Nurses, Midwives & Healthcare Staff CfH conf June 2008

NHS Connecting for the health will be running their third annual "A conference for Nurses, Midwives & Healthcare Staff: Cultural Change in Professional Practice - The Information Revolution" on 17th June 08 at the Central Hall Westminster, London

The conference aims to: "provide delegates with an opportunity to learn more about the National Programme for IT and how it will deliver better and safer care, from a clinical and patient perspective. There will also be an update on the progress which has been achieved over the last twelve months, and an opportunity to see live demonstrations of some software packages. A Q&A panel will provide people with an opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback about their own experiences of using IT. An interactive session will also demonstrate key areas of the programme such as Lorenzo (patient administration system), essential IT and training on the job and clinical assistive technology. Speakers at the conference will include Chris Beasley, chief nursing officer, Susan Osborne and Barbara Stuttle, joint national clinical leads for the nursing professions.

Further details & booking form.

I hope to be attending this one & will do a report on this blog.

HC2008 Call for Participations - 7 days to deadline

HC2008
INVITATION TO
THE FUTURE
21-23 April 2008

Frontline care services are about to undergo even more substantial change in order to meet the challenges of providing healthcare and social care in the digital age. The focus of the 2008 event, therefore, is on looking forward. It will consider how care services could look in five or more years time and how best to get there.

How to Participate
There are various ways in which you can participate in HC2008. If your preferred means is not listed, on the website at http://www.bcs.org/hc2008 contact the conference organisers who are keen to hear your suggestions.

MIE 2008 submission deadline 6 weeks away

The deadline to submit contributions to Medical Informatics in Europe (MIE) 2008 is only 6 weeks away.

The conference theme is "eHealth beyond the horizon - get IT there".

MIE 2008 will be held on 25-28 May 2008 at Svenska Mässan in Göteborg, Sweden.
The conference is organized by:
EFMI - European Federation for Medical Informatics and SFMI - Swedish Federation for Medical Informatics

MIE 2008 is intended to provide an international forum for:
- Presenting theoretical and empirical methods and studies of information technology in healthcare and related areas, particularly with offset in the conference theme, but not restricted to it.
- Bringing new ideas: discussing the importance and role of the above methods and studies before, during and after implementation, particularly in the healthcare field.
- Welcoming newcomers and supporting their efforts in acquiring competence in Medical Informatics and supporting their networking within the scientific community.

Who will attend MIE 2008?
- Healthcare professionals, including members of any health discipline contributing to the delivery of healthcare.
- Professionals from the health IT industry, health institutions, hospitals and universities interested in health IT systems.
- Researchers and educators in medicine, any of the health sciences, allied health disciplines and information systems or technology.
- Politicians, decision makers and public health administrators.

You are invited to submit contributions in the following topics/categories:
- Bioinformatics
- Consumer informatics
- Health information systems
- Home-based eHealth
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Imaging and visualization
- Evaluation
- Decision support and knowledge management
- Learning and education
- Medical Devices
- Modeling and simulation
- National eHealth Roadmaps
- Nursing informatics
- Organizational strategies
- Pan European-cross border applications
- Pervasive healthcare
- Privacy and security
- Telemedicine
- Ubiquitous computing

*DEADLINE 5 November*: Full Papers and Posters / Computer Supported Posters *DEADLINE 18 November*: Demonstrations, Comparative Demonstrations, Panels, Doctoral Consortium, Tutorials and Workshops

Doing IT – Learning from one another

The Royal College of Nursing, British Computer Society Nursing Specialist group and eHealth Nursing Wales will be holding a joint conference entitled Doing IT – Learning from one another on Wednesday 14th November 2007 at Ty Maeth, The Heath, Cardiff.

The programme includes:

*10.30-10.45 Opening: Chair: Dame June Clark
*10.45- 12.15 Using IT to improve patient safety
*10.45 - 11.15 Wales Dr Gwyn Thomas, Director, Informing Healthcare
*11.15 – 11.45 Scotland Heather Strachan, Nurse and AHP lead, Scottish Executive
*11.45 - 12. 00 Northern Ireland (Speaker to be confirmed)
*12.15 – 12.30 England Barbara Stuttle, Nurse lead, Connecting for Health
*12.30 -1.00 Panel: What can we learn from one another?

*1.30- 1.35 Chair: Richard Hayward
*1.35 – 1.45 Where do we want to be? Janette Bennett
*1.45- 3.45 How do we get there?
*1.45-2.10 Education, education, education Carol Bond
*2.10-2.30 Thinking Nursing Dave Lloyd
*2.30-2.50 Engaging front line nurses Bernice Baker
*2.50-3.10 The TIGER initiative Paula Procter
*3.10-3.45 Panel

Further details and application forms are available from: angela.perrett@rcn.org.uk

Southern Institute for Health Informatics 9th Annual Conference

Registration is now open for the Southern Institute for Health Informatics 9th Annual Conference which will take place on Friday 21st September, in Portsmouth.

The theme for the conference is Collecting information near the patient.

The speakers include:

* Dr Mike Bainbridge, Clinical Architect, Technology Office, NHS Connecting for Health, giving a keynote address
* Dr Hugh Sanderson, Head of Clinical Information Development, South Central SHA, on the Hampshire Clinical Repository
* Lynn Woods, Chief Executive, Adastra Software, on integrated out-of-hospital services
* Dr Grant Kelly, GP and CfH Clinical Lead for SNOMED, SNOMED Structured electronic Records Programme, on implementing a clinical terminology
* Dr Marilyn McGee-Lennon, Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow, on HECTOR evaluating a PDA based clinical handover system
* Prof Gary Smith, Consultant in Critical Care Medicine, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, on using technology to identify patient deterioration and facilitate the response to acute illness
* Lt Cdr Mark Trasler MBE, the Royal Navy lead for the implementation of electronic clinical records throughout the Defence Medical Services, on the Defence Medical Information Capability Programme
* James Jackson, SmartSensor telemed Ltd, on the home monitoring service his company has developed
* Mark Smith, Met Office Consulting, on the COPD home alerting service he has been involved with

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 £85 (with discounts for multiple attendees from the same organisation), which includes lunch.

Conference sponsors:
* Department of Health
* Fujitsu - sponsors of the conference lunch
* SEHTA
* Telecare Knowledge Network

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/sihi2007/index.htm
Email enquiries to sihi@port.ac.uk 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 flyer (downloadable from the website) on relevant notice boards. Apologies to anyone who receives multiple copies of this message.

Further details:

For further information contact: Dr Jim Briggs Conference chairman
and look at the web site http://www.chmi.port.ac.uk/sihi/sihi2007/index.htm