We're pleased to announce an excellent roster of speakers for the Southern
Institute for Health Informatics 10th Annual Conference, sponsored by SEHTA -
South East Health Technologies Alliance.

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 include:

- Bob Gann, NHS Choices Head of Strategy and Engagement
- Manpreet Pujara, National Clinical Lead for GPs, NHS Connecting for Health
- 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. 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/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, and if possible display the attached PDF on relevant notice boards.
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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Tele-Cardiology: Bringing cardiology closer to the patient
Tuesday 8 September 2009
Venue: The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0A

A meeting in association with Cardiology Section
The aim of this day is to provide an insight into what telemedicine can make
available to assist in the diagnosis and ongoing care of cardiac patients. Our
ten speakers will share their experiences of the provision of
* Specialist care to children and pregnant women,
* How ECGs taken in the community are being diagnosed in hospitals and in call
centres
* How patients can undertake their own ECGs when intermittent symptoms arise and
their views about this
* On-going care in the community for patients in heart failure

details / booking:

http://www.rsm.ac.uk/academ/teg102.php

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Registration is now open for the Southern Institute for Health Informatics 10th
Annual Conference: Patient engagement through innovation

Friday 18th September, Portsmouth

After nine tremendously successful SIHI conferences, we invite you to
participate in this year's event which is supported by SEHTA - the South East
Health Technology Alliance. The venue will be the Richmond Building, on the main
University of Portsmouth campus.

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.

As usual, we have a wide range of speakers representing local and national
points of view, including Manpreet Pujara, Sarah Hamilton-Fairley, Flis Henwood,
Malcolm Stewart and Henry Pares.

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. Others with interests in health informatics will also find plenty to hear
and talk about.

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. Booking can be made online.

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 and a registration form, go to the conference website
http://www.chmi.port.ac.uk/sihi/sihi2009/
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


Dr Jim Briggs, Chair, Southern Institute for Health Informatics Conference
Centre for Healthcare Modelling and Informatics, University of Portsmouth
Buckingham Building, Portsmouth, PO1 3HE, UK
Tel: +44 (23) 9284 6438 (direct line) 6445 (secretary) 6364 (fax)
Email: Jim.Briggs@...
SIHI homepage - http://www.chmi.port.ac.uk/sihi/

Conference supported by SEHTA - the South East Health Technology Alliance -
www.sehta.co.uk

A journal paper presenting a detailed overview of the new eCAALYX EU AAL-funded
project in the context of five other related European projects, including the
original CAALYX FP6 project, has just been published. The paper explores the
synergies and complementarities across the six covered projects on the way
towards the full realisation of integrative, comprehensive health/social care
and daily living solutions for senior citizens in Europe and elsewhere.



Kamel Boulos MN, Castellot Lou R, Anastasiou A, Nugent CD, Alexandersson J,
Zimmermann G, Cortes U, Casas R. Connectivity for Healthcare and Well-Being
Management: Examples from Six European Projects. Int J Environ Res Public
Health. 2009; 6(7):1947-1971; DOI: 10.3390/ijerph6071947 <URL:
http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/6/7/1947> [Open Access - this journal is indexed
PubMed/MEDLINE and the full text is mirrored in PubMed Central]



Direct link to full text PDF version: http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/6/7/1947/pdf

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

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