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2008 Medical Informatics Conferences

International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) has listed coming events, meetings and conferences for 2008.

Here is list of all upcoming events:

HIMSS08 Annual Conference & Exhibition

February 24, 2008 - February 28, 2008

They come in search of solutions. They leave with a shared vision. “have you ever?” shakes hands with “here’s how we solved that one.” And a new spirit takes shape “innovation with a shared vision”. HIMSS08 is where healthcare IT professionals, physicians, nurses, HIT executives, pharmacists and vendors from around the world come together for a week that will forever change the face of healthcare IT.

The Canadian Reception @ HIMSS08

February 25, 2008 - February 25, 2008

The Canadian Reception has been a tradition at HIMSS for the past 9 Years. CHITTA and the HIMSS Ontario Chapter co - host this time-honored event that has become THE networking event for the Canadian Community attending HIMSS. Last year some 500 Canadians and their colleagues used this informal and relaxed opportunity to meet old friends and establish new relationships in this open and stress-free atmosphere that is part of the CHITTA culture.

AIIM International Exposition & Conference

March 03, 2008 - March 06, 2008

The AIIM International Exposition & Conference is the world’s largest and oldest educational conference and exposition. The place to go to gain control, meet compliance standards and access important information from structured and unstructured data, the AIIM International Exposition & Conference assists IT professionals in turning content and information into a powerful business tool. The exposition and conference attracts business professionals and executive management seeking the latest technologies to capture, manage, share, and store documents and digital content to support business processes, comply with governmental regulations, drive down costs, and gain the competitive advantage. For more information about the AIIM International Conference & Expo, or to register, visit http://www.aiimexpo.com or call 888-824-3004.

16th Annual Meeting of the Asian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery (ASCVS 2008)

March 13, 2008 - March 16, 2008

eHealth Information Security Workshop

March 26, 2008 - March 28, 2008

Designed to help health organization ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of health information. - Makes use of real-life case studies and workshop activities to show how theory is put into practice. - Features lectures from recognized Canadian security and privacy experts. -Provides an opportunity to share your privacy and security experiences and interventions and to learn from your healthcare colleagues.

Med-e-Tel - The International Educational and Networking Forum for eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT

April 16, 2008 - April 18, 2008

5th Annual World Health Care Congress (WHCC)

April 21, 2008 - April 23, 2008

Leveraging the success of previous annual events held in partnership with the Wall Street Journal, the 2008 event features a speaker faculty of over 250 thought leaders. The flagship WHCC convenes a large concentration of CEOs and senior executives from employer, health plan, and provider communities as well as government officials that attend annually to share ideas and truly innovate. WHCC is a content-driven event and, as such, it attracts decision makers that are seeking best practices from colleagues. As a result, there are unique sponsorship and branding opportunities that provide your organization with more qualified leads and interested prospects than any other health care event. Please feel free to contact me directly to learn more about WHCC, its executive delegation and our strategic program agenda.

Healthcare Computing 2008 Conference & Exhibition

April 21, 2008 - April 23, 2008

e-Health 2008: Extending the Reach

May 04, 2008 - May 07, 2008

Welcome It is with pleasure that we invite you to e-Health 2008: Extending the Reach, being held in beautiful Vancouver, Canada, May 4-7, 2008. This year’s conference theme, Extending the Reach is indicative of the progress we are making in advancing the e-health agenda. Every jurisdiction in the country, every type of care setting, even patients in their homes, are reaping the benefits of technology-enabled solutions that are allowing for more effective, and timely provision of quality care and system Management.

MIE2008 - eHealth beyond the horizon - get IT there

May 26, 2008 - May 28, 2008

We, as society, are facing great challenges. In many years to come our national health systems will have to treat proportionately more people, with more illnesses, higher expectations, and more expensive technologies, but using relatively less money and fewer workers. The conference will address the challenges we face, in order to cope with these changes. We cannot know for sure what’s below the horizon, but we know that enormous possibilities lie in eHealth.

The 21th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS2008

June 17, 2008 - June 19, 2008

CARS 2008 - Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery - 22nd International Congress and Exhibition

June 25, 2008 - June 28, 2008

Medical Imaging, e.g. CT, MR, US, SPECT, PET, DR, Molecular Imaging, and Virtual Endoscopy, Computer Assisted Cardiovascular Imaging, Image Processing and Display, Medical Workstations, Interventional Radiology, Minimally Invasive Spinal Therapy, Image Guided Diagnosis and Therapy of the Prostate, Tumor Ablation Therapies, Image Guided Radiation Therapy, Nanotechnology for Imaging and Therapy, Telemedicine, E-health and Multimedia EPR, Expert Systems and Computer Assisted Education, Economic and Management Issues, Security, Legal and Ethical Aspects - Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 10, 2008 - taking place together with: ISCAS - 10th Annual Conference of the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery, CAD - 10th International Workshop on Computer-Aided Diagnosis, CMI - 14th Computed Maxillofacial Imaging Congress, EuroPACS - 26th International EuroPACS Meeting .

ISCAS - 12th Annual Conference of the International Society for Computer Assisted Surgery

June 25, 2008 - June 28, 2008

CAD - 10th International Workshop on Computer-Aided Diagnosis

June 25, 2008 - June 28, 2008

CMI - 14th Computed Maxillofacial Imaging Congress

June 25, 2008 - June 28, 2008

EuroPaCS - 26th International EuroPACS Meeting

June 25, 2008 - June 28, 2008

Biosignal 2008

June 29, 2008 - July 01, 2008

HIC’08

August 31, 2008 - September 02, 2008

The Person in the Centre August 31st to September 2nd 2008 Melbourne, Australia The conference will take a fresh look at the changing role of consumers and providers in healthcare and the systems that support them. This evolution, fuelled by advances in the acquisition, communication and application of information, has brought us to a point where many agree that the next great advance in healthcare will come from the assisted use of existing knowledge and the empowerment of the consumer with this knowledge. HIC08 will examine this theme from the perspectives of the key players in our health delivery systems. Consumers Direct Healthcare providers (General practitioners, specialists, nurses, allied healthcare, community care, aged care, supporting clinical services) Policy and Infrastructure (Government, health managers, information managers, information technology providers) Healthcare researchers and academics HIC08 is HISA’s national conference which brings together a unique combination of healthcare professionals and information specialists to examine the key issues that sit at the interface between healthcare and information technology.

Health India 2008

September 05, 2008 - September 07, 2008

The 2nd International Conference on Advanced Information and Telemedicine Technologies for Health

October 01, 2008 - October 03, 2008

The conference aim is to discuss fundamental problems of computerization of health care and medical research based on advanced information technologies and intelligent systems for computer-assisted diagnosis in public health services; to disseminate research results, to share relevant experience and to co-ordinate activities on development and implementation of telemedicine systems.

2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

October 18, 2008 - October 25, 2008

Conference Scope: Detectors, software, signal processing and systems for ionizing radiation. Medical imaging detector and system development for PET, SPECT and other imaging based on nuclear techniques.

InfoLAC 2008, 2nd Latin American Medical Informatics Congress - Advances in medical informatics and their impact on healthcare systems

October 28, 2008 - October 31, 2008

This meeting is comprised of: 1st Medical Informatics Argentinian Congress; 2nd Latin American Medical Informatics Congress; and 2nd Argentinian Symposium on Nursing Informatics. The goals of the congress are: To Improve knowledge and skills of the participants on using and managing information technologies and their relationship with the healthcare domain; to promote the exchange of information between the participants emphasizing the integration of regional contact networks; to demonstrate and discuss topics related to the development, application and evaluation of IT in healthcare; to provide an ample portfolio of presentations detailing the work, progress, and challenges in the development of healthcare information systems, both in theoretical and applied fields; to present the methodologies of application, investigation and outcomes of informatics in the healthcare domain. This congress is a collaborative effort on the part of groups from all over Latin America - Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, and others.

ITCH2009: Revolutionizing Health Care with Informatics: From Research to Practice

February 19, 2009 - February 22, 2009

Revolutionizing Health Care with Informatics: From Research to Practice is the theme for the 2009 International Conference being held in Victoria, Canada February 19 - 22, 2009. Information technology affects nearly every aspect of healthcare today. Health information systems are seen by many as the critical element in improving and modernizing healthcare in Canada and internationally. In order to achieve this potential there will need to be a stronger bridge between research and practice in order to solve complex healthcare problems using technology and to develop best practices based on proven results. This conference will be of interest and importance to all health professionals, clinicians, information technology experts, and anyone with an interest in the health care system.

NI 2009 - Nursing Informatics – Connecting Health and Humans

June 28, 2009 - July 01, 2009

The topics of the 10th NI Congress are consistent with the central theme of Nursing Informatics – Connecting Health and Humans in support of nursing informatics practice, management education and research. Nursing Informatics – Connecting Health and Humans - Individualized Care with Interoperable Information Systems - Improvement in Health Care Governance - Innovative Education - Transforming Future Health Care and - Increasing Nursing Knowledge through Data Warehouses.

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