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International eHealth Conferences (2011-12)

Jun29
2011 Leave a Comment Written by healthin

July 2-6, 2011
AIME 11: 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Location: Bled, Slovenia
Web site: http://www.aimedicine.info/aime11/

OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS

July 19-22, 2011
The 9th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: EISTA
Location: Orlando, Florida, USA
Website: http://www.iiis2011.org/imsci/website/default.asp?vc=5

July 19-22, 2011
5th International Symposium on Bio-Medical Informatics and Cybernetics: BMIC 2011
Location: Orlando, Florida, USA
Website: http://www.iiis2011.org/wmsci/Website/Default.asp?vc=19

July 20-22, 2011
IADIS International Conference e-Health 2011
(part of MCCSIS 2011)
Location: Rome, Italy
Website: http://www.ehealth-conf.org/

*NEWLY POSTED*
July 26, 2011
ITAC Health Breakfast Roundtable: eHealth Ontario presents a Vendor Information Session
Location: Allstream Centre, 105 Princes’ Blvd, Toronto, ON, M6K 3C3
Time: 8:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Registration information not yet available.

August 15-17, 2011
Global Implementation Conference (GIC)
Location: Washington, DC
Website: www.implementationconference.org

August 28-31, 2011
MIE 2011: Medical Informatics Europe: “User Centered Networked Health Care”
Location: Oslo, Norway
Website: http://www.mie2011.org

August 29-30, 2011
HISA 2011: Affordable information for quality health care - In search of sustainable innovation in Health Information Technology
Location: Birchwood Hotel, Johannesburg
Website: http://www.hisa.co.za/home

August 30, 2011
Initial versions of papers due: Special 20th anniversary issues of JSIS: “Strategic Information Systems: Past, Present, and Future”
Contact: rgalliers@bentley.edu

August 30-September 3, 2011
EMBC 2011: 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Location: Boston, MA
Website: http://embc2011.embs.org/

September 4-6, 2011
Neuro Informatics 2011
Location: Boston, MA
Website: http://www.neuroinformatics2011.org/

September 8-9, 2011
ISHIMR 2011: 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Paper/Poster Submissions Due: April 30, 2011
Website: www.ISHIMR2011.com

September 16, 2011
Stanford Summit @ Medicine 2.0
Location: Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Website: http://www.medicine20congress.com/ocs/index.php/med/med2011/schedConf/program

September 17-18, 2011
Medicine 2.0’11: 4th World Congress on Social Media and
Web 2.0 in Health, Medicine, and Biomedical Research
Location: Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Website: http://www.medicine20congress.com

September 22-23, 2011
Health Data Users Conference 2011
Health Data: Pushing the Boundaries
Location: Ottawa Convention Centre, Ottawa, Ontario
Website: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/conferences/health-sante2011/index-eng.htm

October 4-7, 2011
Pathology Informatics 2011: All You Need to Know About Pathology Informatics, Clinical Lab Software, and Digital Pathology
Location: Wyndham Grand Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA
Website: www.pathinformatics.pitt.edu
Application Deadline: August 1, 2011

October 16-18, 2011
2011 AMA-iEEE EMBS Medical Technology Conference on Healthcare IT
Location: Park Plaza Hotel and Towers in Boston, MA
Website: http://ama-ieee.embs.org
Submission Deadline: Monday, August 29, 2011

*RECENTLY UPDATED*
October 18-20, 2011
itHealthcare Canada Conference & Exhibition
Theme: Enabling the Power of People and Creativity through Technology
Location: International Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Website: http://www.ithealthcare.ca/
Early-Bird Registration Deadline: July 31, 2011
Preliminary Program Available

October 20-22, 2011
University of Waterloo Symposium on Information Integrity and Information Systems Assurance
Location: One Blue Jays Way, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 1J4
Website: http://accounting.uwaterloo.ca/uwcisa/symposiums/Symposium_2011/index.html

October 22-26, 2011
AMIA 2011 Annual Symposium
LOCATION: Hilton Washington & Towers, Washington DC
Website: https://www.amia.org/amia2011
Registration Open June 22, 2011

November 2-3, 2011
Patient Destiny: Patients as Partners in their Healthcare
Conference and Workshop
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Website: www.patientdestiny.com

November 7-9, 2011
HealthAchieve
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Website: https://www.showreg.net/OHA1111S/defaultNotification.asp

November 9-11, 2011
IHI 2011 – 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium
Location: Miami, Florida
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/web2011ihi/

November 21-23, 2011
4th ICST International Conference on eHealth
“eHealth 2011: Social Media for Epidemic Intelligence”
Location: Malaga, Spain
Website: http://www.electronic-health.org/
Paper Submission Deadline: July 1, 2011

January 4-7, 2012
45th HICSS 2012: IT Adoption and Evaluation in Healthcare
Location: Wailea, Maui, Hawaii
Website: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/

February 1-4, 2012
HEALTHINF 2012: International Conference on Health Informatics
Location: Vilamoura-Algarve, Portugal
Website: http://www.healthinf.biostec.org/home.asp
Paper Submission Deadline: July 25, 2011

June 23-27, 2012
NI 2012, 11th International Congress on Nursing Informatics
Location: Montreal, Quebec
Website: www.NI2012.org

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Canada’s Only Focused I.T. Healthcare Event October 2011

Jun29
2011 Leave a Comment Written by healthin

We hope you plan on attending Canada’s most affordable and focused I.T. Healthcare educational conference, presented by Healthcare Information Management Systems Society Ontario (HIMSS)

Save the Date
October 18 - 20, 2011 | International Centre, Toronto
Early Bird Savings in effect until July 29, 2011
Affordable and Flexible Registration Options ($95-$255)

Register Now: http://www.ithealthcare.ca/

Our 2011 program is intended to inspire healthcare professionals to creatively source innovative solutions and strategies to meet the needs of an industry that continues to evolve.

Here are some highlights from this year’s preliminary program:

Dominic Covvey, Professor, National Institutes of Health Informatics
Wrestling with the Hydra: Understanding the Implications of Health Care’s being a Complex Adaptive System and Potential Informatics Interventions

Terrie Tucker, Director eHealth, Baycrest
Business Intelligence/Clinical Intelligence as an Enabler for Evidence-Based Decision Making

Cindy Fedell, Director, Informatics Department, Mount Sinai Hospital
An intuitive interface for mobile access to patient information

Ken Sutcliffe, Director of Technology Services & Chief Technology Officer, Cancer Care Ontario
The Age of the App: Integrating 2.0 Principles into Healthcare Technology Design

Jeremy Theal, Director of Medical Informatics, North York General Hospital Clinical Decision Support and CPOE – Evidence at the Point of Care Improves Patient and Provider Outcomes

Terrie Tucker, Director E Health, Baycrest eHealth Exchange – Sharing Information in the Cloud

Rodney Burns, CIO & eHealth Lead, North Simcoe Muskoka Local Health Integration Network Creating an Information & Communication Technology/eHealth Strategic Plan for an Integrated Health System

Alison MacDonald, Clinical Education Leader – Clinical Informatics, Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences Specialized Application of Electronic Health Record Functionality to Manage Forensic Patient Off Ward Privileges

Delegate Testimonials:

“Very informative, looking forward to HIMSS 2011.”
Adele Wentze, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute

“Excited that this was available in Ontario for the first time. I will encourage my staff & peers to attend next year.”
Rick Salcak, Peterborough Regional Health Centre

“Great knowledge sharing. Great job. Thanks!”
Lynn Tkac, Rouge Valley Health System

“I was very impressed by the variety of topics to choose from”
Maria Grant, Cancer Care Ontario

Why You Should Attend:

Top-tier facilitators delivering over 50 meaningful and relevant educational sessions focused on delivering better patient care through technology

Network with Your Healthcare industry Peers – all levels of I.T. Healthcare professionals, Providers, Clinicians, Managers, Informaticians, academics and healthcare planners

Canadian Meditech User Group – will be hosting leading edge interactive discussions for all MEDITECH users to participate in

Meet one-on-one with suppliers and discuss your specific business requirements

Free parking and convenient location

Please join us on October 18-20, 2011 at itHealthcare Canada! For more information: www.itHealthcare.ca 1-888-443-6786

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Medicine 2.0 Congress

May04
2011 Leave a Comment Written by healthin

Medicine 2.0 is the annual open, international conference on Web 2.0 applications in health and medicine, also known as the World Congress on Social Networking and Web 2.0 Applications in Medicine, Health, Health Care, and Biomedical Research.

The congress is organized and co-sponsored by the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the International Medical Informatics Association, the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, CHIRAD, and a number of other sponsoring organizations.

This conference distinguishes itself from “Health 2.0″ tradeshows by having an academic form and focus, with an open call for presentations, published proceedings and peer-reviewed abstracts (although there is also a non-peer reviewed practice and business track), and being the only conference in this field which has a global perspective and an international audience (last year there were participants from 18 countries).

An academic approach to the topic also means that we aim to look “beyond the health 2.0 hype”, trying to identify the evidence on what works and what doesn’t, and have open and honest discussions.

Medicine 2.0 ’08 and ’09 sold out with almost 200 participants each, and were praised to have an outstanding program, with internationally renowned speakers, a philosophy of “openess”, and a very conducive atmosphere for discussions and networking.

The University of Twente (UT), the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (UMCN) and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) will host Medicine 2.0 Europe on November 29-30, 2010 in Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Medicine 2.0’10 will umbrealla REshape (Fall ed., UMCN) and the ‘Supporting health by technology’ (IIIrd ed) symposium series (Univ. of Twente, RIVM). Evidently, the focus is on the impact and significance of Web 2.0 on health, health care and research. This incredibly important, prospering and promising field of interest deserves an open and collaborative European forum.

For more information on the 2011 Medicine 2.0 Congress to be held in Standford, CA visit this link;  http://www.medicine20congress.com/ocs/index.php/med/med2011/schedConf/program

The Stanford Summit @ Medicine 2.0 is a special one-day event that will occur on September 16, 2011, on the eve of the Fourth World Congress on Social Media and Web 2.0 in Health, Medicine and Biomedical Science. It is designed to complement, yet be distinctly different from the two-day academically-focused Medicine 2.0 conference.

Rather than focus on the presentation of research findings and scientific data, the Summit will present forecasts from luminaries—from e-patients and bloggers to executives and industry insiders—and ignite discussions about the development and use of technologies being built by academia and industry that will shape Medicine 2.0 in 2011 and beyond.

The Summit will be organized around themes as they relate to the future of Medicine 2.0. For example:

  • ePatients
  • Technology/Industry/Semantic Web
  • Knowledge Revolution: Innovations in Medical Education
  • eHealth/Physicians/Hospitals
  • Science 2.0/Team Science
Posted in eHealth, Health Informatics, Medical Informatics, Ontario Healthcare, public healthcare system

A Comment about Leadership

Nov05
2010 Leave a Comment Written by healthin

Leadership

In communal transformation, leadership is about intention, convening, valuing relatedness, and presenting choices. It is not a personality characteristic or a matter of style, and therefore it requires nothing more than what all of us already have.

This means we can stop looking for leadership as though it were scarce or lost, or it had to be trained into us by experts. If our traditional form of leadership has been studied for so long, written about with such admiration, defined by so many, worshipped by so few, and the cause of so much disappointment, maybe doing more of all that is not productive. The search for great leadership is a prime example of how we too often take something that does not work and try harder at it.

We need to reconstruct leader as social architect. Not leader as special person, but leader as a citizen willing to do those things that have the capacity to initiate something new in the world. In this way, leader belongs right up there with cook, carpenter, artist, and landscape designer. It is a capacity that can be learned by all of us, with a small amount of teaching and an agreement to practice. The ultimate do-it-yourself movement.

Community building requires a concept of the leader as one who creates experiences for others – experiences that in themselves are examples of our desired future. The experiences we create need to be designed in such a way that relatedness, accountability, and commitment are every moment available, experienced, and demonstrated.

Compiled From:
Community: The Structure of Belonging

Posted in eHealth, Health Delivery

Evidence-Based Management in Healthcare

Aug06
2010 Leave a Comment Written by healthin

In recent years in healthcare evidence-based practice has become a standard with which to design best practice guidelines for clinical staff and administrators. Using evidence to base management decisions within healthcare is a new phenomena and can go far in solving some of the issues related to transparency in the workplace. When people know the standards which are expected and by which they are being judged staff morale and performance can be positively influenced.

Some useful discussions on this topic;

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Good Thinking: You Can Do It!

Mar12
2010 Leave a Comment Written by healthin

Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but a person who knows why will always be his own boss. Good thinkers solve problems, they never lack ideas that can build an organization, and they always have hope for a better future. Good thinkers would rarely find themselves at the mercy of ruthless people who would take advantage of them or try to deceive them. In short good thinkers are successful in all circumstances.

Here is the good news. How successful people think can be learned. Good thinking can take you to a whole new level – personally and professionally. If you change your thinking, you can change your life!

Three things you need to know about changing your thinking:

1) Changed Thinking is Not Automatic: Sadly, a change in thinking doesn’t happen on its own. Good ideas rarely go out and find someone. If you want to find a good idea, you must search for it. If you want to become a good thinker, you must work at it – and once you begin to become a better thinker, the good ideas keep coming.

2) Changed Thinking is Difficult: The only people who believe thinking is easy are those who don’t habitually engage in it. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstien, one of the best thinkers who ever lived, asserted, “Thinking is hard work; that’s why so few do it.” Because thinking is difficult, you want to use anything you can to help you improve the process.

3) Changed Thinking is Woth the Investment: Author, Napoleon Hill observed, “More gold has been mined from the thoughts of man than has ever been taken from the earth.” When you take the time to learn how to change your thinking and become a better thinker, you are investing in yourself. Gold mines tap out. Stock markets crash. Real estate investments can go sour. But a human mind with the ability to think well is like a diamond mine that never runs out. It’s priceless.

Compiled From: “How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life” by John C. Maxwell, pages IX-X1.

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Who owns your Personal Health Records?

Feb01
2010 Leave a Comment Written by healthin

The recent failure of Revolution Health’s PHR highlights some of the dangers associated with putting so much of our personal data in the hands of third party service providers. Adoption will not increase when such basic credibility, privacy, and ownership cannot be resolved in favour of consumers. PHRs hold tremendous potential, but this case demonstrates it is still going through some difficult growing pains.

Revolution Health PHR ‘before its time’

WASHINGTON – Most personal health record offerings are not ready for prime time, says Marjorie Martin, general manager or Everyday Health, the parent company of Revolution Health. For consumers, the experience can be laborious and frustrating, she said.

Martin explained Wednesday why Revolution Health was retiring its PHR offering on its Web site. In an e-mail to users on Wednesday Revolution Health said it would discontinue the PHR offering on Feb. 10 and destroy the records. The company advised users to download their records in a PDF format for future reference.

Martin attributed the decision to retire the platform to “low utilization.”

PHRs are not catching on with consumers as quickly as anticipated by some companies, she said, in part because of habit and in part because they are not always easy to use.

“Most users still rely on their physicians to do the record-keeping,” Martin said. “They don’t feel the need to make a change. Also, it’s still a fairly laborious experience.”

She should know. Part of her job is to try all the PHR offerings there are – to go through the process of registering.

She recalls one experience in which she thought she was done after 30 minutes then realized she had about two more hours of work to do before completion. “And I’m a more of a determined user than most,” she said.

There are a few pockets of PHR success, she said. Cleveland Clinic is one of them. Cleveland Clinic teamed up with Google Health in 2008 to launch a PHR pilot. In Martin’s view, ease of use, secure data, patient control and physician involvement will be critical to successful PHRs.

“We need a more universal system,” she said.

Martin said there were hundreds of users of the Revolution Health platform when there should have been thousands or tens of thousands. Popular products, like Revolution Health’s “Symptom Checker” draw a thousand users an hour, she said.

Martin called the Revolution Health PHR “before its time.” She speculates it might not have been adequately user-tested perhaps because of the eagerness of developers to go live. It’s also an issue of consumers being ready and willing to control their own information, she said, and for physicians to be part of the equation.

Martin said the company would “retain the product behind the wall. We certainly don’t want to scrap it,” she said.
She added that taking the PHR offering down for now does not signify a lesser commitment to Revolution Health.

“We still very much believe in the brand,” she said. The site itself is a very high quality site.”

Washington, D.C.-based Revolution Health, an online health information company founded by AOL co-founder Steve Case in 2007, merged with Waterfront Media (which later changed its name to Everyday Health) in October 2008.

The Everyday Health network claims more than 20 million unique users and serves as the market leader in audience reach for at least 23 health conditions. The combined company has 25 online health properties.

On Jan. 24, Everyday Health filed an initial public offering, indicating it planned to raise $100 million.

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Nonaka’s Knowledge Management Framework

Feb01
2010 Leave a Comment Written by healthin

As Nonaka notes in his famour 1994 article society is turning into a  “knowledge society”. This presentation discusses this notion and the fundamentals of the knowledge management framework in more detail. This presentation was given at the University of Toronto.

Km Nonakaarticle Ppt2
View more presentations from mylifeismhi.
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Does Canada Need Health Care Reform?

Jan07
2010 Leave a Comment Written by healthin

Event: Health Sector Strategy Experts Speaker Series @ Rotman
 
Date and Time: January 20, 5:00pm sharp to 6:15pm lecture and Q&A
 
Lecturer: Prof. Mark Stabile, Director – School of Public Policy and Governance, U of Toronto and Associate Professor of Economics, Rotman School of Management
 
Topic “Does Canada Need Health Care Reform?” 
 
Synopsis: Prof. Stabile will talk about whether we can afford the health care system we have and provide some options for improving the system going forward. He will cover both ways that we can make the system more efficient and new ways of funding the system going forward.
 
Location: Classroom 133 (ground floor), Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 105 St, George Street, Toronto
 
PRE-REGISTRATION TO ATTEND IS MANDATORY: Pre-registration to attend is required. Please register online by noon on January 20 at www.rotman.utoronto.ca/jan20-health

Posted in eHealth, eHealth Ontario, Employment and Jobs, Health Care Reform, Health Informatics, Healthcare Reforms

Decision Support Analyst – St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver

Jan05
2010 1 Comment Written by healthin

Decision Support Analyst
Reference Number:     PHC09-84411
Work Area:     Administrative Decision Support
Job  Categories:     Corporate Professionals
Status:     Regular Full Time
Location:     Howe, St. Paul’s Hospital, Providence Health Care, Vancouver, BC

Summary

Bring your background in statistical or operations management to this important role in Decision Support Services.

Reporting to the Director of Adminstrative Decision Support Services, the position identifies, develops and implements strategies designed to meet the information and decision support needs of Providence Health Care.

Responsibilities include project management and support; consultation services, training, detailed analysis of information including confidential information, user needs assessment, report design and provision, development of appropriate databases and expert use of appropriate statistical and analytical tools. The position contributes to establishing and maintaining cooperative and effective relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners.

This position works with team members to provide leadership with respect to performance measurement, evaluation and analysis. The position performs special assignments with the Board, Senior Leadership Team, Program Leaders, programs and teams and includes analysis and recommendations which have direct impact on decisions related to financial, human resource (including excluded and non-excluded jobs) and patient care management.

The Business Analyst operates in a complex and rapidly changing environment. The position requires knowledge of hospital operations as well as the external health care environment, ability to understand and analyze complex information, and the ability to create complex integrated reports that require advanced knowledge of computer software.

Education
Master Degree in Health Administration, Heath Informatics or Business Administration. Advanced project management, analytical and report design skills.Expert knowledge in the application of quality improvement tools.

Applications accepted until January 15, 2010

Human Resources
4th Floor, 1190 Hornby Street
Vancouver, BC
Office Hours: Monday-Friday: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Click here for Map

By mail:
Human Resources
Providence Health Care
1081 Burrard Street
Vancouver , BC V6Z 1Y6

Phone: 604-806-8007
Fax: 604-806-8144 (no résumés please)

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