or at A&E)

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.

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 will be considered up until the time when the programme is
finalised.

More details can be found on the conference website:
http://www.chmi.port.ac.uk/sihi/sihi2009/

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

The Conference is supported by:
The South East Health Technologies Alliance (www.sehta.co.uk)

Professor Abdul Roudsari, Head of Centre, would like to invite you to
attend the Open Evening for the Centre for Health Informatics.

Date:
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (GMT)

Location:
City University London
College Building, AG01
St John Street
Islington, London, EC1V 0HB


The evening is designed to showcase activities in the Centre including:

Invited talks by:

Peter Knight  (Programme Director of NHS  Connecting for Health's
Research Capability Programme).
Prof Denis Protti (University of Victoria, Canada).

Specialist presentations by:

Prof Jonathan Kay (CHI, John Radcliffe Hospital).
John Chelsom (CHI, Eleven Informatics).
Stuart Rowe (Pan Thames Paediatric Intensive Care (PICU) Network NHS).

Current research projects.
Masters in Health Informatics and Healthcare Technologies.

The evening will also provide an opportunity to network with individuals
involved in healthcare delivery and its management, in the healthcare
industry and in academic and related institutions.

The event is free to attend and welcomes people from all backgrounds,
educational, commercial and the public sector, please book early to
avoid disappointment.

To register go to
http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/organisation/chi/news_and_activities.html

We look forward to seeing you!

Centre for Health Informatics, City University London.

Hi all,
apologies for cross-posting but could you pass on details from this conference
to others who you think might be interested in it? It will be held at the Royal
Society of Medicine on May 19th and includes speakers from Kaiser Foundation, HP
Healthcare Spain, and Norway's Helsebygg Midt Norge:

http://go.patientsknowbest.com/rsmphr

Many thanks,
mohammad

Dr. Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
Honourary Senior Research Assocate
UCL Centre for Health Informatics & Multiprofessional Education
e m.alubaydli@...
w www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmjlmal/

Developing a culture of knowledge sharing across the NHS that stimulates the
application of Heath Informatics research and best practice.


A team of clinicians, from the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, and
academics in the field of Health Informatics, from the University of the West of
England, have been awarded a grant by the UK Faculty of Health Informatics
(Formerly NHS Faculty of Health Informatics) to produce a position paper on
knowledge sharing across the NHS. We aim to look at knowledge sharing both
within the NHS and between the NHS and external organisations and individuals.
This position paper will be presented at the UK Faculty's "Think Tank" event at
City University, London, on 26th March. To inform this position paper and
subsequent debate we have developed an on-line survey which is aimed not only at
NHS clinicians and health informatics professionals but also at representatives
from external organisations which interact with the NHS.


We are asking if you would consider taking part in this on-line survey which
takes about 10-15mins to complete and which can be found at:

http://www.snapsurveys.com/nhsfaculty

This link, plus additional information about the event in March, can also be
found at the UK Faculty of Health Informatics site on NHS CFH E-Space.


Using this survey we are hoping to identify and explore examples of "good
practice", in terms of knowledge sharing, across the NHS. We also hope to
document and understand the obstacles to knowledge sharing which currently
exist.


Follow up interviews, looking more closely at examples of "best practice", will
be reserved for respondents who indicate during the survey their willingness to
engage in further consultation.


Following analysis of the data, we aim to produce recommendations regarding how
Health Informatics research and best practice can help foster and support a
culture of knowledge sharing across the NHS.

Thank you for you time and consideration

A new commercially focused opportunity for an energetic health
professional to work with TSA Directors to "unlock the potential of
Telehealth".

Full details :

www.telecare.org.uk/tsajobs

for information About the Job, TSA, TSA Organisational structure and Annual
Report 2008

Latest issue of UK Health Informatics Today (UKHIT no 58, Winter  2008-09)
Security and Confidentiality Issue

• Introducing a UKHIT Special Issue: Security and Confidentiality by Jeannette Murphy, Senior Research Fellow in Health Informatics, CHIME, UCL
• Guest Editorial by Nathan  Lea, Research Fellow, CHIME, UCL
• Some practical considerations for implementing security and confidentiality requirements in distributed environments by Bruce Beckles, e-Science Specialist, University of Cambridge Computing Service
• Rising to the Occasion – Using Knowledge Management to help protect electronic healthcare record information by Nathan Lea, Research Fellow, CHIME, UCL
• Privacy is Paramount by Dr Ian Brown, Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
• The Lay of the Land by Karen Tingay, Postgraduate Research Student, CHIME, UCL
• The Times They Are A-Changin’ – Public and Private in Ancient Greek Healthcare Confidentiality by Marike van Aerde, Research Graduate from the University of Nijmegen
• References and Resources – e-Health: Security and Confidentiality
• UKHIT Diary - Health Informatics Conferences

Tim Benson
Tel +44 (0)1635 20 31 62
Mob: +44 (0)7855 68 20 37

Tim Benson
Tel +44 (0)1635 20 31 62
Mob: +44 (0)7855 68 20 37

A tremendous graduate employment opportunity has arisen to
work as a Business+ Associate in a project involving the
University of Portsmouth and PassivSystems Ltd.

The successful applicant will play a key role in the
development of a world-leading assisted care product to be
deployed in the home, using the latest sensing and Internet
technologies. The role provides the opportunity for the
right candidate to be part of the creation of
next-generation connected home-healthcare products.

Programming experience will be required and a first or
higher degree in a relevant subject to a minimum standard of
2:1 Hons or equivalent is essential.

The successful applicant will need to be self-motivated,
able to work with minimum supervision and able to take the
initiative in solving problems. They will work as part of a
close knit team and need to be able to communicate at all
levels, be flexible and be prepared to help with any of the
day to day activities of the company, as required.

The Associate will be based at the PassivSystems offices in
Newbury and will occasionally work at the University of
Portsmouth and make visits as required to customers and
collaborators. Opportunities for specialist training and
registration for a higher degree may be provided.

Duties and responsibilities will include researching the
topic area, forming recommendations, rapid prototyping and
validation, specification, and assisting in the
implementation of the system.

The appointment is offered for a fixed term period of 40
weeks. The potential exists for employment with
PassivSystems Ltd upon successful completion of the
Business+ programme.

The Business+ scheme (http://www.seeda.co.uk/businessplus/)
allows recently qualified graduates to work in companies
managing challenging projects central to their development
needs.

Candidates may wish to contact Dr Jim Briggs on 023 9284
6438 or email jim.briggs@... to discuss the post
further. Further details of the project can also be found at
http://www.chmi.port.ac.uk/projects/psbp.

Details of how to apply (and the application form) can be
found at
http://www.port.ac.uk/vacancies/research/vacancytitle,91452,en.html

We encourage applicants to apply for posts online and
guidance notes are provided to help you to complete your
application form. Please fill out your application form
electronically and return it to us by email attachment to
jobs@....

There is a typo error in message 797 "Call for Papers: Special Session
on Soft Computing in Medical Informatics"

My contact email address is dybowski@... and not dybowski@...

Sorry for any confusion.

Regards,

Dr Richard Dybowski
School of Computing
University of East London

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Session on Soft Computing in Medical Informatics part of The
11th European Conference on Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering,
27 – 29 August 2009, University of East London:
http://www.uel.ac.uk/eann2009/

OVERVIEW:
The aim of this workshop is to bring together some of the latest
developments resulting from the application of soft computing
techniques to medical informatics. By "soft computing", we mean
computing techniques that tolerate systems and environments involving
imprecision, uncertainty or approximation. These methods include
machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, evolutionary computation,
optimization, and fuzzy systems. Given the neural dimension of the
parent conference, papers will be expected to have a
neural-computational component.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Papers must be submitted using the same procedure as required for the
main conference, but papers must be marked "Special Session on Soft
Computing in Medical Informatics".

PUBLICATION:
Authors of the best papers will be invited to extend their papers (if
required) for publication in a journal special issue to be announced.

IMPORTANT DATES:
3 April 2009: Paper submission
1 May 2009: Notification of acceptance and reviewers comments
12 June 2009: Submission of final revised paper

CO-ORDINATORS:
Richard Dybowski & Aloysius Edoh

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
David Clifton (University of Oxford, UK)
Richard Dybowski (University of East London, UK)
Aloysius Edoh (University of East London, UK)
Ian Nabney (Aston University, UK)
Marco Ramoni (Harvard University, USA)
Stephen Rees (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Bernadette Sharp (Staffordshire University, UK)
Peter Weller (City University, UK)

Please direct any enquiries to Richard Dybowski: dybowski@...

Certificate Course in Medical Informatics (8th Batch): www.ehcfsmi.edu.in

Dear Friends,
eHCF School of Medical Informatics, promoted by eHealth-Care Foundation invite
you to the 3 months distance learning program leading to Certificate in Medical
Informatics.

Application Last date 25 February 2009
Course start date 15 March 2009

We look forward to your active participation for this course.

For more details browse link: www.ehcfsmi.edu.in

Best regards,

Athar Haque

Director: eHCF School of Medical Informatics [ www.ehcfsmi.edu.in ]
President: eHealth-Care Foundation (eHCF) . [A registered NGO]
Owner: M/s. eHealth-Care (eHC) . [An IT Firm]
Member: The Science Advisory Board, USA
Visiting Faculty (IT): NRAI School of Mass Comm, Mgmt & Tech.

Tele: +91-11-42178500; 9313764794
Mobile: +91-9811257571
Email: haque@...
Website: www.ehealth-care.net

Address: B-5 A/B, Top Floor, Street#-13, Madhu Vihar, I.P.Extension,
Delhi-110092 India


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For details see

The Bursary scheme offers the chance to attend the HC2009 Conference
and exhibition as a guest of the British Computer Society. It is open
to all Academic , Health and Social care staff with an interest in
Telehealth.



More details here



http://www.hcshowcase.org/index.php

Hi all,
I have started a podcast about personal health records in which I
interview innovators in health care IT. The first three interviews are
here:

http://podcast.patientsknowbest.com/

And I am looking for more people to interview. I am particularly
interested if you have a product to tell people about because I want
to raise awareness amongst NHS purchasers about what is currently
available. There are some really cool products available today that
most people overlook, assuming they are futuristic technologies.

If you want to be interviewed, instructions are here:

http://podcast.patientsknowbest.com/instructions-for-podcast-interviewees/

and send me a message with some times that suit you. Each interview is
available as an audio file and full text transcript and I try and
include as many links as possible to the information mentioned by the
interviewees.

Best,
mohammad

Dr. Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
Honourary Senior Research Associate, UCL CHIME
http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmjlmal/