Kongresseja ‐ Congresses
Wellbeing in the Information Society (WIS 2010) August 18.‐19.8.2010 , Turku, Finland.
WIS 2010 is the third conference in its series after the 2006 inaugural event. It looks for innovations and new fresh ideas in the cross‐section of urban ling, information society and health understood in a wide sense. The conference looks for contributions based as well on high‐quality research as on practical experience.
The seminar is multidisciplinary in nature, gives room for qualitative and quantitative analysis, empirical surveys, case studies as well as for conceptual work. WIS s a forum for exchange of information and ideas.
Conference themes: e‐Health, Urban planning for health and sustainable development, Measuring and documenting health and wellbeing, Empowering and educating citizens for healthy living and equal opportunities, Governance for health, Safe and secure cities
Organizers: Turku School of Economics and Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku, Baltic Region Healthy Cities Association –WHO Colaborating Centre for Healthy Cities and Urban Health in co‐operation with Åbo Akademi University, Social Insurance Institution of Finland, Turku University of Applied Sciences.
More information: www.wis.fi
The 3rd International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI 2010) and the 3rd International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP 2010)
The 3rd International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI 2010) and the 3rd International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP 2010) will be jointly held 16.‐18. Oct 2010 in Yantai, China. Yantai was listed as one of the world's most inhabitable places by the United Nations and was recognized as the "most charming city of China" by China Central Television. Undulating hills rise above the area's many rivers and are framed by beaches and neighboring islands. Famous tourist attractions include the Tashan Mountain, Kongdong Island, and Penglai Pavilion Scenic Area. Seafood and fruits are plentiful in Yantai.
BMEI'10‐CISP'10 is a premier international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of biomedical engineering and informatics, multimedia and signal processing. The previous BMEI'09‐CISP'09 attracted over 3000 submissions from around the world. The registration fee of US$390 includes proceedings, lunches, dinners, banquet, coffee breaks, and all technical sessions. BMEI'10‐CISP'10 is technically co‐sponsored by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.
Selected best papers will appear in SCI‐indexed journal(s). All papers in conference proceedings will be indexed by both EI Compendex and ISTP, as well as the IEEE Xplore (BMEI 2010 IEEE Catalog Number: CFP1093D‐PRT, ISBN:
978‐1‐4244‐6496‐8; CISP 2010 IEEE Catalog Number: CFP1094D‐PRT, ISBN: 978‐1‐4244‐6514‐9).
For more information, visit the conference web page: http://cisp‐bmei2010.ytu.edu.cn
The 3rd International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP 2010) and
the 3rd International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI 2010)
The 3rd International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP 2010) and the 3rd International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI 2010) will be jointly held from 16‐18 October 2010, in Yantai, China. Yantai was listed as one of the world's most inhabitable places by the United Nations and was recognized as the "most charming city of China" by China Central Television. Undulating hills rise above the area's many rivers and are framed by beaches and neighboring islands. Famous tourist attractions include the Tashan Mountain, Kongdong Island, and Penglai Pavilion Scenic Area. Seafood and fruits are plentiful in Yantai.
CISP’10‐BMEI’10 is a premier international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of multimedia, signal processing, biomedical engineering, and biomedical informatics. The previous CISP’09‐BMEI’09 attracted over 3000 submissions from around the world. The registration fee of US$390 includes proceedings, lunches, dinners, banquet, coffee breaks, and all technical sessions. CISP’10‐BMEI’10 is technically co‐sponsored by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.
Selected best papers will appear in SCI‐indexed journal(s). All papers in conference proceedings will be indexed by both EI Compendex and ISTP, as well as the IEEE Xplore (CISP in IEEE Conferences; BMEI 2010 in IEEE Conferences;
CISP 2010 IEEE Catalog Number: CFP1094D‐PRT, ISBN: 978‐1‐4244‐6514‐9; BMEI 2010 IEEE Catalog Number:
CFP1093D‐PRT, ISBN: 978‐1‐4244‐6496‐8). Paper submission deadline 15 April 2010.
The ISfTeH 15th International Conference
The ISfTeH 15th International Conference, in conjunction with the 1st National Conference of the Australasian Telehealth Society (ATHS), which will take place in Fremantle, Perth (Western Australia) on November 10th‐12th, 2010. The 2010 General Assembly of ISfTeH will also take place at that occasion.
Please find all yet available information on: http://www.aths.org.au/GT2010.
International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR)
International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR), which will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece on 14‐15th October 2010.
The conference theme for ISHIMR2010 is "Innovations in eHealth and Health Informatics". ISHIMR 2010 will bring together researchers and practitioners in the general area of e‐health,health information management and health informatics and will provide a forumfor the presentation and discussion of their research activities.
Information, including the topics of interest, can be found at the conference website:
http://www.ishimr.co.uk
If you have any questions, please email us at: mishimr2010@seerc.org
MEDINFO 2010 ‐ 13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics 12 to 15 September 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa ‐ http://www.medinfo2010.org.
The site for conference registration and accommodation booking payment is open ‐ via the main MedInfo 2010 website (www.medinfo2010.org), or directly at
https://events.confco.co.za/ei/cm.esp?id=126&pageid=_2OO0LACU8
Medinfo2010 event page has been set for those who use Facebook
(http://www.facebook.com//event.php?eid=227856279989 ) ‐ sign up to the event page and let us know your plans, and what you want to get out of, and will be putting into, Medinfo2010.
You can follow all the latest news updates on the Medinfo2010 website, and on Twitter ‐ @medinfo2010 http://www.twitter.com/medinfo2010
The IMIA Open Source Health Informatics WG and EFMI LIFOSS WG
The IMIA Open Source Health Informatics WG and EFMI LIFOSS WG are co‐organizing a track that is dedicated specifically to Free/Libre Open Source Software in Health Care (FLOSS‐HC) at the 8th annual Med‐e‐Tel conference (14‐16 April 2010). See:
http://www.medetel.eu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=benefits_of_open_source_software_in_heal th_care
The IMIA Health Information Systems Working Group (IMIA HIS WG) will be organising a two day workshop on Health Information Systems ‐ 30 Years of Evolution, that will take place on September 10‐12, 2010 in Stellenbosch, South Africa, just before the Medinfo 2010 Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. Further details will be advised in due course.
Regional events: the 2010 Special Topic Conference (STC) of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) will take place in Reykjavík, Iceland on June 2‐4, 2010. The event has the theme 'Seamless care ‐ safe care.
The challenges of interoperability and patient safety in health care' Full information is at http://www.sky.is/stc2010. Registration is open via the conference website.
National/international events: a selection of forthcoming events; more information is on the IMIA and IMIA News websites, and in the Methods Calendar of Events.
BCS HC2010 Health Informatics Congress‐ April 27‐29, 2010. Birmingham, UK.
http://www.hcshowcase.org
AHIC 2010 Conference ‐ April 28‐30, 2010. Kitchener ON, Canada.
http://ahic.nihi.ca. Submissions are now closed.
eHealth2010 ‐ May 6‐7, 2010. Vienna, Austria.
http://www.ehealth2010.at/index_en.html
e‐health 2010 ‐ May 30 ‐ June 2, 2010. Vancouver BC, Canada.
http://www.e‐healthconference.com/index.htm
HealthGrid 2010 ‐ 28‐30 June, 2010. Paris, France.
http://paris2010.healthgrid.org/ Submissions are now closed.
SINI2010 (20th anniversary Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics) ‐ 21‐24 July, 2010.
Baltimore MD, USA. http://www.nursing.umaryland.edu/sini. Call for abstracts closes: 15 March
HIC 2010 ‐ 24‐26 August, 2010. Melbourne, Australia.
http://www.hisa.org.au/hic2010. Submissions are now closed.
IMIA‐IFIP at WCC2010 ‐ 20‐23 September, 2010. Brisbane, Australia.
http://www.wcc2010.com/treat‐it IFIP and IMIA will hold a joint E‐‐Health conference as part of
"Treat IT" stream of the IFIP World Congress 2010 Program.
HINZ2010 ‐ 2‐4 November, 2010. Wellington, New Zealand.
http://www.hinz.org.nz/page/conference. Call for submissions: closes 29 May.
AMIA2010 ‐ 13‐17 November, 2010. Washington DC, USA.
http://symposium2010.amia.org/. Call for submissions: closes 15 March.
IFHRO 2010 ‐ 15‐19 November, 2010. Milan, Italy.
http://www.ifhro2010.it. Call for abstracts: closes 31 May.
ITCH 2011 ‐ 24 ‐ 27 February, 2011. Victoria BC, Canada.
http://itch.uvic.ca/index.php. Call for submissions: closes 30 June.
HEALTHINF 2011 (International Conference on Health Informatics)
HEALTHINF 2011 (International Conference on Health Informatics) has an open call for papers, whose deadline is on July 06, 2010.
Sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), in cooperation with Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and technically co‐sponsored by IEEE EMBS, IEEE EMBS Portugal, ESEM, HEALTHINF 2011 will be held in Rome, Italy, next January 26 ‐ 29 (http://www.healthinf.biostec.org).
Please check further details at the HEALTHINF 2011 conference website (http://www.healthinf.biostec.org). There you will find detailed information about the conference structure and its main topic areas.
This conference is part of the International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC, http://www.biostec.org) and it is co‐located with three related conferences, namely:
Biomedical Electronics and Devices (http://www.biodevices.biostec.org)
Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms (http://www.bioinformatics.biostec.org)
Bio‐inspired Systems and Signal Processing (http://www.biosignals.biostec.org) Registration to one conference allows free access to all conferences.
Submitted papers will be subject to a double‐blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD‐ROM support.
Workshops and special sessions are also invited. If you wish to propose a workshop or a special session, for exam‐
ple based on the results of a specific research project, please contact the secretariat. Workshop chairs and Special Session chairs will benefit from logistics support and other types of support, including secretariat and financial support, to facilitate the development of a valid idea.
2010 International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science, CACS 2010 http://irast.org/conferences/CACS/2010
4‐6 December 2010, Singapore, aims to bring together researchers and scientists from academia, industry, and government laboratories to present new results and identify future research directions in computer applications and computational science. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Agent and Autonomous Systems, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Computer‐Aided Design and Manufacturing, Computer Architecture and VLSI, Computer Control and Robotics, Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality, Computers in Education, Computer Modeling and Simulations, Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Security and Privacy, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Data Mining and Data Engineering, Distributed and Services Computing, Energy and Power Systems, Intelligent Systems, Internet and Web Systems, Nano Technologies, Real‐Time and Embedded Systems, Scientific Computing and Applications, Signal, Image and Multimedia Processing, Software Engineering, Test Technologies.
CACS 2010 conference proceedings will be published by CPS which will include the conference proceedings in IEEE Xplore and submit the proceedings to Ei Compendex and ISTP for indexing.
Conference Contact: CACS@irast.org, Paper Submission Deadline: 15 May 2010. Review Decision Notifications:
15 August 2010, Final Papers and Author Registration Deadline: 9 September 2010.
